Clarissa Dickson Wright, Lord Ballyedmond, L'Wren Scott, Mohammed Fahim, Peter Callander

Julian Worricker remembers a chef, an entrepreneur, a lyricist, a statesman and a designer

• 28 mins

Mickey Duff, John Tyson, Jill Sinclair, Adolfo Suarez, Oswald Morris

Matthew Bannister on a boxing promoter, an explorer, a music exec and a cinematographer.

• 28 mins

Margo MacDonald, Frankie Knuckles, Lorna Arnold, Kate O'Mara, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah

Matthew Bannister remembers a politician, a DJ, a historian, an actress and a president.

• 28 mins

Sue Townsend, Lord Kimball, Peaches Geldof, Prof Lorna Casselton, Mickey Rooney

Matthew Bannister on an author, an MP, a TV presenter, a fungal biologist and a film star.

• 28 mins

Gabriel García Márquez, Edna Doré, Richard Hoggart, Gerardo D'Ambrosio, John Shirley-Quirk

Julian Worricker remembers an author, an actress, a commentator, a magistrate and a singer

• 28 mins

Mark Shand, Mrs Pilkington Garimara, Derek Cooper, Wally Olins, Julian Wilson

Matthew Bannister on a conservationist, a writer, a broadcaster and a branding consultant.

• 28 mins

Bob Hoskins, U Win Tin, Ian McIntyre, Gailene Stock

Matthew Bannister on an actor, a Burmese activist, a BBC executive and a ballet teacher.

• 28 mins

Sir George Christie, Leslie Thomas, Elena Baltacha, Sir William Benyon and Deborah Rogers

Matthew Bannister remembers Glyndebourne's owner, an author, a Tory MP and a tennis player

• 28 mins

Prof Colin Pillinger, Antony Hopkins, Bev Evans, Sir Ben Gill and Stan Kelly-Bootle

Matthew Bannister on a space scientist, a musician, a farmers' leader, a computer pioneer.

• 28 mins

Rik Mayall, Dr Lorna Wing, Eric Hill, Billie Fleming, Alan Douglas

Matthew Bannister remembers a comedian, a psychiatrist, a children's writer and a cyclist.

• 28 mins

Gerry Goffin, Freydis Sharland, Alexander Shulgin, Francis Matthews

Matthew Bannister remembers a songwriter, a pilot, a chemist and an actor.

• 28 mins

Felix Dennis, Norman Willis, Josephine Pullein-Thompson, Gerry Conlon, Eli Wallach

Matthew Bannister on a publisher, a TUC leader, an author and one of the Guildford Four.

• 28 mins

Bobby Womack, Stephanie Kwolek, Dermot Healy, Viktor Sukhodrev, Delia Craig

Julian Worricker on a singer, a chemist, a writer, an interpreter and a conservationist.

• 28 mins

Alfredo Di Stefano, Eduard Shevardnadze, Ultra Violet, Chester Nez and Horace Silver

Matthew Bannister on a footballer, a Georgian politician, an artist and a code talker.

• 28 mins

Elaine Stritch, Nadine Gordimer, Michael Scudamore and Lorin Maazel

Matthew Bannister on an actress, a writer, a jockey and a conductor.

• 28 mins

James Garner, Joep Lange, Alan Alan, Philip Wayre, Dora Bryan

Julian Worricker on an actor, a physician, a naturalist, an actress and an escapologist

• 28 mins

Sir Richard MacCormac, Eileen Ford, Nigel Ryan, Zohra Sehgal, Frank Mumford

Matthew Bannister on an architect, a modelling agent, an editor, an actress, a puppeteer

• 28 mins

Chapman Pincher, Mike Smith, Lettice Curtis, Karl Albrecht, Kenny Ireland

Matthew Bannister on a journalist, a businessman, a broadcaster, a pilot, an actor

• 28 mins

Lauren Bacall, Prof Sir Alan Peacock, Robin Williams, Peter Sculthorpe

Andrea Catherwood on a Hollywood legend, a comic genius, a composer and an economist.

• 28 mins

Albert Reynolds, Ronnie Stonham, Norman Cornish, Gerry Anderson, Licia Albanese

Remembering a former Taoiseach, a BBC vetter, a painter, a broadcaster and a soprano.

