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Last Word Episodes

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    Dame Hilary Mantel, John McVicar, Joyce Reynolds, Paul Sartin

    Matthew Bannister on an author, an ex-offender, a classicist and a musician.

  2. Jean-Luc Godard, Barbara Ehrenreich, Dennis Wilson, Mavis Nicholson

    Kirsty Lang on a film-maker, a writer, a war poet and a broadcaster.

  3. Bill Turnbull, Anne Sutton, Norah Vincent, Drummie Zeb

    Matthew Bannister on a broadcaster, a historian, a writer, a drummer

  4. Mikhail Gorbachev, Stella 'Jaye' Edwards, Jerry Allison

    Matthew Bannister on a president, a pilot and a drummer.

  5. Margaret Keane, Keith Smith, Mario Fiorentini, Brenda Fisher

    Matthew Bannister on an artist, an entrepreneur, a partisan and a swimmer.

  6. Lamont Dozier, Joan Lingard, Issey Miyake, Edana Minghella

    John Wilson on a songwriter, a children's author, a fashion designer, a researcher

  7. James Lovelock, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Roy Hackett MBE, Dame Olivia Newton-John

    Kirsty Lang on a scientist, a terrorist, an activist and a film star.

  8. Bernard Cribbins OBE (pictured), Diana Kennedy MBE, Sir Colin Blakemore, Nichelle Nichols

    Matthew Bannister on an actor, a food writer, a neuroscientist, and an actor.

  9. Lord David Trimble (pictured), Susie Steiner, Uwe Seeler

    John Wilson on a peacemaker, an author and a football legend.

  10. Tony Sirico (pictured), JosΓ© Eduardo dos Santos, Ann Shulgin, Ivana Trump

    John Wilson on an actor, a president, a therapist and a businesswoman.

  11. Shinzo Abe (pictured), Mona Hammond OBE, Lorna de Smidt, Monty Norman

    Kirsty Lang on a prime minister, an actor, an activist and a composer.

  12. Baroness Greengross OBE (pictured), Sonny Barger, Technoblade, Qin Yi

    Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a Hell’s Angel, a YouTuber and an actor.

  13. Dame Deborah James (pictured), Yves Coppens, Revel Guest OBE, Samuel Bhima

    Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a palaeontologist, a film producer and a doctor.

  14. Dom Phillips (pictured), Stephen S. Thompson, Caroline Drummond, Maureen Hiron

    Matthew Bannister on a journalist, a writer, a farming campaigner and a games inventor.

  15. Dame Paula Rego (pictured), Bruce Kent, Hilary Devey CBE

    Matthew Bannister on an artist, a campaigner and an entrepreneur.

  16. Amanda Claridge, Sidhu Moose Wala (pictured), Mark Sykes, Paul Vance

    Matthew Bannister on an archaeologist, a rapper, a gambler and a songwriter.

  17. Dervla Murphy, Lester Piggott (pictured), Anne Howells

    Matthew Bannister on a travel writer, a jockey, a singer

  18. Baroness Haleh Afshar, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Kay Mellor, Vangelis (Pictured)

    Matthew Bannister on an activist, a president, a writer and a composer.

  19. Shireen Abu Akleh, Robert Gillmor, Leonid Kravchuk (pictured), Carrie White

    Matthew Bannister on a journalist, an artist, a president and a hairdresser.

  20. Kathy Boudin, Dennis Waterman (pictured), Sidney Altman, RΓ©gine Zylberberg

    Matthew Bannister on an activist, an actor, a biologist, a night club owner.

  21. Colonel Alan Jenkins, Mary Monson, Elspeth Barker, Art Rupe (pictured)

    Matthew Bannister on a soldier, a lawyer, an author and a music producer.

  22. Yvonne Blenkinsop (pictured), Dr Margaret Carswell, Mikhail Vasenkov, Denise Coffey

    Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, an ornithologist, a spy, an actor

  23. Mimi Reinhard, Sir Harrison Birtwistle (pictured), Sylvia Lancaster OBE, Letizia Battaglia

    John Wilson on a Holocaust survivor, a composer, a campaigner and a photographer.

  24. Jordan Mooney (pictured), Jack Higgins, Robert Ashe, David McKee

    John Wilson on a punk icon, a writer, an aid worker and an illustrator.

  25. Derek Mack (pictured), June Brown, Doris Derby, Dave Sales

    Matthew Bannister on a rocket engineer, an actor, a civil rights campaigner, a fisherman.

  26. Madeleine Albright (pictured), Peter Padfield, Christina Smith, Sheila Paine

    Matthew Bannister on a US politician, a naval historian, an entrepreneur, a textile expert

  27. Bruce Page, Dottie Frazier, Josephine Veasey (pictured), Maynard Davies

    Matthew Bannister on a journalist, a diver, a singer and a bacon curer

  28. Mary Coombs, Paul Farmer, Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper, William Hurt (pictured)

    John Wilson on a computer programmer, a medical anthropologist, a translator and an actor.

  29. Shirley Hughes (pictured), Roger Graef, Shane Warne

    Matthew Bannister on a children’s author and illustrator, a documentary maker, a cricketer

  30. Sonny Ramadhin (pictured), Sister Catherine Wybourne, Captain Raymond Savage, Anna Karen

    Matthew Bannister on a cricketer, a nun, a soldier and an actor

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