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

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May 20, 2022 · 28 min
Shireen Abu Akleh, Robert Gillmor, Leonid Kravchuk (pictured), Carrie White
Matthew Bannister on a journalist, an artist, a president and a hairdresser.
May 13, 2022 · 28 min
Kathy Boudin, Dennis Waterman (pictured), Sidney Altman, Régine Zylberberg
Matthew Bannister on an activist, an actor, a biologist, a night club owner.
May 6, 2022 · 28 min
Colonel Alan Jenkins, Mary Monson, Elspeth Barker, Art Rupe (pictured)
Matthew Bannister on a soldier, a lawyer, an author and a music producer.
Apr 29, 2022 · 27 min
Yvonne Blenkinsop (pictured), Dr Margaret Carswell, Mikhail Vasenkov, Denise Coffey
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, an ornithologist, a spy, an actor
Apr 22, 2022 · 28 min
Mimi Reinhard, Sir Harrison Birtwistle (pictured), Sylvia Lancaster OBE, Letizia Battaglia
John Wilson on a Holocaust survivor, a composer, a campaigner and a photographer.
Apr 15, 2022 · 28 min
Jordan Mooney (pictured), Jack Higgins, Robert Ashe, David McKee
John Wilson on a punk icon, a writer, an aid worker and an illustrator.
Apr 8, 2022 · 27 min
Derek Mack (pictured), June Brown, Doris Derby, Dave Sales
Matthew Bannister on a rocket engineer, an actor, a civil rights campaigner, a fisherman.
Apr 1, 2022 · 27 min
Madeleine Albright (pictured), Peter Padfield, Christina Smith, Sheila Paine
Matthew Bannister on a US politician, a naval historian, an entrepreneur, a textile expert
Mar 25, 2022 · 28 min
Bruce Page, Dottie Frazier, Josephine Veasey (pictured), Maynard Davies
Matthew Bannister on a journalist, a diver, a singer and a bacon curer
Mar 18, 2022 · 27 min
Mary Coombs, Paul Farmer, Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper, William Hurt (pictured)
John Wilson on a computer programmer, a medical anthropologist, a translator and an actor.
Mar 11, 2022 · 28 min
Shirley Hughes (pictured), Roger Graef, Shane Warne
Matthew Bannister on a children’s author and illustrator, a documentary maker, a cricketer
Mar 4, 2022 · 28 min
Sonny Ramadhin (pictured), Sister Catherine Wybourne, Captain Raymond Savage, Anna Karen
Matthew Bannister on a cricketer, a nun, a soldier and an actor
Feb 25, 2022 · 28 min
Jamal Edwards MBE, P.J. O'Rourke (pictured), Romaine Hart OBE, Ronnie Campbell
Matthew Bannister on a music entrepreneur, a writer, a cinema owner, a crofter
Feb 18, 2022 · 28 min
Beryl Vertue CBE (pictured), Flavio Carboni, Phil Harvey, Lata Mangeshkar
Matthew Bannister on a producer, a 'fixer', a businessman, a singer
Feb 11, 2022 · 28 min
Bamber Gascoigne (pictured), Norma Waterson, Claire Tomlinson, Thich Nhat Hanh
Matthew Bannister on a broadcaster, a singer, a polo player and a Buddhist monk.
Feb 4, 2022 · 28 min
Sir Crispin Tickell, Barry Cryer (pictured), Darlene Hard, Elza Soares
Julian Worricker on a diplomat, a comedian, a sportswoman and a singer
Jan 28, 2022 · 28 min
Meat Loaf (pictured), André Leon Talley, Jana Bennett, Kristin Baybars
Matthew Bannister on a singer, a fashion editor, a BBC executive, a toymaker
Jan 21, 2022 · 28 min
Lord Sainsbury, David Stuart, Elizabeth Selby, Ronnie Spector (pictured)
Matthew Bannister on a businessman, an LGBT support worker, a photo agent, a singer
Jan 14, 2022 · 28 min
Sidney Poitier (pictured), EO Wilson, Sarah Weddington, Assunta 'Pupetta' Maresca
Matthew Bannister on an actor, a biologist, a lawyer and a mafia boss.
Jan 7, 2022 · 28 min
Lord Rogers (pictured), April Ashley MBE, Joan Didion, Ray Illingworth
Matthew Bannister on an architect, a transgender pioneer, a writer, a cricketer