Last Word
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Radio 4's weekly obituary programme, telling the life stories of those who have died recently
Episodes (559)
Lee Evans (pictured), Yuan Longping, Bill McCall, Alix Dobkin
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Jun 11, 202128:15pending
Eric Carle (pictured), Helen Murray Free, Michael Parsons, Evelyn McNicol
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Sir Paul Cosford, Max Mosley (pictured), Dr Frances Rotblat, Norman Lloyd
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May 28, 202128:13pending
Spencer Silver, Kevin Jackson, Patricia Brown, Asfaw Yemiru
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May 21, 202128:02pending
Olympia Dukakis (pictured), Eric McGraw MBE, Anthony Thwaite
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May 14, 202128:11pending
Baroness O'Cathain, Michael Collins, Sharon Matola, Jim Steinman (pictured, with...
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May 7, 202128:01pending
Geoff Crowther, Isamu Akasaki, June Newton, Les McKeown (pictured)
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Apr 30, 202128:07pending
Helen McCrory (pictured), Hans Küng, Eric Gordon, George Reynolds
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Apr 23, 202128:11pending
Baroness Shirley Williams (pictured), Glynn Lunney, Lyn Macdonald
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Apr 16, 202128:06pending
Doreen Lofthouse OBE, Dr Chris Doake, Barbara Hosking CBE, Bernice Cohen
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Apr 9, 202128:05pending
Bob Davey MBE; George Segal (pictured); Lady Violet Aitken; Tony Hendra
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Apr 2, 202127:10pending
Nawal El Saadawi (pictured), Brigadier Jack Thomas, President John Magufuli, Ion...
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Mar 26, 202127:09pending
Murray Walker (pictured), King Goodwill Zwelithini, Mary Asprey, Bunny Wailer
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Mar 19, 202127:08pending
Nicola Pagett (pictured), Stan Shaw, Prof John Mallard, Rupert Neve
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Mar 12, 202127:03pending
Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani (pictured), Sidney Alford, Alison Lurie, Chris Barber
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Mar 5, 202127:09pending
Sir William Macpherson (pictured), Margaret Snyder, Eleanor Wadsworth, Iain Patt...
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Feb 26, 202126:54pending
Carlos Menem (pictured), Mary Wilson, Robin Pooley, Larry Flynt
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Feb 19, 202127:09pending
George Shultz, Yvonne Conolly, Maureen Colquhoun, Christopher Plummer (pictured)
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Feb 12, 202127:05pending
Lewis Wolpert, Cicely Tyson, Prince Khalid Abdullah and Captain Sir Tom Moore (...
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Feb 5, 202127:09pending
Larry King (pictured), Catherine Ennis, Margaret Weston, Gerry Cottle
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Jan 29, 202127:12pending
Phil Spector (pictured), Grace Robertson, Paul Nihill
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Jan 22, 202127:04pending
Michael Apted (pictured), Kay Ullrich, Katharine Whitehorn, Reginald Foster
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Jan 15, 202127:09pending
Sir Brian Urquhart (pictured), Albert Roux, Dame Rachel Waterhouse, Gerry Marsde...
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Jan 8, 202126:46pending
Stella Tennant, George Bizos, Joan Feynman, Rishi Kapoor
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Jan 1, 202127:10pending
Millie Small, JJ Williams, Maurice Healy, Dame Fanny Waterman
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Dec 27, 202027:03pending
John le Carré (pictured), Patience Thomson, Doug Scott, Dame Barbara Windsor
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Dec 18, 202027:56pending
Mario Molina, Irina Antonova, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, Peter Alliss (pictured)
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Dec 11, 202028:04pending
Hamish MacInnes OBE, José Padilla, Anne Rasa
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Dec 4, 202028:04pending
Diego Maradona, Rosalind Grimshaw, Jan Morris CBE
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Nov 27, 202028:06pending
Des O’Connor CBE, Richard Trim OBE, Dr Ataullah Siddiqui, Edith Raymond Locke
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Nov 20, 202028:10pending
Lord Sacks, John Sessions, Joanna Harcourt-Smith, Jim Radford
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Nov 13, 202028:06pending
Sir Sean Connery, Eavan Boland, Nobby Stiles MBE, Bobby Ball
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Nov 6, 202028:13pending
David Toole OBE, Professor Valerie Curtis, Frank Bough, Jill Paton Walsh CBE
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Oct 30, 202028:02pending
Herbert Kretzmer, James Nash, Tom Maschler, Sister Chiara Hatton Hall
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Oct 27, 202028:04pending
Derek Mahon, Professor Gerta Vrbová, Ang Rita Sherpa, Helena Shenel
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Oct 16, 202028:01pending
Kenzo Takada, Colonel John Waddy, Frank Windsor, Ann Getty
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Oct 9, 202028:00pending
Sir Harold Evans, Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, Alan Minter, Helen Taylor-Thompson
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Oct 6, 202027:55pending
Juliette Greco, Bob Gore, Dame Georgina Mace, Jiri Menzel
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Oct 2, 202027:59pending
Sir Terence Conran, Dame Diana Rigg CBE, Shere Hite, Toots Hibbert
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Sep 18, 202028:05pending
Stuart King, Comrade Duch, Deirdre Le Faye, David Bryant CBE
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Sep 11, 202028:09pending
Chadwick Boseman, Sir Kenneth Robinson, Lord Renton of Mount Harry, Doreen Davie...
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Sep 4, 202028:07pending
Dr James Partridge OBE, Sally Jacobs, Angela Buxton, Philip Horniblow OBE
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Aug 28, 202028:06pending
Julian Bream CBE, Elizabeth Ward OBE, Chris Graham-Bell, Stuart Christie
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Aug 21, 202028:03pending
Hawa Abdi, Clive Ponting, President Lee Teng-hui, Richard Brooke
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Aug 14, 202028:04pending
John Hume, Stan Mellor MBE, Paulette Wilson, Sir Alan Parker
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Aug 7, 202028:03pending
Stuart Wheeler, Josephine Cox, Miloš Jakeš, Peter Green
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Jul 31, 202028:12pending
John Lewis, Tony Elliott CBE, Wendy Cooling, Dr Alan Howard
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Jul 24, 202027:36pending
Jack Charlton, Zindzi Mandela, Charles Webb, Ida Haendel
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Jul 17, 202028:01pending
Ennio Morricone, Sir Everton Weekes, Baroness Maddock, Earl Cameron CBE
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Jul 10, 202028:03pending
Milton Glaser, Terry Dicks, Professor Tom Arie, Else Blangsted
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Jul 3, 202028:03pending
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