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Last Word Episodes

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    Joan Rivers, Sir David Mitchell, Werner Franz, Candida Lycett Green, Sandy Wilson

    Matthew Bannister remembers a comedian, an MP, a Hindenburg survivor and a conservationist

  2. Richard Attenborough, Helen Bamber, BKS Iyengar, Sam Galbraith, Bill Kerr

    Matthew Bannister on a director, a human rights campaigner, a yoga guru and a Labour MSP.

  3. Albert Reynolds, Ronnie Stonham, Norman Cornish, Gerry Anderson, Licia Albanese

    Remembering a former Taoiseach, a Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ vetter, a painter, a broadcaster and a soprano.

  4. Lauren Bacall, Prof Sir Alan Peacock, Robin Williams, Peter Sculthorpe

    Andrea Catherwood on a Hollywood legend, a comic genius, a composer and an economist.

  5. Chapman Pincher, Mike Smith, Lettice Curtis, Karl Albrecht, Kenny Ireland

    Matthew Bannister on a journalist, a businessman, a broadcaster, a pilot, an actor

  6. Sir Richard MacCormac, Eileen Ford, Nigel Ryan, Zohra Sehgal, Frank Mumford

    Matthew Bannister on an architect, a modelling agent, an editor, an actress, a puppeteer

  7. James Garner, Joep Lange, Alan Alan, Philip Wayre, Dora Bryan

    Julian Worricker on an actor, a physician, a naturalist, an actress and an escapologist

  8. Elaine Stritch, Nadine Gordimer, Michael Scudamore and Lorin Maazel

    Matthew Bannister on an actress, a writer, a jockey and a conductor.

  9. Alfredo Di Stefano, Eduard Shevardnadze, Ultra Violet, Chester Nez and Horace Silver

    Matthew Bannister on a footballer, a Georgian politician, an artist and a code talker.

  10. Bobby Womack, Stephanie Kwolek, Dermot Healy, Viktor Sukhodrev, Delia Craig

    Julian Worricker on a singer, a chemist, a writer, an interpreter and a conservationist.

  11. Felix Dennis, Norman Willis, Josephine Pullein-Thompson, Gerry Conlon, Eli Wallach

    Matthew Bannister on a publisher, a TUC leader, an author and one of the Guildford Four.

  12. Gerry Goffin, Freydis Sharland, Alexander Shulgin, Francis Matthews

    Matthew Bannister remembers a songwriter, a pilot, a chemist and an actor.

  13. Rik Mayall, Dr Lorna Wing, Eric Hill, Billie Fleming, Alan Douglas

    Matthew Bannister remembers a comedian, a psychiatrist, a children's writer and a cyclist.

  14. Lady Mary Soames, Gordon Willis, Clyde Snow, Count Suckle

    Obituaries for Churchill's daughter, a cinematographer, a forensic scientist and a DJ.

  15. Maya Angelou, Malcolm Glazer, Tessa Watts, General Jaruzelski, Herb Jeffries

    Matthew Bannister on a writer, a businessman, a music video producer and a Polish leader.

  16. Sir Jack Brabham, Prof Louise Wilson, Dick Douglas, Harry Stopes-Roe and Mary Stewart

    Matthew Bannister on a racing driver, a fashion professor, an MP, a humanist, a novelist.

  17. Prof Colin Pillinger, Antony Hopkins, Bev Evans, Sir Ben Gill and Stan Kelly-Bootle

    Matthew Bannister on a space scientist, a musician, a farmers' leader, a computer pioneer.

  18. Sir George Christie, Leslie Thomas, Elena Baltacha, Sir William Benyon and Deborah Rogers

    Matthew Bannister remembers Glyndebourne's owner, an author, a Tory MP and a tennis player

  19. Bob Hoskins, U Win Tin, Ian McIntyre, Gailene Stock

    Matthew Bannister on an actor, a Burmese activist, a Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ executive and a ballet teacher.

  20. Mark Shand, Mrs Pilkington Garimara, Derek Cooper, Wally Olins, Julian Wilson

    Matthew Bannister on a conservationist, a writer, a broadcaster and a branding consultant.

  21. Gabriel GarcΓ­a MΓ΅rquez, Edna DorΓ©, Richard Hoggart, Gerardo D'Ambrosio, John Shirley-Quirk

    Julian Worricker remembers an author, an actress, a commentator, a magistrate and a singer

  22. Sue Townsend, Lord Kimball, Peaches Geldof, Prof Lorna Casselton, Mickey Rooney

    Matthew Bannister on an author, an MP, a TV presenter, a fungal biologist and a film star.

  23. Margo MacDonald, Frankie Knuckles, Lorna Arnold, Kate O'Mara, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah

    Matthew Bannister remembers a politician, a DJ, a historian, an actress and a president.

  24. Mickey Duff, John Tyson, Jill Sinclair, Adolfo Suarez, Oswald Morris

    Matthew Bannister on a boxing promoter, an explorer, a music exec and a cinematographer.

  25. Clarissa Dickson Wright, Lord Ballyedmond, L'Wren Scott, Mohammed Fahim, Peter Callander

    Julian Worricker remembers a chef, an entrepreneur, a lyricist, a statesman and a designer

  26. Tony Benn, James Ellis, Peter Rona, Marion Thorpe, Bob Crow

    Julian Worricker on a politician, an actor, an oceanographer, a pianist and a union leader

  27. Paco de Lucia, Frank Rushbrook, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Logan Scott-Bowden, Alain Resnais

    Aasmah Mir remembers a guitarist, a firefighter, an artist, a soldier and a director.

  28. Alison Jolly, Alice Herz-Sommer, Valery Kubasov, Mavis Gallant, Harold Ramis

    Aasmah Mir remembers a primatologist, a pianist, a cosmonaut, a writer and a director.

  29. Sir Tom Finney CBE, Sid Caesar, Ian McNaught-Davis, Els Borst, Louise Brough

    Matthew Bannister on a footballer, a comedian, a climber, a politician and a tennis player

  30. Prof Stuart Hall, Jean BabilΓ©e, Tony Crook, Shirley Temple Black

    Matthew Bannister remembers a sociologist, a dancer, a car maker and a child star.

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