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Last Word Episodes

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    Jamal Edwards MBE, P.J. O'Rourke (pictured), Romaine Hart OBE, Ronnie Campbell

    Matthew Bannister on a music entrepreneur, a writer, a cinema owner, a crofter

  2. Beryl Vertue CBE (pictured), Flavio Carboni, Phil Harvey, Lata Mangeshkar

    Matthew Bannister on a producer, a 'fixer', a businessman, a singer

  3. Bamber Gascoigne (pictured), Norma Waterson, Claire Tomlinson, Thich Nhat Hanh

    Matthew Bannister on a broadcaster, a singer, a polo player and a Buddhist monk.

  4. Sir Crispin Tickell, Barry Cryer (pictured), Darlene Hard, Elza Soares

    Julian Worricker on a diplomat, a comedian, a sportswoman and a singer

  5. Meat Loaf (pictured), AndrΓ© Leon Talley, Jana Bennett, Kristin Baybars

    Matthew Bannister on a singer, a fashion editor, a Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ executive, a toymaker

  6. Lord Sainsbury, David Stuart, Elizabeth Selby, Ronnie Spector (pictured)

    Matthew Bannister on a businessman, an LGBT support worker, a photo agent, a singer

  7. Sidney Poitier (pictured), EO Wilson, Sarah Weddington, Assunta 'Pupetta' Maresca

    Matthew Bannister on an actor, a biologist, a lawyer and a mafia boss.

  8. Lord Rogers (pictured), April Ashley MBE, Joan Didion, Ray Illingworth

    Matthew Bannister on an architect, a transgender pioneer, a writer, a cricketer

  9. Janice Long (pictured), Marvin Hagler, Esther Bejarano, Leslie Bricusse

    Julian Worricker on a DJ, a boxer, a Holocaust survivor and a songwriter.

  10. bell hooks (pictured), Shirley McGreal, Lionel Blair, Melvin Van Peebles

    Julian Worricker on a writer, a conservationist, an entertainer, a film director.

  11. Mary Maher, Robbie Shakespeare (pictured), Anwar Ditta, Anne Rice

    Matthew Bannister on a journalist, a bass player, a campaigner and an author.

  12. Sir Antony Sher (pictured), Roger Phillips, Judy Totton

    Matthew Bannister on an actor, a mushroom expert and a publicist.

  13. Stephen Sondheim (pictured), Sir Frank Williams, Jo-Carroll Dennison

    Matthew Bannister on a composer, a motor racing team owner and a beauty queen.

  14. Ian Wallace, Rossana Banti, Ivy Nicholson (pictured), Cedric Robinson MBE

    Matthew Bannister on an ornithologist, a partisan, a model, a guide

  15. Aaron Beck, Joan Carlyle (pictured), Etel Adnan, Anne Bradford

    Kirsty Lang on a psychiatrist, a soprano, a writer and a crossword solver.

  16. Sir Archie Lamb (pictured), John Boyden, Ida Nudel, Abolhassan Banisadr

    Matthew Bannister on a diplomat, a record producer, a 'refusenik' and a president.

  17. Sir Michael Rutter (pictured), Christopher Wenner, Sister Megan Rice, Jeanette Altwegg

    Matthew Bannister on a psychiatrist, a film maker, a campaigner, a figure skater

  18. Bernard Haitink (pictured), Victor Gregg, Ruthie Tompson, Paddy Moloney

    Matthew Bannister on a conductor, a soldier, an animator, and a piper.

  19. Colin Powell (pictured), Brendan Kennelly, Myriam Sarachik, John Clunies-Ross

    Kirsty Lang on a General, a poet, a scientist and the ruler of the Cocos Islands

  20. Abdul Qadeer Khan (pictured), R. Allen Gardner, Joyce Jackson, Beresford King-Smith

    Matthew Bannister on a metallurgist, an ethologist, a centenarian, an orchestra manager.

  21. Antony Hewish (pictured), Roger Michell, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Jane Powell

    Matthew Bannister on an astronomer, a director, a president and an actor.

  22. Lord Gowrie, Kamla Bhasin (pictured), Shirley Metherell MBE, Roger Hunt MBE

    Matthew Bannister on a politician, a feminist, a charity founder, a footballer

  23. Jimmy Greaves (pictured), Sir Clive Sinclair, Olivia Jordan, Carolyn Shoemaker

    Julian Worricker on a footballer, an inventor, a translator and an astrophysicist.

  24. Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, Jean-Paul Belmondo (pictured), Angela Milner, Inge Ginsberg

    Datshiane Navanayagam on a revolutionary, an actor, a palaeontologist and a singer.

  25. Sergei Kovalev (pictured), Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Abebech Gobena, Ed Asner

    Matthew Bannister on a dissident, a reggae pioneer, a humanitarian, an actor

  26. Jill Murphy (pictured), Len Gibson, Dame Elizabeth Blackadder, Nanci Griffith

    Matthew Bannister on an author, a prisoner of war, an artist, a country singer

  27. Charlie Watts (pictured), Austin Mitchell, Hugh Wood, Sean Lock

    Matthew Bannister on a drummer, a Labour MP, a composer and a comedian.

  28. Una Stubbs (pictured), Gino Strada, Mo Hayder

    Matthew Bannister on an actor, a surgeon, a writer

  29. Jean 'Binta' Breeze MBE (pictured), Sir Nicholas Goodison, Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Joyce Shrubbs

    Matthew Bannister on a poet, a stockbroker, a Muslim teacher, a military observer

  30. Sir Graham Vick (pictured), Carmel Budiardjo, Piers Plowright, Dusty Hill

    Julian Worricker on an opera director, a campaigner, a radio producer and a musician.

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