Last Word

BBC

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

Episodes

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

Dr Ittai Gradel, Dame Shirley Porter, Professor Nigel Dunnett, María Nieves Rego

Xia De-hong, Lord Hunt of Chesterton, Joan Burstein, Bill Leader

Andy Kershaw, Dame Averil Cameron, Dr Judith Rapoport, Desmond Morris

Asha Bhosle, Sir Neil Cossons, Professor Harold Ellis, Daphne Selfe

Sir Craig Reedie, Bronwen Naish, Geoff Yeadon, Margareta Magnusson

Robert Fox, Mary Rand MBE, Sir Tony Hoare, Biruté Galdikas

Dame Jenni Murray, Len Deighton, Lynda Hale, Jurgen Habermas

Yanar Mohammed, MP Phil Woolas, Professor Robin Weiss, Jane Lapotaire

Paul Conroy, Kenith Trodd, Astrid Llewellyn, Jo Purvis

Neil Sedaka, Drusilla Beyfus, Professor Dame Carole Jordan, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Martyn Butler, Allan Massie, Professor Nicola Fear, Willie Colón

Reverend Jesse Jackson, Diane Munday, Philippe Gaulier, Lady Jean Wilson

Meredith Hooper, David Young, Dorothy Solomon, Derek Kelly

Sir Nicholas White, Lord Wallace, Professor Deborah Cameron, Sly Dunbar

Sir Mark Tully, Dame Gillian Wagner, Dr Gladys West, Richard Larn OBE

Molly Burkett, Sir James Munby, Edith Flanigen, Aldrich Ames