Last Word

Radio 4's weekly obituary programme, telling the life stories of those who have died recently

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Derek Mahon, Professor Gerta Vrbová, Ang Rita Sherpa, Helena Shenel
Matthew Bannister on a poet, a physiologist, a mountaineer, a voice coach.
16 Oct 2020,28 mins
Kenzo Takada, Colonel John Waddy, Frank Windsor, Ann Getty
Matthew Bannister on a designer, a soldier, an actor, a socialite
09 Oct 2020,28 mins
Juliette Greco, Bob Gore, Dame Georgina Mace, Jiri Menzel
Julian Worricker on a singer, an inventor, an ecologist and a film director.
02 Oct 2020,28 mins
Sir Harold Evans, Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, Alan Minter, Helen Taylor-Thompson
Julian Worricker on a journalist, a judge, a charity worker, a boxer.
25 Sep 2020,28 mins
Sir Terence Conran, Dame Diana Rigg CBE, Shere Hite, Toots Hibbert
Matthew Bannister on a designer, an actor, a researcher, a musician.
18 Sep 2020,28 mins
Stuart King, Comrade Duch, Deirdre Le Faye, David Bryant CBE
Julian Worricker on a pioneering humanitarian, an executioner, a scholar, a sportsman.
11 Sep 2020,28 mins
Chadwick Boseman, Sir Kenneth Robinson, Lord Renton of Mount Harry, Doreen Davies
Matthew Bannister on: an actor, an educationalist, a politician, a BBC manager
04 Sep 2020,28 mins
Dr James Partridge OBE, Sally Jacobs, Angela Buxton, Philip Horniblow OBE
Julian Worricker on a designer, a campaigner, a sportswoman, an adventurer.
28 Aug 2020,28 mins
Julian Bream CBE, Elizabeth Ward OBE, Chris Graham-Bell, Stuart Christie
Matthew Bannister on a guitarist, a campaigner, a publisher, an anarchist.
21 Aug 2020,28 mins
Hawa Abdi, Clive Ponting, President Lee Teng-hui, Richard Brooke
Matthew Bannister on a doctor, a whistleblower, a President, a mountaineer.
14 Aug 2020,28 mins
John Hume, Stan Mellor MBE, Paulette Wilson, Sir Alan Parker
Matthew Bannister on a politician, a jockey, a campaigner, a film director
07 Aug 2020,28 mins
Stuart Wheeler, Josephine Cox, Miloš Jakeš, Peter Green
Matthew Bannister on a financier, an author, a politician, a guitarist.
31 Jul 2020,28 mins
John Lewis, Tony Elliott CBE, Wendy Cooling, Dr Alan Howard
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a publisher, an educationalist and a nutritionist.
24 Jul 2020,28 mins
Jack Charlton, Zindzi Mandela, Charles Webb, Ida Haendel
Matthew Bannister on a footballer, an activist, a writer, a violinist.
17 Jul 2020,28 mins
Ennio Morricone, Sir Everton Weekes, Baroness Maddock, Earl Cameron CBE
Matthew Bannister on a composer, a cricketer, a politician, an actor
10 Jul 2020,28 mins
Milton Glaser, Terry Dicks, Professor Tom Arie, Else Blangsted
Matthew Bannister on a designer, an MP, a psychiatrist, a music editor.
03 Jul 2020,28 mins
Sir Ian Holm, Jean Kennedy Smith, Felicity Bryan MBE, Lily Lian
Matthew Bannister on an actor, an ambassador, an agent, a singer
26 Jun 2020,28 mins
Dame Vera Lynn, Professor Geoffrey Burnstock, Larry Kramer, Pierre Nkurunziza
Matthew Bannister on a neurobiologist, a campaigner, a president, a singer
19 Jun 2020,28 mins
Christo Javacheff, Cathie Sabin OBE, Dorothy Wakely, Jonathan Whitehead
Matthew Bannister on an artist, a tennis administrator, an SOE officer, a musician.
12 Jun 2020,28 mins
Dr Stanley Ho, Roger Fellows, Margaret Meek Spencer, Mory Kanté
Julian Worricker on a political campaigner, a gambling tycoon, an educationist, a musician
05 Jun 2020,28 mins
Margaret Maughan, John Cumming OBE, Jerry Givens, John Langdon, Eric Weissberg
Julian Worricker on an athlete, a jazz promoter, a campaigner, a comedy writer.
29 May 2020,28 mins
Lord Robert May of Oxford, Dr Judith Darmady OBE, Mark Barkan, Saroj Lal
Matthew Bannister on a mathematical ecologist, a paediatrician, a songwriter, a campaigner
22 May 2020,28 mins
Little Richard, Dr Janet Carr OBE, Professor John Horton Conway, Florian Schneider
Matthew Bannister on a rock 'n' roll star, a psychologist, a mathematician, a musician
15 May 2020,28 mins
Catherine Hamlin, Irrfan Khan, Denis Goldberg, Ann Sayer
Matthew Bannister on an obstetrician, an actor, an activist, an athlete
08 May 2020,28 mins
Ronan O'Rahilly, Sir John Houghton CBE, Sue Davies OBE, Barbara Smoker
Matthew Bannister on a businessman, an atmospheric physicist, a curator, an atheist
01 May 2020,28 mins
Dame Jocelyn Barrow DBE, Keith Critchlow, Leonard ‘Nipper’ Read, John Prine
Matthew Bannister on an artist and geometrist, a campaigner, a detective, a singer.
24 Apr 2020,28 mins
Sir Stirling Moss OBE, Professor Margaret Burbidge, Mahmoud Jibril, Tim Brooke-Taylor OBE
Matthew Bannister on a racing driver, an astronomer, a politician, a comedian
17 Apr 2020,28 mins
Dr Bill Frankland MBE, John Tydeman OBE, The Marquess of Bath, Honor Blackman
Julian Worricker on: an allergist, a radio producer, an aristocrat, an actress.
10 Apr 2020,28 mins
Albert Uderzo, Valerie Pettit OBE, Reverend Joseph Lowery, Julie Felix
Matthew Bannister on an MI6 officer, a cartoonist, a civil rights leader, a singer.
03 Apr 2020,28 mins
Betty Williams, Dr Fuad Nahdi, Sol Kerzner, Kenny Rogers
Matthew Bannister on a journalist and commentator, a businessman, a campaigner, a singer
27 Mar 2020,28 mins