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 21, 2023 · 27 min
Lady Williams of Elvel, Professor John Goodenough, Christine Baker, Lord Palmer
Matthew Bannister on a secretary, a materials chemist, a publisher and an aristocrat.
Jul 14, 2023 · 27 min
Malcolm Mowbray, Victoria Amelina, Roger Lovegrove, Mavis Cheek
Matthew Bannister on a film director, a novelist, an ornithologist and a writer.
Jul 7, 2023 · 27 min
Lord Kerslake, Dame Ann Leslie, Diane Rowe, Tim Blackmore
Matthew Bannister on a civil servant, journalist, table tennis champion, radio executive.
Jun 30, 2023 · 27 min
Baroness McDonagh, Craig Brown, Godfrey Merlen, Winnie Ewing
Matthew Bannister on a baroness, a football manager, a conservationist and a politician.
Jun 23, 2023 · 27 min
Daniel Ellsberg, Glenda Jackson, Melanie Phillips, Sir Ben Helfgott
Matthew Bannister on a whistleblower, an actor, a social worker and a holocaust survivor.
Jun 16, 2023 · 27 min
Silvio Berlusconi, Cormac McCarthy, Kathryn Harries, Francoise Gilot
John Wilson on a prime minister, a novelist, a soprano and an artist.
Jun 9, 2023 · 27 min
Mel Parry, Professor Alice Coleman, Hugh Callaghan, Cynthia Weil
Matthew Bannister on an SAS veteran, a geographer, a labourer and a songwriter.
Jun 2, 2023 · 27 min
Jeremy Clarke, Dr Moira Woods, Iain Johnstone, Rita Lee
Matthew Bannister on a columnist, a campaigner, a film critic and a singer.
May 26, 2023 · 28 min
Tina Turner, Martin Amis, Leroy Cooper, Rolf Harris, Marlene Bauer Hagge
Matthew Bannister on a singer, an author, a photographer and a golfer.
May 19, 2023 · 27 min
Newton Minow, Vicky Neale, Lois Keith, Gerald Rose
Matthew Bannister on a broadcast regulator, a mathematician, a campaigner, an illustrator.
May 12, 2023 · 27 min
Grace Bumbry, Don Short, Dame Rosemary Cramp, Wee Willie Harris
Matthew Bannister on an opera singer, a journalist, an archaeologist and a rock‘n’roller
May 5, 2023 · 27 min
Harry Belafonte, Jerry Springer, Valerie Winn, Kate Saunders
Matthew Bannister on a singer and actor, a broadcaster, a runner and an author.
Apr 28, 2023 · 27 min
Barry Humphries, Len Goodman, Professor Elizabeth Murray, Jah Shaka
Matthew Bannister on a comedian, a dancer, a medical researcher and a musician
Apr 26, 2023 · 27 min
Anne Perry, Dame Mary Quant, Jean Argles, Ahmad Jamal
Matthew Bannister on an author, a designer, a codebreaker and a musician.
Apr 25, 2023 · 27 min
Ben Ferencz, Seymour Fortescue, Valerie Elliott, Rachel Pollack
Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a banker, a journalist, an author
Apr 7, 2023 · 27 min
Nigel Lawson, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, Ken Buchanan, Mary Rayner
Matthew Bannister on a politician, a musician, a boxer and a writer.
Mar 31, 2023 · 27 min
Paul O'Grady, Gordon Moore, Vera Selby, Simon Emmerson
Matthew Bannister on an entertainer, a tech entrepreneur, a snooker player, a musician.
Mar 24, 2023 · 27 min
Jacqueline Gold CBE, Lance Reddick, Traute Lafrenz, Lynn Seymour
Matthew Bannister on a businesswoman, an actor, a campaigner, a ballerina
Mar 17, 2023 · 28 min
Chaim Topol, Zandra Flemister, Bill Tidy MBE, Avis Fawcitt
Matthew Bannister on an actor, a special agent, a cartoonist and a music teacher.
Mar 10, 2023 · 28 min
Judith Heumann, Brian Tufano, Sir David Elliott KCMG, Elizabeth Foulkes
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a cinematographer, a diplomat and an architect.