Last Word

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

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Michel Bacos, Agnes Varda, Victor Hochhauser CBE, Barbara Low, Ranking Roger
Matthew Bannister on a pilot, a film director, an impresario, a biochemist and a singer.
05 Apr 2019,28 mins
Baroness Warnock, William Hucklesby QPM, Rose Hilton, Professor Lord Bhattacharyya CBE FRS, Scott Walker
Matthew Bannister on a philosopher, a police officer, an artist, a professor and a singer
29 Mar 2019,28 mins
Gillian Freeman, Sir Peter Hutchison, Sister Dorothy Bell, Dick Dale
Matthew Bannister on a writer, a botanist, a nun and a guitarist.
22 Mar 2019,28 mins
Professor Mike Oliver, Jacques Loussier, Professor Richard Lacey, The Reverend Ruth Scott
Matthew Bannister on a disability rights activist, a pianist, a microbiologist, a vicar.
15 Mar 2019,28 mins
France-Albert Rene, Simon Norton, Belle Tutaev, Dr Ian Adamson OBE, Keith Flint
Matthew Bannister on a President, a mathematician, a campaigner, a historian, a singer
08 Mar 2019,28 mins
André Previn KBE, John Haynes OBE, Tony Mendez, Lady Grantchester
Matthew Bannister on a conductor, a publisher, a spy and a businesswoman.
01 Mar 2019,28 mins
Lady Falkender, Karl Lagerfeld, John Stalker, Andrea Levy, Peter Tork
A political secretary, a designer, a police officer, an author and a pop star.
22 Feb 2019,28 mins
Gordon Banks OBE, Vikki Orvice, David Garman OBE, Mary Oliver, Albert Finney
Matthew Bannister on a goalkeeper, a sportswriter, an inventor, a poet and an actor.
15 Feb 2019,28 mins
Rosamunde Pilcher OBE, Hugh Lewin, Lamia Al-Gailani, Dr Stewart Adams OBE, Dr Adam Watson
Andrea Catherwood on an activist, a pharmacist, an ecologist, an archaeologist, an author
08 Feb 2019,28 mins
Jeremy Hardy, Diana Athill OBE, Sir Conrad Swan, Michel Legrand
Julian Worricker on a comedian, an editor, a herald and a composer.
01 Feb 2019,28 mins
Hugh McIlvanney, Jennie Buckman, John Beavis, David Pritchard
Matthew Bannister on a sports writer, a theatre director, a surgeon and a producer.
25 Jan 2019,28 mins
Joe Casely-Hayford, Judge Nicholas Crichton, Professor Sophie Oluwole, Professor Paul O’Brien CBE, Carol Channing
Matthew Bannister on a designer, a judge, a philosopher, a nanotechnologist and a singer.
18 Jan 2019,28 mins
Nancy Roman, Ralph Koltai CBE, Julia Grant, Jin Yong, Norman Gimbel
Matthew Bannister on an astronomer, a designer, a transgender activist and a writer.
11 Jan 2019,28 mins
Dame June Whitfield, Sir Jack Zunz, Thomas Baptiste, David Austin OBE, Karre Mastanamma
Matthew Bannister on an actress, an engineer, an actor, a rosarian and a cook.
04 Jan 2019,28 mins
Sister Wendy Beckett, Nicolas Roeg, Inge Borkh, Professor Sir Aaron Klug, Geoff Emerick
Julian Worricker on an art historian, a director, a singer, a scientist, a sound engineer.
28 Dec 2018,28 mins
Sir David Weatherall, Penny Marshall, Evelyn Berezin, Zhores Medvedev, Nancy Wilson
Matthew Bannister on a haematologist, a film director, an inventor, a dissident, a singer
21 Dec 2018,28 mins
Peter Boizot, Judith Kazantzis, Sir Sze-Yuen Chung, Sister Cecylia Roszak, Scott English
Matthew Bannister on a businessman, a poet, a politician, a nun and a songwriter.
14 Dec 2018,28 mins
Harry Leslie Smith, Pete Shelley, Monica Sims, Professor Wendy Atkin OBE, Ivan March
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a singer, a BBC manager, an epidemiologist, a critic
07 Dec 2018,28 mins
Baroness Trumpington, Roy Bailey, Chief Inspector Henry Stevens GC, Bernardo Bertolucci
Matthew Bannister on a baroness, a singer, a police officer and a film director.
30 Nov 2018,28 mins
John Large, William Goldman, Dr Sarah Ntiro, Richard Baker, Patsy Rodgers
Matthew Bannister on a screenwriter, an engineer, a broadcaster, a campaigner and a king.
23 Nov 2018,28 mins
Aubrey Manning, Max Levitas, Babs Beverley, Janet Paisley, Stan Lee
Matthew Bannister on a naturalist, a Communist, a singer, a writer, a comic book creator.
16 Nov 2018,28 mins
Lord Heywood, Pamela Lonsdale, Sangharakshita, Tom Jago, Francis Lai
Matthew Bannister on a civil servant, a producer, a Buddhist, a marketeer and a composer.
09 Nov 2018,28 mins
Wanda Ferragamo, Wim Kok, Ntozake Shange, Mohamed Sahnoun, Keith Killby
Matthew Bannister on a businesswoman, a politician, a writer, a diplomat and a pacifist.
02 Nov 2018,28 mins
Anthea Bell OBE, Captain Michael Howard, Baroness Hollis of Heigham, Cicely Berry CBE, Tony Hiller
Matthew Bannister on a translator, an army officer, a peer, a voice coach and a songwriter
26 Oct 2018,28 mins
Paul Allen, Dr Mary Midgley, Leon Lederman, Roger Mainwood
Matthew Bannister on an entrepreneur, a philosopher, a particle physicist and an animator.
19 Oct 2018,28 mins
Ray Galton, Professor Gerald Russell, Evelyn Anthony, Sir Roger Gibbs, Montserrat Caballé
Matthew Bannister on a comedy writer, a psychiatrist, a novelist, a financier, a singer
12 Oct 2018,28 mins
Charles Aznavour, Dr Charles Kao, Elizabeth de Mauny Wainwright, John Cunliffe
Matthew Bannister on a singer, a physicist, a journalist and a writer
05 Oct 2018,28 mins
Chas Hodges, MJ Long, Arthur Mitchell, Rick Turner, Rachid Taha
Matthew Bannister on a musician, an architect, a dancer, an archaeologist and a singer.
28 Sep 2018,28 mins
Denis Norden, Diane Leather, Johnny Kingdom, Fenella Fielding
Andrea Catherwood on a comedy writer, an athlete, a wildlife expert and an actress.
21 Sep 2018,28 mins
Lady Coleridge, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Jacqueline Pearce, Lord Thomas of Macclesfield, Stan Brock
Matthew Bannister on a nurse, a warlord, an actor, a banker and a cowboy.
14 Sep 2018,28 mins