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Last Word Episodes

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    Cynthia Lennon, Anthony Scrivener, Martyn Goff, John Renbourn

    Julian Worricker on a Beatles wife, a barrister, a musician and the man behind the Booker.

  2. Lee Kuan Yew, Derek Chinnery, Eugenie Clark, Mal Peet, Jackie Trent

    Matthew Bannister on a prime minister, a Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ executive, an ichthyologist and an author.

  3. Shaw Taylor, Arthur Wyatt, Naty Revuelta Clews, Malcolm Fraser, Andy Fraser

    Matthew Bannister on a broadcaster, a diplomat, a revolutionary, a politician, a musician.

  4. Sir Terry Pratchett, Florence Arthaud, Patrick Whitefield, Lord Molyneaux, Sam Simon

    Matthew Bannister on an author, a sailor, an ecologist, a politician and a comedy creator.

  5. Yasar Kemal, Maureen Guy, Professor Oliver Rackham, Sir Noel Davies, Leonard Nimoy

    A Turkish author, an opera singer, an environmentalist, a nuclear engineer and an actor.

  6. Dan Topolski, Lady Villiers, John Davies, Tim Lusty, Clark Terry

    A rower, a resistance fighter, a historian, a historian and a jazz musician.

  7. Michele Ferrero, Lady Platt of Writtle, John McCabe, Louis Jourdan, Anne Naysmith and Lesley Gore.

    Julian Worricker on a confectioner, an engineer, a composer, an actor, a pianist

  8. John Hopkins, Ena Baxter, Lord Gavron, Andre Brink, Charles Townes, Steve Strange

    Matthew Bannister on a photographer, a cook, a businessman, a writer and a physicist.

  9. Colleen McCullough, Richard von Weizsaecker, Carl Djerassi, Geraldine McEwan and Lotte Hass

    Matthew Bannister talks about an author, a president, a chemist, an actress and a diver.

  10. Sir Jack Hayward, Elena Obraztsova, Robert Stone, Jean Stogdon OBE and Demis Roussos

    Matthew Bannister on a businessman, a singer, a novelist, a social worker and a pop star.

  11. Lord Brittan, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Professor John Bayley, Anne Kirkbride

    Obituary series: Matthew Bannister on a politician, a king, an academic and an actress.

  12. Ray McFall, Richard Meade, Joan Benesh, Frank Atkinson and Brian Clemens

    Obituaries of a club owner, a horseman, a choreologist, a curator and a screenwriter.

  13. Jean Cabut and Georges Wolinski, Luise Rainer, Edward Brooke and Chip Young

    Matthew Bannister on two cartoonists, an actress, a senator and a session guitarist.

  14. Debbie Purdy, David Ryall, Willy Burgdorfer, Dame Mary Glen Haig, Graeme Goodall

    Julian Worricker on a campaigner, an actor, an entomologist, a fencer and a music pioneer.

  15. In a special edition of Last Word, Matthew Bannister talks to obituary editors from around the UK about the nature of their work

    Matthew Bannister and guests offer an insight into the world of the obituary writer.

  16. Mandy Rice-Davies, Dr Tim Black, Michel du Cille, Ian Player, Christopher Morris

    Matthew Bannister on a showgirl, a doctor, a photographer and a conservationist.

  17. Queen Fabiola, Stella Young, Bernard Stonehouse, Kent Haruf, Ralph Baer

    Matthew Bannister on a disability campaigner, a queen, a polar scientist and an author.

  18. Jeremy Thorpe, Ian McLagan, Viktor Tikhonov, Trevor Pharo and Sabah

    Matthew Bannister on a politician, a musician, an ice hockey coach, a clown, and a singer.

  19. PD James, 'Mad' Frankie Fraser, Glen A Larson, Medlin Lewis-Spencer, Arthur Butterworth MBE

    Matthew Bannister on a crime writer, a criminal, a director, a mayor and a composer.

  20. Sir Thomas Macpherson, Mike Nichols, Alexander Grothendieck, Paul Vaughan, Leonore Davidoff and Jimmy Ruffin

    Matthew Bannister on a war hero, a director, a mathematician, a broadcaster, a historian.

  21. Vivienne Price; Dr Dick Laws; Warren Clarke; Geoffrey Clarke; Prince David Chavchavadze

    Matthew Bannister on an orchestra founder, a zoologist, an actor, a sculptor and a spy.

  22. Warren Anderson, Acker Bilk, Lord Barnett, Sonia Rolt

    Matthew Bannister on a company chairman, a musician, a politician and a canal campaigner.

  23. Jack Bruce, Gough Whitlam, Efua Dorkenoo, James Dunlop

    Matthew Bannister on a rock musician, a campaigner, a politician and a firefighter.

  24. Lynda Bellingham, Ben Bradlee, Geoffrey Perry, John Holt

    Andrea Catherwood remembers an actress, a war veteran, a reggae artist and newspaperman.

  25. Sir Jocelyn Stevens, Jerrie Mock, John Moat, Shirley Baker, David Rayvern Allen

    Matthew Bannister on a newspaper executive, a pilot, an author, a photographer, a producer

  26. Andrew Kerr, Jean-Claude Duvalier, Dorothy Tyler MBE, Prof Karl Miller, Cosimo Matassa

    Matthew Bannister on a festival founder, a dictator, an athlete and a literary editor.

  27. Christopher Hogwood, Major General Yitzhak Hofi, Sheila Tracy, Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, Lynsey de Paul

    Matthew Bannister on a conductor, an Israeli general, a broadcaster and a mathematician.

  28. The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, Oleg Ivanovsky, Jim Petrie, Dame Julia Polak and Bob Crewe

    Julian Worricker on two scientists, an illustrator, a songwriter and a leading aristocrat.

  29. James Nesbitt MBE, Andrew McLaglen, Emilio Botin, Simin Behbahani, Sir Philip Dowson, George Hamilton IV

    Matthew Bannister on a detective, a film director, a banker, a poet and an architect.

  30. Rev Ian Paisley, Sir Donald Sinden, Caroline Gooding, Anthony Smith, Andrew McLaglen

    Matthew Bannister on a politician, an actor, an adventurer, a disability rights campaigner

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