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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Tom Hayden, Valerie Hunter Gordon, Carole Blake, Anne Pashley
Fri 4 Nov 2016
Matthew Bannister on a political activist, an inventor, a literary agent, an opera singer.
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Raine, Countess Spencer, James "Jimmy" Perry, Stylianos Pattakos, Howard Davies, Bobby Vee
Fri 28 Oct 2016
Matthew Bannister on a countess, a comedy writer, a Greek general, a director, a singer.
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Jean Alexander, Trinh Thi Ngo, Ian Mercer, Joseph Harmatz, Joan Marie Johnson
Fri 21 Oct 2016
Matthew Bannister on an actress, a broadcaster, a naturalist, an 'Avenger' and a singer.
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King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Dario Fo, Jean Bloxam, Andrew Vicari, Don Buchla
Fri 14 Oct 2016
Matthew Bannister on a king, a playwright, a racing driver, a painter, a musical inventor.
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Sir Neville Marriner, Father Gabriele Amorth, Beryl Crockford, Professor Louis Herman, Rod Temperton
Fri 7 Oct 2016
Matthew Bannister on a conductor, an exorcist, a rower, a psychologist and a songwriter.
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Shimon Peres, Nathalie Evans, Arnold Palmer, Bill Mollison, Jean Shepard
Fri 30 Sep 2016
Shimon Peres, Nathalie Evans, Arnold Palmer, Bill Mollison, Jean Shepard.
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Edward Albee, James Cronin, Caroline Thomson OBE, Sir Frederick Holliday, Charmian Carr
Fri 23 Sep 2016
Matthew Bannister on a playwright, a physicist, a health administrator and a zoologist.
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Barry Myers, Eileen Younghusband, Robin Spark, Keith McDougall, Prince Buster
Fri 16 Sep 2016
Matthew Bannister on a director, a filter officer, an artist, a countryman, a ska star.
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The Right Rev David Jenkins, Dame Margaret Anstee, Islam Karimov, Richard Neville
Fri 9 Sep 2016
Matthew Bannister on a bishop, a diplomat, a president and an editor.
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Joao Havelange, Sonia Rykiel, Gene Wilder, Toots Thielemans
Fri 2 Sep 2016
Matthew Bannister on a FIFA president, a fashion designer, an actor, a jazz musician.
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Sir Antony Jay, Donald Henderson, Tom Cholmondeley, Patsy Wright-Warren CBE, Lord Rix
Fri 26 Aug 2016
Julian Worricker on a writer, an epidemiologist, an aristocrat, a nurse, an entertainer.
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Bishop Edward Daly, Ahmed Zewail, Suzanne Wright, Duke of Westminster, Ivo Pitanguy
Fri 12 Aug 2016
Matthew Bannister on a bishop, a chemist, an autism campaigner, a duke, a plastic surgeon.
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Luc Hoffmann, Sylvia Peters, Joe Powell, William Smethurst, Sandy Pearlman
Fri 5 Aug 2016
Matthew Bannister on a naturalist, an announcer, a stuntman, an editor, a rock manager.
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Gary S Paxton, Sally Beauman, Thomas Sutherland, Frank Dickens, Marni Nixon
Fri 29 Jul 2016
Matthew Bannister on a hostage, a singer, songwriter and producer, an author, a cartoonist
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Abdul Sattar Edhi, Professor Suzanne Corkin, Bernardo Provenzano, Garry Marshall
Fri 22 Jul 2016
Matthew Bannister on a humanitarian, a neuroscientist, a mafia don, a comedy director.
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Sydney Schanberg, Beatrice de Cardi, Lord Evans of Temple Guiting, Alvin Toffler, Jimmy Gilbert
Fri 15 Jul 2016
Matthew Bannister on a journalist, an archaeologist, a publisher, a futurist, a producer.
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Caroline Aherne, Elie Wiesel, Sir Geoffrey Hill, Lord Mayhew, Michael Cimino
Fri 8 Jul 2016
Matthew Bannister on a comedian, a holocaust survivor, a poet, a politician, a director.
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Amjad Sabri, Lorna Kelly, Jerome Bruner, Bob Holman, Scotty Moore
Fri 1 Jul 2016
Matthew Bannister on a singer, an auctioneer, a psychologist, a campaigner, a guitarist.
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Dr Sylvia Meek, Sam King MBE, Chips Moman, Ethel Bush GM, Harry Rabinowitz
Fri 24 Jun 2016
Matthew Bannister on a parasitologist, a conductor, a police officer, a mayor, a producer.
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Jo Cox MP, Dave Swarbrick, Viktor Korchnoi, Wendy Leigh
Fri 17 Jun 2016
Reeta Chakrabarti on an MP, a musician, a chess player and a writer.
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Sir Peter Shaffer, Sir Denys Wilkinson, Peggy Spencer and Muhammad Ali
Fri 10 Jun 2016
Julian Worricker on a playwright, a physicist, a dancer and a boxer.
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Carla Lane, Sir Denys Henderson, Jane Fawcett, Alan Devereux and Buster Cooper
Fri 3 Jun 2016
Matthew Bannister on a comedy writer, a businessman, a conservationist, an actor.
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Professor Robert McNeill Alexander, Reg Grundy, Sally Brampton, Tony Cozier, Madeleine LeBeau
Fri 20 May 2016
Matthew Bannister on a zoologist, a TV producer, an editor, a cricket commentator.
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Gareth Gwenlan, Sir Harry Kroto, Michael 'Dandy Kim' Caborn-Waterfield, Lilly Dubowitz, Papa Wemba
Fri 13 May 2016
Matthew Bannister on a TV producer, a chemist, a wheeler dealer, a paediatrician, a singer
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Reverend Daniel Berrigan, Lord Walton of Detchant, Jenny Diski, Guy Woolfenden
Fri 6 May 2016
Matthew Bannister on a peace campaigner, an author, a neurologist and a composer.
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Lord Peston, Ruth Prideaux, Patricio Aylwin, Professor Sir David Mackay, Gareth Thomas
Fri 29 Apr 2016
Matthew Bannister on an economist, a cricketer, a Chilean President, a physicist, an actor
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Prince, Ray Fitzwalter, Victoria Wood, June Jolly, Phil Sayer
Fri 22 Apr 2016
Matthew Bannister on a rock star, an editor, a comedian, a nurse and an announcer.
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Arnold Wesker, Howard Marks, Peggy Fortnum, Merle Haggard and Rachel Johnson
Fri 15 Apr 2016
Matthew Bannister on a playwright, a drug smuggler, an illustrator and a country singer.
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Mother Angelica, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, DJ Derek, Doreen Massey and Joe Medicine Crow
Fri 8 Apr 2016
Matthew Bannister on a nun, a German politician, a DJ, a geographer, a native American.
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Dame Zaha Hadid, Ronnie Corbett, General Meir Dagan, Joan Loraine, Gary Shandling
Fri 1 Apr 2016
Matthew Bannister on an architect, two comedians, a Mossad chief, a gardener.
