Last Word

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

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Vince Power CBE, Olga Murray, Akira Toriyama, Cecilia Eckelmann-Battistello
Matthew Bannister on a music promoter, a lawyer, a businesswoman and an artist.
22 Mar 2024,28 mins
Audrey Adams, Nicola Trahan, Edward Bond, Eric Carmen
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a resistance fighter, a playwright and a musician.
15 Mar 2024,28 mins
Iris Apfel, Colin Murray Parkes, Baroness Henig, Jim Lawrence
Matthew Bannister on a designer, a psychiatrist, a politician and a sail maker.
08 Mar 2024,28 mins
Nicholas Dimbleby, Lord Patrick Cormack, Wendy Mitchell, Eleanor Fazan
John Wilson on a sculptor, politician, historian, author and a choreographer.
01 Mar 2024,28 mins
Alexei Navalny, Dr Brooke Ellison, Gertrude Wright, Steve Brown
John Wilson on a politician, an academic, a translator and a composer.
23 Feb 2024,28 mins
Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue, Ian Lavender, Robie Harris, Barry John
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, an actor, an author and a rugby player.
09 Feb 2024,28 mins
Frank Farian, Caroline Richmond, Phil Baines, Norma Izard
Matthew Bannister on a music producer, a medical journalist, a typographer, a cricketer.
02 Feb 2024,28 mins
Norma Barzman, Lord Saye and Sele, Jim Hobson, Susan Campbell
Matthew Bannister on a screenwriter, an aristocrat, a police officer and an illustrator.
26 Jan 2024,28 mins
Annie Nightingale, Isca Salzberger-Wittenberg, Bryan Ansell, Charlie Allan
Matthew Bannister on a DJ, a psychoanalyst, a games developer and a farmer.
19 Jan 2024,28 mins
Camila Batmanghelidjh, Sir Roy Calne, Glynis Johns, J.P.R. Williams
Matthew Bannister on a charity founder, a surgeon, an actor, a rugby player
12 Jan 2024,28 mins
John Pilger, KM Peyton, Paula Murphy, Michael Blakemore
Matthew Bannister on a journalist, an author, a racing driver and a director.
05 Jan 2024,28 mins
Jacques Delors, Nancy Pearce, Elinor Otto, Tony Allen
Kirsty Lang on a politician, a factory worker, a charity founder, a comedian
29 Dec 2023,28 mins
Jacques Delors, Nancy Pearce, Elinor Otto, Tony Allen
Kirsty Lang on a politician, a factory worker, a charity founder and a comedian.
29 Dec 2023,27 mins
Maureen Sweeney, Sir Tim Brighouse, Shirley Anne Field, Juanita Castro
Matthew Bannister on a postmistress, an educationalist, an actor and an activist.
22 Dec 2023,28 mins
Benjamin Zephaniah, Laura Lean, Stacy Marking, Eric Freeman
Matthew Bannister on a poet, a FANY officer, a documentary maker and a farmer.
15 Dec 2023,28 mins
Shane MacGowan, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Lord Darling, Joan Jara
Matthew Bannister on a singer, a judge, a politician and a campaigner.
08 Dec 2023,28 mins
Henry Kissinger, Terry Venables, Paul Watson, Rachel Heller
Matthew Bannister on a US diplomat, a football manager, a documentary maker and an artist.
01 Dec 2023,28 mins
Captain Don Walsh, Dame A.S. Byatt, Rosalynn Carter, Dr Finlay Macleod
Matthew Bannister on a submariner, an author, a First Lady and a Gaelic speaker.
24 Nov 2023,28 mins
Peter Betts, Audrey Salkeld, Heather Rogers KC, Louise Meriwether
Matthew Bannister on a civil servant, a mountaineering historian, a lawyer and a writer.
17 Nov 2023,28 mins
Ken Mattingly, Anne Wright, Mary Gallacher, David Kirke
Matthew Bannister on an astronaut, a conservationist, an Ibrox legend and a sports pioneer
10 Nov 2023,28 mins
Matthew Perry, Benedict Birnberg, Field Marshall Muthoni Wa Kirima, Professor Jose Harris
Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a historian, a Mau Mau fighter and an actor.
03 Nov 2023,28 mins
Sir Bobby Charlton, Dr Evelyn Fox Keller, Julian Bahula, Haydn Gwynne
Matthew Bannister on a footballer, a scientist, a musician and an actor.
27 Oct 2023,28 mins
Charles ‘Chuck’ Feeney, Phyllis ‘Pippa’ Latour, Florence Fisher, Dr Nicholas Arnold
Kirsty Lang on a businessman, an agent, a campaigner, a herpetologist
20 Oct 2023,28 mins
Kirsty Smitten, Kat Anderson, Beverly Willis, Tony Wade
Kirsty Lang on a scientist, an architect, an entrepreneur and a singer.
13 Oct 2023,28 mins
Michael Gambon, Pat Arrowsmith, Treleven Haysom, Dianne Feinstein
Matthew Bannister on an actor, a campaigner, a stonemason and a US senator.
06 Oct 2023,28 mins
Gita Mehta, Matteo Messina Denaro, Irma Brenman Pick, John Stevenson
Matthew Bannister on an author, a mafia boss, a psychoanalyst and a scriptwriter.
29 Sep 2023,28 mins
Sir Horace Ové, Su Gorman, Roger Whittaker, Jean Combes
Matthew Bannister on a film director, a campaigner, a singer and a naturalist.
22 Sep 2023,28 mins
Mike Yarwood, Ada Deer, Sir Ian Wilmut, Dorothy Purdew
Matthew Bannister on an impressionist, a campaigner, an embryologist and a businesswoman.
15 Sep 2023,28 mins
Mohamed Al-Fayed, Dorothy Goodman, Professor Anthony Bryceson, Denyse Plummer
Matthew Bannister on a businessman, a educationalist, a tropical medicine expert, a singer
08 Sep 2023,28 mins
Julian Haviland, Johaar Mosaval, Tricia Tyler, Matyelok Gibbs
Matthew Bannister on a political editor, a dancer, a journalist and an actor.
01 Sep 2023,28 mins