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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Dr Ruth Westheimer, Mike Corfield, Shelley Duvall, Veronica Smith
Fri 19 Jul 2024
Matthew Bannister on a sex therapist, a conservator, an actor and a campaigner.
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Dr Richard Taylor, Jack Rowell, Claudia Williams, Christophe Deloire
Fri 12 Jul 2024
Matthew Bannister on an MP, a rugby coach, an artist and a campaigner.
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Frank Duckworth, Leah Levin, Professor Mary-Lou Pardue, Joss Naylor
Fri 5 Jul 2024
Matthew Bannister on a statistician, a campaigner, a biologist and a fell runner.
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Sir Oliver Popplewell, Lynn Conway, Tony Bramwell, Francoise Hardy
Fri 21 Jun 2024
Kirsty Lang on a judge, a computer pioneer, a music producer and a singer.
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Nora Corti帽as, Belinda Belville, John Burnside, Roger Corman
Fri 7 Jun 2024
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a designer, a poet and a film director.
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Richard M Sherman, Professor Wendy James CBE , Morgan Spurlock, June Mendoza OBE
Fri 31 May 2024
Matthew Bannister on a songwriter, an artist, a film-maker and an anthropologist.
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Sir Tony O'Reilly, President Ebrahim Raisi, Penny Simkin, Professor Alasdair Geddes
Fri 24 May 2024
Matthew Bannister on a businessman, a president, a doula and an infectious diseases expert
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Dame Shirley Conran, Doreen Massey, Beverley LaHaye, Steve Albini
Fri 17 May 2024
Matthew Bannister on a writer, an educator, a campaigner and a musician.
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Anne Dagg, Ross Anderson, Cecil Murray, Kris Hallenga
Fri 10 May 2024
Matthew Bannister on a biologist, a computer scientist, a pastor and a campaigner.
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C.J.Sansom, Olga Fikotov谩-Connolly, Dr Jenny Vaughan OBE, Sir Andrew Davies
Fri 3 May 2024
Matthew Bannister on an author, a campaigner, an Olympic medallist, a conductor
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Terry Anderson, Trina Robbins, Lord Field, Ann Trevenen Jenkin
Fri 26 Apr 2024
Matthew Bannister on a journalist, a politician, as cartoonist and a bard.
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Fri 26 Apr 2024
Sulome Anderson remembers her father, journalist Terry Anderson
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Sir Paul Fox, Lynne Reid Banks, Joan Hills, Amnon Weinstein
Fri 19 Apr 2024
Matthew Bannister on a TV executive, an author, an artist, a luthier
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Peter Higgs, Trevor Griffiths, Hella Pick, Margaret Tynes
Fri 12 Apr 2024
Matthew Bannister on a physicist, a playwright, a journalist and a singer.
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Joe Lieberman, Diana Baring, Lynn Kinnear, Kay Benbow
Fri 5 Apr 2024
Matthew Bannister on a politician, an agent, a landscape architect and a TV executive.
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Richard Taylor, Lisa Lane, Rose Dugdale, Ian Green
Fri 29 Mar 2024
John Wilson on a campaigner, a chess champion, an IRA member and a music producer.
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John Boyega on campaigner Richard Taylor, father of Damilola Taylor
Fri 29 Mar 2024
John Boyega remembers Richard Taylor, father of his childhood friend Damilola Taylor
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Vince Power CBE, Olga Murray, Akira Toriyama, Cecilia Eckelmann-Battistello
Fri 22 Mar 2024
Matthew Bannister on a music promoter, a lawyer, a businesswoman and an artist.
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Audrey Adams, Nicola Trahan, Edward Bond, Eric Carmen
Fri 15 Mar 2024
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a resistance fighter, a playwright and a musician.
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Iris Apfel, Colin Murray Parkes, Baroness Henig, Jim Lawrence
Fri 8 Mar 2024
Matthew Bannister on a designer, a psychiatrist, a politician and a sail maker.
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Nicholas Dimbleby, Lord Patrick Cormack, Wendy Mitchell, Eleanor Fazan
Fri 1 Mar 2024
John Wilson on a sculptor, politician, historian, author and a choreographer.
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Alexei Navalny, Dr Brooke Ellison, Gertrude Wright, Steve Brown
Fri 23 Feb 2024
John Wilson on a politician, an academic, a translator and a composer.
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Steve Wright, Baroness Flather, Alan Mills, Angela Peberdy
Fri 16 Feb 2024
Matthew Bannister on a radio DJ, a politician, a referee and an announcer.
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Dr Lowitja O鈥橠onoghue, Ian Lavender, Robie Harris, Barry John
Fri 9 Feb 2024
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, an actor, an author and a rugby player.
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Frank Farian, Caroline Richmond, Phil Baines, Norma Izard
Fri 2 Feb 2024
Matthew Bannister on a music producer, a medical journalist, a typographer, a cricketer.
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Norma Barzman, Lord Saye and Sele, Jim Hobson, Susan Campbell
Fri 26 Jan 2024
Matthew Bannister on a screenwriter, an aristocrat, a police officer and an illustrator.
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Annie Nightingale, Isca Salzberger-Wittenberg, Bryan Ansell, Charlie Allan
Fri 19 Jan 2024
Matthew Bannister on a DJ, a psychoanalyst, a games developer and a farmer.
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Camila Batmanghelidjh, Sir Roy Calne, Glynis Johns, J.P.R. Williams
Fri 12 Jan 2024
Matthew Bannister on a charity founder, a surgeon, an actor, a rugby player
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John Pilger, KM Peyton, Paula Murphy, Michael Blakemore
Fri 5 Jan 2024
Matthew Bannister on a journalist, an author, a racing driver and a director.
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Jacques Delors, Nancy Pearce, Elinor Otto, Tony Allen
Fri 29 Dec 2023
Kirsty Lang on a politician, a factory worker, a charity founder and a comedian.
