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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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.
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Miriam Rodriguez Martinez, Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior, Peter Sallis, Lady Anne Piper, Jiri Belohlavek
Fri 9 Jun 2017
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a vet, an actor, a novelist, a conductor.
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John Noakes, Manuel Noriega, Pat Stewart, Rex Sanders, Gregg Allman
Fri 2 Jun 2017
Julian Worricker on a broadcaster, a navigator, a musician, a dancer, a dictator.
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Brendan Duddy, Nina Lowry, Roger Ailes, Osmund Reynolds, Roger Moore
Fri 26 May 2017
Andrea Catherwood on a peace-maker, a surgeon, a TV mogul, film star, and a judge.
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Rhodri Morgan, Michael Wearing, Dr Helen Szamuely, Ian Brady, Robert Miles
Fri 19 May 2017
Matthew Bannister on a politician, a producer, a campaigner and a DJ.
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Ueli Steck, Lord Williams of Baglan, Sylvia Moy, Captain James Dickson MBE, Jon Prinz
Fri 12 May 2017
Matthew Bannister on a climber, a diplomat, a songwriter, a mariner, a food scientist.
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Robert Pirsig, Shobha Nehru, Michael Ballhaus, Leo Baxendale, Bruce Langhorne
Fri 5 May 2017
Matthew Bannister on a writer, a cinematographer, a cartoonist, a musician.
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Jonathan Demme, Robert Taylor, Cathy Hopkins, Peter Farrer, Dorothy Torry
Fri 28 Apr 2017
Matthew Bannister on a director, a computer pioneer, a campaigner, a tax inspector.
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Michael Bogdanov, Louis Sarno, Sheila Abdus Salaam, Dick Potts, Don Rickles
Fri 21 Apr 2017
Matthew Bannister on a director, an enthnomusicologist, a judge, an ecologist, a comedian.
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Masha Leon, Tim Pigott-Smith, Christopher Morahan, Parv Bancil, Marthe Gosteli, Brian Matthew
Fri 14 Apr 2017
Julian Worricker on a columnist, an actor, a playwright, a director, a campaigner and a DJ
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Darcus Howe, Andy Coogan, Dr Sylvia Moody, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Peter Shotton
Fri 7 Apr 2017
Matthew Bannister on an activist, a coach, a psychologist, a poet, a businessman.
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David Storey, Ahmed Kathrada, Barbara Buss, Aloysius 'Lucky' Gordon
Fri 31 Mar 2017
Matthew Bannister on a writer, an activist, an editor, a drug dealer.
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Martin McGuinness, Chuck Berry, Sir Derek Walcott, Salome Karwah, Colin Dexter
Fri 24 Mar 2017
Matthew Bannister on a politician, a musician, a poet, an Ebola survivor, a writer.
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John Surtees, Gordon Thomas, Sir Howard Hodgkin, H. Boyd Woodruff, Joni Sledge
Fri 17 Mar 2017
Matthew Bannister on a racing driver, a writer, an artist, a microbiologist, a singer.
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Sir Nigel Rodley, Sir Cosmo Haskard, Louise Hulton, Pete Overend Watts
Fri 10 Mar 2017
Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a bass player, a maternal health expert, a governor.
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Gerald Kaufman, Dick Bruna, Desmond Connell, Rita Barber谩, Frank Delaney
Fri 3 Mar 2017
Julian Worricker on two politicians, a cardinal, a writer, an illustrator.
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Stanley Bard, Norma McCorvey, Michael Ember, Peter Skellern
Fri 24 Feb 2017
Kate Silverton on a hotelier, a campaigner, a radio producer and a singer-songwriter.
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Al Jarreau, Betty Tebbs, Sir Peter Mansfield, Dame Jennifer Jenkins, Hans Rosling
Fri 17 Feb 2017
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a physicist, a chairwoman, a statistician and a singer.
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Alan Simpson, Brunhilde Pomsel, Sir Ken Morrison, Buchi Emecheta
Fri 10 Feb 2017
Matthew Bannister on a comedy writer, a secretary, a businessman and an author.
