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Last Word Episodes

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    Barry Humphries, Len Goodman, Professor Elizabeth Murray, Jah Shaka

    Matthew Bannister on a comedian, a dancer, a medical researcher and a musician

  2. Anne Perry, Dame Mary Quant, Jean Argles, Ahmad Jamal

    Matthew Bannister on an author, a designer, a codebreaker and a musician.

  3. Ben Ferencz, Seymour Fortescue, Valerie Elliott, Rachel Pollack

    Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a banker, a journalist, an author

  4. Nigel Lawson, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, Ken Buchanan, Mary Rayner

    Matthew Bannister on a politician, a musician, a boxer and a writer.

  5. Paul O'Grady, Gordon Moore, Vera Selby, Simon Emmerson

    Matthew Bannister on an entertainer, a tech entrepreneur, a snooker player, a musician.

  6. Jacqueline Gold CBE, Lance Reddick, Traute Lafrenz, Lynn Seymour

    Matthew Bannister on a businesswoman, an actor, a campaigner, a ballerina

  7. Chaim Topol, Zandra Flemister, Bill Tidy MBE, Avis Fawcitt

    Matthew Bannister on an actor, a special agent, a cartoonist and a music teacher.

  8. Judith Heumann, Brian Tufano, Sir David Elliott KCMG, Elizabeth Foulkes

    Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a cinematographer, a diplomat and an architect.

  9. Lady Betty Boothroyd, Marianne Mantell, John Motson OBE, Sulamita Aronovsky

    Kirsty Lang on a politician, a publisher, a football commentator and a pianist.

  10. Dorothy Pitman Hughes, Ralph Hooper OBE, Raquel Welch, Dickie Davies

    A feminist, an engineer, an actress and a sports presenter.

  11. David Vaughan OBE, Burt Bacharach, Janet Anderson, Eileen Sheridan

    Matthew Bannister on a glaciologist, a composer, an MP and a cyclist.

  12. Frene Ginwala, Lady Martha Bruce OBE, Pervez Musharraf, Paco Rabanne

    Matthew Bannister on an activist, a prison governor, a president and a designer.

  13. Ralph Ehrmann, Sylvia Syms, Rabbi Dr Abraham Levy, Jo Sandilands

    Matthew Bannister on a businessman, an actor, a Rabbi and an editor.

  14. Howard Baderman, David Crosby, Milly Thompson, Brenda Heywood

    Matthew Bannister on a doctor, a musician, an artist and an archaeologist.

  15. Jeff Beck, Alice Mahon, Tom Karen OBE, Gina Lollobrigida

    Matthew Bannister on a guitarist, an MP, a designer and an actress.

  16. Gianluca Vialli, Fay Weldon, Michael Dower, Anita Pointer

    Matthew Bannister on a footballer, an author, a conservationist and a singer.

  17. Pope Benedict XVI, Dame Vivienne Westwood, James Caan, Georgia Holt

    Matthew Bannister on a pope, a fashion designer, an actor and a singer.

  18. Terry Hall, Dame Beryl Grey, Heather Iandolo, Eric Allison

    Matthew Bannister on a singer, the daughter of Lord Haw Haw, an ex-offender, a ballerina

  19. Victor Lewis-Smith, Maureen Doherty, Pablo MilanΓ©s, Ailsa Irving

    Matthew Bannister on a columnist and broadcaster, a designer, a singer, and a campaigner.

  20. Joyce Bryant, George 'Johnny' Johnson MBE, Dame Clare Marx, Joseph Kittinger

    Matthew Bannister on a singer, a squadron leader, a surgeon, a skydiver.

  21. Christine McVie, Jiang Zemin, Derek Granger

    Matthew Bannister on a musician, a Chinese leader and a producer.

  22. Doddie Weir, Hebe de Bonafini, Irene Cara, Cornelia Schroeder

    Matthew Bannister on a rugby player, a campaigner, a singer and a virologist.

  23. Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Ann Savours, Sue Baker, Wilko Johnson

    Matthew Bannister on a migrant, a journalist, an archivist and a musician.

  24. Peter de Savary, Bob Le Sueur MBE, Ela Bhatt, Hannah Pick-Goslar

    Matthew Bannister on an entrepreneur, a war hero, a campaigner and a Holocaust survivor.

  25. Leslie Phillips CBE, Dame Valerie Beral, Avtar Singh Jouhl, Atarah Ben-Tovim MBE

    Matthew Bannister on an actor, an epidemiologist, an activist and a musician.

  26. Baroness Blood, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ian Jack, Hilaree Nelson

    Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a musician, a journalist and a ski mountaineer.

  27. Dame Carmen Callil, Ivy Jo Hunter, Kathleen Booth, Dietrich Mateschitz

    Matthew Bannister on a publisher, a songwriter, a computer pioneer and a billionaire.

  28. Ian Hamilton KC, Audrey Evans, Parvatiben Solanki, Robbie Coltrane OBE

    Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a paediatric oncologist, a publisher and an actor.

  29. Dame Angela Lansbury, Lady Keswick, Sacheen Littlefeather, Franca Fendi

    Matthew Bannister on an actor, a special adviser, a campaigner, a businesswoman

  30. Yusuf al-Qaradawi, 'Ma' Smith MBE, Mike Burrows, Loretta Lynn

    Matthew Bannister on a Muslim scholar, a voluntary worker, a cycle designer and a singer.

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