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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Martin McGuinness, Chuck Berry, Sir Derek Walcott, Salome Karwah, Colin Dexter
Fri 24 Mar 2017
Matthew Bannister on a politician, a musician, a poet, an Ebola survivor, a writer.
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John Surtees, Gordon Thomas, Sir Howard Hodgkin, H. Boyd Woodruff, Joni Sledge
Fri 17 Mar 2017
Matthew Bannister on a racing driver, a writer, an artist, a microbiologist, a singer.
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Sir Nigel Rodley, Sir Cosmo Haskard, Louise Hulton, Pete Overend Watts
Fri 10 Mar 2017
Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a bass player, a maternal health expert, a governor.
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Gerald Kaufman, Dick Bruna, Desmond Connell, Rita Barber谩, Frank Delaney
Fri 3 Mar 2017
Julian Worricker on two politicians, a cardinal, a writer, an illustrator.
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Stanley Bard, Norma McCorvey, Michael Ember, Peter Skellern
Fri 24 Feb 2017
Kate Silverton on a hotelier, a campaigner, a radio producer and a singer-songwriter.
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Al Jarreau, Betty Tebbs, Sir Peter Mansfield, Dame Jennifer Jenkins, Hans Rosling
Fri 17 Feb 2017
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a physicist, a chairwoman, a statistician and a singer.
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Alan Simpson, Brunhilde Pomsel, Sir Ken Morrison, Buchi Emecheta
Fri 10 Feb 2017
Matthew Bannister on a comedy writer, a secretary, a businessman and an author.
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Sir John Hurt, Margaret Pereira CBE, Sir Christopher Bland, Emma Tennant, Mary Tyler Moore
Fri 3 Feb 2017
Matthew Bannister on two actors, a forensic scientist, a chairman, a writer.
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Tam Dalyell MP, Victor Lownes, Babette Cole, Zhou Youguang, Gorden Kaye
Fri 27 Jan 2017
Matthew Bannister on an MP, a playboy, a children's author, a linguist, an actor.
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Baroness Heyhoe Flint, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Una Kroll, William Peter Blatty, Sir James Mancham
Sun 22 Jan 2017
Matthew Bannister on a cricketer, two presidents, a campaigner, a writer.
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Lord Snowdon, Graham Taylor, Jill Saward, Peter Sarstedt, Clare Hollingworth
Fri 13 Jan 2017
Matthew Bannister on a photographer, a manager, a campaigner, a musician, a journalist.
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John Berger, Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, Henry Heimlich, Patsy Crampton, Brian Widlake and George Michael
Fri 6 Jan 2017
Julian Worricker on a writer, a linguist, a broadcaster, a musician, a surgeon, two actors
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Michael Nicholson, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Lord Prior, Rabbi Lionel Blue, Pauline Oliveros
Fri 23 Dec 2016
Julian Worricker on a journalist, an actress, a politician, a rabbi, a composer.
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Peter Gibson, AA Gill, Coral Atkins, William Chaloner, Ian McCaskill
Fri 16 Dec 2016
Matthew Bannister on a glazier, a journalist, a carer, a palaeobotanist, a weatherman.
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John Glenn, Peter Vaughan, Jayalalithaa Jayaram, Greg Lake
Fri 9 Dec 2016
Matthew Bannister on an astronaut, an actor, an Indian politician, a musician.
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Andrew Sachs, Fidel Castro, Mose Allison, The Honourable Margaret Rhodes
Fri 2 Dec 2016
Matthew Bannister on an actor, a revolutionary leader, a singer, the Queen's cousin.
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Martin Aitchison, Sir Mota Singh QC, William Trevor, Ruth Gruber, David Mancuso
Fri 25 Nov 2016
Kate Silverton on an artist, a judge, a writer, a photojournalist and a party host.
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Robert Vaughn, Sir Sigmund Sternberg, Carolyn Hardy OBE, Ewen Whitaker, Claude 'Curly' Putman
Fri 18 Nov 2016
Matthew Bannister on an actor, an astronomer, a gardener, a philanthropist, a singer.
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Leonard Cohen, Lt Col Robert Montgomery MC, Janet Reno, Sir Jimmy Young
Fri 11 Nov 2016
Matthew Bannister on a singer, a war hero, a US attorney general, a broadcaster.
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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.
