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Last Word

By BBC Radio 4

Radio 4's weekly obituary programme, telling the life stories of those who have died recently

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50 episodes

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Oct 24, 2025 27:44 Playback unavailable for this episode

Raila Odinga, Bill Colley, Baroness Rosalind Howells, Sister Marion Irvine

Oct 31, 2025 21:23 Playback unavailable for this episode

SPECIAL EDITION: Prunella Scales

Oct 31, 2025 27:44 Playback unavailable for this episode

Prunella Scales CBE, Gillian Tindall, Roger Smith, Anthony Grey

Nov 7, 2025 27:55 Playback unavailable for this episode

Dick Cheney, Yvonne Brewster, Mary McGee, Peter Watkins

Nov 15, 2025 27:45 Playback unavailable for this episode

James Watson, Pauline Collins, Judith Vidal-Hall, Dugald Ross

Nov 21, 2025 27:42 Playback unavailable for this episode

Baroness Newlove, Zoe Wicomb, Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC, Professor Roland Paxton

Nov 28, 2025 27:36 Playback unavailable for this episode

Jimmy Cliff, Charlotte Bingham, Skye Gyngell, David Bellos

Dec 5, 2025 27:46 Playback unavailable for this episode

Sir Tom Stoppard, Pam Hogg, Yanxin He, Jack Shepherd

Dec 12, 2025 27:52 Playback unavailable for this episode

Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Vera Weisfeld, Frank Gehry, Martin Parr

Dec 19, 2025 27:46 Playback unavailable for this episode

Rob Reiner, Joanna Trollope, Stanley Baxter, Sophie Kinsella

Dec 26, 2025 27:47 Playback unavailable for this episode

Antony Price, Sister Stan Kennedy, Ena Collymore Woodstock, John Carey

Jan 2, 2026 27:49 Playback unavailable for this episode

Brigitte Bardot, Sir Alec Reed, Alwyn Crawshaw, Dame Shân Legge-Bourke

Jan 9, 2026 27:43 Playback unavailable for this episode

Molly Parkin, Kristina Gjerde, Michael Barton, Eva Schloss

Jan 16, 2026 27:44 Playback unavailable for this episode

Claudette Colvin, Ian Balding, Gerry Gable, Bob Weir, Juliet Robertson

Jan 23, 2026 27:45 Playback unavailable for this episode

Molly Burkett, Sir James Munby, Edith Flanigen, Aldrich Ames

Jan 30, 2026 27:36 Playback unavailable for this episode

Sir Mark Tully, Dame Gillian Wagner, Dr Gladys West, Richard Larn OBE

Feb 6, 2026 27:47 Playback unavailable for this episode

Sir Nicholas White, Lord Wallace, Professor Deborah Cameron, Sly Dunbar

Feb 13, 2026 27:45 Playback unavailable for this episode

Meredith Hooper, David Young, Dorothy Solomon, Derek Kelly

Feb 20, 2026 27:42 Playback unavailable for this episode

Reverend Jesse Jackson, Diane Munday, Philippe Gaulier, Lady Jean Wilson

Feb 27, 2026 27:43 Playback unavailable for this episode

Martyn Butler, Allan Massie, Professor Nicola Fear, Willie Colón

Mar 6, 2026 27:46 Playback unavailable for this episode

Neil Sedaka, Drusilla Beyfus, Professor Dame Carole Jordan, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Mar 13, 2026 27:45 Playback unavailable for this episode

Paul Conroy, Kenith Trodd, Astrid Llewellyn, Jo Purvis

Mar 20, 2026 27:43 Playback unavailable for this episode

Yanar Mohammed, MP Phil Woolas, Professor Robin Weiss, Jane Lapotaire

Apr 3, 2026 27:35 Playback unavailable for this episode

Dame Jenni Murray, Len Deighton, Lynda Hale, Jurgen Habermas

Apr 10, 2026 27:45 Playback unavailable for this episode

Robert Fox, Mary Rand MBE, Sir Tony Hoare, Biruté Galdikas

Apr 10, 2026 27:46 Playback unavailable for this episode

Sir Craig Reedie, Bronwen Naish, Geoff Yeadon, Margareta Magnusson

Apr 17, 2026 27:47 Playback unavailable for this episode

Asha Bhosle, Sir Neil Cossons, Professor Harold Ellis, Daphne Selfe

Apr 24, 2026 27:45 Playback unavailable for this episode

Andy Kershaw, Dame Averil Cameron, Dr Judith Rapoport, Desmond Morris

May 1, 2026 27:45 Playback unavailable for this episode

Xia De-hong, Lord Hunt of Chesterton, Joan Burstein, Bill Leader

May 8, 2026 27:45 Playback unavailable for this episode

Dr Ittai Gradel, Dame Shirley Porter, Professor Nigel Dunnett, María Nieves Rego

May 15, 2026 27:39 Playback unavailable for this episode

Ruth Slenczynska, Dame Bridget Ogilvie, Tony Worthington, Russell Tyner KC

May 22, 2026 27:48 Playback unavailable for this episode

Michael Pennington, Cynthia Shange, Scott Hastings, Beverley Martyn

May 29, 2026 27:45 Playback unavailable for this episode

Clarence B Jones, Judith Chalmers, Dr Anna Ritchie, Professor Frank Land

Jun 5, 2026 27:45 Playback unavailable for this episode

Larry King: The man behind Billie Jean King’s feminist tennis revolution

Jun 12, 2026 27:43 Playback unavailable for this episode

Founder of the ‘MOBOs’ and champion of black music – Kanya King

Jun 19, 2026 27:45 Playback unavailable for this episode

A “bone marrow love for the Labour party” Lord Kinnock remembers Lord Hattersley

Jun 26, 2026 27:26 Playback unavailable for this episode

"He became one of the most powerful men in the world” - the story of the man who shaped modern economics

Jul 3, 2026 27:44 Playback unavailable for this episode

The Good Life of Dame Penelope Keith

Jul 10, 2026 27:37 Playback unavailable for this episode

Bonnie Tyler: How the "sweet soul singer" found her growl

Jul 17, 2026 27:46 Playback unavailable for this episode

Sam Neill: The silent child with a stutter who became a movie star

Jul 24, 2026 27:42 Playback unavailable for this episode

Brenda Fricker: The first Irish woman to win an Oscar

Jul 31, 2026 27:42 Playback unavailable for this episode

Gunther von Hagens: The life of "Dr Death" the man who founded Body Worlds

Aug 7, 2026 27:33 Playback unavailable for this episode

Rod Liddle: Part-time punk turned professional provocateur

Aug 14, 2026 27:39 Playback unavailable for this episode

William Orbit: The pioneering DJ who reinvented Madonna

Aug 21, 2026 27:38 Playback unavailable for this episode

Zhu Rongji: The reformist Chinese Premier who ordered 100 coffins

Aug 28, 2026 27:44 Playback unavailable for this episode

Dolly Parton: From the Smoky Mountains to Glastonbury Legend

Sep 4, 2026 27:38 Playback unavailable for this episode

Yayoi Kusama: The artist who painted infinity

Sep 11, 2026 27:41 Playback unavailable for this episode

Gloria Steinem: The journalist and activist who rewrote the rules for women

Sep 18, 2026 27:46 Playback unavailable for this episode

“A powerful wordsmith and artist” – remembering the playwright and cultural critic Bonnie Greer

Sep 25, 2026 27:45 Playback unavailable for this episode

"A woman who wears my clothes is not afraid to be noticed" fashion designer Bob Mackie

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