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

Episodes578

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Oct 13, 2017 · 28 min
Lillian Ross, Jalal Talabani, Terry Downes, Sybil Flory, Hedley Jones
Julian Worricker on a journalist, a politician, a boxer, a seamstress, a musician.
Oct 6, 2017 · 28 min
Tony Booth, Liliane Bettencourt, William G Stewart, Tom Petty
Matthew Bannister on an actor, an heiress, a quizmaster and a musician.
Sep 29, 2017 · 27 min
Hugh Hefner, Stanislav Petrov, Teddy Taylor, Liz Dawn
Matthew Bannister on a publisher, a Soviet officer, an MP, an actress.
Sep 22, 2017 · 28 min
David Shepherd, Nancy Hatch Dupree, Gordon Williams, Pat Albeck, Harry Dean Stanton
Matthew Bannister on an artist, an archivist, a writer, a designer, an actor.
Sep 15, 2017 · 27 min
Sir Peter Hall, Kate Millett, Sir Edward du Cann, JP Donleavy
Matthew Bannister on a theatre director, a radical feminist, an MP, a writer.
Sep 8, 2017 · 28 min
Sir David Tang, Professor Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Walter Becker
Matthew Bannister on a businessman, a doctor, a cardinal, a musician.
Sep 1, 2017 · 28 min
Dick Gregory, Jeannie Rousseau, Wayne Lotter, Sean O'Callaghan, John Abercrombie
Matthew Bannister on a comedian, a spy, a conservationist, an informer, a guitarist.
Aug 25, 2017 · 28 min
Abu Kifah, Sir Bruce Forsyth, Brian Aldiss, Blanche Blackwell, Jerry Lewis
Kate Silverton on an author, an entertainer, a rescue worker, a muse and a comedian.
Aug 18, 2017 · 28 min
Barbara Cook, Sister Ruth Pfau, Richard Gordon, Prof UR Rao
Kate Silverton on a singer, a muse, a health campaigner and a rocket scientist.
Aug 11, 2017 · 27 min
Glen Campbell, Dame Helen Alexander, Prunella Briance, Clancy Sigal
Matthew Bannister on a musician, a businesswoman, a writer, a childbirth campaigner.
Aug 4, 2017 · 27 min
Robert Hardy, David Jones, Jeanne Moreau, Mark Wilkinson, Sam Shepard
Matthew Bannister on two actors, a playwright, a scientist, a furniture designer.
Jul 28, 2017 · 28 min
Mary Turner, Chester Bennington, Scharlette Holdman, Orri Vigfusson and George A Romero
Matthew Bannister on a trade unionist, a singer, a campaigner, an angler, a director.
Jul 21, 2017 · 27 min
Chuck Blazer, Maryam Mirzakhani, Bryan Avery, Peter McHugh, Martin Landau
Matthew Bannister on a FIFA boss, a mathematician, an architect, a journalist, an actor.
Jul 14, 2017 · 28 min
Simone Veil, Graham Rose, Tom Isaacs, Liu Xiaobo, Ken Hirst
Matthew Bannister on a politician, a director, a campaigner and a dissident.
Jul 7, 2017 · 28 min
Barry Norman, Gordon Wilson, Geri Allen, John Thompson, Jack O'Neill
Matthew Bannister on a film critic, a politician, a pianist, a radio regulator, a surfer.
Jun 30, 2017 · 28 min
Lord Joffe, Michael Bond, Ann Louise Gilligan, Carla Fendi, John Avildsen
Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a writer, a campaigner, a businesswoman, a film director.
Jun 23, 2017 · 28 min
Helmut Kohl, Anita Pallenberg, Professor Brian Bellhouse, Naseem Khan, Brian Cant
Julian Worricker on a politician, an artiste, a scientist, an arts pioneer, a TV presenter
Jun 16, 2017 · 28 min
Adnan Khashoggi, Countess Mountbatten, Adam West, Kailash Puri, Vin Garbutt, Helen Dunmore
Matthew Bannister on an arms dealer, a countess, an actor, an agony aunt, a singer.
Jun 9, 2017 · 28 min
Miriam Rodriguez Martinez, Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior, Peter Sallis, Lady Anne Piper, Jiri Belohlavek
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a vet, an actor, a novelist, a conductor.
Jun 2, 2017 · 28 min
John Noakes, Manuel Noriega, Pat Stewart, Rex Sanders, Gregg Allman
Julian Worricker on a broadcaster, a navigator, a musician, a dancer, a dictator.