Last Word
Radio 4's weekly obituary programme, telling the life stories of those who have died recently
Last Word - 01/01/2010
John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 01/02/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 01/05/2009
Including the lives of poet UA Fanthorpe, Lieutenant-General Sir Martin Garrod, former manager of The Bay City Rollers, Tam Paton and Bollywood actor and director Feroz Khan.
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Last Word - 01/06/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 01/08/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 01/10/2010
Matthew Bannister remembers Hollywood legend Tony Curtis, Princess Diana's favourite fashion designer Catherine Walker and the self styled King of the Buskers, Don Partridge.
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Last Word - 02/01/2009
John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 02/02/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 02/03/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 02/04/2010
The lives of those who have recently died are assessed with contributions from those who knew the subject or who have a particular knowledge of their life and work.
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Last Word - 02/05/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 02/07/2010
Radio 4's obituary programme, analysing and reflecting on the lives of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 02/10/2009
Marking the lives of politician Piers Merchant; gardener Pamela Schwerdt; Ottoman dynasty leader Osman Ertugrul Osmanoglu; Lucy Vodden and Spanish pianist Alicia de Larrocha.
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Last Word - 02/11/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 03/04/2009
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 03/06/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 03/07/2009
Matthew Bannister reflects on the lives of actress Mollie Sugden, wine-maker Jean Hugel, pub landlady Florence Lane, sports scientist Prof Tom Reilly and poet Steven Wells.
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Last Word - 03/08/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 03/09/2010
Matthew Bannister remembers Lord Glenconner, Dimitrios Ioannidis, Lady Anne Tree, Michel Montignac and Corinne Day.
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Last Word - 03/10/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 03/12/2010
Matthew Bannister on the Dean of Southwark, Colin Slee, Airplane star Leslie Nielsen, computer pioneer Sir Maurice Wilkes and Peter Christopherson of the group Throbbing Gristle.
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Last Word - 04/01/2008
Jane Little presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 04/04/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 04/05/2007
John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 04/06/2010
Radio 4's obituary programme, analysing and reflecting on the lives of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 04/07/2008
John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 04/09/2009
Matthew Bannister on the lives of environmentalist Edward Goldsmith; 60s radio and TV star Simon Dee; Scottish ballad singer Stanley Robertson and songwriter Ellie Greenwich.
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Last Word - 04/12/2009
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series. Marking the lives of the actor Richard Todd, Professor Humphrey Kay, Cecilia Vajda and William Miller.
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Last Word - 05/02/2010
John Wilson presents the obituary series. Marking the lives of Sir Percy Cradock, Lucienne Day, Lieutenant-Colonel Lee Archer and Pernell Roberts.
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Last Word - 05/03/2010
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series. Marking the lives of Michael Foot, Rose Gray, Bert Bushnell, and Winston Churchill, grandson of the great wartime leader.
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Last Word - 05/06/2009
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 05/09/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 05/10/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 05/11/2010
Matthew Bannister on John F Kennedy's speechwriter Ted Sorenson; trumpeter Maurice Murphy who played the opening fanfare of the Star Wars theme; John Huchra who mapped the universe.
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Last Word - 05/12/2008
John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 06/02/2009
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 06/03/2009
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 06/04/2007
Russell Davies presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 06/05/2007
John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 06/06/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 06/07/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 06/08/2010
Jane Little presents Radio 4's obituary programme, analysing and reflecting on the lives of John Riddell, Lolita Lebron, Tom Mankiewicz, Donald Shiley and Eric Tindill.
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Last Word - 06/11/2009
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 07/01/2011
Matthew Bannister on trade union campaigner Jayaben Desai, Baker Street songwriter Gerry Rafferty, and Leader of the Women's League of Health and Beauty Prunella Stack.
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Last Word - 07/03/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 07/05/2010
Marking the lives of Antony Grey, Jean-Louis Dumas, Lynn Redgrave, Guenter Wendt and Avigdor Arikha.
