Last Word

by BBC Radio 4

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

Anne Scargill, Ronnie Appleton, Cecil Wright, Mario Vargas Llosa
Apr 18, 2025 – 27:52
Lord Kalms, Melissa Llewallyn-Davies, Rex Cowan, Wilma Finla
Apr 11, 2025 – 27:57
Val Kilmer, Jane Reed, Sir Torquil Norman, Dr Marika Sherwood
Apr 4, 2025 – 27:51
Oleg Gordievsky, Renee Goddard, Professor Richard Fortey, Sofia Gubaidulina
Mar 28, 2025 – 27:53
Group Captain John Allman ‘Paddy’ Hemingway DFC, Dame Julie Kenny, Tuppy Owens, Dick McTaggart
Mar 21, 2025 – 27:52
Athol Fugard, Janet Pharaoh, Alison Halford, Johnny Green
Mar 14, 2025 – 27:51
Bill Dare, Clint Hill, Valérie André, Gene Hackman
Mar 7, 2025 – 27:51
Roberta Flack, Dr D G Hessayon, Keith Dewhurst, Rose Hanks
Feb 28, 2025 – 27:50
Rick Buckler, Margaret Miles-Bramwell, Harry Stewart Jr, Maureen Halton
Feb 21, 2025 – 27:44
Nigel McCrery, Andrée Dumon, Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas, Diana Melly
Feb 14, 2025 – 27:50
Tony Martin, Pete Wilkinson, Loretta Ford, Marianne Faithfull
Feb 7, 2025 – 27:53
Rev Don Cupitt, Phyllis Dalton, Cecile Richards, Michael Longley
Jan 31, 2025 – 27:41
Dame Joan Plowright, Sir Jim Walker, Barbara Clegg, Denis Law
Jan 24, 2025 – 27:51
Tony Slattery, Rosalind Savill, Paddy Hill, Noreen Riols
Jan 17, 2025 – 27:45
Special Edition: Tony Slattery
Jan 17, 2025 – 24:09
Jean-Marie Le Pen, Catherine Brown, Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes, Johnnie Walker
Jan 10, 2025 – 27:44
Jimmy Carter, Caroline Miller, Manmohan Singh, Jean Adamson
Jan 3, 2025 – 27:46
Nikki Giovanni, Gerd Heidemann, Cherry Hill, Sir Richard Carew Pole
Dec 27, 2024 – 27:46
Baroness Wilkins, Charles Handy, Renee Bornstein, Tony Brignull
Dec 20, 2024 – 27:19
Wolfgang Stange, Lord Renfrew, Julie Stevens, Mary McGee
Dec 13, 2024 – 27:39
Vicky Stone, Penny Chuter, Clifton Wharton Junior, Peter Sinfield
Dec 6, 2024 – 27:41
Madeleine Riffaud, Chris Topp, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Dr Julian Litten
Nov 29, 2024 – 27:49
Lord Prescott, Stephanie Collie, Dame Janet Nelson, Frank Auerbach
Nov 22, 2024 – 27:56
Timothy West, Sir John Nott, June Spencer, Nadia Cattouse
Nov 15, 2024 – 27:31
Quincy Jones, Janey Godley, Lyudmila Trut, Dr Paul Stephenson
Nov 8, 2024 – 27:52
Dick Pope, Sister Sally Butler, Professor Tim Darvill OBE, Patti McGee
Nov 1, 2024 – 27:35
Sir Mike Jackson, Lily Ledbetter, Safeya Binzagr, Steve Piotrowski
Oct 25, 2024 – 27:38
Alex Salmond, Ethel Kennedy, Ratan Tata, Fleur Adcock
Oct 18, 2024 – 27:39
Lord Ouseley, Norman Ackroyd, Lore Segal, Cissy Houston
Oct 11, 2024 – 27:48
Kris Kristofferson, Camilla Carr, Hassan Nasrallah, Maria Benitez
Oct 4, 2024 – 27:49
Peter Jay, Ed Johnson, Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, Deborah Roberts
Sep 27, 2024 – 27:53
Dr George Berci, Olga Craig, Michaela Mabinty DePrince, Tony Strong
Sep 20, 2024 – 27:51
James Earl Jones, Dr Helen Fisher, Sergio Mendes, Maureen Nicol
Sep 13, 2024 – 27:50
Claire Lomas, Phil Swern, Countess of Airlie, Geoff Mumford
Sep 6, 2024 – 27:50
Mike Lynch, Nell McCafferty, Ruth Colvin, Sven-Göran Eriksson
Aug 30, 2024 – 27:32
Phil Donahue, Countess Diana Phipps Sternberg, Mary Gibby, Toumani Diabaté
Aug 23, 2024 – 27:38
Susan Wojcicki, Lord Colwyn, Sir Ernest Hall, Mísia
Aug 16, 2024 – 27:51
Lord Fellowes, Professor Helen Whitwell, David Power, Irène Schweizer
Aug 9, 2024 – 27:44
Edna O’Brien, Sir Kenneth Grange, Ewy Rosqvist, John Mayall
Aug 2, 2024 – 27:51
Dr Mildred Stahlman, Ray Reardon, Val McIver, Eddie Spence
Jul 26, 2024 – 27:48
Dr Ruth Westheimer, Mike Corfield, Shelley Duvall, Veronica Smith
Jul 19, 2024 – 27:51
Dr Richard Taylor, Jack Rowell, Claudia Williams, Christophe Deloire
Jul 12, 2024 – 27:49
Frank Duckworth, Leah Levin, Professor Mary-Lou Pardue, Joss Naylor
Jul 5, 2024 – 27:44
Sir Oliver Popplewell, Lynn Conway, Tony Bramwell, Francoise Hardy
Jun 21, 2024 – 27:49
Nora Cortiñas, Belinda Belville, John Burnside, Roger Corman
Jun 7, 2024 – 26:52
Richard M Sherman, Professor Wendy James CBE , Morgan Spurlock, June Mendoza OBE
May 31, 2024 – 27:50
Sir Tony O'Reilly, President Ebrahim Raisi, Penny Simkin, Professor Alasdair Geddes
May 24, 2024 – 27:50
Dame Shirley Conran, Doreen Massey, Beverley LaHaye, Steve Albini
May 17, 2024 – 27:48
Anne Dagg, Ross Anderson, Cecil Murray, Kris Hallenga
May 10, 2024 – 27:45
C.J.Sansom, Olga Fikotová-Connolly, Dr Jenny Vaughan OBE, Sir Andrew Davies
May 3, 2024 – 27:49