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Last Word Episodes

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    Mimi Reinhard, Sir Harrison Birtwistle (pictured), Sylvia Lancaster OBE, Letizia Battaglia

    John Wilson on a Holocaust survivor, a composer, a campaigner and a photographer.

  2. Jordan Mooney (pictured), Jack Higgins, Robert Ashe, David McKee

    John Wilson on a punk icon, a writer, an aid worker and an illustrator.

  3. Derek Mack (pictured), June Brown, Doris Derby, Dave Sales

    Matthew Bannister on a rocket engineer, an actor, a civil rights campaigner, a fisherman.

  4. Madeleine Albright (pictured), Peter Padfield, Christina Smith, Sheila Paine

    Matthew Bannister on a US politician, a naval historian, an entrepreneur, a textile expert

  5. Bruce Page, Dottie Frazier, Josephine Veasey (pictured), Maynard Davies

    Matthew Bannister on a journalist, a diver, a singer and a bacon curer

  6. Mary Coombs, Paul Farmer, Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper, William Hurt (pictured)

    John Wilson on a computer programmer, a medical anthropologist, a translator and an actor.

  7. Shirley Hughes (pictured), Roger Graef, Shane Warne

    Matthew Bannister on a children鈥檚 author and illustrator, a documentary maker, a cricketer

  8. Sonny Ramadhin (pictured), Sister Catherine Wybourne, Captain Raymond Savage, Anna Karen

    Matthew Bannister on a cricketer, a nun, a soldier and an actor

  9. Jamal Edwards MBE, P.J. O'Rourke (pictured), Romaine Hart OBE, Ronnie Campbell

    Matthew Bannister on a music entrepreneur, a writer, a cinema owner, a crofter

  10. Beryl Vertue CBE (pictured), Flavio Carboni, Phil Harvey, Lata Mangeshkar

    Matthew Bannister on a producer, a 'fixer', a businessman, a singer

  11. Bamber Gascoigne (pictured), Norma Waterson, Claire Tomlinson, Thich Nhat Hanh

    Matthew Bannister on a broadcaster, a singer, a polo player and a Buddhist monk.

  12. Sir Crispin Tickell, Barry Cryer (pictured), Darlene Hard, Elza Soares

    Julian Worricker on a diplomat, a comedian, a sportswoman and a singer

  13. Meat Loaf (pictured), Andr茅 Leon Talley, Jana Bennett, Kristin Baybars

    Matthew Bannister on a singer, a fashion editor, a 蜜芽传媒 executive, a toymaker

  14. Lord Sainsbury, David Stuart, Elizabeth Selby, Ronnie Spector (pictured)

    Matthew Bannister on a businessman, an LGBT support worker, a photo agent, a singer

  15. Sidney Poitier (pictured), EO Wilson, Sarah Weddington, Assunta 'Pupetta' Maresca

    Matthew Bannister on an actor, a biologist, a lawyer and a mafia boss.

  16. Lord Rogers (pictured), April Ashley MBE, Joan Didion, Ray Illingworth

    Matthew Bannister on an architect, a transgender pioneer, a writer, a cricketer

  17. Janice Long (pictured), Marvin Hagler, Esther Bejarano, Leslie Bricusse

    Julian Worricker on a DJ, a boxer, a Holocaust survivor and a songwriter.

  18. bell hooks (pictured), Shirley McGreal, Lionel Blair, Melvin Van Peebles

    Julian Worricker on a writer, a conservationist, an entertainer, a film director.

  19. Mary Maher, Robbie Shakespeare (pictured), Anwar Ditta, Anne Rice

    Matthew Bannister on a journalist, a bass player, a campaigner and an author.

  20. Sir Antony Sher (pictured), Roger Phillips, Judy Totton

    Matthew Bannister on an actor, a mushroom expert and a publicist.

  21. Stephen Sondheim (pictured), Sir Frank Williams, Jo-Carroll Dennison

    Matthew Bannister on a composer, a motor racing team owner and a beauty queen.

  22. Ian Wallace, Rossana Banti, Ivy Nicholson (pictured), Cedric Robinson MBE

    Matthew Bannister on an ornithologist, a partisan, a model, a guide

  23. Aaron Beck, Joan Carlyle (pictured), Etel Adnan, Anne Bradford

    Kirsty Lang on a psychiatrist, a soprano, a writer and a crossword solver.

  24. Sir Archie Lamb (pictured), John Boyden, Ida Nudel, Abolhassan Banisadr

    Matthew Bannister on a diplomat, a record producer, a 'refusenik' and a president.

  25. Sir Michael Rutter (pictured), Christopher Wenner, Sister Megan Rice, Jeanette Altwegg

    Matthew Bannister on a psychiatrist, a film maker, a campaigner, a figure skater

  26. Bernard Haitink (pictured), Victor Gregg, Ruthie Tompson, Paddy Moloney

    Matthew Bannister on a conductor, a soldier, an animator, and a piper.

  27. Colin Powell (pictured), Brendan Kennelly, Myriam Sarachik, John Clunies-Ross

    Kirsty Lang on a General, a poet, a scientist and the ruler of the Cocos Islands

  28. Abdul Qadeer Khan (pictured), R. Allen Gardner, Joyce Jackson, Beresford King-Smith

    Matthew Bannister on a metallurgist, an ethologist, a centenarian, an orchestra manager.

  29. Antony Hewish (pictured), Roger Michell, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Jane Powell

    Matthew Bannister on an astronomer, a director, a president and an actor.

  30. Lord Gowrie, Kamla Bhasin (pictured), Shirley Metherell MBE, Roger Hunt MBE

    Matthew Bannister on a politician, a feminist, a charity founder, a footballer

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