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Last Word - 07/08/2009
Jane Little presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 07/09/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 07/11/2008
John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 07/12/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 08/01/2010
Matthew Bannister marks the lives of Rear Admiral Sam Salt, Percy Sutton, Yves Rocher, the Right Reverend Monsignor Graham Leonard and Craigie Aitchison.
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Last Word - 08/02/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 08/05/2009
Featuring the lives of music manager John Weller, Brazilian theatre director Augusto Boal, Ghazal singer Iqbal Bano, toponymist Dr Margaret Gelling and model Maxime de la Falaise.
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Last Word - 08/08/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 08/10/2010
Matthew Bannister on Sir Norman Wisdom's rise from poverty to stardom; Sir Robert Mark's crusade against corruption in the Metropolitan Police and moral philosopher Philippa Foot.
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Last Word - 09/01/2009
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 09/02/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 09/03/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 09/04/2010
John Wilson presents Radio 4's obituary programme, analysing and reflecting on the lives of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 09/05/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 09/07/2010
Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussain Fadlallah, explorer and composer David Fanshawe, doctor and anaemia researcher Clement Finch and racehorse trainer Rosemary Lomax are remembered.
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Last Word - 09/10/2009
Matthew Bannister's oibtuary series marks the lives of Marek Edelman, Robert S Baker, Dr Sula Wolff and Mercedes Sosa.
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Last Word - 09/11/2007
John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 10/04/2009
John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 10/06/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 10/07/2009
John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 10/08/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 10/09/2010
John Wilson presents Radio 4's obituary programme, analysing and reflecting on the lives of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 10/10/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 10/12/2010
Radio 4's obituary programme, analysing and reflecting on the lives of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 11/01/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 11/04/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 11/05/2007
John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 11/06/2010
Matthew Bannister presents Radio 4's obituary programme, analysing and reflecting on the lives of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 11/07/2008
John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 11/09/2009
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the lives of Keith Waterhouse, Baroness Chapman, Sergei Mikhalkov, Francis Rogallo and Wycliffe Johnson.
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Last Word - 11/12/2009
Marking the lives of Irish folk singer Liam Clancy, ex-director of Radio Free Europe Jim Brown, campaigner for ordination of women Barbara Cawthorne and writer Geoffrey Moorhouse.
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Last Word - 12/02/2010
John Wilson presents the obituary series. Marking the lives of Alexander McQueen, Sir John Dankworth, Charlie Wilson and Ian Carmichael.
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Last Word - 12/03/2010
Matthew Bannister marks the lives of Philip Langridge, Walter Plowright, Andree Peel, Sir Kenneth Dover, and Fred Wedlock.
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Last Word - 12/06/2009
Matthew Bannister presents. Including the lives of the controversial trade union leader Eric Hammond, computer scientist Professor Rajeev Motwani and Scottish poet Maurice Lindsay.
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Last Word - 12/09/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 12/10/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 12/11/2010
Matthew Bannister on Joseph Gavin who helped to put the first men on the moon, the opera singer Shirley Verrett and Ehud Netzer who discovered what's thought to be Herod's tomb.
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Last Word - 12/12/2008
John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 13/02/2009
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 13/03/2009
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 13/04/2007
Russell Davies presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 13/05/2007
John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 13/06/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 13/07/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 13/08/2010
Matthew Bannister hosts Radio 4's obituary programme and remembers historian Professor Tony Judt, actress Patricia Neal, union leader Jimmy Reid, and jazz drummer Jack Parnell.
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Last Word - 13/11/2009
Marking the lives of Professor Jeremy Morris; Chinese historian Nien Cheng; linguist Stanley Ellis; public campaigner Lady Tumim; and 'Nessie' hunter, Robert Rines.
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Last Word - 14/01/2011
Matthew Bannister on the multi-millionaire property developer David Hart; Major Dick Winters; the Czech dissident Jiri Dienstbier; and the children's writer Dick King Smith.
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Last Word - 14/03/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 14/05/2010
Matthew Bannister presents Radio 4's obituary programme, analysing and reflecting on the lives of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 14/08/2009
Jane Little presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 14/09/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 14/11/2008
John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 14/12/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 15/01/2010
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 15/02/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 15/05/2009
Featuring the lives of Nuremburg war crimes prosecutor Henry T King, New Age writer John Michell, Soviet General Valentin Varennikov and the father of British surfing, Bill Bailey.