• 28 mins

Richard Attenborough, Helen Bamber, BKS Iyengar, Sam Galbraith, Bill Kerr

Matthew Bannister on a director, a human rights campaigner, a yoga guru and a Labour MSP.

• 28 mins

Joan Rivers, Sir David Mitchell, Werner Franz, Candida Lycett Green, Sandy Wilson

Matthew Bannister remembers a comedian, an MP, a Hindenburg survivor and a conservationist

• 28 mins

Rev Ian Paisley, Sir Donald Sinden, Caroline Gooding, Anthony Smith, Andrew McLaglen

Matthew Bannister on a politician, an actor, an adventurer, a disability rights campaigner

• 28 mins

James Nesbitt MBE, Andrew McLaglen, Emilio Botin, Simin Behbahani, Sir Philip Dowson, George Hamilton IV

Matthew Bannister on a detective, a film director, a banker, a poet and an architect.

• 28 mins

The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, Oleg Ivanovsky, Jim Petrie, Dame Julia Polak and Bob Crewe

Julian Worricker on two scientists, an illustrator, a songwriter and a leading aristocrat.

• 28 mins

Christopher Hogwood, Major General Yitzhak Hofi, Sheila Tracy, Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, Lynsey de Paul

Matthew Bannister on a conductor, an Israeli general, a broadcaster and a mathematician.

• 28 mins

Andrew Kerr, Jean-Claude Duvalier, Dorothy Tyler MBE, Prof Karl Miller, Cosimo Matassa

Matthew Bannister on a festival founder, a dictator, an athlete and a literary editor.

• 28 mins

Sir Jocelyn Stevens, Jerrie Mock, John Moat, Shirley Baker, David Rayvern Allen

Matthew Bannister on a newspaper executive, a pilot, an author, a photographer, a producer

• 28 mins

Lynda Bellingham, Ben Bradlee, Geoffrey Perry, John Holt

Andrea Catherwood remembers an actress, a war veteran, a reggae artist and newspaperman.

• 28 mins

Jack Bruce, Gough Whitlam, Efua Dorkenoo, James Dunlop

Matthew Bannister on a rock musician, a campaigner, a politician and a firefighter.

• 28 mins

Warren Anderson, Acker Bilk, Lord Barnett, Sonia Rolt

Matthew Bannister on a company chairman, a musician, a politician and a canal campaigner.

• 28 mins

Vivienne Price; Dr Dick Laws; Warren Clarke; Geoffrey Clarke; Prince David Chavchavadze

Matthew Bannister on an orchestra founder, a zoologist, an actor, a sculptor and a spy.

• 28 mins

Sir Thomas Macpherson, Mike Nichols, Alexander Grothendieck, Paul Vaughan, Leonore Davidoff and Jimmy Ruffin

Matthew Bannister on a war hero, a director, a mathematician, a broadcaster, a historian.

• 28 mins

PD James, 'Mad' Frankie Fraser, Glen A Larson, Medlin Lewis-Spencer, Arthur Butterworth MBE

Matthew Bannister on a crime writer, a criminal, a director, a mayor and a composer.

• 28 mins

Jeremy Thorpe, Ian McLagan, Viktor Tikhonov, Trevor Pharo and Sabah

Matthew Bannister on a politician, a musician, an ice hockey coach, a clown, and a singer.

• 28 mins

Queen Fabiola, Stella Young, Bernard Stonehouse, Kent Haruf, Ralph Baer

Matthew Bannister on a disability campaigner, a queen, a polar scientist and an author.

• 28 mins

Mandy Rice-Davies, Dr Tim Black, Michel du Cille, Ian Player, Christopher Morris

Matthew Bannister on a showgirl, a doctor, a photographer and a conservationist.

• 28 mins

In a special edition of Last Word, Matthew Bannister talks to obituary editors from around the UK about the nature of their work

Matthew Bannister and guests offer an insight into the world of the obituary writer.

• 28 mins

Debbie Purdy, David Ryall, Willy Burgdorfer, Dame Mary Glen Haig, Graeme Goodall

Julian Worricker on a campaigner, an actor, an entomologist, a fencer and a music pioneer.

