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Last Word Episodes

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    Captain Don Walsh, Dame A.S. Byatt, Rosalynn Carter, Dr Finlay Macleod

    Matthew Bannister on a submariner, an author, a First Lady and a Gaelic speaker.

  2. Peter Betts, Audrey Salkeld, Heather Rogers KC, Louise Meriwether

    Matthew Bannister on a civil servant, a mountaineering historian, a lawyer and a writer.

  3. Ken Mattingly, Anne Wright, Mary Gallacher, David Kirke

    Matthew Bannister on an astronaut, a conservationist, an Ibrox legend and a sports pioneer

  4. Matthew Perry, Benedict Birnberg, Field Marshall Muthoni Wa Kirima, Professor Jose Harris

    Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a historian, a Mau Mau fighter and an actor.

  5. Sir Bobby Charlton, Dr Evelyn Fox Keller, Julian Bahula, Haydn Gwynne

    Matthew Bannister on a footballer, a scientist, a musician and an actor.

  6. Charles β€˜Chuck’ Feeney, Phyllis β€˜Pippa’ Latour, Florence Fisher, Dr Nicholas Arnold

    Kirsty Lang on a businessman, an agent, a campaigner, a herpetologist

  7. Kirsty Smitten, Kat Anderson, Beverly Willis, Tony Wade

    Kirsty Lang on a scientist, an architect, an entrepreneur and a singer.

  8. Michael Gambon, Pat Arrowsmith, Treleven Haysom, Dianne Feinstein

    Matthew Bannister on an actor, a campaigner, a stonemason and a US senator.

  9. Gita Mehta, Matteo Messina Denaro, Irma Brenman Pick, John Stevenson

    Matthew Bannister on an author, a mafia boss, a psychoanalyst and a scriptwriter.

  10. Sir Horace OvΓ©, Su Gorman, Roger Whittaker, Jean Combes

    Matthew Bannister on a film director, a campaigner, a singer and a naturalist.

  11. Mike Yarwood, Ada Deer, Sir Ian Wilmut, Dorothy Purdew

    Matthew Bannister on an impressionist, a campaigner, an embryologist and a businesswoman.

  12. Mohamed Al-Fayed, Dorothy Goodman, Professor Anthony Bryceson, Denyse Plummer

    Matthew Bannister on a businessman, a educationalist, a tropical medicine expert, a singer

  13. Julian Haviland, Johaar Mosaval, Tricia Tyler, Matyelok Gibbs

    Matthew Bannister on a political editor, a dancer, a journalist and an actor.

  14. Michael Parkinson, Renata Scotto, John Brierly, Isobel Crook

    John Wilson on a broadcaster, an Italian soprano, an author and an anthropologist

  15. Nick Kaiser, Angela Flowers, Robbie Shepherd, Doreen Mantle.

    Kirsty Lang on an actress, a British scientist, a gallerist, a Scottish broadcaster.

  16. Sir Michael Boyd, Jess Search, Warren Ford, Leny Andrade

    Kirsty Lang on an artistic director, a documentary maker, a tea consultant and a singer

  17. Richard Barancik, Yvonne Littlewood MBE, Edward Sexton, Dr Christian Carritt

    Kirsty Lang on a soldier, a television producer, a tailor and a doctor.

  18. George Alagiah, Sinead O'Connor, Ann Clwyd, Tony Bennett, and Trevor Francis

    John Wilson on a journalist, a singer-songwriter, a politician, a singer, a footballer

  19. Lady Williams of Elvel, Professor John Goodenough, Christine Baker, Lord Palmer

    Matthew Bannister on a secretary, a materials chemist, a publisher and an aristocrat.

  20. Malcolm Mowbray, Victoria Amelina, Roger Lovegrove, Mavis Cheek

    Matthew Bannister on a film director, a novelist, an ornithologist and a writer.

  21. Lord Kerslake, Dame Ann Leslie, Diane Rowe, Tim Blackmore

    Matthew Bannister on a civil servant, journalist, table tennis champion, radio executive.

  22. Baroness McDonagh, Craig Brown, Godfrey Merlen, Winnie Ewing

    Matthew Bannister on a baroness, a football manager, a conservationist and a politician.

  23. Daniel Ellsberg, Glenda Jackson, Melanie Phillips, Sir Ben Helfgott

    Matthew Bannister on a whistleblower, an actor, a social worker and a holocaust survivor.

  24. Silvio Berlusconi, Cormac McCarthy, Kathryn Harries, Francoise Gilot

    John Wilson on a prime minister, a novelist, a soprano and an artist.

  25. Mel Parry, Professor Alice Coleman, Hugh Callaghan, Cynthia Weil

    Matthew Bannister on an SAS veteran, a geographer, a labourer and a songwriter.

  26. Jeremy Clarke, Dr Moira Woods, Iain Johnstone, Rita Lee

    Matthew Bannister on a columnist, a campaigner, a film critic and a singer.

  27. Tina Turner, Martin Amis, Leroy Cooper, Rolf Harris, Marlene Bauer Hagge

    Matthew Bannister on a singer, an author, a photographer and a golfer.

  28. Newton Minow, Vicky Neale, Lois Keith, Gerald Rose

    Matthew Bannister on a broadcast regulator, a mathematician, a campaigner, an illustrator.

  29. Grace Bumbry, Don Short, Dame Rosemary Cramp, Wee Willie Harris

    Matthew Bannister on an opera singer, a journalist, an archaeologist and a rockβ€˜n’roller

  30. Harry Belafonte, Jerry Springer, Valerie Winn, Kate Saunders

    Matthew Bannister on a singer and actor, a broadcaster, a runner and an author.

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