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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Quincy Jones, Janey Godley, Lyudmila Trut, Dr Paul Stephenson
Friday
Matthew Bannister on a musician, a comedian, a geneticist and a campaigner.
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Dick Pope, Sister Sally Butler, Professor Tim Darvill OBE, Patti McGee
Fri 1 Nov 2024
Matthew Bannister on a cinematographer, a nun, an archaeologist, a skateboarder
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Sir Mike Jackson, Lily Ledbetter, Safeya Binzagr, Steve Piotrowski
Fri 25 Oct 2024
Matthew Bannister on a general, a campaigner, an artist and an ornithologist.
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Alex Salmond, Ethel Kennedy, Ratan Tata, Fleur Adcock
Fri 18 Oct 2024
Kirsty Lang on a politician, a campaigner, a businessman and a poet.
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Lord Ouseley, Norman Ackroyd, Lore Segal, Cissy Houston
Fri 11 Oct 2024
John Wilson on a campaigner, artist, writer and a singer.
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Kris Kristofferson, Camilla Carr, Hassan Nasrallah, Maria Benitez
Fri 4 Oct 2024
John Wilson on a songwriter, an aid worker, a militia leader and a flamenco dancer
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Peter Jay, Ed Johnson, Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, Deborah Roberts
Fri 27 Sep 2024
Matthew Bannister on a diplomat and journalist, a CIA agent, a museum director, a singer.
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Dr George Berci, Olga Craig, Michaela Mabinty DePrince, Tony Strong
Fri 20 Sep 2024
Matthew Bannister on a surgeon, a journalist, a dancer and a scenic artist.
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James Earl Jones, Dr Helen Fisher, Sergio Mendes, Maureen Nicol
Fri 13 Sep 2024
Matthew Bannister on an actor, an anthropologist, a musician and an organiser.
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Claire Lomas, Phil Swern, Countess of Airlie, Geoff Mumford
Fri 6 Sep 2024
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a producer, a countess and a brewer.
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Mike Lynch, Nell McCafferty, Ruth Colvin, Sven-GΓΆran Eriksson
Fri 30 Aug 2024
Matthew Bannister on an entrepreneur, journalist, literacy campaigner and football manager
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Phil Donahue, Countess Diana Phipps Sternberg, Mary Gibby, Toumani DiabatΓ©
Fri 23 Aug 2024
Matthew Bannister on a TV presenter, a designer, a botanist and a musician.
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Susan Wojcicki, Lord Colwyn, Sir Ernest Hall, MΓsia
Fri 16 Aug 2024
Kirsty Lang on an internet pioneer, a dentist, an entrepreneur and a musician.
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Lord Fellowes, Professor Helen Whitwell, David Power, Irène Schweizer
Fri 9 Aug 2024
Matthew Bannister on a private secretary, pathologist, a businessman and a musician.
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Edna OβBrien, Sir Kenneth Grange, Ewy Rosqvist, John Mayall
Fri 2 Aug 2024
John Wilson on an author, a designer, a rally car driver and a blues musician.
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Dr Mildred Stahlman, Ray Reardon, Val McIver, Eddie Spence
Fri 26 Jul 2024
Matthew Bannister on a paediatrician, a snooker player, a councillor and a cake decorator.
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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 CortiΓ±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 FikotovΓ‘-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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βI was born while my father was a hostageβ
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.
