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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Dame Jocelyn Barrow DBE, Keith Critchlow, Leonard 鈥楴ipper鈥� Read, John Prine
Fri 24 Apr 2020
Matthew Bannister on an artist and geometrist, a campaigner, a detective, a singer.
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Sir Stirling Moss OBE, Professor Margaret Burbidge, Mahmoud Jibril, Tim Brooke-Taylor OBE
Fri 17 Apr 2020
Matthew Bannister on a racing driver, an astronomer, a politician, a comedian
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Dr Bill Frankland MBE, John Tydeman OBE, The Marquess of Bath, Honor Blackman
Fri 10 Apr 2020
Julian Worricker on: an allergist, a radio producer, an aristocrat, an actress.
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Albert Uderzo, Valerie Pettit OBE, Reverend Joseph Lowery, Julie Felix
Fri 3 Apr 2020
Matthew Bannister on an MI6 officer, a cartoonist, a civil rights leader, a singer.
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Betty Williams, Dr Fuad Nahdi, Sol Kerzner, Kenny Rogers
Fri 27 Mar 2020
Matthew Bannister on a journalist and commentator, a businessman, a campaigner, a singer
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Michel Roux, Sammy McCarthy, Lilian Mohin, Roy Hudd
Fri 20 Mar 2020
Matthew Bannister on a chef, a boxer, a publisher, an entertainer
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Javier P茅rez de Cu茅llar, Max von Sydow, Professor Hannah Steinberg, Charles Portis
Fri 13 Mar 2020
Matthew Bannister on a diplomat, an actor, a psychopharmacologist, a writer.
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Katherine Johnson, Nexhmije Hoxha, Sir Michael Berridge, Diana Serra Cary (Baby Peggy)
Fri 6 Mar 2020
Matthew Bannister on a Stalinist, a mathematician, a biochemist, a film star.
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Hosni Mubarak, Andrew Weatherall, Mary Higgins Clark, John Bevan
Fri 28 Feb 2020
Matthew Bannister on a DJ, a President, a writer and a diver.
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Heather Couper CBE, Leonard Woodley QC, Joseph Shabalala
Fri 21 Feb 2020
Matthew Bannister on an astronomer, a barrister, a musician
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Daniel arap Moi, Feng Huiyan, Professor Donald West, Colonel 鈥楳ad Mike鈥� Hoare
Fri 14 Feb 2020
Julian Worricker on a politician, a teacher, a criminologist, a mercenary.
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Kirk Douglas, Terry Hands CBE, Hazel Murphy, Seamus Mallon
Fri 7 Feb 2020
Julian Worricker on a theatre director, a wine marketer, a politician, an actor.
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Nicholas Parsons CBE, Mary Craig, Lord Maclennan of Rogart, Kobe Bryant
Fri 31 Jan 2020
Matthew Bannister on a broadcaster, a writer, a politician, a basketball star
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Tony Garnett, Joy Rainey, Professor Cuchlaine King, Terry Jones
Fri 24 Jan 2020
Matthew Bannister on a producer, a racing driver, a geomorphologist, a comedian
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Sir Roger Scruton FBA, FRSL, Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman, Bobby Neame CBE, Elizabeth Sellars
Fri 17 Jan 2020
Matthew Bannister on a philosopher, a Sultan, a brewer, an actress
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General Qasem Soleimani, M.C. Beaton, George Laurer, Dr Sidney Holt
Fri 10 Jan 2020
Matthew Bannister on a general, a writer, an engineer, a biologist
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Neil Innes, Steve Sawyer, Sheila Mercier, Alasdair Gray
Fri 3 Jan 2020
Matthew Bannister on a musician, an activist, an actress, an author
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Andrew Graham-Yooll OBE, Andrea Newman, Peter Davis, Olly Croft OBE
Fri 27 Dec 2019
Julian Worricker on a journalist, a writer, an ornithologist, a darts administrator.
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Kenny Lynch OBE, Chris Moncrieff CBE, Kate Figes, Branko Lustig
Fri 20 Dec 2019
Matthew Bannister on a journalist, an author, a producer, a singer
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David Bellamy, Nell Gifford, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Mariss Jansons
Fri 13 Dec 2019
Matthew Bannister on a botanist, a circus owner, a prime minister, a conductor
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Bob Willis MBE, Gary Rhodes OBE, Dr Shuping Wang, Sir Stephen Cleobury CBE
Fri 6 Dec 2019
Matthew Bannister on a cricketer, a chef, a whistleblower, a musical director
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Sir Jonathan Miller, Field Marshal Lord Bramall, Clive James AO, CBE
Fri 29 Nov 2019
Matthew Bannister on a director, a Field Marshal, a writer
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Vladimir Bukovsky, Alison Prince, Keith Schellenberg, Robert Ponsonby
Fri 22 Nov 2019
Matthew Bannister on a dissident, a writer, a laird, a 大象传媒 Controller
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Nik Powell OBE, James Le Mesurier OBE, Frank Dobson, Hazel Vincent Wallace OBE
Fri 15 Nov 2019
Matthew Bannister on a rescue worker, a businessman, an M.P., an impresario
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Gay Byrne, Sadako Ogata, Robert Evans
Fri 8 Nov 2019
Matthew Bannister on a broadcaster, a UN High Commissioner, a film producer
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Charles Jencks, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Irene Shubik, Raymond Leppard
Fri 1 Nov 2019
Matthew Bannister on an architecural historian, an ISIS leader, a TV producer, a conductor
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Alicia Alonso, Deborah Orr, Joyce Cansfield, Clora Bryant
Fri 25 Oct 2019
Matthew Bannister on a ballerina, a journalist, a crossword setter, a trumpeter
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Alexei Leonov, Sally Soames, Kary Mullis, Reg Watson
Fri 18 Oct 2019
Matthew Bannister on a cosmonaut, a photographer, a biochemist and a producer
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Ginger Baker, Su Beng, John Haylett, Diahann Carroll
Fri 11 Oct 2019
Matthew Bannister on an activist, a drummer, an editor and an actress.
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Jessye Norman, Peter Sissons, Al Alvarez, Marita Lorenz
Fri 4 Oct 2019
Julian Worricker on a singer, a journalist, an author, a spy.
