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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Paul Allen, Dr Mary Midgley, Leon Lederman, Roger Mainwood
Fri 19 Oct 2018
Matthew Bannister on an entrepreneur, a philosopher, a particle physicist and an animator.
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Ray Galton, Professor Gerald Russell, Evelyn Anthony, Sir Roger Gibbs, Montserrat Caball茅
Fri 12 Oct 2018
Matthew Bannister on a comedy writer, a psychiatrist, a novelist, a financier, a singer
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Charles Aznavour, Dr Charles Kao, Elizabeth de Mauny Wainwright, John Cunliffe
Fri 5 Oct 2018
Matthew Bannister on a singer, a physicist, a journalist and a writer
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Chas Hodges, MJ Long, Arthur Mitchell, Rick Turner, Rachid Taha
Fri 28 Sep 2018
Matthew Bannister on a musician, an architect, a dancer, an archaeologist and a singer.
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Denis Norden, Diane Leather, Johnny Kingdom, Fenella Fielding
Fri 21 Sep 2018
Andrea Catherwood on a comedy writer, an athlete, a wildlife expert and an actress.
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Lady Coleridge, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Jacqueline Pearce, Lord Thomas of Macclesfield, Stan Brock
Fri 14 Sep 2018
Matthew Bannister on a nurse, a warlord, an actor, a banker and a cowboy.
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Burt Reynolds, Lord Peter Melchett, Rita Borsellino, Ajit Wadekar
Fri 7 Sep 2018
Matthew Bannister on a film star, an environmentalist, a campaigner, a cricketer.
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Lindsay Kemp, John Calder, Hilary Lister, John Calcutt, Neil Simon
Fri 31 Aug 2018
Julian Worricker on a dancer, a publisher, a sailor, an academic and a playwright.
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Kofi Annan, Janice Tchalenko, Hugh Synge, Helen MacLeod, Hettie Williams
Fri 24 Aug 2018
Julian Worricker on a diplomat, a ceramicist, a botanist, a harpist and a teacher.
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Aretha Franklin, VS Naipaul, Winston Ntshona, Nan Joyce
Fri 17 Aug 2018
Matthew Bannister on an author, an activist, an actor and a singer.
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Tony Bullimore, Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, Barry Chuckle, June Jacobs, Tommy Peoples
Fri 10 Aug 2018
Matthew Bannister on a yachtsman, a campaigner, a comedian, an activist, a fiddle player.
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Mary Ellis, Shinobu Hashimoto, Dr William McBride AO, CBE, Dr Lincoln Brower, Mahendra Kaul
Fri 3 Aug 2018
Matthew Bannister on a pilot, a screenwriter, a doctor, a lepidopterist and a broadcaster.
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Charles Gimingham, Felicia Langer, Julian Tudor Hart, Anne Olivier Popham Bell, Adrian Cronauer
Fri 27 Jul 2018
Julian Worricker on an ecologist, a lawyer, a doctor, an editor, and a disc jockey.
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Oliver Knussen CBE, Barbara Harrell-Bond OBE, Sam Chisholm, Steve Ditko, Anna S谩ndor de K茅nos
Fri 20 Jul 2018
Julian Worricker on a musician, an anthropologist, a media boss, an artist, an aristocrat.
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Lord Carrington, Karen Finch, Claude Lanzmann, Harlan Ellison
Fri 13 Jul 2018
Matthew Bannister on a politician, a textile conservator, a film maker and a writer.
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Dame Gillian Lynne, Peter Firmin, Reinhard Hardegen, Alan Longmuir
Fri 6 Jul 2018
Matthew Bannister on a choreographer, an animator, a U-boat captain and a pop star.
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Joe Jackson, Paul Lamplugh OBE, Myrtle Allen, Daisy Kadibil, Paddy Feeny
Fri 29 Jun 2018
Matthew Bannister on a manager, a campaigner, a chef, an escapee and a broadcaster.
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Gennady Rozhdestvensky CBE, Maria Bueno, Gena Turgel, Zhao Kangmin, Leo Sarkisian
Fri 22 Jun 2018
Matthew Bannister on a conductor, a tennis player, a holocaust survivor, an archaeologist.
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Peter Mayer, Professor Celia Brackenridge OBE, Anthony Bourdain, Leslie Grantham, Teddy Johnson
Fri 15 Jun 2018
Tina Daheley on a publisher, a sports scientist, a chef, an actor and a singer.
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Peter Stringfellow, Graham Corbett, Kate Spade, Lord John Julius Norwich, Eli Avivi
Fri 8 Jun 2018
Tina Daheley on a nightclub owner, a businessman, a fashion designer and a historian.
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John Ashdown-Hill, Anne Coates OBE, Dr Davida Coady, Samuel F 'Ted' Dabney, Brendan Ingle
Fri 1 Jun 2018
Matthew Bannister on a film editor, a historian, a doctor, a video game pioneer, a trainer
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Beth Chatto, Philip Roth, Doreen Simmons, Khurshid Drabu, June Milne.
Fri 25 May 2018
Julian Worricker on a gardener, an author, a judge, a sumo expert, a publisher.
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Baroness Jowell, Will Alsop, Tom Wolfe, Dennis Nilsen
Fri 18 May 2018
Matthew Bannister on a politician, a writer, a murderer and an architect.
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Bruce Tulloh, Emma Smith, Professor Peter Waddington, Dowager Countess of Harewood, Ronald Chesney
Fri 11 May 2018
Matthew Bannister on a runner, an author, a sociologist, a Countess and a comedy writer.
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Lord Martin of Springburn, Gustav Born, Valerie Riches, Caroline Brown, Michael Anderson
Fri 4 May 2018
Matthew Bannister on an MP, a musician, a campaigner, a pharmacologist and a film director
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Avicii (Tim Bergling), Ruth Nussenzweig, Anita Shreve, Guy Playfair, Bob Bura
Fri 27 Apr 2018
Matthew Bannister on a DJ, a medical researcher, a novelist, a ghost hunter, an animator.
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Barbara Bush, Milos Forman, Dame Daphne Sheldrick, Livia Gollancz, Dale Winton
Fri 20 Apr 2018
Matthew Bannister on a First Lady, a director, a conservationist, a publisher, a presenter
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Gillian Ayres, Efra铆n R铆os Montt, David Cobham, Nikki Sievwright, Fergus Anckorn
Fri 13 Apr 2018
Matthew Bannister on an artist, a dictator, a naturalist, a model and a magician.
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Drue Heinz DBE, Ray Wilkins MBE, Eric Bristow, Steven Bochco
Fri 6 Apr 2018
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a philanthropist, a footballer, a darts player.
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Charles P Lazarus, Marielle Franco, John Brookes, Zena Skinner, Oskar Groning
Fri 30 Mar 2018
Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the lives of people who have recently died.