• 28 mins

Jean Cabut and Georges Wolinski, Luise Rainer, Edward Brooke and Chip Young

Matthew Bannister on two cartoonists, an actress, a senator and a session guitarist.

• 28 mins

Ray McFall, Richard Meade, Joan Benesh, Frank Atkinson and Brian Clemens

Obituaries of a club owner, a horseman, a choreologist, a curator and a screenwriter.

• 28 mins

Lord Brittan, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Professor John Bayley, Anne Kirkbride

Obituary series: Matthew Bannister on a politician, a king, an academic and an actress.

• 28 mins

Sir Jack Hayward, Elena Obraztsova, Robert Stone, Jean Stogdon OBE and Demis Roussos

Matthew Bannister on a businessman, a singer, a novelist, a social worker and a pop star.

• 28 mins

Colleen McCullough, Richard von Weizsaecker, Carl Djerassi, Geraldine McEwan and Lotte Hass

Matthew Bannister talks about an author, a president, a chemist, an actress and a diver.

• 28 mins

John Hopkins, Ena Baxter, Lord Gavron, Andre Brink, Charles Townes, Steve Strange

Matthew Bannister on a photographer, a cook, a businessman, a writer and a physicist.

• 28 mins

Michele Ferrero, Lady Platt of Writtle, John McCabe, Louis Jourdan, Anne Naysmith and Lesley Gore.

Julian Worricker on a confectioner, an engineer, a composer, an actor, a pianist

• 28 mins

Dan Topolski, Lady Villiers, John Davies, Tim Lusty, Clark Terry

A rower, a resistance fighter, a historian, a historian and a jazz musician.

• 28 mins

Yasar Kemal, Maureen Guy, Professor Oliver Rackham, Sir Noel Davies, Leonard Nimoy

A Turkish author, an opera singer, an environmentalist, a nuclear engineer and an actor.

• 28 mins

Sir Terry Pratchett, Florence Arthaud, Patrick Whitefield, Lord Molyneaux, Sam Simon

Matthew Bannister on an author, a sailor, an ecologist, a politician and a comedy creator.

• 28 mins

Shaw Taylor, Arthur Wyatt, Naty Revuelta Clews, Malcolm Fraser, Andy Fraser

Matthew Bannister on a broadcaster, a diplomat, a revolutionary, a politician, a musician.

• 28 mins

Lee Kuan Yew, Derek Chinnery, Eugenie Clark, Mal Peet, Jackie Trent

Matthew Bannister on a prime minister, a BBC executive, an ichthyologist and an author.

• 28 mins

Cynthia Lennon, Anthony Scrivener, Martyn Goff, John Renbourn

Julian Worricker on a Beatles wife, a barrister, a musician and the man behind the Booker.

• 28 mins

Frei Otto, Richie Benaud, Albert Maysles, Julio Cesar Strassera, Mary Clarke

Matthew Bannister on an architect, a cricket commentator, a director, a lawyer, a critic.

• 28 mins

Guenter Grass, Sheila Kitzinger, Andrew Porter, Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott, Percy Sledge

Matthew Bannister on an author, a childbirth campaigner, a critic, a gambler and a singer.

• 28 mins

Margaret Rule, Lord Mason, Dell Williams, Buddy Elias, Brian Couzens

Matthew Bannister on an archaeologist, an MP, a sex shop founder and a record producer.

• 28 mins

Sir Philip Carter, Andrew Lesnie, Margaret Harrison, Tom McCabe MSP, Claire Gordon

Matthew Bannister on a football chairman, a cinematographer, a campaigner and an actress.

• 28 mins

Jean Nidetch, Baroness Ruth Rendell, Geoff Duke OBE, Katharine Worth, Errol Brown

Matthew Bannister on a slimming guru, an author, a motorcyclist and a drama teacher.

• 28 mins

BB King, Kenan Evren, Sir Maurice Flanagan, Maya Plisetskaya, Wally Kahn

Matthew Bannister on a bluesman, a general, an airline boss, a dancer and a glider pilot.

