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Last Word Episodes

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    Sir Horace Ové, Su Gorman, Roger Whittaker, Jean Combes

    Matthew Bannister on a film director, a campaigner, a singer and a naturalist.

  2. Mike Yarwood, Ada Deer, Sir Ian Wilmut, Dorothy Purdew

    Matthew Bannister on an impressionist, a campaigner, an embryologist and a businesswoman.

  3. Mohamed Al-Fayed, Dorothy Goodman, Professor Anthony Bryceson, Denyse Plummer

    Matthew Bannister on a businessman, a educationalist, a tropical medicine expert, a singer

  4. Julian Haviland, Johaar Mosaval, Tricia Tyler, Matyelok Gibbs

    Matthew Bannister on a political editor, a dancer, a journalist and an actor.

  5. Michael Parkinson, Renata Scotto, John Brierly, Isobel Crook

    John Wilson on a broadcaster, an Italian soprano, an author and an anthropologist

  6. Nick Kaiser, Angela Flowers, Robbie Shepherd, Doreen Mantle.

    Kirsty Lang on an actress, a British scientist, a gallerist, a Scottish broadcaster.

  7. Sir Michael Boyd, Jess Search, Warren Ford, Leny Andrade

    Kirsty Lang on an artistic director, a documentary maker, a tea consultant and a singer

  8. Richard Barancik, Yvonne Littlewood MBE, Edward Sexton, Dr Christian Carritt

    Kirsty Lang on a soldier, a television producer, a tailor and a doctor.

  9. George Alagiah, Sinead O'Connor, Ann Clwyd, Tony Bennett, and Trevor Francis

    John Wilson on a journalist, a singer-songwriter, a politician, a singer, a footballer

  10. Lady Williams of Elvel, Professor John Goodenough, Christine Baker, Lord Palmer

    Matthew Bannister on a secretary, a materials chemist, a publisher and an aristocrat.

  11. Malcolm Mowbray, Victoria Amelina, Roger Lovegrove, Mavis Cheek

    Matthew Bannister on a film director, a novelist, an ornithologist and a writer.

  12. Lord Kerslake, Dame Ann Leslie, Diane Rowe, Tim Blackmore

    Matthew Bannister on a civil servant, journalist, table tennis champion, radio executive.

  13. Baroness McDonagh, Craig Brown, Godfrey Merlen, Winnie Ewing

    Matthew Bannister on a baroness, a football manager, a conservationist and a politician.

  14. Daniel Ellsberg, Glenda Jackson, Melanie Phillips, Sir Ben Helfgott

    Matthew Bannister on a whistleblower, an actor, a social worker and a holocaust survivor.

  15. Silvio Berlusconi, Cormac McCarthy, Kathryn Harries, Francoise Gilot

    John Wilson on a prime minister, a novelist, a soprano and an artist.

  16. Mel Parry, Professor Alice Coleman, Hugh Callaghan, Cynthia Weil

    Matthew Bannister on an SAS veteran, a geographer, a labourer and a songwriter.

  17. Jeremy Clarke, Dr Moira Woods, Iain Johnstone, Rita Lee

    Matthew Bannister on a columnist, a campaigner, a film critic and a singer.

  18. Tina Turner, Martin Amis, Leroy Cooper, Rolf Harris, Marlene Bauer Hagge

    Matthew Bannister on a singer, an author, a photographer and a golfer.

  19. Newton Minow, Vicky Neale, Lois Keith, Gerald Rose

    Matthew Bannister on a broadcast regulator, a mathematician, a campaigner, an illustrator.

  20. Grace Bumbry, Don Short, Dame Rosemary Cramp, Wee Willie Harris

    Matthew Bannister on an opera singer, a journalist, an archaeologist and a rock‘n’roller

  21. Harry Belafonte, Jerry Springer, Valerie Winn, Kate Saunders

    Matthew Bannister on a singer and actor, a broadcaster, a runner and an author.

  22. Barry Humphries, Len Goodman, Professor Elizabeth Murray, Jah Shaka

    Matthew Bannister on a comedian, a dancer, a medical researcher and a musician

  23. Anne Perry, Dame Mary Quant, Jean Argles, Ahmad Jamal

    Matthew Bannister on an author, a designer, a codebreaker and a musician.

  24. Ben Ferencz, Seymour Fortescue, Valerie Elliott, Rachel Pollack

    Matthew Bannister on a lawyer, a banker, a journalist, an author

  25. Nigel Lawson, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, Ken Buchanan, Mary Rayner

    Matthew Bannister on a politician, a musician, a boxer and a writer.

  26. Paul O'Grady, Gordon Moore, Vera Selby, Simon Emmerson

    Matthew Bannister on an entertainer, a tech entrepreneur, a snooker player, a musician.

  27. Jacqueline Gold CBE, Lance Reddick, Traute Lafrenz, Lynn Seymour

    Matthew Bannister on a businesswoman, an actor, a campaigner, a ballerina

  28. Chaim Topol, Zandra Flemister, Bill Tidy MBE, Avis Fawcitt

    Matthew Bannister on an actor, a special agent, a cartoonist and a music teacher.

  29. Judith Heumann, Brian Tufano, Sir David Elliott KCMG, Elizabeth Foulkes

    Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a cinematographer, a diplomat and an architect.

  30. Lady Betty Boothroyd, Marianne Mantell, John Motson OBE, Sulamita Aronovsky

    Kirsty Lang on a politician, a publisher, a football commentator and a pianist.

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