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Last Word Episodes

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    Bobby Womack, Stephanie Kwolek, Dermot Healy, Viktor Sukhodrev, Delia Craig

    Julian Worricker on a singer, a chemist, a writer, an interpreter and a conservationist.

  2. Felix Dennis, Norman Willis, Josephine Pullein-Thompson, Gerry Conlon, Eli Wallach

    Matthew Bannister on a publisher, a TUC leader, an author and one of the Guildford Four.

  3. Gerry Goffin, Freydis Sharland, Alexander Shulgin, Francis Matthews

    Matthew Bannister remembers a songwriter, a pilot, a chemist and an actor.

  4. Rik Mayall, Dr Lorna Wing, Eric Hill, Billie Fleming, Alan Douglas

    Matthew Bannister remembers a comedian, a psychiatrist, a children's writer and a cyclist.

  5. Lady Mary Soames, Gordon Willis, Clyde Snow, Count Suckle

    Obituaries for Churchill's daughter, a cinematographer, a forensic scientist and a DJ.

  6. Maya Angelou, Malcolm Glazer, Tessa Watts, General Jaruzelski, Herb Jeffries

    Matthew Bannister on a writer, a businessman, a music video producer and a Polish leader.

  7. Sir Jack Brabham, Prof Louise Wilson, Dick Douglas, Harry Stopes-Roe and Mary Stewart

    Matthew Bannister on a racing driver, a fashion professor, an MP, a humanist, a novelist.

  8. Prof Colin Pillinger, Antony Hopkins, Bev Evans, Sir Ben Gill and Stan Kelly-Bootle

    Matthew Bannister on a space scientist, a musician, a farmers' leader, a computer pioneer.

  9. Sir George Christie, Leslie Thomas, Elena Baltacha, Sir William Benyon and Deborah Rogers

    Matthew Bannister remembers Glyndebourne's owner, an author, a Tory MP and a tennis player

  10. Bob Hoskins, U Win Tin, Ian McIntyre, Gailene Stock

    Matthew Bannister on an actor, a Burmese activist, a BBC executive and a ballet teacher.

  11. Mark Shand, Mrs Pilkington Garimara, Derek Cooper, Wally Olins, Julian Wilson

    Matthew Bannister on a conservationist, a writer, a broadcaster and a branding consultant.

  12. Gabriel García Márquez, Edna Doré, Richard Hoggart, Gerardo D'Ambrosio, John Shirley-Quirk

    Julian Worricker remembers an author, an actress, a commentator, a magistrate and a singer

  13. Sue Townsend, Lord Kimball, Peaches Geldof, Prof Lorna Casselton, Mickey Rooney

    Matthew Bannister on an author, an MP, a TV presenter, a fungal biologist and a film star.

  14. Margo MacDonald, Frankie Knuckles, Lorna Arnold, Kate O'Mara, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah

    Matthew Bannister remembers a politician, a DJ, a historian, an actress and a president.

  15. Mickey Duff, John Tyson, Jill Sinclair, Adolfo Suarez, Oswald Morris

    Matthew Bannister on a boxing promoter, an explorer, a music exec and a cinematographer.

  16. Clarissa Dickson Wright, Lord Ballyedmond, L'Wren Scott, Mohammed Fahim, Peter Callander

    Julian Worricker remembers a chef, an entrepreneur, a lyricist, a statesman and a designer

  17. Tony Benn, James Ellis, Peter Rona, Marion Thorpe, Bob Crow

    Julian Worricker on a politician, an actor, an oceanographer, a pianist and a union leader

  18. Paco de Lucia, Frank Rushbrook, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Logan Scott-Bowden, Alain Resnais

    Aasmah Mir remembers a guitarist, a firefighter, an artist, a soldier and a director.

  19. Alison Jolly, Alice Herz-Sommer, Valery Kubasov, Mavis Gallant, Harold Ramis

    Aasmah Mir remembers a primatologist, a pianist, a cosmonaut, a writer and a director.

  20. Sir Tom Finney CBE, Sid Caesar, Ian McNaught-Davis, Els Borst, Louise Brough

    Matthew Bannister on a footballer, a comedian, a climber, a politician and a tennis player

  21. Prof Stuart Hall, Jean Babilée, Tony Crook, Shirley Temple Black

    Matthew Bannister remembers a sociologist, a dancer, a car maker and a child star.

  22. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jose Sulaiman, Anna Gordy Gaye, Ron Hall, Peter Austin

    Matthew Bannister recalls an actor, a journalist, a Motown exec and a boxing administrator

  23. Pete Seeger, Kathryn Findlay, Sir Robert Scholey, Sir Run Run Shaw

    A singer and activist, an architect, a British Steel chairman and a movie mogul.

  24. Lord McAlpine, Jocelyn Hay, Amiri Baraka, Sir Christopher Chataway, Claudio Abbado

    Matthew Bannister on a Tory fundraiser, a broadcasting campaigner, a poet and a runner.

  25. Roger Lloyd Pack, Prof Julian B Rotter, Hiroo Onoda, Rae Woodland, Ariel Sharon

    Remembering an actor, a psychologist, an opera singer and a former Israeli prime minister.

  26. Simon Hoggart, Prof Janet Rowley, Saul Zaentz, Terry Biddlecombe, Phil Everly

    A journalist, a cancer researcher, a film producer, a jockey, and an Everly Brother.

  27. Elizabeth Jane Howard, John Fortune, Vera Houghton, Sir Christopher Curwen, Harold Camping

    A novelist, a satirist, a family planning pioneer, an MI6 chief and a Doomsday evangelist.

  28. Peter O'Toole, Lord Roberts of Conwy, Colin Wilson, Joan Fontaine, Ronnie Briggs

    Matthew Bannister recalls an actor, a politician, an author, an actress and a train robber

  29. Stan Tracey, General Alfonso Armada, Mary Eyre, Bob George, Mary Riggans

    A jazz musician, a Spanish general, a hockey international, a flea expert and an actress.

  30. Paul Ausseresses, Olivia Robertson, Noel Woodall, Hugh de Wardener, Junior Murvin

    Matthew Bannister on a general, an archpriestess, an autonumerologist and a nephrologist.

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