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Raine, Countess Spencer, James "Jimmy" Perry, Stylianos Pattakos, Howard Davies, Bobby Vee

Matthew Bannister on a countess, a comedy writer, a Greek general, a director, a singer.

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Tom Hayden, Valerie Hunter Gordon, Carole Blake, Anne Pashley

Matthew Bannister on a political activist, an inventor, a literary agent, an opera singer.

• 28 mins

Leonard Cohen, Lt Col Robert Montgomery MC, Janet Reno, Sir Jimmy Young

Matthew Bannister on a singer, a war hero, a US attorney general, a broadcaster.

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Robert Vaughn, Sir Sigmund Sternberg, Carolyn Hardy OBE, Ewen Whitaker, Claude 'Curly' Putman

Matthew Bannister on an actor, an astronomer, a gardener, a philanthropist, a singer.

• 28 mins

Martin Aitchison, Sir Mota Singh QC, William Trevor, Ruth Gruber, David Mancuso

Kate Silverton on an artist, a judge, a writer, a photojournalist and a party host.

• 28 mins

Andrew Sachs, Fidel Castro, Mose Allison, The Honourable Margaret Rhodes

Matthew Bannister on an actor, a revolutionary leader, a singer, the Queen's cousin.

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John Glenn, Peter Vaughan, Jayalalithaa Jayaram, Greg Lake

Matthew Bannister on an astronaut, an actor, an Indian politician, a musician.

• 28 mins

Peter Gibson, AA Gill, Coral Atkins, William Chaloner, Ian McCaskill

Matthew Bannister on a glazier, a journalist, a carer, a palaeobotanist, a weatherman.

• 28 mins

Michael Nicholson, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Lord Prior, Rabbi Lionel Blue, Pauline Oliveros

Julian Worricker on a journalist, an actress, a politician, a rabbi, a composer.

• 28 mins

Last Word End of Year Special

Matthew Bannister and Nick Serpell recall a year when obituarists were in huge demand.

• 28 mins

John Berger, Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, Henry Heimlich, Patsy Crampton, Brian Widlake and George Michael

Julian Worricker on a writer, a linguist, a broadcaster, a musician, a surgeon, two actors

• 28 mins

Lord Snowdon, Graham Taylor, Jill Saward, Peter Sarstedt, Clare Hollingworth

Matthew Bannister on a photographer, a manager, a campaigner, a musician, a journalist.

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Baroness Heyhoe Flint, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Una Kroll, William Peter Blatty, Sir James Mancham

Matthew Bannister on a cricketer, two presidents, a campaigner, a writer.

• 28 mins

Tam Dalyell MP, Victor Lownes, Babette Cole, Zhou Youguang, Gorden Kaye

Matthew Bannister on an MP, a playboy, a children's author, a linguist, an actor.

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Sir John Hurt, Margaret Pereira CBE, Sir Christopher Bland, Emma Tennant, Mary Tyler Moore

Matthew Bannister on two actors, a forensic scientist, a chairman, a writer.

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Alan Simpson, Brunhilde Pomsel, Sir Ken Morrison, Buchi Emecheta

Matthew Bannister on a comedy writer, a secretary, a businessman and an author.

• 28 mins

Al Jarreau, Betty Tebbs, Sir Peter Mansfield, Dame Jennifer Jenkins, Hans Rosling

Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a physicist, a chairwoman, a statistician and a singer.

• 28 mins

Stanley Bard, Norma McCorvey, Michael Ember, Peter Skellern

Kate Silverton on a hotelier, a campaigner, a radio producer and a singer-songwriter.

• 28 mins

Gerald Kaufman, Dick Bruna, Desmond Connell, Rita Barber谩, Frank Delaney

Julian Worricker on two politicians, a cardinal, a writer, an illustrator.

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Sir Nigel Rodley, Sir Cosmo Haskard, Louise Hulton, Pete Overend Watts

Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a bass player, a maternal health expert, a governor.

• 28 mins

John Surtees, Gordon Thomas, Sir Howard Hodgkin, H. Boyd Woodruff, Joni Sledge

Matthew Bannister on a racing driver, a writer, an artist, a microbiologist, a singer.

• 28 mins

Martin McGuinness, Chuck Berry, Sir Derek Walcott, Salome Karwah, Colin Dexter

Matthew Bannister on a politician, a musician, a poet, an Ebola survivor, a writer.

• 28 mins

David Storey, Ahmed Kathrada, Barbara Buss, Aloysius 'Lucky' Gordon

Matthew Bannister on a writer, an activist, an editor, a drug dealer.

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Darcus Howe, Andy Coogan, Dr Sylvia Moody, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Peter Shotton

Matthew Bannister on an activist, a coach, a psychologist, a poet, a businessman.

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Masha Leon, Tim Pigott-Smith, Christopher Morahan, Parv Bancil, Marthe Gosteli, Brian Matthew

Julian Worricker on a columnist, an actor, a playwright, a director, a campaigner and a DJ

• 28 mins

Michael Bogdanov, Louis Sarno, Sheila Abdus Salaam, Dick Potts, Don Rickles

Matthew Bannister on a director, an enthnomusicologist, a judge, an ecologist, a comedian.

• 28 mins

Jonathan Demme, Robert Taylor, Cathy Hopkins, Peter Farrer, Dorothy Torry

Matthew Bannister on a director, a computer pioneer, a campaigner, a tax inspector.

• 28 mins

Robert Pirsig, Shobha Nehru, Michael Ballhaus, Leo Baxendale, Bruce Langhorne

Matthew Bannister on a writer, a cinematographer, a cartoonist, a musician.

• 28 mins

Ueli Steck, Lord Williams of Baglan, Sylvia Moy, Captain James Dickson MBE, Jon Prinz

Matthew Bannister on a climber, a diplomat, a songwriter, a mariner, a food scientist.

• 28 mins

Rhodri Morgan, Michael Wearing, Dr Helen Szamuely, Ian Brady, Robert Miles

Matthew Bannister on a politician, a producer, a campaigner and a DJ.

• 28 mins