Last Word Podcast
Radio 4's weekly obituary programme, telling the life stories of those who have died recently
Episodes to download
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Brian Wilson, Frederick Forsyth, Uriah Rennie, Edmund White
Friday
Kirsty Lang on a musician, a writer, a referee and an author.
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Valmik Thapar, Nancy Blaik, Norma Meras Swenson, Dr Stuart Farrimond
Fri 6 Jun 2025
Kirsty Lang on a conservationist, a charity fundraiser, an author, a science communicator.
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Alan Yentob, Richard Garwin, Dr Joy Schaverien, Anne Merriman
Fri 30 May 2025
Matthew Bannister on a 蜜芽传媒 executive, a physicist, a psychoanalyst and a doctor.
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Hannah Deacon, Andrew Norfolk, Dame June Clark, Martin Graham
Fri 23 May 2025
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a journalist, a nurses鈥� leader and a businessman.
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Sir Tom Farmer, Elaine Wynn, Sue Stapely, Joseph Nye
Fri 16 May 2025
Matthew Bannister on a businessman, a casino owner, a solicitor and a political analyst.
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Jane Gardam, Sir Roger Birch, Mike Peters, Francoise Hampson
Fri 9 May 2025
Kirsty Lang on an author, a chief constable, a musician and a lawyer.
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Virginia Giuffre, Rosy Bremer, LJ Smith, Wizz Jones
Fri 2 May 2025
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, an activist, an author and a musician.
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Pope Francis, Paddy Higson, David Sassoon
Fri 25 Apr 2025
Matthew Bannister on a pope, a producer and a designer.
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Anne Scargill, Ronnie Appleton, Cecil Wright, Mario Vargas Llosa
Fri 18 Apr 2025
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a lawyer, a cricketer and a writer.
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Lord Kalms, Melissa Llewallyn-Davies, Rex Cowan, Wilma Finla
Fri 11 Apr 2025
Matthew Bannister on a businessman, an anthropologist, a shipwreck hunter and a farmer.
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Val Kilmer, Jane Reed, Sir Torquil Norman, Dr Marika Sherwood
Fri 4 Apr 2025
Matthew Bannister on an actor, an editor, a businessman and a historian.
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Oleg Gordievsky, Renee Goddard, Professor Richard Fortey, Sofia Gubaidulina
Fri 28 Mar 2025
Matthew Bannister on a spy, a TV commissioner, a palaeontologist, a composer.
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Group Captain John Allman 鈥楶addy鈥� Hemingway DFC, Dame Julie Kenny, Tuppy Owens, Dick McTaggart
Fri 21 Mar 2025
Matthew Bannister on a pilot, a businesswoman, a campaigner and a boxer.
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Athol Fugard, Janet Pharaoh, Alison Halford, Johnny Green
Fri 14 Mar 2025
Kirsty Lang on a playwright, a dancer, a senior police officer and a roadie.
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Bill Dare, Clint Hill, Val茅rie Andr茅, Gene Hackman
Fri 7 Mar 2025
Matthew Bannister on a comedy producer, a Secret Service agent, a French general, an actor
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Roberta Flack, Dr D G Hessayon, Keith Dewhurst, Rose Hanks
Fri 28 Feb 2025
John Wilson on a musician, an author, a playwright and a sidecar passenger.
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Rick Buckler, Margaret Miles-Bramwell, Harry Stewart Jr, Maureen Halton
Fri 21 Feb 2025
John Wilson on a musician, a businesswoman, a fighter pilot and an entrepreneur.
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Nigel McCrery, Andr茅e Dumon, Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas, Diana Melly
Fri 14 Feb 2025
Matthew Bannister on a writer, a wartime courier, a politician and an author.
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Tony Martin, Pete Wilkinson, Loretta Ford, Marianne Faithfull
Fri 7 Feb 2025
Matthew Bannister on a farmer, a campaigner, a nurse practitioner and a singer.
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Rev Don Cupitt, Phyllis Dalton, Cecile Richards, Michael Longley
Fri 31 Jan 2025
Matthew Bannister on a theologian, a costume designer, an activist and a poet.
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Dame Joan Plowright, Sir Jim Walker, Barbara Clegg, Denis Law
Fri 24 Jan 2025
Matthew Bannister on an actress, a businessman, a script writer and a footballer.
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Tony Slattery, Rosalind Savill, Paddy Hill, Noreen Riols
Fri 17 Jan 2025
Matthew Bannister on a comedian, a curator, a campaigner and an SOE agent.
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Special Edition: Tony Slattery
Fri 17 Jan 2025
Stephen Fry pays tribute to comedian and actor Tony Slattery
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Jean-Marie Le Pen, Catherine Brown, Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes, Johnnie Walker
Fri 10 Jan 2025
Matthew Bannister on a French politician, a food writer, a parliamentarian and a DJ.
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Jimmy Carter, Caroline Miller, Manmohan Singh, Jean Adamson
Fri 3 Jan 2025
Kirsty Lang on a president, a ballet company CEO, a prime minister and an author.
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Nikki Giovanni, Gerd Heidemann, Cherry Hill, Sir Richard Carew Pole
Fri 27 Dec 2024
John Wilson on a poet, a journalist, a model engineer, and a fundraiser.
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Baroness Wilkins, Charles Handy, Renee Bornstein, Tony Brignull
Fri 20 Dec 2024
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a philosopher, a holocaust survivor and a copywriter.
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Wolfgang Stange, Lord Renfrew, Julie Stevens, Mary McGee
Fri 13 Dec 2024
Matthew Bannister on a choreographer, an archaeologist, a TV presenter and a racing driver
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Vicky Stone, Penny Chuter, Clifton Wharton Junior, Peter Sinfield
Fri 6 Dec 2024
Matthew Bannister on a film-maker, a rower, a university leader and a lyricist.
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Madeleine Riffaud, Chris Topp, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Dr Julian Litten
Fri 29 Nov 2024
Matthew Bannister on a resistance fighter, a blacksmith, an author and a historian.
