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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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Nov 15, 2024 27:31 Playback unavailable for this episode

Timothy West, Sir John Nott, June Spencer, Nadia Cattouse

Nov 22, 2024 27:56 Playback unavailable for this episode

Lord Prescott, Stephanie Collie, Dame Janet Nelson, Frank Auerbach

Nov 29, 2024 27:49 Playback unavailable for this episode

Madeleine Riffaud, Chris Topp, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Dr Julian Litten

Dec 6, 2024 27:41 Playback unavailable for this episode

Vicky Stone, Penny Chuter, Clifton Wharton Junior, Peter Sinfield

Dec 13, 2024 27:39 Playback unavailable for this episode

Wolfgang Stange, Lord Renfrew, Julie Stevens, Mary McGee

Dec 20, 2024 27:19 Playback unavailable for this episode

Baroness Wilkins, Charles Handy, Renee Bornstein, Tony Brignull

Dec 27, 2024 27:46 Playback unavailable for this episode

Nikki Giovanni, Gerd Heidemann, Cherry Hill, Sir Richard Carew Pole

Jan 3, 2025 27:46 Playback unavailable for this episode

Jimmy Carter, Caroline Miller, Manmohan Singh, Jean Adamson

Jan 10, 2025 27:44 Playback unavailable for this episode

Jean-Marie Le Pen, Catherine Brown, Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes, Johnnie Walker

Jan 17, 2025 24:09 Playback unavailable for this episode

Special Edition: Tony Slattery

Jan 17, 2025 27:45 Playback unavailable for this episode

Tony Slattery, Rosalind Savill, Paddy Hill, Noreen Riols

Jan 24, 2025 27:51 Playback unavailable for this episode

Dame Joan Plowright, Sir Jim Walker, Barbara Clegg, Denis Law

Jan 31, 2025 27:41 Playback unavailable for this episode

Rev Don Cupitt, Phyllis Dalton, Cecile Richards, Michael Longley

Feb 7, 2025 27:53 Playback unavailable for this episode

Tony Martin, Pete Wilkinson, Loretta Ford, Marianne Faithfull

Feb 14, 2025 27:50 Playback unavailable for this episode

Nigel McCrery, Andrée Dumon, Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas, Diana Melly

Feb 21, 2025 27:44 Playback unavailable for this episode

Rick Buckler, Margaret Miles-Bramwell, Harry Stewart Jr, Maureen Halton

Feb 28, 2025 27:50 Playback unavailable for this episode

Roberta Flack, Dr D G Hessayon, Keith Dewhurst, Rose Hanks

Mar 7, 2025 27:51 Playback unavailable for this episode

Bill Dare, Clint Hill, Valérie André, Gene Hackman

Mar 14, 2025 27:51 Playback unavailable for this episode

Athol Fugard, Janet Pharaoh, Alison Halford, Johnny Green

Mar 21, 2025 27:52 Playback unavailable for this episode

Group Captain John Allman ‘Paddy’ Hemingway DFC, Dame Julie Kenny, Tuppy Owens, Dick McTaggart

