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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May 26, 2017 · 28 min
Brendan Duddy, Nina Lowry, Roger Ailes, Osmund Reynolds, Roger Moore
Andrea Catherwood on a peace-maker, a surgeon, a TV mogul, film star, and a judge.
May 19, 2017 · 28 min
Rhodri Morgan, Michael Wearing, Dr Helen Szamuely, Ian Brady, Robert Miles
Matthew Bannister on a politician, a producer, a campaigner and a DJ.
May 12, 2017 · 28 min
Ueli Steck, Lord Williams of Baglan, Sylvia Moy, Captain James Dickson MBE, Jon Prinz
Matthew Bannister on a climber, a diplomat, a songwriter, a mariner, a food scientist.
May 5, 2017 · 28 min
Robert Pirsig, Shobha Nehru, Michael Ballhaus, Leo Baxendale, Bruce Langhorne
Matthew Bannister on a writer, a cinematographer, a cartoonist, a musician.
Apr 28, 2017 · 28 min
Jonathan Demme, Robert Taylor, Cathy Hopkins, Peter Farrer, Dorothy Torry
Matthew Bannister on a director, a computer pioneer, a campaigner, a tax inspector.
Apr 21, 2017 · 28 min
Michael Bogdanov, Louis Sarno, Sheila Abdus Salaam, Dick Potts, Don Rickles
Matthew Bannister on a director, an enthnomusicologist, a judge, an ecologist, a comedian.
Apr 14, 2017 · 28 min
Masha Leon, Tim Pigott-Smith, Christopher Morahan, Parv Bancil, Marthe Gosteli, Brian Matthew
Julian Worricker on a columnist, an actor, a playwright, a director, a campaigner and a DJ
Apr 7, 2017 · 27 min
Darcus Howe, Andy Coogan, Dr Sylvia Moody, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Peter Shotton
Matthew Bannister on an activist, a coach, a psychologist, a poet, a businessman.
Mar 31, 2017 · 28 min
David Storey, Ahmed Kathrada, Barbara Buss, Aloysius 'Lucky' Gordon
Matthew Bannister on a writer, an activist, an editor, a drug dealer.
Mar 24, 2017 · 28 min
Martin McGuinness, Chuck Berry, Sir Derek Walcott, Salome Karwah, Colin Dexter
Matthew Bannister on a politician, a musician, a poet, an Ebola survivor, a writer.
Mar 17, 2017 · 28 min
John Surtees, Gordon Thomas, Sir Howard Hodgkin, H. Boyd Woodruff, Joni Sledge
Matthew Bannister on a racing driver, a writer, an artist, a microbiologist, a singer.
Mar 10, 2017 · 27 min
Sir Nigel Rodley, Sir Cosmo Haskard, Louise Hulton, Pete Overend Watts
Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a bass player, a maternal health expert, a governor.
Mar 3, 2017 · 28 min
Gerald Kaufman, Dick Bruna, Desmond Connell, Rita Barberá, Frank Delaney
Julian Worricker on two politicians, a cardinal, a writer, an illustrator.
Feb 24, 2017 · 28 min
Stanley Bard, Norma McCorvey, Michael Ember, Peter Skellern
Kate Silverton on a hotelier, a campaigner, a radio producer and a singer-songwriter.
Feb 17, 2017 · 27 min
Al Jarreau, Betty Tebbs, Sir Peter Mansfield, Dame Jennifer Jenkins, Hans Rosling
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a physicist, a chairwoman, a statistician and a singer.
Feb 10, 2017 · 27 min
Alan Simpson, Brunhilde Pomsel, Sir Ken Morrison, Buchi Emecheta
Matthew Bannister on a comedy writer, a secretary, a businessman and an author.
Feb 3, 2017 · 27 min
Sir John Hurt, Margaret Pereira CBE, Sir Christopher Bland, Emma Tennant, Mary Tyler Moore
Matthew Bannister on two actors, a forensic scientist, a chairman, a writer.
Jan 27, 2017 · 27 min
Tam Dalyell MP, Victor Lownes, Babette Cole, Zhou Youguang, Gorden Kaye
Matthew Bannister on an MP, a playboy, a children's author, a linguist, an actor.
Jan 20, 2017 · 27 min
Baroness Heyhoe Flint, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Una Kroll, William Peter Blatty, Sir James Mancham
Matthew Bannister on a cricketer, two presidents, a campaigner, a writer.
Jan 13, 2017 · 27 min
Lord Snowdon, Graham Taylor, Jill Saward, Peter Sarstedt, Clare Hollingworth
Matthew Bannister on a photographer, a manager, a campaigner, a musician, a journalist.