Last Word Podcast
Radio 4's weekly obituary programme, telling the life stories of those who have died recently
Episodes to download
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Iris Apfel, Colin Murray Parkes, Baroness Henig, Jim Lawrence
Fri 8 Mar 2024
Matthew Bannister on a designer, a psychiatrist, a politician and a sail maker.
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Nicholas Dimbleby, Lord Patrick Cormack, Wendy Mitchell, Eleanor Fazan
Fri 1 Mar 2024
John Wilson on a sculptor, politician, historian, author and a choreographer.
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Alexei Navalny, Dr Brooke Ellison, Gertrude Wright, Steve Brown
Fri 23 Feb 2024
John Wilson on a politician, an academic, a translator and a composer.
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Steve Wright, Baroness Flather, Alan Mills, Angela Peberdy
Fri 16 Feb 2024
Matthew Bannister on a radio DJ, a politician, a referee and an announcer.
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Dr Lowitja O鈥橠onoghue, Ian Lavender, Robie Harris, Barry John
Fri 9 Feb 2024
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, an actor, an author and a rugby player.
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Frank Farian, Caroline Richmond, Phil Baines, Norma Izard
Fri 2 Feb 2024
Matthew Bannister on a music producer, a medical journalist, a typographer, a cricketer.
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Norma Barzman, Lord Saye and Sele, Jim Hobson, Susan Campbell
Fri 26 Jan 2024
Matthew Bannister on a screenwriter, an aristocrat, a police officer and an illustrator.
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Annie Nightingale, Isca Salzberger-Wittenberg, Bryan Ansell, Charlie Allan
Fri 19 Jan 2024
Matthew Bannister on a DJ, a psychoanalyst, a games developer and a farmer.
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Camila Batmanghelidjh, Sir Roy Calne, Glynis Johns, J.P.R. Williams
Fri 12 Jan 2024
Matthew Bannister on a charity founder, a surgeon, an actor, a rugby player
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John Pilger, KM Peyton, Paula Murphy, Michael Blakemore
Fri 5 Jan 2024
Matthew Bannister on a journalist, an author, a racing driver and a director.
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Jacques Delors, Nancy Pearce, Elinor Otto, Tony Allen
Fri 29 Dec 2023
Kirsty Lang on a politician, a factory worker, a charity founder and a comedian.
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Maureen Sweeney, Sir Tim Brighouse, Shirley Anne Field, Juanita Castro
Fri 22 Dec 2023
Matthew Bannister on a postmistress, an educationalist, an actor and an activist.
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Benjamin Zephaniah, Laura Lean, Stacy Marking, Eric Freeman
Fri 15 Dec 2023
Matthew Bannister on a poet, a FANY officer, a documentary maker and a farmer.
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Shane MacGowan, Justice Sandra Day O鈥機onnor, Lord Darling, Joan Jara
Fri 8 Dec 2023
Matthew Bannister on a singer, a judge, a politician and a campaigner.
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Henry Kissinger, Terry Venables, Paul Watson, Rachel Heller
Fri 1 Dec 2023
Matthew Bannister on a US diplomat, a football manager, a documentary maker and an artist.
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Captain Don Walsh, Dame A.S. Byatt, Rosalynn Carter, Dr Finlay Macleod
Fri 24 Nov 2023
Matthew Bannister on a submariner, an author, a First Lady and a Gaelic speaker.
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Peter Betts, Audrey Salkeld, Heather Rogers KC, Louise Meriwether
Fri 17 Nov 2023
Matthew Bannister on a civil servant, a mountaineering historian, a lawyer and a writer.
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Ken Mattingly, Anne Wright, Mary Gallacher, David Kirke
Fri 10 Nov 2023
Matthew Bannister on an astronaut, a conservationist, an Ibrox legend and a sports pioneer
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Matthew Perry, Benedict Birnberg, Field Marshall Muthoni Wa Kirima, Professor Jose Harris
Fri 3 Nov 2023
Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a historian, a Mau Mau fighter and an actor.
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Sir Bobby Charlton, Dr Evelyn Fox Keller, Julian Bahula, Haydn Gwynne
Fri 27 Oct 2023
Matthew Bannister on a footballer, a scientist, a musician and an actor.
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Charles 鈥楥huck鈥� Feeney, Phyllis 鈥楶ippa鈥� Latour, Florence Fisher, Dr Nicholas Arnold
Fri 20 Oct 2023
Kirsty Lang on a businessman, an agent, a campaigner, a herpetologist
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Kirsty Smitten, Kat Anderson, Beverly Willis, Tony Wade
Fri 13 Oct 2023
Kirsty Lang on a scientist, an architect, an entrepreneur and a singer.
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Michael Gambon, Pat Arrowsmith, Treleven Haysom, Dianne Feinstein
Fri 6 Oct 2023
Matthew Bannister on an actor, a campaigner, a stonemason and a US senator.
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Gita Mehta, Matteo Messina Denaro, Irma Brenman Pick, John Stevenson
Fri 29 Sep 2023
Matthew Bannister on an author, a mafia boss, a psychoanalyst and a scriptwriter.
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Sir Horace Ov茅, Su Gorman, Roger Whittaker, Jean Combes
Fri 22 Sep 2023
Matthew Bannister on a film director, a campaigner, a singer and a naturalist.
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Mike Yarwood, Ada Deer, Sir Ian Wilmut, Dorothy Purdew
Fri 15 Sep 2023
Matthew Bannister on an impressionist, a campaigner, an embryologist and a businesswoman.
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Mohamed Al-Fayed, Dorothy Goodman, Professor Anthony Bryceson, Denyse Plummer
Fri 8 Sep 2023
Matthew Bannister on a businessman, a educationalist, a tropical medicine expert, a singer
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Julian Haviland, Johaar Mosaval, Tricia Tyler, Matyelok Gibbs
Fri 1 Sep 2023
Matthew Bannister on a political editor, a dancer, a journalist and an actor.
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Michael Parkinson, Renata Scotto, John Brierly, Isobel Crook
Fri 25 Aug 2023
John Wilson on a broadcaster, an Italian soprano, an author and an anthropologist
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SPECIAL EDITION: Michael Parkinson
Thu 24 Aug 2023
John Wilson talks to Sir Michael Parkinson's son Mike
