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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Jacques Delors, Nancy Pearce, Elinor Otto, Tony Allen
Fri 29 Dec 2023
Kirsty Lang on a politician, a factory worker, a charity founder and a comedian.
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Maureen Sweeney, Sir Tim Brighouse, Shirley Anne Field, Juanita Castro
Fri 22 Dec 2023
Matthew Bannister on a postmistress, an educationalist, an actor and an activist.
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Benjamin Zephaniah, Laura Lean, Stacy Marking, Eric Freeman
Fri 15 Dec 2023
Matthew Bannister on a poet, a FANY officer, a documentary maker and a farmer.
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Shane MacGowan, Justice Sandra Day O鈥機onnor, Lord Darling, Joan Jara
Fri 8 Dec 2023
Matthew Bannister on a singer, a judge, a politician and a campaigner.
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Henry Kissinger, Terry Venables, Paul Watson, Rachel Heller
Fri 1 Dec 2023
Matthew Bannister on a US diplomat, a football manager, a documentary maker and an artist.
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Captain Don Walsh, Dame A.S. Byatt, Rosalynn Carter, Dr Finlay Macleod
Fri 24 Nov 2023
Matthew Bannister on a submariner, an author, a First Lady and a Gaelic speaker.
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Peter Betts, Audrey Salkeld, Heather Rogers KC, Louise Meriwether
Fri 17 Nov 2023
Matthew Bannister on a civil servant, a mountaineering historian, a lawyer and a writer.
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Ken Mattingly, Anne Wright, Mary Gallacher, David Kirke
Fri 10 Nov 2023
Matthew Bannister on an astronaut, a conservationist, an Ibrox legend and a sports pioneer
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Matthew Perry, Benedict Birnberg, Field Marshall Muthoni Wa Kirima, Professor Jose Harris
Fri 3 Nov 2023
Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a historian, a Mau Mau fighter and an actor.
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Sir Bobby Charlton, Dr Evelyn Fox Keller, Julian Bahula, Haydn Gwynne
Fri 27 Oct 2023
Matthew Bannister on a footballer, a scientist, a musician and an actor.
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Charles 鈥楥huck鈥� Feeney, Phyllis 鈥楶ippa鈥� Latour, Florence Fisher, Dr Nicholas Arnold
Fri 20 Oct 2023
Kirsty Lang on a businessman, an agent, a campaigner, a herpetologist
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Kirsty Smitten, Kat Anderson, Beverly Willis, Tony Wade
Fri 13 Oct 2023
Kirsty Lang on a scientist, an architect, an entrepreneur and a singer.
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Michael Gambon, Pat Arrowsmith, Treleven Haysom, Dianne Feinstein
Fri 6 Oct 2023
Matthew Bannister on an actor, a campaigner, a stonemason and a US senator.
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Gita Mehta, Matteo Messina Denaro, Irma Brenman Pick, John Stevenson
Fri 29 Sep 2023
Matthew Bannister on an author, a mafia boss, a psychoanalyst and a scriptwriter.
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Sir Horace Ov茅, Su Gorman, Roger Whittaker, Jean Combes
Fri 22 Sep 2023
Matthew Bannister on a film director, a campaigner, a singer and a naturalist.
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Mike Yarwood, Ada Deer, Sir Ian Wilmut, Dorothy Purdew
Fri 15 Sep 2023
Matthew Bannister on an impressionist, a campaigner, an embryologist and a businesswoman.
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Mohamed Al-Fayed, Dorothy Goodman, Professor Anthony Bryceson, Denyse Plummer
Fri 8 Sep 2023
Matthew Bannister on a businessman, a educationalist, a tropical medicine expert, a singer
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Julian Haviland, Johaar Mosaval, Tricia Tyler, Matyelok Gibbs
Fri 1 Sep 2023
Matthew Bannister on a political editor, a dancer, a journalist and an actor.
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Michael Parkinson, Renata Scotto, John Brierly, Isobel Crook
Fri 25 Aug 2023
John Wilson on a broadcaster, an Italian soprano, an author and an anthropologist
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SPECIAL EDITION: Michael Parkinson
Thu 24 Aug 2023
John Wilson talks to Sir Michael Parkinson's son Mike
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Nick Kaiser, Angela Flowers, Robbie Shepherd, Doreen Mantle.
Fri 18 Aug 2023
Kirsty Lang on an actress, a British scientist, a gallerist, a Scottish broadcaster.
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Sir Michael Boyd, Jess Search, Warren Ford, Leny Andrade
Fri 11 Aug 2023
Kirsty Lang on an artistic director, a documentary maker, a tea consultant and a singer
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Richard Barancik, Yvonne Littlewood MBE, Edward Sexton, Dr Christian Carritt
Fri 4 Aug 2023
Kirsty Lang on a soldier, a television producer, a tailor and a doctor.
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George Alagiah, Sinead O'Connor, Ann Clwyd, Tony Bennett, and Trevor Francis
Fri 28 Jul 2023
John Wilson on a journalist, a singer-songwriter, a politician, a singer, a footballer
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Lady Williams of Elvel, Professor John Goodenough, Christine Baker, Lord Palmer
Fri 21 Jul 2023
Matthew Bannister on a secretary, a materials chemist, a publisher and an aristocrat.
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Malcolm Mowbray, Victoria Amelina, Roger Lovegrove, Mavis Cheek
Fri 14 Jul 2023
Matthew Bannister on a film director, a novelist, an ornithologist and a writer.
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Lord Kerslake, Dame Ann Leslie, Diane Rowe, Tim Blackmore
Fri 7 Jul 2023
Matthew Bannister on a civil servant, journalist, table tennis champion, radio executive.
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Baroness McDonagh, Craig Brown, Godfrey Merlen, Winnie Ewing
Fri 30 Jun 2023
Matthew Bannister on a baroness, a football manager, a conservationist and a politician.
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Daniel Ellsberg, Glenda Jackson, Melanie Phillips, Sir Ben Helfgott
Fri 23 Jun 2023
Matthew Bannister on a whistleblower, an actor, a social worker and a holocaust survivor.
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Silvio Berlusconi, Cormac McCarthy, Kathryn Harries, Francoise Gilot
Fri 16 Jun 2023
John Wilson on a prime minister, a novelist, a soprano and an artist.
