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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Dec 7, 2018 · 28 min
Harry Leslie Smith, Pete Shelley, Monica Sims, Professor Wendy Atkin OBE, Ivan March
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a singer, a BBC manager, an epidemiologist, a critic
Nov 30, 2018 · 28 min
Baroness Trumpington, Roy Bailey, Chief Inspector Henry Stevens GC, Bernardo Bertolucci
Matthew Bannister on a baroness, a singer, a police officer and a film director.
Nov 23, 2018 · 28 min
John Large, William Goldman, Dr Sarah Ntiro, Richard Baker, Patsy Rodgers
Matthew Bannister on a screenwriter, an engineer, a broadcaster, a campaigner and a king.
Nov 16, 2018 · 27 min
Aubrey Manning, Max Levitas, Babs Beverley, Janet Paisley, Stan Lee
Matthew Bannister on a naturalist, a Communist, a singer, a writer, a comic book creator.
Nov 9, 2018 · 28 min
Lord Heywood, Pamela Lonsdale, Sangharakshita, Tom Jago, Francis Lai
Matthew Bannister on a civil servant, a producer, a Buddhist, a marketeer and a composer.
Nov 2, 2018 · 28 min
Wanda Ferragamo, Wim Kok, Ntozake Shange, Mohamed Sahnoun, Keith Killby
Matthew Bannister on a businesswoman, a politician, a writer, a diplomat and a pacifist.
Oct 26, 2018 · 28 min
Anthea Bell OBE, Captain Michael Howard, Baroness Hollis of Heigham, Cicely Berry CBE, Tony Hiller
Matthew Bannister on a translator, an army officer, a peer, a voice coach and a songwriter
Oct 19, 2018 · 28 min
Paul Allen, Dr Mary Midgley, Leon Lederman, Roger Mainwood
Matthew Bannister on an entrepreneur, a philosopher, a particle physicist and an animator.
Oct 12, 2018 · 27 min
Ray Galton, Professor Gerald Russell, Evelyn Anthony, Sir Roger Gibbs, Montserrat Caballé
Matthew Bannister on a comedy writer, a psychiatrist, a novelist, a financier, a singer
Oct 5, 2018 · 27 min
Charles Aznavour, Dr Charles Kao, Elizabeth de Mauny Wainwright, John Cunliffe
Matthew Bannister on a singer, a physicist, a journalist and a writer
Sep 28, 2018 · 28 min
Chas Hodges, MJ Long, Arthur Mitchell, Rick Turner, Rachid Taha
Matthew Bannister on a musician, an architect, a dancer, an archaeologist and a singer.
Sep 21, 2018 · 28 min
Denis Norden, Diane Leather, Johnny Kingdom, Fenella Fielding
Andrea Catherwood on a comedy writer, an athlete, a wildlife expert and an actress.
Sep 14, 2018 · 28 min
Lady Coleridge, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Jacqueline Pearce, Lord Thomas of Macclesfield, Stan Brock
Matthew Bannister on a nurse, a warlord, an actor, a banker and a cowboy.
Sep 7, 2018 · 27 min
Burt Reynolds, Lord Peter Melchett, Rita Borsellino, Ajit Wadekar
Matthew Bannister on a film star, an environmentalist, a campaigner, a cricketer.
Aug 31, 2018 · 28 min
Lindsay Kemp, John Calder, Hilary Lister, John Calcutt, Neil Simon
Julian Worricker on a dancer, a publisher, a sailor, an academic and a playwright.
Aug 24, 2018 · 28 min
Kofi Annan, Janice Tchalenko, Hugh Synge, Helen MacLeod, Hettie Williams
Julian Worricker on a diplomat, a ceramicist, a botanist, a harpist and a teacher.
Aug 17, 2018 · 28 min
Aretha Franklin, VS Naipaul, Winston Ntshona, Nan Joyce
Matthew Bannister on an author, an activist, an actor and a singer.
Aug 10, 2018 · 28 min
Tony Bullimore, Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, Barry Chuckle, June Jacobs, Tommy Peoples
Matthew Bannister on a yachtsman, a campaigner, a comedian, an activist, a fiddle player.
Aug 3, 2018 · 28 min
Mary Ellis, Shinobu Hashimoto, Dr William McBride AO, CBE, Dr Lincoln Brower, Mahendra Kaul
Matthew Bannister on a pilot, a screenwriter, a doctor, a lepidopterist and a broadcaster.
Jul 27, 2018 · 28 min
Charles Gimingham, Felicia Langer, Julian Tudor Hart, Anne Olivier Popham Bell, Adrian Cronauer
Julian Worricker on an ecologist, a lawyer, a doctor, an editor, and a disc jockey.