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Last Word - 15/06/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 15/08/2008
Jane Little presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 15/10/2010
Matthew Bannister on the agony aunt Claire Rayner, the operatic soprano Dame Joan Sutherland, and the football manager Malcolm Allison.
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Last Word - 16/01/2009
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 16/02/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 16/03/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 16/04/2010
Matthew Bannister reflects on the life stories of people who have died recently.
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Last Word - 16/05/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 16/07/2010
Matthew Bannister presents Radio 4's obituary programme, analysing and reflecting on the lives of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 16/10/2009
John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 16/11/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 17/04/2009
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 17/07/2009
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 17/08/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 17/09/2010
John Wilson on Lord Bingham, Eileen Nearne, Vladimir Raitz, Claude Chabrol and Sid Rawle.
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Last Word - 17/10/2008
John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 17/12/2010
Radio 4's obituary programme, analysing and reflecting on the lives of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 18/01/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 18/04/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 18/05/2007
John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 18/06/2010
Radio 4's obituary programme, analysing and reflecting on the lives of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 18/07/2008
John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 18/09/2009
Matthew Bannister hosts the obituary series with tributes to BBC journalist Brian Barron; TV chef Keith Floyd; agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug; comedy writer Larry Gelbart.
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Last Word - 18/12/2009
Marking the lives of Paul Samuelson, Yegor Gaidar, Bobby Jaye, Sir John Quicke and Ken Wlaschin.
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Last Word - 19/01/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 19/02/2010
John Wilson presents the obituary series, marking the lives of Lionel Jeffries, Dick Francis, Geoffrey Burbidge and Alfred Gregory.
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Last Word - 19/03/2010
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 19/06/2009
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 19/09/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 19/10/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 19/11/2010
Matthew Bannister on the film producer Dino de Laurentiis, the nutritionist Professor John Waterlow, the composer Henryk Gorecki and the natural history producer Simon Roberts.
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Last Word - 19/12/2008
John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 20/02/2009
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 20/03/2009
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 20/04/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 20/05/2007
John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 20/06/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 20/07/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 20/08/2010
Matthew Bannister presents Radio 4's obituary programme, analysing and reflecting on the lives of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 20/11/2009
Marking the lives of TB expert Sir John Crofton, actor Edward Woodward, travel trade pioneer Jimmy Hoseason, 80s rap artist Derek B and Cornish master boat builder Ralph Bird.
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Last Word - 21/01/2011
Matthew Bannister on Laotian General Vang Pao, footballer Nat Lofthouse, literary critic John Gross, actress Susannah York and stock car racing champion Stu Smith.
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Last Word - 21/03/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 21/05/2010
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary programme. This week features Major General Khattiya Sawasdipol, Professor Richard Gregory, Hank Jones, Alan Watkins and Pamela Green.
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Last Word - 21/08/2009
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 21/09/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 21/11/2008
John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 21/12/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 22/01/2010
Matthew Bannister marks the lives of Bill McLaren, Kate McGarrigle, Andrew Booth and Erich Segal.
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Last Word - 22/02/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 22/05/2009
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series. Featuring the lives of journalist Anne Scott-James, composer Nicholas Maw, politician Lord Kennet and writer Alan Hackney.
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Last Word - 22/06/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 22/08/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 22/10/2010
Matthew Bannister on the unconventional mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, the teacher of many great opera singers Vera Rozsa and the publisher of Penthouse magazine Bob Guccione.
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Last Word - 23/01/2009
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 23/02/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 23/03/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 23/05/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 23/07/2010
Radio 4's obituary programme, analysing and reflecting on the lives of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 23/10/2009
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 23/11/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 24/04/2009
Featuring the lives of writer JG Ballard, trade union leader Jack Jones, film producer Peter Rogers, former Bank of England governor Lord George and trumpet player Zeke Zarchey.
