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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Apr 26, 2019 · 28 min
Lyra McKee, Una-Mary Parker, Mira Markovic, Doreen Spooner, Edward Kelsey
Matthew Bannister on a journalist, a writer, a politician, a photographer, an actor
Apr 19, 2019 · 28 min
David Thouless, Nadja Poderegin, Ian Cognito, Dr Michael O’Donnell, Les Reed
Julian Worricker on a scientist, an actress, a comedian, a journalist, a songwriter.
Apr 12, 2019 · 28 min
Sydney Brenner, Dan Robbins, Edda Tasiemka, Ian McDonald
Matthew Bannister on a biologist, an artist, an archivist and a spokesman.
Apr 5, 2019 · 27 min
Michel Bacos, Agnes Varda, Victor Hochhauser CBE, Barbara Low, Ranking Roger
Matthew Bannister on a pilot, a film director, an impresario, a biochemist and a singer.
Mar 29, 2019 · 28 min
Baroness Warnock, William Hucklesby QPM, Rose Hilton, Professor Lord Bhattacharyya CBE FRS, Scott Walker
Matthew Bannister on a philosopher, a police officer, an artist, a professor and a singer
Mar 22, 2019 · 28 min
Gillian Freeman, Sir Peter Hutchison, Sister Dorothy Bell, Dick Dale
Matthew Bannister on a writer, a botanist, a nun and a guitarist.
Mar 15, 2019 · 28 min
Professor Mike Oliver, Jacques Loussier, Professor Richard Lacey, The Reverend Ruth Scott
Matthew Bannister on a disability rights activist, a pianist, a microbiologist, a vicar.
Mar 8, 2019 · 27 min
France-Albert Rene, Simon Norton, Belle Tutaev, Dr Ian Adamson OBE, Keith Flint
Matthew Bannister on a President, a mathematician, a campaigner, a historian, a singer
Mar 1, 2019 · 28 min
André Previn KBE, John Haynes OBE, Tony Mendez, Lady Grantchester
Matthew Bannister on a conductor, a publisher, a spy and a businesswoman.
Feb 22, 2019 · 28 min
Lady Falkender, Karl Lagerfeld, John Stalker, Andrea Levy, Peter Tork
A political secretary, a designer, a police officer, an author and a pop star.
Feb 15, 2019 · 28 min
Gordon Banks OBE, Vikki Orvice, David Garman OBE, Mary Oliver, Albert Finney
Matthew Bannister on a goalkeeper, a sportswriter, an inventor, a poet and an actor.
Feb 8, 2019 · 28 min
Rosamunde Pilcher OBE, Hugh Lewin, Lamia Al-Gailani, Dr Stewart Adams OBE, Dr Adam Watson
Andrea Catherwood on an activist, a pharmacist, an ecologist, an archaeologist, an author
Feb 1, 2019 · 28 min
Jeremy Hardy, Diana Athill OBE, Sir Conrad Swan, Michel Legrand
Julian Worricker on a comedian, an editor, a herald and a composer.
Jan 25, 2019 · 27 min
Hugh McIlvanney, Jennie Buckman, John Beavis, David Pritchard
Matthew Bannister on a sports writer, a theatre director, a surgeon and a producer.
Jan 18, 2019 · 28 min
Joe Casely-Hayford, Judge Nicholas Crichton, Professor Sophie Oluwole, Professor Paul O’Brien CBE, Carol Channing
Matthew Bannister on a designer, a judge, a philosopher, a nanotechnologist and a singer.
Jan 11, 2019 · 26 min
Nancy Roman, Ralph Koltai CBE, Julia Grant, Jin Yong, Norman Gimbel
Matthew Bannister on an astronomer, a designer, a transgender activist and a writer.
Jan 4, 2019 · 28 min
Dame June Whitfield, Sir Jack Zunz, Thomas Baptiste, David Austin OBE, Karre Mastanamma
Matthew Bannister on an actress, an engineer, an actor, a rosarian and a cook.
Dec 28, 2018 · 28 min
Sister Wendy Beckett, Nicolas Roeg, Inge Borkh, Professor Sir Aaron Klug, Geoff Emerick
Julian Worricker on an art historian, a director, a singer, a scientist, a sound engineer.
Dec 21, 2018 · 28 min
Sir David Weatherall, Penny Marshall, Evelyn Berezin, Zhores Medvedev, Nancy Wilson
Matthew Bannister on a haematologist, a film director, an inventor, a dissident, a singer
Dec 14, 2018 · 28 min
Peter Boizot, Judith Kazantzis, Sir Sze-Yuen Chung, Sister Cecylia Roszak, Scott English
Matthew Bannister on a businessman, a poet, a politician, a nun and a songwriter.