Mar 28, 2025 27:53 Playback unavailable for this episode

Oleg Gordievsky, Renee Goddard, Professor Richard Fortey, Sofia Gubaidulina

Apr 4, 2025 27:51 Playback unavailable for this episode

Val Kilmer, Jane Reed, Sir Torquil Norman, Dr Marika Sherwood

Apr 11, 2025 27:57 Playback unavailable for this episode

Lord Kalms, Melissa Llewallyn-Davies, Rex Cowan, Wilma Finla

Apr 18, 2025 27:52 Playback unavailable for this episode

Anne Scargill, Ronnie Appleton, Cecil Wright, Mario Vargas Llosa

Apr 25, 2025 27:49 Playback unavailable for this episode

Pope Francis, Paddy Higson, David Sassoon

May 2, 2025 27:37 Playback unavailable for this episode

Virginia Giuffre, Rosy Bremer, LJ Smith, Wizz Jones

May 9, 2025 27:53 Playback unavailable for this episode

Jane Gardam, Sir Roger Birch, Mike Peters, Francoise Hampson

May 16, 2025 27:42 Playback unavailable for this episode

Sir Tom Farmer, Elaine Wynn, Sue Stapely, Joseph Nye

May 23, 2025 27:51 Playback unavailable for this episode

Hannah Deacon, Andrew Norfolk, Dame June Clark, Martin Graham

May 30, 2025 27:58 Playback unavailable for this episode

Alan Yentob, Richard Garwin, Dr Joy Schaverien, Anne Merriman

Jun 6, 2025 27:50 Playback unavailable for this episode

Valmik Thapar, Nancy Blaik, Norma Meras Swenson, Dr Stuart Farrimond

Jun 13, 2025 27:52 Playback unavailable for this episode

Brian Wilson, Frederick Forsyth, Uriah Rennie, Edmund White

Jun 20, 2025 27:43 Playback unavailable for this episode

Sir Geoff Palmer, Barbara Holdridge, Kim Woodburn, Sly Stone

Jun 27, 2025 27:50 Playback unavailable for this episode

Michael Lachmann, Pik-sen Lim, Leon Krier, David 'Syd' Lawrence

Jul 4, 2025 27:50 Playback unavailable for this episode

Courtney Griffiths KC, Sara Venn, Nina Kuscik, Mohammad Hussain

Jul 11, 2025 27:53 Playback unavailable for this episode

Lord Tebbit, Daphne Boden, James Leprino, Sir Francis Graham-Smith

Jul 18, 2025 27:51 Playback unavailable for this episode

Sir Ian Blair, Jennie Street, Dr Anna Ornstein, Muhammadu Buhari

Jul 25, 2025 27:51 Playback unavailable for this episode

Ozzy Osbourne, Connie Francis, Jacqui Browne, Douglas Chamberlain

Aug 1, 2025 27:46 Playback unavailable for this episode

Dame Cleo Laine, Hulk Hogan, Margaret Boden, Tom Lehrer

Aug 8, 2025 27:51 Playback unavailable for this episode

Dame Stella Rimington, Sylvia Young, Sir Jamie McGrigor, Joan Anderson

Aug 15, 2025 27:53 Playback unavailable for this episode

Jim Lovell, Biddy Baxter, Razia Jan, Iris Williams

Aug 22, 2025 27:37 Playback unavailable for this episode

Terence Stamp, Stephanie Shirley, Kay Dunbar, Eric Midwinter

Aug 29, 2025 27:51 Playback unavailable for this episode

David Richardson, Doris Lockhart Saatchi, Dame Annette Brooke, Byron Rogers

Sep 5, 2025 27:52 Playback unavailable for this episode

Joe Bugner, Ann McManus, Angela Mortimer Barrett, Frank Strang

Sep 12, 2025 27:31 Playback unavailable for this episode

The Duchess of Kent, Giorgio Armani, Valerie Pearlman, Rick Davies

Sep 19, 2025 27:49 Playback unavailable for this episode

Robert Redford, Barbara Harvey, Rosa Roisinblit, Stuart Craig

Sep 26, 2025 27:34 Playback unavailable for this episode

Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, John Stapleton, Mary Elizabeth Dodd, Claudia Cardinale

Oct 3, 2025 27:46 Playback unavailable for this episode

Dame Jane Goodall, Tony Harrison, Lord Menzies Campbell, Danny Thompson

Oct 10, 2025 27:46 Playback unavailable for this episode

Patrick Bradley, Dame Jilly Cooper, Sara Jane Moore, Dame Patricia Routledge

Oct 17, 2025 27:45 Playback unavailable for this episode

Peter Gurney, Diane Keaton, Peter Hall, Angela Bond

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