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Last Word - 24/06/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 24/07/2009
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 24/08/2007
John Wilson and guests reflect on the lives of notable people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 24/09/2010
Radio 4's obituary programme, analysing and reflecting on the lives of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 24/10/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 25/01/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 25/04/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 25/05/2007
John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 25/06/2010
Radio 4's obituary programme, analysing and reflecting on the lives of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 25/07/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 25/09/2009
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, marking the lives of John Wild, Troy Kennedy Martin, Willy Ronis, Jim Carroll and Leonie Cohn.
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Last Word - 26/02/2010
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, marking the lives of Alexander Haig, Cy Grant, Geoffrey Woolley and Allan Wicks.
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Last Word - 26/03/2010
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 26/06/2009
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, with guests talking about singer Michael Jackson, actress Farrah Fawcett, showjumping's Douglas Bunn and broadcaster Steve Race.
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Last Word - 26/09/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 26/10/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 26/11/2010
Matthew Bannister on the Hammer Horror actress Ingrid Pitt, the foreign correspondent John Bulloch, the furniture designer Robin Day and the turkey farmer Bernard Matthews.
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Last Word - 27/02/2009
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 27/03/2009
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 27/04/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 27/05/2007
John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 27/06/2008
John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 27/07/2007
Jonathan Freedland presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 27/08/2010
Matthew Bannister presents Radio 4's obituary programme, remembering Edwin Morgan, Dr Ivar Lovaas, Clara Claiborne Park and Bill Millin.
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Last Word - 27/11/2009
Marking the lives of BBC sports commentator Max Robertson; Swedish soprano Elizabeth Soderstrom; Italian mountaineer Lino Lacedelli; painter John Craxton and bass player Jeff Clyne.
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Last Word - 28/01/2011
Matthew Bannister on Peace Corps founder Sargent Shriver, Docklands Development leader Reg Ward, photographer Penny Tweedie and fitness king Jack Lalanne.
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Last Word - 28/03/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 28/05/2010
Matthew Bannister presents Radio 4's obituary programme, analysing and reflecting on the lives of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 28/08/2009
The lives of Senator Edward Kennedy; geologist and African adventurer Campbell Bridges; Gregory's Girl producer Clive Parsons; jazz guitarist Lawrence Lucie. With Matthew Bannister.
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Last Word - 28/09/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 28/11/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 28/12/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 29/01/2010
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died. The lives of JD Salinger, Lord Richardson and Earl Wild.
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Last Word - 29/02/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 29/04/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 29/05/2009
Matthew Bannister talks about the lives of physicist Herbert York, diver Carl Spencer, trade union leader Ken Gill and French theatre director Roger Planchon.
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Last Word - 29/06/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 29/08/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 29/10/2010
Matthew Bannister on the British aid worker Linda Norgrove, children's writer Eva Ibbotson, reggae singer Gregory Isaacs and BBC announcer Mary Malcolm.
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Last Word - 30/01/2009
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 30/03/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 30/04/2010
Matthew Bannister presents Radio 4's obituary programme. The subjects include campaigner Dorothy Height, writer Alan Sillitoe, Professor Fred Halliday and poet Peter Porter.
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Last Word - 30/05/2008
John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 30/07/2010
Matthew Bannister on Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Alex Higgins, Edna Healey, Luis Corvalan and George Steinbrenner.
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Last Word - 30/10/2009
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series. Marking the lives of Norman Painting, Werner Heubeck, Dr Ignacio Ponseti, David Shepherd and William Phipps.
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Last Word - 30/11/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 31/07/2009
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 31/08/2007
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 31/10/2008
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.
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Last Word - 31/12/2010
Matthew Bannister remembers creator of The Wombles Elisabeth Beresford, political commentator Anthony Howard, outspoken Judge James Pickles and cult musician Captain Beefheart.
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Last Word - Juan Antonio Samaranch/Tom Fleming /Ronald Gregory/Bishop Abel Muzorewa
Matthew Bannister presents the obituary programme, marking the lives of Juan Antonio Samaranch, Tom Fleming, Ronald Gregory and Bishop Abel Muzorewa.
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