Grave Trade: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

We follow the staff of family-run funeral directing business, T. Cribb and Sons, and a handful of archaeologists as they go about their daily business: the dead and buried. This is the Grave Trade. We follow 4th generation Cribb John, his brother Graham, and daughter Sarah, as they lead a team of 60 staff across ten sites. We meet the funeral conductors, pall bearers, drivers, mortuary technicians and other members of the team and watch them work as stories of every kind of funeral unfold. We meet the families who want to give their loved ones the very best send-off possible, from a £20,000 gold-plated coffin, to a funeral for a woman without means or family. Alongside the everyday business of a modern funeral director, we follow the extraordinary work of archaeologists as they examine burial practices from Neolithic times, to Anglo Saxons, right through to the Victorian era.

Series details

• Title: Grave Trade
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2013-01-15
• Final broadcast date listed: 2014-04-06
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Sky History
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 36382
• TVDB ID: 266079

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2013-01-15; final listed air date 2013-02-19; episode order: 6.
• Season 2: premiered 2014-02-16; final listed air date 2014-04-06; episode order: 8.

Source and licence

Adapted from Grave Trade on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.