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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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Brendan Duddy, Nina Lowry, Roger Ailes, Osmund Reynolds, Roger Moore

Andrea Catherwood on a peace-maker, a surgeon, a TV mogul, film star, and a judge.

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John Noakes, Manuel Noriega, Pat Stewart, Rex Sanders, Gregg Allman

Julian Worricker on a broadcaster, a navigator, a musician, a dancer, a dictator.

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Miriam Rodriguez Martinez, Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior, Peter Sallis, Lady Anne Piper, Jiri Belohlavek

Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a vet, an actor, a novelist, a conductor.

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Adnan Khashoggi, Countess Mountbatten, Adam West, Kailash Puri, Vin Garbutt, Helen Dunmore

Matthew Bannister on an arms dealer, a countess, an actor, an agony aunt, a singer.

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Helmut Kohl, Anita Pallenberg, Professor Brian Bellhouse, Naseem Khan, Brian Cant

Julian Worricker on a politician, an artiste, a scientist, an arts pioneer, a TV presenter

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Lord Joffe, Michael Bond, Ann Louise Gilligan, Carla Fendi, John Avildsen

Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a writer, a campaigner, a businesswoman, a film director.

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Barry Norman, Gordon Wilson, Geri Allen, John Thompson, Jack O'Neill

Matthew Bannister on a film critic, a politician, a pianist, a radio regulator, a surfer.

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Simone Veil, Graham Rose, Tom Isaacs, Liu Xiaobo, Ken Hirst

Matthew Bannister on a politician, a director, a campaigner and a dissident.

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Chuck Blazer, Maryam Mirzakhani, Bryan Avery, Peter McHugh, Martin Landau

Matthew Bannister on a FIFA boss, a mathematician, an architect, a journalist, an actor.

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