Last Word Podcast
Radio 4's weekly obituary programme, telling the life stories of those who have died recently
Episodes to download
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Andr茅 Previn KBE, John Haynes OBE, Tony Mendez, Lady Grantchester
Fri 1 Mar 2019
Matthew Bannister on a conductor, a publisher, a spy and a businesswoman.
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Lady Falkender, Karl Lagerfeld, John Stalker, Andrea Levy, Peter Tork
Fri 22 Feb 2019
A political secretary, a designer, a police officer, an author and a pop star.
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Gordon Banks OBE, Vikki Orvice, David Garman OBE, Mary Oliver, Albert Finney
Fri 15 Feb 2019
Matthew Bannister on a goalkeeper, a sportswriter, an inventor, a poet and an actor.
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Rosamunde Pilcher OBE, Hugh Lewin, Lamia Al-Gailani, Dr Stewart Adams OBE, Dr Adam Watson
Fri 8 Feb 2019
Andrea Catherwood on an activist, a pharmacist, an ecologist, an archaeologist, an author
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Jeremy Hardy, Diana Athill OBE, Sir Conrad Swan, Michel Legrand
Fri 1 Feb 2019
Julian Worricker on a comedian, an editor, a herald and a composer.
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Hugh McIlvanney, Jennie Buckman, John Beavis, David Pritchard
Fri 25 Jan 2019
Matthew Bannister on a sports writer, a theatre director, a surgeon and a producer.
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Joe Casely-Hayford, Judge Nicholas Crichton, Professor Sophie Oluwole, Professor Paul O鈥橞rien CBE, Carol Channing
Fri 18 Jan 2019
Matthew Bannister on a designer, a judge, a philosopher, a nanotechnologist and a singer.
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Nancy Roman, Ralph Koltai CBE, Julia Grant, Jin Yong, Norman Gimbel
Fri 11 Jan 2019
Matthew Bannister on an astronomer, a designer, a transgender activist and a writer.
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Dame June Whitfield, Sir Jack Zunz, Thomas Baptiste, David Austin OBE, Karre Mastanamma
Fri 4 Jan 2019
Matthew Bannister on an actress, an engineer, an actor, a rosarian and a cook.
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Sister Wendy Beckett, Nicolas Roeg, Inge Borkh, Professor Sir Aaron Klug, Geoff Emerick
Fri 28 Dec 2018
Julian Worricker on an art historian, a director, a singer, a scientist, a sound engineer.
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Sir David Weatherall, Penny Marshall, Evelyn Berezin, Zhores Medvedev, Nancy Wilson
Fri 21 Dec 2018
Matthew Bannister on a haematologist, a film director, an inventor, a dissident, a singer
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Peter Boizot, Judith Kazantzis, Sir Sze-Yuen Chung, Sister Cecylia Roszak, Scott English
Fri 14 Dec 2018
Matthew Bannister on a businessman, a poet, a politician, a nun and a songwriter.
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Harry Leslie Smith, Pete Shelley, Monica Sims, Professor Wendy Atkin OBE, Ivan March
Fri 7 Dec 2018
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a singer, a 大象传媒 manager, an epidemiologist, a critic
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Baroness Trumpington, Roy Bailey, Chief Inspector Henry Stevens GC, Bernardo Bertolucci
Fri 30 Nov 2018
Matthew Bannister on a baroness, a singer, a police officer and a film director.
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John Large, William Goldman, Dr Sarah Ntiro, Richard Baker, Patsy Rodgers
Fri 23 Nov 2018
Matthew Bannister on a screenwriter, an engineer, a broadcaster, a campaigner and a king.
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Aubrey Manning, Max Levitas, Babs Beverley, Janet Paisley, Stan Lee
Fri 16 Nov 2018
Matthew Bannister on a naturalist, a Communist, a singer, a writer, a comic book creator.
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Lord Heywood, Pamela Lonsdale, Sangharakshita, Tom Jago, Francis Lai
Fri 9 Nov 2018
Matthew Bannister on a civil servant, a producer, a Buddhist, a marketeer and a composer.
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Wanda Ferragamo, Wim Kok, Ntozake Shange, Mohamed Sahnoun, Keith Killby
Fri 2 Nov 2018
Matthew Bannister on a businesswoman, a politician, a writer, a diplomat and a pacifist.
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Anthea Bell OBE, Captain Michael Howard, Baroness Hollis of Heigham, Cicely Berry CBE, Tony Hiller
Fri 26 Oct 2018
Matthew Bannister on a translator, an army officer, a peer, a voice coach and a songwriter
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Paul Allen, Dr Mary Midgley, Leon Lederman, Roger Mainwood
Fri 19 Oct 2018
Matthew Bannister on an entrepreneur, a philosopher, a particle physicist and an animator.
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Ray Galton, Professor Gerald Russell, Evelyn Anthony, Sir Roger Gibbs, Montserrat Caball茅
Fri 12 Oct 2018
Matthew Bannister on a comedy writer, a psychiatrist, a novelist, a financier, a singer
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Charles Aznavour, Dr Charles Kao, Elizabeth de Mauny Wainwright, John Cunliffe
Fri 5 Oct 2018
Matthew Bannister on a singer, a physicist, a journalist and a writer
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Chas Hodges, MJ Long, Arthur Mitchell, Rick Turner, Rachid Taha
Fri 28 Sep 2018
Matthew Bannister on a musician, an architect, a dancer, an archaeologist and a singer.
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Denis Norden, Diane Leather, Johnny Kingdom, Fenella Fielding
Fri 21 Sep 2018
Andrea Catherwood on a comedy writer, an athlete, a wildlife expert and an actress.
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Lady Coleridge, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Jacqueline Pearce, Lord Thomas of Macclesfield, Stan Brock
Fri 14 Sep 2018
Matthew Bannister on a nurse, a warlord, an actor, a banker and a cowboy.
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Burt Reynolds, Lord Peter Melchett, Rita Borsellino, Ajit Wadekar
Fri 7 Sep 2018
Matthew Bannister on a film star, an environmentalist, a campaigner, a cricketer.
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Lindsay Kemp, John Calder, Hilary Lister, John Calcutt, Neil Simon
Fri 31 Aug 2018
Julian Worricker on a dancer, a publisher, a sailor, an academic and a playwright.
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Kofi Annan, Janice Tchalenko, Hugh Synge, Helen MacLeod, Hettie Williams
Fri 24 Aug 2018
Julian Worricker on a diplomat, a ceramicist, a botanist, a harpist and a teacher.
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Aretha Franklin, VS Naipaul, Winston Ntshona, Nan Joyce
Fri 17 Aug 2018
Matthew Bannister on an author, an activist, an actor and a singer.
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Tony Bullimore, Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, Barry Chuckle, June Jacobs, Tommy Peoples
Fri 10 Aug 2018
Matthew Bannister on a yachtsman, a campaigner, a comedian, an activist, a fiddle player.
