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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Jul 20, 2018 · 28 min
Oliver Knussen CBE, Barbara Harrell-Bond OBE, Sam Chisholm, Steve Ditko, Anna Sándor de Kénos
Julian Worricker on a musician, an anthropologist, a media boss, an artist, an aristocrat.
Jul 13, 2018 · 27 min
Lord Carrington, Karen Finch, Claude Lanzmann, Harlan Ellison
Matthew Bannister on a politician, a textile conservator, a film maker and a writer.
Jul 6, 2018 · 28 min
Dame Gillian Lynne, Peter Firmin, Reinhard Hardegen, Alan Longmuir
Matthew Bannister on a choreographer, an animator, a U-boat captain and a pop star.
Jun 29, 2018 · 28 min
Joe Jackson, Paul Lamplugh OBE, Myrtle Allen, Daisy Kadibil, Paddy Feeny
Matthew Bannister on a manager, a campaigner, a chef, an escapee and a broadcaster.
Jun 22, 2018 · 27 min
Gennady Rozhdestvensky CBE, Maria Bueno, Gena Turgel, Zhao Kangmin, Leo Sarkisian
Matthew Bannister on a conductor, a tennis player, a holocaust survivor, an archaeologist.
Jun 15, 2018 · 28 min
Peter Mayer, Professor Celia Brackenridge OBE, Anthony Bourdain, Leslie Grantham, Teddy Johnson
Tina Daheley on a publisher, a sports scientist, a chef, an actor and a singer.
Jun 8, 2018 · 28 min
Peter Stringfellow, Graham Corbett, Kate Spade, Lord John Julius Norwich, Eli Avivi
Tina Daheley on a nightclub owner, a businessman, a fashion designer and a historian.
Jun 1, 2018 · 28 min
John Ashdown-Hill, Anne Coates OBE, Dr Davida Coady, Samuel F 'Ted' Dabney, Brendan Ingle
Matthew Bannister on a film editor, a historian, a doctor, a video game pioneer, a trainer
May 25, 2018 · 28 min
Beth Chatto, Philip Roth, Doreen Simmons, Khurshid Drabu, June Milne.
Julian Worricker on a gardener, an author, a judge, a sumo expert, a publisher.
May 18, 2018 · 28 min
Baroness Jowell, Will Alsop, Tom Wolfe, Dennis Nilsen
Matthew Bannister on a politician, a writer, a murderer and an architect.
May 11, 2018 · 27 min
Bruce Tulloh, Emma Smith, Professor Peter Waddington, Dowager Countess of Harewood, Ronald Chesney
Matthew Bannister on a runner, an author, a sociologist, a Countess and a comedy writer.
May 4, 2018 · 28 min
Lord Martin of Springburn, Gustav Born, Valerie Riches, Caroline Brown, Michael Anderson
Matthew Bannister on an MP, a musician, a campaigner, a pharmacologist and a film director
Apr 27, 2018 · 28 min
Avicii (Tim Bergling), Ruth Nussenzweig, Anita Shreve, Guy Playfair, Bob Bura
Matthew Bannister on a DJ, a medical researcher, a novelist, a ghost hunter, an animator.
Apr 20, 2018 · 27 min
Barbara Bush, Milos Forman, Dame Daphne Sheldrick, Livia Gollancz, Dale Winton
Matthew Bannister on a First Lady, a director, a conservationist, a publisher, a presenter
Apr 13, 2018 · 27 min
Gillian Ayres, Efraín Ríos Montt, David Cobham, Nikki Sievwright, Fergus Anckorn
Matthew Bannister on an artist, a dictator, a naturalist, a model and a magician.
Apr 6, 2018 · 28 min
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Drue Heinz DBE, Ray Wilkins MBE, Eric Bristow, Steven Bochco
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a philanthropist, a footballer, a darts player.
Mar 30, 2018 · 27 min
Charles P Lazarus, Marielle Franco, John Brookes, Zena Skinner, Oskar Groning
Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the lives of people who have recently died.
Mar 23, 2018 · 28 min
Brenda Dean, William McAlpine, Keith O'Brien, Katie Boyle, Garech Browne
Matthew Bannister on a union leader, a businessman, a cardinal, a presenter, a folklorist.
Mar 16, 2018 · 28 min
Professor Stephen Hawking, Hubert de Givenchy, Michele Hanson, Sir John Sulston, Sir Ken Dodd
Matthew Bannister on a cosmologist, a designer, a columnist, a biologist and a comedian.
Mar 9, 2018 · 28 min
Trevor Baylis, Lerone Bennett Jr, Penny Vincenzi, Ian Aitken, Sir Roger Bannister
Matthew Bannister on an inventor, a historian, a novelist, a columnist and a runner.