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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Judith Heumann, Brian Tufano, Sir David Elliott KCMG, Elizabeth Foulkes
Fri 10 Mar 2023
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a cinematographer, a diplomat and an architect.
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Lady Betty Boothroyd, Marianne Mantell, John Motson OBE, Sulamita Aronovsky
Fri 3 Mar 2023
Kirsty Lang on a politician, a publisher, a football commentator and a pianist.
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Dorothy Pitman Hughes, Ralph Hooper OBE, Raquel Welch, Dickie Davies
Fri 24 Feb 2023
A feminist, an engineer, an actress and a sports presenter.
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David Vaughan OBE, Burt Bacharach, Janet Anderson, Eileen Sheridan
Fri 17 Feb 2023
Matthew Bannister on a glaciologist, a composer, an MP and a cyclist.
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Frene Ginwala, Lady Martha Bruce OBE, Pervez Musharraf, Paco Rabanne
Fri 10 Feb 2023
Matthew Bannister on an activist, a prison governor, a president and a designer.
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Ralph Ehrmann, Sylvia Syms, Rabbi Dr Abraham Levy, Jo Sandilands
Fri 3 Feb 2023
Matthew Bannister on a businessman, an actor, a Rabbi and an editor.
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Howard Baderman, David Crosby, Milly Thompson, Brenda Heywood
Fri 27 Jan 2023
Matthew Bannister on a doctor, a musician, an artist and an archaeologist.
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Jeff Beck, Alice Mahon, Tom Karen OBE, Gina Lollobrigida
Fri 20 Jan 2023
Matthew Bannister on a guitarist, an MP, a designer and an actress.
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Gianluca Vialli, Fay Weldon, Michael Dower, Anita Pointer
Fri 13 Jan 2023
Matthew Bannister on a footballer, an author, a conservationist and a singer.
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Pope Benedict XVI, Dame Vivienne Westwood, James Caan, Georgia Holt
Fri 6 Jan 2023
Matthew Bannister on a pope, a fashion designer, an actor and a singer.
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Terry Hall, Dame Beryl Grey, Heather Iandolo, Eric Allison
Fri 30 Dec 2022
Matthew Bannister on a singer, the daughter of Lord Haw Haw, an ex-offender, a ballerina
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Victor Lewis-Smith, Maureen Doherty, Pablo Milan茅s, Ailsa Irving
Fri 23 Dec 2022
Matthew Bannister on a columnist and broadcaster, a designer, a singer, and a campaigner.
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Joyce Bryant, George 'Johnny' Johnson MBE, Dame Clare Marx, Joseph Kittinger
Fri 16 Dec 2022
Matthew Bannister on a singer, a squadron leader, a surgeon, a skydiver.
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Christine McVie, Jiang Zemin, Derek Granger
Fri 9 Dec 2022
Matthew Bannister on a musician, a Chinese leader and a producer.
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Doddie Weir, Hebe de Bonafini, Irene Cara, Cornelia Schroeder
Fri 2 Dec 2022
Matthew Bannister on a rugby player, a campaigner, a singer and a virologist.
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Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Ann Savours, Sue Baker, Wilko Johnson
Fri 25 Nov 2022
Matthew Bannister on a migrant, a journalist, an archivist and a musician.
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Peter de Savary, Bob Le Sueur MBE, Ela Bhatt, Hannah Pick-Goslar
Fri 18 Nov 2022
Matthew Bannister on an entrepreneur, a war hero, a campaigner and a Holocaust survivor.
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Leslie Phillips CBE, Dame Valerie Beral, Avtar Singh Jouhl, Atarah Ben-Tovim MBE
Fri 11 Nov 2022
Matthew Bannister on an actor, an epidemiologist, an activist and a musician.
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Baroness Blood, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ian Jack, Hilaree Nelson
Fri 4 Nov 2022
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a musician, a journalist and a ski mountaineer.
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Dame Carmen Callil, Ivy Jo Hunter, Kathleen Booth, Dietrich Mateschitz
Fri 28 Oct 2022
Matthew Bannister on a publisher, a songwriter, a computer pioneer and a billionaire.
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Ian Hamilton KC, Audrey Evans, Parvatiben Solanki, Robbie Coltrane OBE
Fri 21 Oct 2022
Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a paediatric oncologist, a publisher and an actor.
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Dame Angela Lansbury, Lady Keswick, Sacheen Littlefeather, Franca Fendi
Fri 14 Oct 2022
Matthew Bannister on an actor, a special adviser, a campaigner, a businesswoman
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Yusuf al-Qaradawi, 'Ma' Smith MBE, Mike Burrows, Loretta Lynn
Fri 7 Oct 2022
Matthew Bannister on a Muslim scholar, a voluntary worker, a cycle designer and a singer.
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Dame Hilary Mantel, John McVicar, Joyce Reynolds, Paul Sartin
Fri 30 Sep 2022
Matthew Bannister on an author, an ex-offender, a classicist and a musician.
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Jean-Luc Godard, Barbara Ehrenreich, Dennis Wilson, Mavis Nicholson
Fri 23 Sep 2022
Kirsty Lang on a film-maker, a writer, a war poet and a broadcaster.
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Bill Turnbull, Anne Sutton, Norah Vincent, Drummie Zeb
Fri 16 Sep 2022
Matthew Bannister on a broadcaster, a historian, a writer, a drummer
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Mikhail Gorbachev, Stella 'Jaye' Edwards, Jerry Allison
Fri 2 Sep 2022
Matthew Bannister on a president, a pilot and a drummer.
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Margaret Keane, Keith Smith, Mario Fiorentini, Brenda Fisher
Fri 26 Aug 2022
Matthew Bannister on an artist, an entrepreneur, a partisan and a swimmer.
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Lamont Dozier, Joan Lingard, Issey Miyake, Edana Minghella
Fri 19 Aug 2022
John Wilson on a songwriter, a children's author, a fashion designer, a researcher
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James Lovelock, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Roy Hackett MBE, Dame Olivia Newton-John
Fri 12 Aug 2022
Kirsty Lang on a scientist, a terrorist, an activist and a film star.
