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Last Word

BBC Radio 4

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

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591 episodes

  1. Rev Ron Lancaster: The Master Blaster Pastor 27:43
  2. Margaret Papandreou: The American-born first lady and champion of gender equality in Greece 27:43
  3. The rise and fall of Jim Bakker: From multi-millionaire televangelist to convicted fraudster 27:46
  4. Margaret Hamilton: the woman who helped put man on the moon 27:40
  5. Jeffrey Archer: From politics, to page-turners, to prison 27:43
  6. "A woman who wears my clothes is not afraid to be noticed" fashion designer Bob Mackie 27:45
  7. “A powerful wordsmith and artist” – remembering the playwright and cultural critic Bonnie Greer 27:46
  8. Gloria Steinem: The journalist and activist who rewrote the rules for women 27:41
  9. Yayoi Kusama: The artist who painted infinity 27:38
  10. Dolly Parton: From the Smoky Mountains to Glastonbury Legend 27:44
  11. Zhu Rongji: The reformist Chinese Premier who ordered 100 coffins 27:38
  12. William Orbit: The pioneering DJ who reinvented Madonna 27:39
  13. Rod Liddle: Part-time punk turned professional provocateur 27:33
  14. Gunther von Hagens: The life of "Dr Death" the man who founded Body Worlds 27:42
  15. Brenda Fricker: The first Irish woman to win an Oscar 27:42
  16. Sam Neill: The silent child with a stutter who became a movie star 27:46
  17. Bonnie Tyler: How the "sweet soul singer" found her growl 27:37
  18. The Good Life of Dame Penelope Keith 27:44
  19. "He became one of the most powerful men in the world” - the story of the man who shaped modern economics 27:26
  20. A “bone marrow love for the Labour party” Lord Kinnock remembers Lord Hattersley 27:45
  21. Founder of the ‘MOBOs’ and champion of black music – Kanya King 27:43
  22. Larry King: The man behind Billie Jean King’s feminist tennis revolution 27:45
  23. Clarence B Jones, Judith Chalmers, Dr Anna Ritchie, Professor Frank Land 27:45
  24. Michael Pennington, Cynthia Shange, Scott Hastings, Beverley Martyn 27:48
  25. Ruth Slenczynska, Dame Bridget Ogilvie, Tony Worthington, Russell Tyner KC 27:39
  26. Dr Ittai Gradel, Dame Shirley Porter, Professor Nigel Dunnett, María Nieves Rego 27:45
  27. Xia De-hong, Lord Hunt of Chesterton, Joan Burstein, Bill Leader 27:45
  28. Andy Kershaw, Dame Averil Cameron, Dr Judith Rapoport, Desmond Morris 27:45
  29. Asha Bhosle, Sir Neil Cossons, Professor Harold Ellis, Daphne Selfe 27:47
  30. Sir Craig Reedie, Bronwen Naish, Geoff Yeadon, Margareta Magnusson 27:46
  31. Robert Fox, Mary Rand MBE, Sir Tony Hoare, Biruté Galdikas 27:45
  32. Dame Jenni Murray, Len Deighton, Lynda Hale, Jurgen Habermas 27:35
  33. Yanar Mohammed, MP Phil Woolas, Professor Robin Weiss, Jane Lapotaire 27:43
  34. Paul Conroy, Kenith Trodd, Astrid Llewellyn, Jo Purvis 27:45
  35. Neil Sedaka, Drusilla Beyfus, Professor Dame Carole Jordan, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei 27:46
  36. Martyn Butler, Allan Massie, Professor Nicola Fear, Willie Colón 27:43
  37. Reverend Jesse Jackson, Diane Munday, Philippe Gaulier, Lady Jean Wilson 27:42
  38. Meredith Hooper, David Young, Dorothy Solomon, Derek Kelly 27:45
  39. Sir Nicholas White, Lord Wallace, Professor Deborah Cameron, Sly Dunbar 27:47
  40. Sir Mark Tully, Dame Gillian Wagner, Dr Gladys West, Richard Larn OBE 27:36
  41. Molly Burkett, Sir James Munby, Edith Flanigen, Aldrich Ames 27:45
  42. Claudette Colvin, Ian Balding, Gerry Gable, Bob Weir, Juliet Robertson 27:44
  43. Molly Parkin, Kristina Gjerde, Michael Barton, Eva Schloss 27:43
  44. Brigitte Bardot, Sir Alec Reed, Alwyn Crawshaw, Dame Shân Legge-Bourke 27:49
  45. Antony Price, Sister Stan Kennedy, Ena Collymore Woodstock, John Carey 27:47
  46. Rob Reiner, Joanna Trollope, Stanley Baxter, Sophie Kinsella 27:46
  47. Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Vera Weisfeld, Frank Gehry, Martin Parr 27:52
  48. Sir Tom Stoppard, Pam Hogg, Yanxin He, Jack Shepherd 27:46
  49. Jimmy Cliff, Charlotte Bingham, Skye Gyngell, David Bellos 27:36
  50. Baroness Newlove, Zoe Wicomb, Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC, Professor Roland Paxton 27:42