• 28 mins

Oscar Holderer, David Sharp, the Dowager Marchioness of Reading, Alexandre Lamfalussy and Guy Carawan

Matthew Bannister on a rocket scientist, a rambler, an aristocrat, an economist, a singer.

• 28 mins

Raymond Gosling, Eileen Gray, Sir Duncan Watson, Denys Darlow, Grace Lee Whitney

Matthew Bannister on a scientist, a cyclist, a blind campaigner, a conductor, an actress.

• 28 mins

Tariq Aziz, Charles Kennedy, Julie Harris, Alan Bond, Peter Cropper

The lives of two politicians, a costume designer, an entrepreneur and a violinist.

• 28 mins

Christopher Lee, Marguerite Patten, James Last, Major Roy Homard, Ron Moody

Andrea Catherwood on two actors, a polar explorer, a cookery writer and a musician.

• 28 mins

Morris Beckman, Ornette Coleman, Tanith Lee, Süleyman Demirel and Doris Hart

Matthew Bannister on an activist, a musician, a writer, a president and a tennis player.

• 28 mins

Sir Chris Woodhead, Patrick Macnee, Dame Anne Warburton, Vic Mayhew, James Horner

Matthew Bannister on a school inspector, an actor, a diplomat, a subeditor and a composer.

• 28 mins

Sir Nicholas Winton, Val Doonican, Nek Chand, James Salter, Lady Rozelle Raynes

Matthew Bannister on a humanitarian, a singer, an artist, a writer and an aristocrat.

• 28 mins

Omar Sharif, Stanley 'Steve' Moore, Jules Wright, Yevgeny Primakov, Ernest Tomlinson

Matthew Bannister on an actor, a detective, a director, a politician and a composer.

• 28 mins

Rev Joyce Bennett, Prince Saud al-Faisal, Burt Shavitz, Michael Oliver, Ian Allan

Matthew Bannister on a priest, a foreign minister, a beekeeper and a medical professor.

• 28 mins

Scot Breithaupt, E. L. Doctorow, Claudia Alexander, Ron Pollard, Magali Noel

Matthew Bannister on a space scientist, a bookie, an author, a BMX pioneer, an actress.

• 28 mins

Nova Pilbeam, Reverend Owen Chadwick, Jon Vickers, Yoichiro Nambu, Nick Ryman

Matthew Bannister on a historian, a tenor, a physicist, an actress, a vigneron

• 28 mins

Cilla Black, Michael Kidson, APJ Abdul Kalam, Evelyn Gillan, George Cole

Matthew Bannister discusses a singer, a teacher, a president, a campaigner and an actor.

• 28 mins

David Nobbs, Frances Kelsey, Kyril Zinovieff, Elio Fiorucci, Harry Pitch

Reeta Chakrabarti on a writer, a scientist, a spy, a fashion designer and a musician.

• 28 mins

Khaled al-Asaad, Jazz Summers, Jack Gold, Manual Contreras, Dawn Wofford

Lucy Ash on an archaeologist, a music manager, a director, a show jumper and a general.

• 28 mins

Bernie Passingham, Christopher Marshall, Wayne Carson, Michael Turk, Marie Dobbs, Yvonne Craig

Matthew Bannister on a union official, a researcher, a songwriter, a waterman, an author.

• 28 mins

Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, Joy Beverley, Oliver Sacks, Annette Worsley-Taylor

Matthew Bannister talks about a peer, a singer, a neurologist and a fashion promoter.

• 28 mins

Sir Adrian Cadbury, Rico Rodriguez, Ieng Thirith, Margaret Harrison, Judy Carne

Matthew Bannister on a businessman, a trombonist, a Khmer Rouge leader, a charity founder.

• 28 mins

Sir David Willcocks, Merv Adelson, Mariem Hassan, Brian Close, Beryl Renwick

Matthew Bannister on a choirmaster, a producer, a singer, a cricketer, a radio presenter.

• 28 mins

Brian Sewell, Jackie Collins, Ted Smith CBE, PJ Kavanagh, Yogi Berra

Matthew Bannister on an art critic, a novelist, a naturalist, a poet and a baseball player

• 28 mins

Brian Friel, General Mario Menendez, Tessa Ransford, John Guillermin, Ben Cauley

Matthew Bannister talks about a playwright, a general, a poet and a director.

