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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Des O鈥機onnor CBE, Richard Trim OBE, Dr Ataullah Siddiqui, Edith Raymond Locke
Fri 20 Nov 2020
Matthew Bannister on a comedian, a radar engineer, a scholar, an editor.
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Lord Sacks, John Sessions, Joanna Harcourt-Smith, Jim Radford
Fri 13 Nov 2020
Matthew Bannister on a rabbi, an actor, a podcaster, a singer.
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Sir Sean Connery, Eavan Boland, Nobby Stiles MBE, Bobby Ball
Fri 6 Nov 2020
Matthew Bannister on an actor, a poet, a footballer, a comedian.
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David Toole OBE, Professor Valerie Curtis, Frank Bough, Jill Paton Walsh CBE
Fri 30 Oct 2020
Matthew Bannister on a dancer, a hygiene expert, a TV presenter, an author
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Herbert Kretzmer, James Nash, Tom Maschler, Sister Chiara Hatton Hall
Fri 23 Oct 2020
Matthew Bannister on a lyricist, an adventurer, a publisher, a nun.
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Derek Mahon, Professor Gerta Vrbov谩, Ang Rita Sherpa, Helena Shenel
Fri 16 Oct 2020
Matthew Bannister on a poet, a physiologist, a mountaineer, a voice coach.
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Kenzo Takada, Colonel John Waddy, Frank Windsor, Ann Getty
Fri 9 Oct 2020
Matthew Bannister on a designer, a soldier, an actor, a socialite
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Juliette Greco, Bob Gore, Dame Georgina Mace, Jiri Menzel
Fri 2 Oct 2020
Julian Worricker on a singer, an inventor, an ecologist and a film director.
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Sir Harold Evans, Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, Alan Minter, Helen Taylor-Thompson
Fri 25 Sep 2020
Julian Worricker on a journalist, a judge, a charity worker, a boxer.
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Sir Terence Conran, Dame Diana Rigg CBE, Shere Hite, Toots Hibbert
Fri 18 Sep 2020
Matthew Bannister on a designer, an actor, a researcher, a musician.
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Stuart King, Comrade Duch, Deirdre Le Faye, David Bryant CBE
Fri 11 Sep 2020
Julian Worricker on a pioneering humanitarian, an executioner, a scholar, a sportsman.
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Chadwick Boseman, Sir Kenneth Robinson, Lord Renton of Mount Harry, Doreen Davies
Fri 4 Sep 2020
Matthew Bannister on: an actor, an educationalist, a politician, a 大象传媒 manager
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Dr James Partridge OBE, Sally Jacobs, Angela Buxton, Philip Horniblow OBE
Fri 28 Aug 2020
Julian Worricker on a designer, a campaigner, a sportswoman, an adventurer.
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Julian Bream CBE, Elizabeth Ward OBE, Chris Graham-Bell, Stuart Christie
Fri 21 Aug 2020
Matthew Bannister on a guitarist, a campaigner, a publisher, an anarchist.
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Hawa Abdi, Clive Ponting, President Lee Teng-hui, Richard Brooke
Fri 14 Aug 2020
Matthew Bannister on a doctor, a whistleblower, a President, a mountaineer.
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John Hume, Stan Mellor MBE, Paulette Wilson, Sir Alan Parker
Fri 7 Aug 2020
Matthew Bannister on a politician, a jockey, a campaigner, a film director
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Stuart Wheeler, Josephine Cox, Milo拧 Jake拧, Peter Green
Fri 31 Jul 2020
Matthew Bannister on a financier, an author, a politician, a guitarist.
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John Lewis, Tony Elliott CBE, Wendy Cooling, Dr Alan Howard
Fri 24 Jul 2020
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a publisher, an educationalist and a nutritionist.
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Jack Charlton, Zindzi Mandela, Charles Webb, Ida Haendel
Fri 17 Jul 2020
Matthew Bannister on a footballer, an activist, a writer, a violinist.
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Ennio Morricone, Sir Everton Weekes, Baroness Maddock, Earl Cameron CBE
Fri 10 Jul 2020
Matthew Bannister on a composer, a cricketer, a politician, an actor
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Milton Glaser, Terry Dicks, Professor Tom Arie, Else Blangsted
Fri 3 Jul 2020
Matthew Bannister on a designer, an MP, a psychiatrist, a music editor.
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Sir Ian Holm, Jean Kennedy Smith, Felicity Bryan MBE, Lily Lian
Fri 26 Jun 2020
Matthew Bannister on an actor, an ambassador, an agent, a singer
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Dame Vera Lynn, Professor Geoffrey Burnstock, Larry Kramer, Pierre Nkurunziza
Fri 19 Jun 2020
Matthew Bannister on a neurobiologist, a campaigner, a president, a singer
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Christo Javacheff, Cathie Sabin OBE, Dorothy Wakely, Jonathan Whitehead
Fri 12 Jun 2020
Matthew Bannister on an artist, a tennis administrator, an SOE officer, a musician.
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Dr Stanley Ho, Roger Fellows, Margaret Meek Spencer, Mory Kant茅
Fri 5 Jun 2020
Julian Worricker on a political campaigner, a gambling tycoon, an educationist, a musician
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Margaret Maughan, John Cumming OBE, Jerry Givens, John Langdon, Eric Weissberg
Fri 29 May 2020
Julian Worricker on an athlete, a jazz promoter, a campaigner, a comedy writer.
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Lord Robert May of Oxford, Dr Judith Darmady OBE, Mark Barkan, Saroj Lal
Fri 22 May 2020
Matthew Bannister on a mathematical ecologist, a paediatrician, a songwriter, a campaigner
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Little Richard, Dr Janet Carr OBE, Professor John Horton Conway, Florian Schneider
Fri 15 May 2020
Matthew Bannister on a rock 'n' roll star, a psychologist, a mathematician, a musician
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Catherine Hamlin, Irrfan Khan, Denis Goldberg, Ann Sayer
Fri 8 May 2020
Matthew Bannister on an obstetrician, an actor, an activist, an athlete
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Ronan O'Rahilly, Sir John Houghton CBE, Sue Davies OBE, Barbara Smoker
Fri 1 May 2020
Matthew Bannister on a businessman, an atmospheric physicist, a curator, an atheist
