Last Word
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Radio 4's weekly obituary programme, telling the life stories of those who have died recently
Episodes (559)
Charles Gimingham, Felicia Langer, Julian Tudor Hart, Anne Olivier Popham Bell,...
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Jul 27, 201828:08pending
Oliver Knussen CBE, Barbara Harrell-Bond OBE, Sam Chisholm, Steve Ditko, Anna Sá...
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Jul 20, 201828:04pending
Lord Carrington, Karen Finch, Claude Lanzmann, Harlan Ellison
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Jul 13, 201827:55pending
Dame Gillian Lynne, Peter Firmin, Reinhard Hardegen, Alan Longmuir
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Jul 6, 201828:05pending
Joe Jackson, Paul Lamplugh OBE, Myrtle Allen, Daisy Kadibil, Paddy Feeny
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Jun 29, 201828:12pending
Gennady Rozhdestvensky CBE, Maria Bueno, Gena Turgel, Zhao Kangmin, Leo Sarkisia...
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Jun 22, 201827:59pending
Peter Mayer, Professor Celia Brackenridge OBE, Anthony Bourdain, Leslie Grantham...
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Jun 15, 201828:11pending
Peter Stringfellow, Graham Corbett, Kate Spade, Lord John Julius Norwich, Eli Av...
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Jun 8, 201828:13pending
John Ashdown-Hill, Anne Coates OBE, Dr Davida Coady, Samuel F 'Ted' Dabney, Bren...
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Jun 1, 201828:00pending
Beth Chatto, Philip Roth, Doreen Simmons, Khurshid Drabu, June Milne.
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May 25, 201828:14pending
Baroness Jowell, Will Alsop, Tom Wolfe, Dennis Nilsen
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May 18, 201828:02pending
Bruce Tulloh, Emma Smith, Professor Peter Waddington, Dowager Countess of Harewo...
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May 11, 201827:55pending
Lord Martin of Springburn, Gustav Born, Valerie Riches, Caroline Brown, Michael...
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May 4, 201828:05pending
Avicii (Tim Bergling), Ruth Nussenzweig, Anita Shreve, Guy Playfair, Bob Bura
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Apr 27, 201828:12pending
Barbara Bush, Milos Forman, Dame Daphne Sheldrick, Livia Gollancz, Dale Winton
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Apr 20, 201827:55pending
Gillian Ayres, Efraín Ríos Montt, David Cobham, Nikki Sievwright, Fergus Anckorn
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Apr 13, 201827:55pending
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Drue Heinz DBE, Ray Wilkins MBE, Eric Bristow, Steven...
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Apr 6, 201828:05pending
Charles P Lazarus, Marielle Franco, John Brookes, Zena Skinner, Oskar Groning
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Mar 30, 201827:43pending
Brenda Dean, William McAlpine, Keith O'Brien, Katie Boyle, Garech Browne
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Mar 23, 201828:03pending
Professor Stephen Hawking, Hubert de Givenchy, Michele Hanson, Sir John Sulston,...
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Mar 16, 201828:11pending
Trevor Baylis, Lerone Bennett Jr, Penny Vincenzi, Ian Aitken, Sir Roger Banniste...
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Mar 9, 201828:06pending
Sir Lawrence Byford, Sridevi Kapoor, Dame Beulah Bewley, Ernest Hecht, Lewis Gil...
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Mar 2, 201828:05pending
Billy Graham, Laura Lee, John Morris, John Bosco McAtasney, John Pitman
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Feb 23, 201827:56pending
Morgan Tsvangirai, Douglas Botting, Professor Patricia Lindop, Asma Jahangir, Vi...
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Feb 16, 201827:58pending
John Mahoney, Hannah Hauxwell, Professor Kenneth Richard Seddon OBE, Sir John Co...
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Feb 12, 201827:58pending
Ingvar Kamprad, Elizabeth Hawley, Robert Mann, Jon Castle, Dorothy Malone
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Feb 2, 201828:07pending
Hugh Masekela, Ursula K Le Guin, Mary Lee Berners-Lee, John Barton, Mark E Smith
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Jan 26, 201828:01pending
Rick Jolly, Dolores O'Riordan, Cyrille Regis, Jenny Joseph, Peter Wyngarde
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Jan 19, 201828:11pending
John W Young, Peter Preston, Raymond Thomas, Sir Brian Neill QC, Heather Stewart
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Jan 12, 201828:01pending
Maureen Baker, Richard Cousins, Bronwen Lady Astor Chatelaine of Cliveden, Meic...
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Jan 5, 201827:59pending
Sir Peter Burt, Jill Lever, John Mattock, Peter Duffell and Tom Paley
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Dec 29, 201728:06pending
Professor Heinz Wolff, Aline Countess of Romanones, Tony Whitten, Fritz Lustig,...
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Dec 22, 201728:04pending
Max Clifford, Norman Baker, Tony Garrett, Virginia Surtees, Keith Chegwin
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Dec 15, 201728:11pending
King Michael of Romania, Shashi Kapoor, Christine Keeler, Jenny MacGregor, Johnn...
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Dec 8, 201728:09pending
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Unity Spencer, Lewis Golden OBE, John Butler, Joy Lofthouse
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Dec 1, 201727:49pending
24/11/2017
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Nov 24, 201728:08pending
Lord Hutchinson of Lullington QC, Linda Nochlin, Dennis Banks, Geoff Tootill, Ti...
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Nov 17, 201727:59pending
Antonio Carluccio, Sima Wali, Richard Wilbur, Mary Reveley, Dudley Simpson
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Nov 10, 201728:04pending
Harold Pendleton, Glenn Barr, Iona Opie, Gary Flather QC OBE, Sir John Manduell
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Nov 3, 201727:57pending
Daphne Caruana Galizia, Fats Domino, Rodney Bickerstaffe, Geoffrey Schild, Rosem...
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Oct 27, 201728:01pending
Sean Hughes, Sir Brian Barder, David Marks, Major Khush Ahmad-ul-Mulk, Marge Cal...
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Oct 20, 201727:50pending
Lillian Ross, Jalal Talabani, Terry Downes, Sybil Flory, Hedley Jones
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Oct 13, 201728:04pending
Tony Booth, Liliane Bettencourt, William G Stewart, Tom Petty
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Oct 6, 201728:05pending
Hugh Hefner, Stanislav Petrov, Teddy Taylor, Liz Dawn
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Sep 29, 201727:57pending
David Shepherd, Nancy Hatch Dupree, Gordon Williams, Pat Albeck, Harry Dean Stan...
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Sep 22, 201728:00pending
Sir Peter Hall, Kate Millett, Sir Edward du Cann, JP Donleavy
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Sep 15, 201727:55pending
Sir David Tang, Professor Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O...
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Sep 8, 201728:25pending
Dick Gregory, Jeannie Rousseau, Wayne Lotter, Sean O'Callaghan, John Abercrombie
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Sep 1, 201728:02pending
Abu Kifah, Sir Bruce Forsyth, Brian Aldiss, Blanche Blackwell, Jerry Lewis
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Aug 25, 201728:00pending
Barbara Cook, Sister Ruth Pfau, Richard Gordon, Prof UR Rao
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Aug 18, 201728:13pending
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