Last Word
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Radio 4's weekly obituary programme, telling the life stories of those who have died recently
Episodes (559)
Sir Ian Holm, Jean Kennedy Smith, Felicity Bryan MBE, Lily Lian
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Jun 26, 202027:39pending
Dame Vera Lynn, Professor Geoffrey Burnstock, Larry Kramer, Pierre Nkurunziza
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Jun 19, 202028:03pending
Christo Javacheff, Cathie Sabin OBE, Dorothy Wakely, Jonathan Whitehead
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Jun 12, 202028:03pending
Dr Stanley Ho, Roger Fellows, Margaret Meek Spencer, Mory Kanté
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Jun 5, 202028:04pending
Margaret Maughan, John Cumming OBE, Jerry Givens, John Langdon, Eric Weissberg
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May 29, 202028:09pending
Lord Robert May of Oxford, Dr Judith Darmady OBE, Mark Barkan, Saroj Lal
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May 22, 202028:05pending
Little Richard, Dr Janet Carr OBE, Professor John Horton Conway, Florian Schneid...
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May 15, 202028:05pending
Catherine Hamlin, Irrfan Khan, Denis Goldberg, Ann Sayer
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May 8, 202028:14pending
Ronan O'Rahilly, Sir John Houghton CBE, Sue Davies OBE, Barbara Smoker
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May 1, 202027:56pending
Dame Jocelyn Barrow DBE, Keith Critchlow, Leonard ‘Nipper’ Read, John Prine
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Apr 24, 202028:09pending
Sir Stirling Moss OBE, Professor Margaret Burbidge, Mahmoud Jibril, Tim Brooke-T...
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Apr 17, 202028:11pending
Dr Bill Frankland MBE, John Tydeman OBE, The Marquess of Bath, Honor Blackman
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Apr 10, 202027:34pending
Albert Uderzo, Valerie Pettit OBE, Reverend Joseph Lowery, Julie Felix
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Apr 6, 202028:14pending
Betty Williams, Dr Fuad Nahdi, Sol Kerzner, Kenny Rogers
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Mar 27, 202027:45pending
Michel Roux, Sammy McCarthy, Lilian Mohin, Roy Hudd
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Mar 20, 202028:12pending
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Max von Sydow, Professor Hannah Steinberg, Charles Port...
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Mar 13, 202028:17pending
Katherine Johnson, Nexhmije Hoxha, Sir Michael Berridge, Diana Serra Cary (Baby...
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Mar 6, 202028:07pending
Hosni Mubarak, Andrew Weatherall, Mary Higgins Clark, John Bevan
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Feb 28, 202027:39pending
Heather Couper CBE, Leonard Woodley QC, Joseph Shabalala
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Feb 21, 202028:15pending
Daniel arap Moi, Feng Huiyan, Professor Donald West, Colonel ‘Mad Mike’ Hoare
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Feb 14, 202028:21pending
Kirk Douglas, Terry Hands CBE, Hazel Murphy, Seamus Mallon
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Feb 7, 202028:01pending
Nicholas Parsons CBE, Mary Craig, Lord Maclennan of Rogart, Kobe Bryant
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Jan 31, 202027:57pending
Tony Garnett, Joy Rainey, Professor Cuchlaine King, Terry Jones
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Jan 24, 202027:49pending
Sir Roger Scruton FBA, FRSL, Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman, Bobby Neame CBE, El...
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Jan 17, 202028:02pending
General Qasem Soleimani, M.C. Beaton, George Laurer, Dr Sidney Holt
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Jan 10, 202028:00pending
Neil Innes, Steve Sawyer, Sheila Mercier, Alasdair Gray
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Jan 3, 202027:58pending
Andrew Graham-Yooll OBE, Andrea Newman, Peter Davis, Olly Croft OBE
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Dec 27, 201928:14pending
Kenny Lynch OBE, Chris Moncrieff CBE, Kate Figes, Branko Lustig
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Dec 20, 201928:01pending
David Bellamy, Nell Gifford, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Mariss Jansons
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Dec 13, 201928:08pending
Bob Willis MBE, Gary Rhodes OBE, Dr Shuping Wang, Sir Stephen Cleobury CBE
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Dec 6, 201928:08pending
Sir Jonathan Miller, Field Marshal Lord Bramall, Clive James AO, CBE
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Nov 29, 201926:23pending
Vladimir Bukovsky, Alison Prince, Keith Schellenberg, Robert Ponsonby
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Nov 22, 201927:53pending
Nik Powell OBE, James Le Mesurier OBE, Frank Dobson, Hazel Vincent Wallace OBE
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Nov 15, 201927:59pending
Gay Byrne, Sadako Ogata, Robert Evans
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Nov 8, 201928:09pending
Charles Jencks, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Irene Shubik, Raymond Leppard
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Nov 1, 201928:07pending
Alicia Alonso, Deborah Orr, Joyce Cansfield, Clora Bryant
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Oct 25, 201928:09pending
Alexei Leonov, Sally Soames, Kary Mullis, Reg Watson
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Oct 18, 201927:57pending
Ginger Baker, Su Beng, John Haylett, Diahann Carroll
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Oct 11, 201928:04pending
Jessye Norman, Peter Sissons, Al Alvarez, Marita Lorenz
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Oct 4, 201928:19pending
Jacques Chirac, Sir Michael Edwardes, Cokie Roberts, Pat Cavendish O’Neill
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Sep 27, 201928:02pending
Chester Williams, Sheikh Yusuf Motala, Jan Ruff O’Herne, Ric Ocasek
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Sep 20, 201928:09pending
Hans Rausing, Sir Dawda Jawara, Sue Crockford, Terrance Dicks
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Sep 13, 201928:05pending
Robert Mugabe, Alla Verber, Ciaran McKeown, Bill Anderson MBE
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Sep 6, 201928:01pending
Lord Bell, Paule Marshall, David Koch, Richard Booth
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Aug 30, 201928:06pending
Peter Fonda, Princess Christina of the Netherlands, Geoffrey Paul OBE, Jim Bouto...
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Aug 23, 201927:57pending
Julia Farron OBE, Nuon Chea, June Fraser, Marcel Berlins
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Aug 16, 201928:13pending
Toni Morrison, Hal Prince, Dr Elizabeth Killick, Li Peng, Barrington Pheloung
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Aug 9, 201927:58pending
Russi Taylor, Beji Caid Essebsi, Jane Hubert, Iván Erőd
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Aug 2, 201928:08pending
Andrea Camilleri, Johnny Clegg OBE, OIS, Christopher Kraft, Paul Krassner, Profe...
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Jul 26, 201928:05pending
Audrey Eyton, Arthur Ryan, Jack Bond, Rip Torn
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Jul 19, 201928:18pending
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