Fluntern Cemetery

This guide to Fluntern Cemetery in Zurich starts with Nora Joyce explaining why she liked her husband's grave beside the city zoo, the writer James Joyce having died here in 1941 with nobody in Dublin willing to claim his body. It follows the ordinary machinery of a Swiss cemetery, where graves are rented for about twenty-five years and then cleared for the next arrival. You'll hear how close Joyce's plot came to that fate before the city intervened. Listen for the lions on the other side of the wall.