Last Word
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Radio 4's weekly obituary programme, telling the life stories of those who have died recently
Episodes (559)
Glen Campbell, Dame Helen Alexander, Prunella Briance, Clancy Sigal
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Robert Hardy, David Jones, Jeanne Moreau, Mark Wilkinson, Sam Shepard
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Mary Turner, Chester Bennington, Scharlette Holdman, Orri Vigfusson and George A...
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Jul 28, 201728:00pending
Chuck Blazer, Maryam Mirzakhani, Bryan Avery, Peter McHugh, Martin Landau
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Jul 21, 201727:56pending
Simone Veil, Graham Rose, Tom Isaacs, Liu Xiaobo, Ken Hirst
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Barry Norman, Gordon Wilson, Geri Allen, John Thompson, Jack O'Neill
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Lord Joffe, Michael Bond, Ann Louise Gilligan, Carla Fendi, John Avildsen
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Helmut Kohl, Anita Pallenberg, Professor Brian Bellhouse, Naseem Khan, Brian Can...
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Adnan Khashoggi, Countess Mountbatten, Adam West, Kailash Puri, Vin Garbutt, Hel...
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Miriam Rodriguez Martinez, Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior, Peter Sallis, Lady An...
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John Noakes, Manuel Noriega, Pat Stewart, Rex Sanders, Gregg Allman
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Brendan Duddy, Nina Lowry, Roger Ailes, Osmund Reynolds, Roger Moore
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Rhodri Morgan, Michael Wearing, Dr Helen Szamuely, Ian Brady, Robert Miles
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Ueli Steck, Lord Williams of Baglan, Sylvia Moy, Captain James Dickson MBE, Jon...
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Robert Pirsig, Shobha Nehru, Michael Ballhaus, Leo Baxendale, Bruce Langhorne
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Jonathan Demme, Robert Taylor, Cathy Hopkins, Peter Farrer, Dorothy Torry
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Michael Bogdanov, Louis Sarno, Sheila Abdus Salaam, Dick Potts, Don Rickles
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Masha Leon, Tim Pigott-Smith, Christopher Morahan, Parv Bancil, Marthe Gosteli,...
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Darcus Howe, Andy Coogan, Dr Sylvia Moody, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Peter Shotton
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David Storey, Ahmed Kathrada, Barbara Buss, Aloysius 'Lucky' Gordon
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Martin McGuinness, Chuck Berry, Sir Derek Walcott, Salome Karwah, Colin Dexter
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John Surtees, Gordon Thomas, Sir Howard Hodgkin, H. Boyd Woodruff, Joni Sledge
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Sir Nigel Rodley, Sir Cosmo Haskard, Louise Hulton, Pete Overend Watts
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Gerald Kaufman, Dick Bruna, Desmond Connell, Rita Barberá, Frank Delaney
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Stanley Bard, Norma McCorvey, Michael Ember, Peter Skellern
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Feb 24, 201728:04pending
Al Jarreau, Betty Tebbs, Sir Peter Mansfield, Dame Jennifer Jenkins, Hans Roslin...
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Alan Simpson, Brunhilde Pomsel, Sir Ken Morrison, Buchi Emecheta
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Sir John Hurt, Margaret Pereira CBE, Sir Christopher Bland, Emma Tennant, Mary T...
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Feb 3, 201727:58pending
Tam Dalyell MP, Victor Lownes, Babette Cole, Zhou Youguang, Gorden Kaye
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Jan 27, 201727:56pending
Baroness Heyhoe Flint, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Una Kroll, William Peter Blatty...
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Jan 20, 201727:50pending
Lord Snowdon, Graham Taylor, Jill Saward, Peter Sarstedt, Clare Hollingworth
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Jan 13, 201727:57pending
John Berger, Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, Henry Heimlich, Patsy Crampton,...
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Jan 6, 201728:05pending
Michael Nicholson, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Lord Prior, Rabbi Lionel Blue, Pauline Olivero...
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Peter Gibson, AA Gill, Coral Atkins, William Chaloner, Ian McCaskill
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John Glenn, Peter Vaughan, Jayalalithaa Jayaram, Greg Lake
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Andrew Sachs, Fidel Castro, Mose Allison, The Honourable Margaret Rhodes
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Martin Aitchison, Sir Mota Singh QC, William Trevor, Ruth Gruber, David Mancuso
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Nov 25, 201628:06pending
Robert Vaughn, Sir Sigmund Sternberg, Carolyn Hardy OBE, Ewen Whitaker, Claude '...
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Leonard Cohen, Lt Col Robert Montgomery MC, Janet Reno, Sir Jimmy Young
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Tom Hayden, Valerie Hunter Gordon, Carole Blake, Anne Pashley
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Raine, Countess Spencer, James "Jimmy" Perry, Stylianos Pattakos, Howard Davies,...
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Jean Alexander, Trinh Thi Ngo, Ian Mercer, Joseph Harmatz, Joan Marie Johnson
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King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Dario Fo, Jean Bloxam, Andrew Vicari, Don Buchla
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Sir Neville Marriner, Father Gabriele Amorth, Beryl Crockford, Professor Louis H...
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Shimon Peres, Nathalie Evans, Arnold Palmer, Bill Mollison, Jean Shepard
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Edward Albee, James Cronin, Caroline Thomson OBE, Sir Frederick Holliday, Charmi...
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Barry Myers, Eileen Younghusband, Robin Spark, Keith McDougall, Prince Buster
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The Right Rev David Jenkins, Dame Margaret Anstee, Islam Karimov, Richard Nevill...
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Joao Havelange, Sonia Rykiel, Gene Wilder, Toots Thielemans
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Sir Antony Jay, Donald Henderson, Tom Cholmondeley, Patsy Wright-Warren CBE, Lor...
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