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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Lady Williams of Elvel, Professor John Goodenough, Christine Baker, Lord Palmer
Fri 21 Jul 2023
Matthew Bannister on a secretary, a materials chemist, a publisher and an aristocrat.
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Malcolm Mowbray, Victoria Amelina, Roger Lovegrove, Mavis Cheek
Fri 14 Jul 2023
Matthew Bannister on a film director, a novelist, an ornithologist and a writer.
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Lord Kerslake, Dame Ann Leslie, Diane Rowe, Tim Blackmore
Fri 7 Jul 2023
Matthew Bannister on a civil servant, journalist, table tennis champion, radio executive.
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Baroness McDonagh, Craig Brown, Godfrey Merlen, Winnie Ewing
Fri 30 Jun 2023
Matthew Bannister on a baroness, a football manager, a conservationist and a politician.
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Daniel Ellsberg, Glenda Jackson, Melanie Phillips, Sir Ben Helfgott
Fri 23 Jun 2023
Matthew Bannister on a whistleblower, an actor, a social worker and a holocaust survivor.
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Silvio Berlusconi, Cormac McCarthy, Kathryn Harries, Francoise Gilot
Fri 16 Jun 2023
John Wilson on a prime minister, a novelist, a soprano and an artist.
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Mel Parry, Professor Alice Coleman, Hugh Callaghan, Cynthia Weil
Fri 9 Jun 2023
Matthew Bannister on an SAS veteran, a geographer, a labourer and a songwriter.
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Jeremy Clarke, Dr Moira Woods, Iain Johnstone, Rita Lee
Fri 2 Jun 2023
Matthew Bannister on a columnist, a campaigner, a film critic and a singer.
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Tina Turner, Martin Amis, Leroy Cooper, Rolf Harris, Marlene Bauer Hagge
Fri 26 May 2023
Matthew Bannister on a singer, an author, a photographer and a golfer.
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Newton Minow, Vicky Neale, Lois Keith, Gerald Rose
Fri 19 May 2023
Matthew Bannister on a broadcast regulator, a mathematician, a campaigner, an illustrator.
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Grace Bumbry, Don Short, Dame Rosemary Cramp, Wee Willie Harris
Fri 12 May 2023
Matthew Bannister on an opera singer, a journalist, an archaeologist and a rock鈥榥鈥檙oller
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Harry Belafonte, Jerry Springer, Valerie Winn, Kate Saunders
Fri 5 May 2023
Matthew Bannister on a singer and actor, a broadcaster, a runner and an author.
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Barry Humphries, Len Goodman, Professor Elizabeth Murray, Jah Shaka
Fri 28 Apr 2023
Matthew Bannister on a comedian, a dancer, a medical researcher and a musician
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Anne Perry, Dame Mary Quant, Jean Argles, Ahmad Jamal
Fri 21 Apr 2023
Matthew Bannister on an author, a designer, a codebreaker and a musician.
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Ben Ferencz, Seymour Fortescue, Valerie Elliott, Rachel Pollack
Fri 14 Apr 2023
Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a banker, a journalist, an author
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Nigel Lawson, Emahoy Tsegu茅-Maryam Gu猫brou, Ken Buchanan, Mary Rayner
Fri 7 Apr 2023
Matthew Bannister on a politician, a musician, a boxer and a writer.
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Paul O'Grady, Gordon Moore, Vera Selby, Simon Emmerson
Fri 31 Mar 2023
Matthew Bannister on an entertainer, a tech entrepreneur, a snooker player, a musician.
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Jacqueline Gold CBE, Lance Reddick, Traute Lafrenz, Lynn Seymour
Fri 24 Mar 2023
Matthew Bannister on a businesswoman, an actor, a campaigner, a ballerina
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Chaim Topol, Zandra Flemister, Bill Tidy MBE, Avis Fawcitt
Fri 17 Mar 2023
Matthew Bannister on an actor, a special agent, a cartoonist and a music teacher.
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Judith Heumann, Brian Tufano, Sir David Elliott KCMG, Elizabeth Foulkes
Fri 10 Mar 2023
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a cinematographer, a diplomat and an architect.
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Lady Betty Boothroyd, Marianne Mantell, John Motson OBE, Sulamita Aronovsky
Fri 3 Mar 2023
Kirsty Lang on a politician, a publisher, a football commentator and a pianist.
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Dorothy Pitman Hughes, Ralph Hooper OBE, Raquel Welch, Dickie Davies
Fri 24 Feb 2023
A feminist, an engineer, an actress and a sports presenter.
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David Vaughan OBE, Burt Bacharach, Janet Anderson, Eileen Sheridan
Fri 17 Feb 2023
Matthew Bannister on a glaciologist, a composer, an MP and a cyclist.
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Frene Ginwala, Lady Martha Bruce OBE, Pervez Musharraf, Paco Rabanne
Fri 10 Feb 2023
Matthew Bannister on an activist, a prison governor, a president and a designer.
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Ralph Ehrmann, Sylvia Syms, Rabbi Dr Abraham Levy, Jo Sandilands
Fri 3 Feb 2023
Matthew Bannister on a businessman, an actor, a Rabbi and an editor.
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Howard Baderman, David Crosby, Milly Thompson, Brenda Heywood
Fri 27 Jan 2023
Matthew Bannister on a doctor, a musician, an artist and an archaeologist.
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Jeff Beck, Alice Mahon, Tom Karen OBE, Gina Lollobrigida
Fri 20 Jan 2023
Matthew Bannister on a guitarist, an MP, a designer and an actress.
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Gianluca Vialli, Fay Weldon, Michael Dower, Anita Pointer
Fri 13 Jan 2023
Matthew Bannister on a footballer, an author, a conservationist and a singer.
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Pope Benedict XVI, Dame Vivienne Westwood, James Caan, Georgia Holt
Fri 6 Jan 2023
Matthew Bannister on a pope, a fashion designer, an actor and a singer.
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Terry Hall, Dame Beryl Grey, Heather Iandolo, Eric Allison
Fri 30 Dec 2022
Matthew Bannister on a singer, the daughter of Lord Haw Haw, an ex-offender, a ballerina
