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
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Aug 13, 2021 · 27 min
Jean 'Binta' Breeze MBE (pictured), Sir Nicholas Goodison, Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Joyce Shrubbs
Matthew Bannister on a poet, a stockbroker, a Muslim teacher, a military observer
Aug 6, 2021 · 28 min
Sir Graham Vick (pictured), Carmel Budiardjo, Piers Plowright, Dusty Hill
Julian Worricker on an opera director, a campaigner, a radio producer and a musician.
Jul 30, 2021 · 28 min
Jackie Mason (pictured), John Woodcock, Dinah Murray, Billy Lacey
Matthew Bannister on a comedian, a cricket writer, a campaigner, a marshman
Jul 23, 2021 · 28 min
Gillian Sheen (pictured), William 'Twink' Allen, Lawrence 'Benny' Goodman, Alan Lewis
Matthew Bannister on an Olympian, a horse fertility expert, a Squadron Leader, a publisher
Jul 16, 2021 · 27 min
Jehan Sadat (pictured), Michael Horovitz, Richard Ernst, Dilip Kumar
Matthew Bannister on a First Lady, a poet, a chemist, an actor
Jul 9, 2021 · 27 min
Donald Rumsfeld (pictured), Menelik Shabazz, Elizabeth French
Matthew Bannister on a US defense secretary, a film-maker and an archaeologist.
Jul 2, 2021 · 28 min
John McAfee (pictured), Trần Thiện Khiêm, Karla Burns, Horace 'Lyle' Hutley
Matthew Bannister on a businessman, a general, a singer, a war veteran.
Jun 25, 2021 · 28 min
Kenneth Kaunda, Janet Malcolm, Penny Kemp, Bob Swash
Matthew Bannister on a president, a writer, a campaigner, a producer.
Jun 18, 2021 · 28 min
Edward de Bono, Paul Van Doren, Alastair Hanton OBE, Violetta Elvin
Matthew Bannister on a thinker, a businessman, banker, a ballerina.
Jun 11, 2021 · 28 min
Lee Evans (pictured), Yuan Longping, Bill McCall, Alix Dobkin
Matthew Bannister on a sprinter, a plant scientist, a union leader, a singer.
Jun 4, 2021 · 28 min
Eric Carle (pictured), Helen Murray Free, Michael Parsons, Evelyn McNicol
Matthew Bannister on an author, a chemist, an engineer, a mountaineer.
May 28, 2021 · 28 min
Sir Paul Cosford, Max Mosley (pictured), Dr Frances Rotblat, Norman Lloyd
Julian Worricker on a medical director, a motorsport boss, a scientist, an actor.
May 21, 2021 · 28 min
Spencer Silver, Kevin Jackson, Patricia Brown, Asfaw Yemiru
Matthew Bannister on a chemist, a writer, a codebreaker, a teacher.
May 14, 2021 · 28 min
Olympia Dukakis (pictured), Eric McGraw MBE, Anthony Thwaite
Matthew Bannister on an actor, an editor and a poet.
May 7, 2021 · 28 min
Baroness O'Cathain, Michael Collins, Sharon Matola, Jim Steinman (pictured, with Meat Loaf)
Matthew Bannister on a businesswoman, an astronaut, a zoo director, a songwriter.
Apr 30, 2021 · 28 min
Geoff Crowther, Isamu Akasaki, June Newton, Les McKeown (pictured)
Matthew Bannister on a guide book writer, a physicist, a photographer, a pop star.
Apr 23, 2021 · 28 min
Helen McCrory (pictured), Hans Küng, Eric Gordon, George Reynolds
Matthew Bannister on an actor, a theologian, an editor, a businessman.
Apr 16, 2021 · 28 min
Baroness Shirley Williams (pictured), Glynn Lunney, Lyn Macdonald
Matthew Bannister on a politician, a Nasa flight director and a historian.
Apr 9, 2021 · 28 min
Doreen Lofthouse OBE, Dr Chris Doake, Barbara Hosking CBE, Bernice Cohen
Matthew Bannister on a businesswoman, a glaciologist, a civil servant, an investor.
Apr 2, 2021 · 27 min
Bob Davey MBE; George Segal (pictured); Lady Violet Aitken; Tony Hendra
Matthew Bannister on a church restorer, an actor, a power boat racer, a comedian.