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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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
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Nick Kaiser, Angela Flowers, Robbie Shepherd, Doreen Mantle.
Fri 18 Aug 2023
Kirsty Lang on an actress, a British scientist, a gallerist, a Scottish broadcaster.
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Sir Michael Boyd, Jess Search, Warren Ford, Leny Andrade
Fri 11 Aug 2023
Kirsty Lang on an artistic director, a documentary maker, a tea consultant and a singer
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Richard Barancik, Yvonne Littlewood MBE, Edward Sexton, Dr Christian Carritt
Fri 4 Aug 2023
Kirsty Lang on a soldier, a television producer, a tailor and a doctor.
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George Alagiah, Sinead O'Connor, Ann Clwyd, Tony Bennett, and Trevor Francis
Fri 28 Jul 2023
John Wilson on a journalist, a singer-songwriter, a politician, a singer, a footballer
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Lady Williams of Elvel, Professor John Goodenough, Christine Baker, Lord Palmer
Fri 21 Jul 2023
Matthew Bannister on a secretary, a materials chemist, a publisher and an aristocrat.
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Malcolm Mowbray, Victoria Amelina, Roger Lovegrove, Mavis Cheek
Fri 14 Jul 2023
Matthew Bannister on a film director, a novelist, an ornithologist and a writer.
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Lord Kerslake, Dame Ann Leslie, Diane Rowe, Tim Blackmore
Fri 7 Jul 2023
Matthew Bannister on a civil servant, journalist, table tennis champion, radio executive.
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Baroness McDonagh, Craig Brown, Godfrey Merlen, Winnie Ewing
Fri 30 Jun 2023
Matthew Bannister on a baroness, a football manager, a conservationist and a politician.
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Daniel Ellsberg, Glenda Jackson, Melanie Phillips, Sir Ben Helfgott
Fri 23 Jun 2023
Matthew Bannister on a whistleblower, an actor, a social worker and a holocaust survivor.
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Silvio Berlusconi, Cormac McCarthy, Kathryn Harries, Francoise Gilot
Fri 16 Jun 2023
John Wilson on a prime minister, a novelist, a soprano and an artist.
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Mel Parry, Professor Alice Coleman, Hugh Callaghan, Cynthia Weil
Fri 9 Jun 2023
Matthew Bannister on an SAS veteran, a geographer, a labourer and a songwriter.
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Jeremy Clarke, Dr Moira Woods, Iain Johnstone, Rita Lee
Fri 2 Jun 2023
Matthew Bannister on a columnist, a campaigner, a film critic and a singer.
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Tina Turner, Martin Amis, Leroy Cooper, Rolf Harris, Marlene Bauer Hagge
Fri 26 May 2023
Matthew Bannister on a singer, an author, a photographer and a golfer.
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Newton Minow, Vicky Neale, Lois Keith, Gerald Rose
Fri 19 May 2023
Matthew Bannister on a broadcast regulator, a mathematician, a campaigner, an illustrator.
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Grace Bumbry, Don Short, Dame Rosemary Cramp, Wee Willie Harris
Fri 12 May 2023
Matthew Bannister on an opera singer, a journalist, an archaeologist and a rock鈥榥鈥檙oller
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Harry Belafonte, Jerry Springer, Valerie Winn, Kate Saunders
Fri 5 May 2023
Matthew Bannister on a singer and actor, a broadcaster, a runner and an author.
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Barry Humphries, Len Goodman, Professor Elizabeth Murray, Jah Shaka
Fri 28 Apr 2023
Matthew Bannister on a comedian, a dancer, a medical researcher and a musician
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Anne Perry, Dame Mary Quant, Jean Argles, Ahmad Jamal
Fri 21 Apr 2023
Matthew Bannister on an author, a designer, a codebreaker and a musician.
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Ben Ferencz, Seymour Fortescue, Valerie Elliott, Rachel Pollack
Fri 14 Apr 2023
Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a banker, a journalist, an author
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Nigel Lawson, Emahoy Tsegu茅-Maryam Gu猫brou, Ken Buchanan, Mary Rayner
Fri 7 Apr 2023
Matthew Bannister on a politician, a musician, a boxer and a writer.
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Paul O'Grady, Gordon Moore, Vera Selby, Simon Emmerson
Fri 31 Mar 2023
Matthew Bannister on an entertainer, a tech entrepreneur, a snooker player, a musician.
