Last Word

BBC Radio 4

Radio 4's weekly obituary programme, telling the life stories of those who have died recently

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578 episodes
Updated Friday

Episodes578

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Mar 3, 2023 · 27 min
Lady Betty Boothroyd, Marianne Mantell, John Motson OBE, Sulamita Aronovsky
Kirsty Lang on a politician, a publisher, a football commentator and a pianist.
Feb 24, 2023 · 28 min
Dorothy Pitman Hughes, Ralph Hooper OBE, Raquel Welch, Dickie Davies
A feminist, an engineer, an actress and a sports presenter.
Feb 17, 2023 · 28 min
David Vaughan OBE, Burt Bacharach, Janet Anderson, Eileen Sheridan
Matthew Bannister on a glaciologist, a composer, an MP and a cyclist.
Feb 10, 2023 · 28 min
Frene Ginwala, Lady Martha Bruce OBE, Pervez Musharraf, Paco Rabanne
Matthew Bannister on an activist, a prison governor, a president and a designer.
Feb 6, 2023 · 27 min
Ralph Ehrmann, Sylvia Syms, Rabbi Dr Abraham Levy, Jo Sandilands
Matthew Bannister on a businessman, an actor, a Rabbi and an editor.
Jan 27, 2023 · 28 min
Howard Baderman, David Crosby, Milly Thompson, Brenda Heywood
Matthew Bannister on a doctor, a musician, an artist and an archaeologist.
Jan 20, 2023 · 28 min
Jeff Beck, Alice Mahon, Tom Karen OBE, Gina Lollobrigida
Matthew Bannister on a guitarist, an MP, a designer and an actress.
Jan 13, 2023 · 28 min
Gianluca Vialli, Fay Weldon, Michael Dower, Anita Pointer
Matthew Bannister on a footballer, an author, a conservationist and a singer.
Jan 6, 2023 · 28 min
Pope Benedict XVI, Dame Vivienne Westwood, James Caan, Georgia Holt
Matthew Bannister on a pope, a fashion designer, an actor and a singer.
Dec 30, 2022 · 28 min
Terry Hall, Dame Beryl Grey, Heather Iandolo, Eric Allison
Matthew Bannister on a singer, the daughter of Lord Haw Haw, an ex-offender, a ballerina
Dec 23, 2022 · 28 min
Victor Lewis-Smith, Maureen Doherty, Pablo Milanés, Ailsa Irving
Matthew Bannister on a columnist and broadcaster, a designer, a singer, and a campaigner.
Dec 16, 2022 · 28 min
Joyce Bryant, George 'Johnny' Johnson MBE, Dame Clare Marx, Joseph Kittinger
Matthew Bannister on a singer, a squadron leader, a surgeon, a skydiver.
Dec 9, 2022 · 28 min
Christine McVie, Jiang Zemin, Derek Granger
Matthew Bannister on a musician, a Chinese leader and a producer.
Dec 2, 2022 · 27 min
Doddie Weir, Hebe de Bonafini, Irene Cara, Cornelia Schroeder
Matthew Bannister on a rugby player, a campaigner, a singer and a virologist.
Nov 25, 2022 · 28 min
Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Ann Savours, Sue Baker, Wilko Johnson
Matthew Bannister on a migrant, a journalist, an archivist and a musician.
Nov 18, 2022 · 28 min
Peter de Savary, Bob Le Sueur MBE, Ela Bhatt, Hannah Pick-Goslar
Matthew Bannister on an entrepreneur, a war hero, a campaigner and a Holocaust survivor.
Nov 11, 2022 · 28 min
Leslie Phillips CBE, Dame Valerie Beral, Avtar Singh Jouhl, Atarah Ben-Tovim MBE
Matthew Bannister on an actor, an epidemiologist, an activist and a musician.
Nov 4, 2022 · 28 min
Baroness Blood, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ian Jack, Hilaree Nelson
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a musician, a journalist and a ski mountaineer.
Oct 28, 2022 · 28 min
Dame Carmen Callil, Ivy Jo Hunter, Kathleen Booth, Dietrich Mateschitz
Matthew Bannister on a publisher, a songwriter, a computer pioneer and a billionaire.
Oct 21, 2022 · 27 min
Ian Hamilton KC, Audrey Evans, Parvatiben Solanki, Robbie Coltrane OBE
Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a paediatric oncologist, a publisher and an actor.