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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Maureen Baker, Richard Cousins, Bronwen Lady Astor Chatelaine of Cliveden, Meic Povey, Rick Hall
Fri 5 Jan 2018
Matthew Bannister on a designer, a businessman, a model, a writer, a producer.
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Sir Peter Burt, Jill Lever, John Mattock, Peter Duffell and Tom Paley
Fri 29 Dec 2017
Julian Worricker on a banker, an archivist, a horticulturalist, a director, a musician.
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Professor Heinz Wolff, Aline Countess of Romanones, Tony Whitten, Fritz Lustig, Keely Smith
Fri 22 Dec 2017
Matthew Bannister on a bioengineer, a spy, a conservationist, a secret listener, a singer.
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Max Clifford, Norman Baker, Tony Garrett, Virginia Surtees, Keith Chegwin
Fri 15 Dec 2017
Matthew Bannister on a publicist, an adventurer, a businessman and a TV presenter.
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King Michael of Romania, Shashi Kapoor, Christine Keeler, Jenny MacGregor, Johnny Hallyday
Fri 8 Dec 2017
Matthew Bannister on a king, an actor, a model, a horse rescuer and a singer.
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Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Unity Spencer, Lewis Golden OBE, John Butler, Joy Lofthouse
Fri 1 Dec 2017
Matthew Bannister on a singer, a businessman, a painter, a piano tuner and a pilot.
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24/11/2017
Fri 24 Nov 2017
Matthew Bannister on a police commissioner, a writer, an actor, a murderer, and a pop star
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Lord Hutchinson of Lullington QC, Linda Nochlin, Dennis Banks, Geoff Tootill, Tim Gudgin
Fri 17 Nov 2017
Matthew Bannister on a barrister, an art historian, an activist and a computer pioneer.
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Antonio Carluccio, Sima Wali, Richard Wilbur, Mary Reveley, Dudley Simpson
Fri 10 Nov 2017
Matthew Bannister on a chef, a campaigner, a poet, a trainer, and a composer.
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Harold Pendleton, Glenn Barr, Iona Opie, Gary Flather QC OBE, Sir John Manduell
Fri 3 Nov 2017
Matthew Bannister on a club owner, a politician, a folklorist, a lawyer and a principal.
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Daphne Caruana Galizia, Fats Domino, Rodney Bickerstaffe, Geoffrey Schild, Rosemary Leach
Fri 27 Oct 2017
Matthew Bannister on a journalist, a musician, a union leader, a virologist, an actress.
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Sean Hughes, Sir Brian Barder, David Marks, Major Khush Ahmad-ul-Mulk, Marge Calhoun
Fri 20 Oct 2017
Matthew Bannister on a comedian, an architect, a prince, a diplomat and a surfer.
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Lillian Ross, Jalal Talabani, Terry Downes, Sybil Flory, Hedley Jones
Fri 13 Oct 2017
Julian Worricker on a journalist, a politician, a boxer, a seamstress, a musician.
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Tony Booth, Liliane Bettencourt, William G Stewart, Tom Petty
Fri 6 Oct 2017
Matthew Bannister on an actor, an heiress, a quizmaster and a musician.
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Hugh Hefner, Stanislav Petrov, Teddy Taylor, Liz Dawn
Fri 29 Sep 2017
Matthew Bannister on a publisher, a Soviet officer, an MP, an actress.
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David Shepherd, Nancy Hatch Dupree, Gordon Williams, Pat Albeck, Harry Dean Stanton
Fri 22 Sep 2017
Matthew Bannister on an artist, an archivist, a writer, a designer, an actor.
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Sir Peter Hall, Kate Millett, Sir Edward du Cann, JP Donleavy
Fri 15 Sep 2017
Matthew Bannister on a theatre director, a radical feminist, an MP, a writer.
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Sir David Tang, Professor Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Walter Becker
Fri 8 Sep 2017
Matthew Bannister on a businessman, a doctor, a cardinal, a musician.
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Dick Gregory, Jeannie Rousseau, Wayne Lotter, Sean O'Callaghan, John Abercrombie
Fri 1 Sep 2017
Matthew Bannister on a comedian, a spy, a conservationist, an informer, a guitarist.
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Abu Kifah, Sir Bruce Forsyth, Brian Aldiss, Blanche Blackwell, Jerry Lewis
Fri 25 Aug 2017
Kate Silverton on an author, an entertainer, a rescue worker, a muse and a comedian.
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Barbara Cook, Sister Ruth Pfau, Richard Gordon, Prof UR Rao
Fri 18 Aug 2017
Kate Silverton on a singer, a muse, a health campaigner and a rocket scientist.
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Glen Campbell, Dame Helen Alexander, Prunella Briance, Clancy Sigal
Fri 11 Aug 2017
Matthew Bannister on a musician, a businesswoman, a writer, a childbirth campaigner.
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Robert Hardy, David Jones, Jeanne Moreau, Mark Wilkinson, Sam Shepard
Fri 4 Aug 2017
Matthew Bannister on two actors, a playwright, a scientist, a furniture designer.
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Mary Turner, Chester Bennington, Scharlette Holdman, Orri Vigfusson and George A Romero
Fri 28 Jul 2017
Matthew Bannister on a trade unionist, a singer, a campaigner, an angler, a director.
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Chuck Blazer, Maryam Mirzakhani, Bryan Avery, Peter McHugh, Martin Landau
Fri 21 Jul 2017
Matthew Bannister on a FIFA boss, a mathematician, an architect, a journalist, an actor.
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Simone Veil, Graham Rose, Tom Isaacs, Liu Xiaobo, Ken Hirst
Fri 14 Jul 2017
Matthew Bannister on a politician, a director, a campaigner and a dissident.
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Barry Norman, Gordon Wilson, Geri Allen, John Thompson, Jack O'Neill
Fri 7 Jul 2017
Matthew Bannister on a film critic, a politician, a pianist, a radio regulator, a surfer.
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Lord Joffe, Michael Bond, Ann Louise Gilligan, Carla Fendi, John Avildsen
Fri 30 Jun 2017
Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a writer, a campaigner, a businesswoman, a film director.
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Helmut Kohl, Anita Pallenberg, Professor Brian Bellhouse, Naseem Khan, Brian Cant
Fri 23 Jun 2017
Julian Worricker on a politician, an artiste, a scientist, an arts pioneer, a TV presenter
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Adnan Khashoggi, Countess Mountbatten, Adam West, Kailash Puri, Vin Garbutt, Helen Dunmore
Fri 16 Jun 2017
Matthew Bannister on an arms dealer, a countess, an actor, an agony aunt, a singer.
