Last Word

BBC

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

Episodes

"A woman who wears my clothes is not afraid to be noticed" fashion designer Bob Mackie

“A powerful wordsmith and artist” – remembering the playwright and cultural critic Bonnie Greer

Gloria Steinem: The journalist and activist who rewrote the rules for women

Yayoi Kusama: The artist who painted infinity

Dolly Parton: From the Smoky Mountains to Glastonbury Legend

Zhu Rongji: The reformist Chinese Premier who ordered 100 coffins

Reinventing Madonna: the pioneering DJ and producer William Orbit

Part-time punk turned professional provocateur - columnist Rod Liddle

The life and times of "Dr Death" - the Body Worlds founder Gunther von Hagens

Brenda Fricker: The first Irish woman to win an Oscar

Sam Neill: the silent child with a stutter who became a movie star

Bonnie Tyler: How the "sweet soul singer" found her growl

The Good Life of Dame Penelope Keith

"He became one of the most powerful men in the world” - the story of the man who shaped modern economics

A “bone marrow love for the Labour party” Lord Kinnock remembers Lord Hattersley

Founder of the ‘MOBOs’ and champion of black music – Kanya King

Larry King: The man behind Billie Jean King’s feminist tennis revolution

Clarence B Jones Judith Chalmers Dr Anna Ritchie Professor Frank Land

Michael Pennington, Cynthia Shange, Scott Hastings, Beverley Martyn

Ruth Slenczynska, Dame Bridget Ogilvie, Tony Worthington, Russell Tyner KC