• 28 mins

Lord Denis Healey, Carmen Balcells, Henning Mankell, Revd Kenneth Leech and Captain Bob Arnott

Lucy Ash on a politician, a literary agent, a crime writer, a QE2 captain and a churchman.

• 28 mins

Geoffrey Howe, Sue Lloyd-Roberts, Joe Henson, Hugh Scully and Alexander Faris

Julian Worricker on a politician, a journalist, a farmer, a TV presenter and a composer.

• 28 mins

General John Galvin, Joan Leslie, Michael Meacher, Howard Kendall, Jerry Parr and Coleridge Goode

Matthew Bannister on a general, an actress, an MP, a football manager and a bodyguard.

• 28 mins

Professor Lisa Jardine, Philip French, Ronnie Massarella, Maureen O'Hara

Matthew Bannister on a polymath, a critic, a showjumping manager, a film star

• 28 mins

Norman Moore, Diane Charlemagne, Professor David Cesarani, Colin Welland and Peter Donaldson

Matthew Bannister on a conservationist, a singer, an historian, an actor, a newsreader

• 28 mins

Helmut Schmidt, Pat Eddery, Julia Jones, Lord Noon and Nat Peck

Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the lives of people who have recently died.

• 28 mins

Roy Dommett, Warren Mitchell, Allen Toussaint, Cynthia Payne and Jonah Lomu

Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the lives of people who have recently died.

• 28 mins

Peter Dimmock, Alix d'Unienville, Yolanda Sonnabend, Maggie Eales and George Barris

Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the lives of people who have recently died.

• 28 mins

General Sir Robert Ford, Hazel Adair, Jane Wardle, Gerry Byrne and P.F Sloan

Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the lives of people who have recently died.

• 28 mins

Marcus Klingberg, William McIlvanney, Setsuko Hara, Joel Elkes and John Peel

Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the lives of people who have recently died.

• 28 mins

Mick Murphy, Ahmed Chalabi, Mattiwilda Dobbs, Brajraj Mahapatra and Holly Woodlawn

Matthew Bannister on a cyclist, a politician, a singer, a king, an actress.

• 28 mins

Some of the most memorable lives of the past twelve months

A scientist, a diver, a marchioness and a singer - memorable lives from 2015 are recalled.

• 28 mins

Eric Tomlinson, Elsie Tu, Peter Dickinson, Lillian Vernon and Lemmy

Julian Worricker on a sound engineer, a campaigner, a writer, a businesswoman, a musician.

• 28 mins

Robert Stigwood, Patricia Torrens, Pierre Boulez, Lord Ezra, Natalie Cole

Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the lives of people who have recently died.

• 28 mins

David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Olwyn Hughes and Ed Stewart

Matthew Bannister on a rock star, an actor, a literary agent, a DJ

• 28 mins

Glenn Frey, Lord Weidenfeld, Jeanne Cordova, Haskell Wexler, Gilbert Kaplan.

Matthew Bannister on a rock star, a publisher, a lesbian campaigner, a cinematographer.

• 28 mins

Lord Parkinson, Bill Mitchell, Paddy Doherty, Henry Worsley, Dr Gladys-Marie Fry

Matthew Bannister on a politician, an editor, an activist, an explorer, a folklorist

• 30 mins

Terry Wogan, Lord Lucan, Frank Finlay, Denise St Aubyn Hubbard, Maurice White

Matthew Bannister on a broadcaster, an earl, an actor, a sailor, a musician

• 28 mins

Marvin Minsky, Margaret Forster, Peter Powell, Sir Brian Tovey, Joe Alaskey

Matthew Bannister on a computer scientist, a writer, a kite inventor, a GCHQ director

• 28 mins

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Edmonde Charles-Roux, Norman Hudis, Antonin Scalia, Harper Lee

Matthew Bannister on a UN Secretary General, an editor, a screenwriter, a judge

• 28 mins

Alex Timpson, Lord Avebury, Douglas Slocombe, Umberto Eco, Pascal Bentoiu

Matthew Bannister on a foster mother, a cinematographer, an author and a parliamentarian.

• 28 mins