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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.
Alan Simpson, Brunhilde Pomsel, Sir Ken Morrison, Buchi Emecheta
Matthew Bannister on a comedy writer, a secretary, a businessman and an author.
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.
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.
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.
Lord Snowdon, Graham Taylor, Jill Saward, Peter Sarstedt, Clare Hollingworth
Matthew Bannister on a photographer, a manager, a campaigner, a musician, a journalist.
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
Last Word End of Year Special
Matthew Bannister and Nick Serpell recall a year when obituarists were in huge demand.
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.
Peter Gibson, AA Gill, Coral Atkins, William Chaloner, Ian McCaskill
Matthew Bannister on a glazier, a journalist, a carer, a palaeobotanist, a weatherman.
