Last Word
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Radio 4's weekly obituary programme, telling the life stories of those who have died recently
Episodes (559)
Bishop Edward Daly, Ahmed Zewail, Suzanne Wright, Duke of Westminster, Ivo Pitan...
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Aug 12, 201628:08pending
Luc Hoffmann, Sylvia Peters, Joe Powell, William Smethurst, Sandy Pearlman
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Aug 5, 201627:54pending
Gary S Paxton, Sally Beauman, Thomas Sutherland, Frank Dickens, Marni Nixon
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Jul 29, 201628:06pending
Sydney Schanberg, Beatrice de Cardi, Lord Evans of Temple Guiting, Alvin Toffler...
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Abdul Sattar Edhi, Professor Suzanne Corkin, Bernardo Provenzano, Garry Marshall
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Jul 22, 201628:00pending
Caroline Aherne, Elie Wiesel, Sir Geoffrey Hill, Lord Mayhew, Michael Cimino
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Jul 8, 201628:06pending
Amjad Sabri, Lorna Kelly, Jerome Bruner, Bob Holman, Scotty Moore
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Jul 1, 201627:47pending
Dr Sylvia Meek, Sam King MBE, Chips Moman, Ethel Bush GM, Harry Rabinowitz
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Jun 24, 201627:42pending
Sir Peter Shaffer, Sir Denys Wilkinson, Peggy Spencer and Muhammad Ali
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Jo Cox MP, Dave Swarbrick, Viktor Korchnoi, Wendy Leigh
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Carla Lane, Sir Denys Henderson, Jane Fawcett, Alan Devereux and Buster Cooper
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Professor Robert McNeill Alexander, Reg Grundy, Sally Brampton, Tony Cozier, Mad...
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May 20, 201627:48pending
Gareth Gwenlan, Sir Harry Kroto, Michael 'Dandy Kim' Caborn-Waterfield, Lilly Du...
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Reverend Daniel Berrigan, Lord Walton of Detchant, Jenny Diski, Guy Woolfenden
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May 6, 201628:04pending
Lord Peston, Ruth Prideaux, Patricio Aylwin, Professor Sir David Mackay, Gareth...
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Prince, Ray Fitzwalter, Victoria Wood, June Jolly, Phil Sayer
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Arnold Wesker, Howard Marks, Peggy Fortnum, Merle Haggard and Rachel Johnson
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Mother Angelica, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, DJ Derek, Doreen Massey and Joe Medicin...
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Dame Zaha Hadid, Ronnie Corbett, General Meir Dagan, Joan Loraine, Gary Shandlin...
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Paul Daniels, Anita Brookner, Sylvia Anderson, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Cliff M...
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George Martin, Nancy Reagan, Ray Tomlinson, Gillian Avery
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Tony Warren, Louise Rennison, Lord Chorley, George Kennedy, John Chilton
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Edmonde Charles-Roux, Norman Hudis, Antonin Scalia, Harpe...
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Marvin Minsky, Margaret Forster, Peter Powell, Sir Brian Tovey, Joe Alaskey
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Terry Wogan, Lord Lucan, Frank Finlay, Denise St Aubyn Hubbard, Maurice White
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Lord Parkinson, Bill Mitchell, Paddy Doherty, Henry Worsley, Dr Gladys-Marie Fry
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Glenn Frey, Lord Weidenfeld, Jeanne Cordova, Haskell Wexler, Gilbert Kaplan.
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David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Olwyn Hughes and Ed Stewart
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Robert Stigwood, Patricia Torrens, Pierre Boulez, Lord Ezra, Natalie Cole
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Eric Tomlinson, Elsie Tu, Peter Dickinson, Lillian Vernon and Lemmy
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Jan 1, 201628:10pending
Some of the most memorable lives of the past twelve months
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Dec 29, 201524:21pending
Mick Murphy, Ahmed Chalabi, Mattiwilda Dobbs, Brajraj Mahapatra and Holly Woodla...
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Dec 18, 201527:57pending
Marcus Klingberg, William McIlvanney, Setsuko Hara, Joel Elkes and John Peel
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Dec 11, 201528:06pending
General Sir Robert Ford, Hazel Adair, Jane Wardle, Gerry Byrne and P.F Sloan
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Peter Dimmock, Alix d'Unienville, Yolanda Sonnabend, Maggie Eales and George Bar...
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Nov 27, 201527:54pending
Roy Dommett, Warren Mitchell, Allen Toussaint, Cynthia Payne and Jonah Lomu
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Nov 20, 201527:57pending
Helmut Schmidt, Pat Eddery, Julia Jones, Lord Noon and Nat Peck
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Nov 13, 201528:10pending
Norman Moore, Diane Charlemagne, Professor David Cesarani, Colin Welland and Pet...
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Professor Lisa Jardine, Philip French, Ronnie Massarella, Maureen O'Hara
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Oct 30, 201528:03pending
General John Galvin, Joan Leslie, Michael Meacher, Howard Kendall, Jerry Parr an...
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Geoffrey Howe, Sue Lloyd-Roberts, Joe Henson, Hugh Scully and Alexander Faris
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Oct 20, 201528:07pending
Lord Denis Healey, Carmen Balcells, Henning Mankell, Revd Kenneth Leech and Capt...
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Oct 9, 201528:01pending
Brian Friel, General Mario Menendez, Tessa Ransford, John Guillermin, Ben Cauley
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Brian Sewell, Jackie Collins, Ted Smith CBE, PJ Kavanagh, Yogi Berra
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Sir David Willcocks, Merv Adelson, Mariem Hassan, Brian Close, Beryl Renwick
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Sir Adrian Cadbury, Rico Rodriguez, Ieng Thirith, Margaret Harrison, Judy Carne
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Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, Joy Beverley, Oliver Sacks, Annette Worsley-Taylor
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Bernie Passingham, Christopher Marshall, Wayne Carson, Michael Turk, Marie Dobbs...
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Khaled al-Asaad, Jazz Summers, Jack Gold, Manual Contreras, Dawn Wofford
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David Nobbs, Frances Kelsey, Kyril Zinovieff, Elio Fiorucci, Harry Pitch
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