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Last Word Episodes

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    Abdul Sattar Edhi, Professor Suzanne Corkin, Bernardo Provenzano, Garry Marshall

    Matthew Bannister on a humanitarian, a neuroscientist, a mafia don, a comedy director.

  2. Sydney Schanberg, Beatrice de Cardi, Lord Evans of Temple Guiting, Alvin Toffler, Jimmy Gilbert

    Matthew Bannister on a journalist, an archaeologist, a publisher, a futurist, a producer.

  3. Caroline Aherne, Elie Wiesel, Sir Geoffrey Hill, Lord Mayhew, Michael Cimino

    Matthew Bannister on a comedian, a holocaust survivor, a poet, a politician, a director.

  4. Amjad Sabri, Lorna Kelly, Jerome Bruner, Bob Holman, Scotty Moore

    Matthew Bannister on a singer, an auctioneer, a psychologist, a campaigner, a guitarist.

  5. Dr Sylvia Meek, Sam King MBE, Chips Moman, Ethel Bush GM, Harry Rabinowitz

    Matthew Bannister on a parasitologist, a conductor, a police officer, a mayor, a producer.

  6. Jo Cox MP, Dave Swarbrick, Viktor Korchnoi, Wendy Leigh

    Reeta Chakrabarti on an MP, a musician, a chess player and a writer.

  7. Sir Peter Shaffer, Sir Denys Wilkinson, Peggy Spencer and Muhammad Ali

    Julian Worricker on a playwright, a physicist, a dancer and a boxer.

  8. Carla Lane, Sir Denys Henderson, Jane Fawcett, Alan Devereux and Buster Cooper

    Matthew Bannister on a comedy writer, a businessman, a conservationist, an actor.

  9. Burt Kwouk, Michael Ratner, Sarah Corp, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, Jock Scot

    Matthew Bannister on an actor, a lawyer, a TV producer, a Taliban leader, a punk poet.

  10. Professor Robert McNeill Alexander, Reg Grundy, Sally Brampton, Tony Cozier, Madeleine LeBeau

    Matthew Bannister on a zoologist, a TV producer, an editor, a cricket commentator.

  11. Gareth Gwenlan, Sir Harry Kroto, Michael 'Dandy Kim' Caborn-Waterfield, Lilly Dubowitz, Papa Wemba

    Matthew Bannister on a TV producer, a chemist, a wheeler dealer, a paediatrician, a singer

  12. Reverend Daniel Berrigan, Lord Walton of Detchant, Jenny Diski, Guy Woolfenden

    Matthew Bannister on a peace campaigner, an author, a neurologist and a composer.

  13. Lord Peston, Ruth Prideaux, Patricio Aylwin, Professor Sir David Mackay, Gareth Thomas

    Matthew Bannister on an economist, a cricketer, a Chilean President, a physicist, an actor

  14. Prince, Ray Fitzwalter, Victoria Wood, June Jolly, Phil Sayer

    Matthew Bannister on a rock star, an editor, a comedian, a nurse and an announcer.

  15. Arnold Wesker, Howard Marks, Peggy Fortnum, Merle Haggard and Rachel Johnson

    Matthew Bannister on a playwright, a drug smuggler, an illustrator and a country singer.

  16. Mother Angelica, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, DJ Derek, Doreen Massey and Joe Medicine Crow

    Matthew Bannister on a nun, a German politician, a DJ, a geographer, a native American.

  17. Dame Zaha Hadid, Ronnie Corbett, General Meir Dagan, Joan Loraine, Gary Shandling

    Matthew Bannister on an architect, two comedians, a Mossad chief, a gardener.

  18. Vlasta Dalibor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Dr Robert Acland, Asa Briggs, Barry Hines, Johan Cruyff

    Julian Worricker on a conductor, surgeon, puppeteer, writer, footballer and a historian.

  19. Paul Daniels, Anita Brookner, Sylvia Anderson, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Cliff Michelmore

    Matthew Bannister on a broadcaster, a producer, a composer, an author and a magician.

  20. George Martin, Nancy Reagan, Ray Tomlinson, Gillian Avery

    Reeta Chakrabarti on a music producer, a US first lady, an internet pioneer and an author.

  21. Tony Warren, Louise Rennison, Lord Chorley, George Kennedy, John Chilton

    Reeta Chakrabarti on a TV writer, an author, a conservationist, an actor and a musician

  22. Alex Timpson, Lord Avebury, Douglas Slocombe, Umberto Eco, Pascal Bentoiu

    Matthew Bannister on a foster mother, a cinematographer, an author and a parliamentarian.

  23. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Edmonde Charles-Roux, Norman Hudis, Antonin Scalia, Harper Lee

    Matthew Bannister on a UN Secretary General, an editor, a screenwriter, a judge

  24. Marvin Minsky, Margaret Forster, Peter Powell, Sir Brian Tovey, Joe Alaskey

    Matthew Bannister on a computer scientist, a writer, a kite inventor, a GCHQ director

  25. Terry Wogan, Lord Lucan, Frank Finlay, Denise St Aubyn Hubbard, Maurice White

    Matthew Bannister on a broadcaster, an earl, an actor, a sailor, a musician

  26. Lord Parkinson, Bill Mitchell, Paddy Doherty, Henry Worsley, Dr Gladys-Marie Fry

    Matthew Bannister on a politician, an editor, an activist, an explorer, a folklorist

  27. Glenn Frey, Lord Weidenfeld, Jeanne Cordova, Haskell Wexler, Gilbert Kaplan.

    Matthew Bannister on a rock star, a publisher, a lesbian campaigner, a cinematographer.

  28. David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Olwyn Hughes and Ed Stewart

    Matthew Bannister on a rock star, an actor, a literary agent, a DJ

  29. Robert Stigwood, Patricia Torrens, Pierre Boulez, Lord Ezra, Natalie Cole

    Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the lives of people who have recently died.

  30. Eric Tomlinson, Elsie Tu, Peter Dickinson, Lillian Vernon and Lemmy

    Julian Worricker on a sound engineer, a campaigner, a writer, a businesswoman, a musician.

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