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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Sep 13, 2024 · 27 min
James Earl Jones, Dr Helen Fisher, Sergio Mendes, Maureen Nicol
Matthew Bannister on an actor, an anthropologist, a musician and an organiser.
Sep 6, 2024 · 27 min
Claire Lomas, Phil Swern, Countess of Airlie, Geoff Mumford
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a producer, a countess and a brewer.
Aug 30, 2024 · 27 min
Mike Lynch, Nell McCafferty, Ruth Colvin, Sven-Göran Eriksson
Matthew Bannister on an entrepreneur, journalist, literacy campaigner and football manager
Aug 23, 2024 · 27 min
Phil Donahue, Countess Diana Phipps Sternberg, Mary Gibby, Toumani Diabaté
Matthew Bannister on a TV presenter, a designer, a botanist and a musician.
Aug 16, 2024 · 27 min
Susan Wojcicki, Lord Colwyn, Sir Ernest Hall, Mísia
Kirsty Lang on an internet pioneer, a dentist, an entrepreneur and a musician.
Aug 9, 2024 · 27 min
Lord Fellowes, Professor Helen Whitwell, David Power, Irène Schweizer
Matthew Bannister on a private secretary, pathologist, a businessman and a musician.
Aug 2, 2024 · 27 min
Edna O’Brien, Sir Kenneth Grange, Ewy Rosqvist, John Mayall
John Wilson on an author, a designer, a rally car driver and a blues musician.
Jul 26, 2024 · 27 min
Dr Mildred Stahlman, Ray Reardon, Val McIver, Eddie Spence
Matthew Bannister on a paediatrician, a snooker player, a councillor and a cake decorator.
Jul 19, 2024 · 27 min
Dr Ruth Westheimer, Mike Corfield, Shelley Duvall, Veronica Smith
Matthew Bannister on a sex therapist, a conservator, an actor and a campaigner.
Jul 12, 2024 · 27 min
Dr Richard Taylor, Jack Rowell, Claudia Williams, Christophe Deloire
Matthew Bannister on an MP, a rugby coach, an artist and a campaigner.
Jul 5, 2024 · 27 min
Frank Duckworth, Leah Levin, Professor Mary-Lou Pardue, Joss Naylor
Matthew Bannister on a statistician, a campaigner, a biologist and a fell runner.
Jun 21, 2024 · 27 min
Sir Oliver Popplewell, Lynn Conway, Tony Bramwell, Francoise Hardy
Kirsty Lang on a judge, a computer pioneer, a music producer and a singer.
Jun 7, 2024 · 26 min
Nora Cortiñas, Belinda Belville, John Burnside, Roger Corman
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a designer, a poet and a film director.
May 31, 2024 · 27 min
Richard M Sherman, Professor Wendy James CBE , Morgan Spurlock, June Mendoza OBE
Matthew Bannister on a songwriter, an artist, a film-maker and an anthropologist.
May 24, 2024 · 27 min
Sir Tony O'Reilly, President Ebrahim Raisi, Penny Simkin, Professor Alasdair Geddes
Matthew Bannister on a businessman, a president, a doula and an infectious diseases expert
May 17, 2024 · 27 min
Dame Shirley Conran, Doreen Massey, Beverley LaHaye, Steve Albini
Matthew Bannister on a writer, an educator, a campaigner and a musician.
May 10, 2024 · 27 min
Anne Dagg, Ross Anderson, Cecil Murray, Kris Hallenga
Matthew Bannister on a biologist, a computer scientist, a pastor and a campaigner.
May 3, 2024 · 27 min
C.J.Sansom, Olga Fikotová-Connolly, Dr Jenny Vaughan OBE, Sir Andrew Davies
Matthew Bannister on an author, a campaigner, an Olympic medallist, a conductor
Apr 26, 2024 · 27 min
Terry Anderson, Trina Robbins, Lord Field, Ann Trevenen Jenkin
Matthew Bannister on a journalist, a politician, as cartoonist and a bard.
Apr 26, 2024 · 23 min
“I was born while my father was a hostage”
Sulome Anderson remembers her father, journalist Terry Anderson