
Last Word
BBC Radio 4 · BBC
588 episodesEN
Show overview
Last Word has been publishing since 2015, and across the 11 years since has built a catalogue of 588 episodes. That works out to roughly 270 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 28 min and 28 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-language Society & Culture show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 3 days ago, with 40 episodes already out so far this year. Published by BBC.
Episodes
588
Running
2015–2026 · 11y
Median length
28 min
Cadence
Weekly
From the publisher
Radio 4's weekly obituary programme, telling the life stories of those who have died recently
Latest Episodes
View all 588 episodesJeffrey Archer: From politics, to page-turners, to prison
Oct 9, 202627 min
"A woman who wears my clothes is not afraid to be noticed" fashion designer Bob Mackie
Sep 25, 202627 min
“A powerful wordsmith and artist” – remembering the playwright and cultural critic Bonnie Greer
Sep 18, 202627 min
Gloria Steinem: The journalist and activist who rewrote the rules for women
Sep 11, 202627 min
Yayoi Kusama: The artist who painted infinity
Sep 4, 202627 min
Dolly Parton: From the Smoky Mountains to Glastonbury Legend
Aug 28, 202627 min
Zhu Rongji: The reformist Chinese Premier who ordered 100 coffins
Aug 21, 202627 min
Reinventing Madonna: the pioneering DJ and producer William Orbit
Aug 14, 202627 min
Part-time punk turned professional provocateur - columnist Rod Liddle
Aug 7, 202627 min
The life and times of "Dr Death" - the Body Worlds founder Gunther von Hagens
Jul 31, 202627 min
Brenda Fricker: The first Irish woman to win an Oscar
Jul 24, 202627 min
Sam Neill: the silent child with a stutter who became a movie star
Jul 17, 202627 min
Bonnie Tyler: How the "sweet soul singer" found her growl
Jul 10, 202627 min
The Good Life of Dame Penelope Keith
Jul 3, 202627 min
"He became one of the most powerful men in the world” - the story of the man who shaped modern economics
Jun 26, 202627 min
A “bone marrow love for the Labour party” Lord Kinnock remembers Lord Hattersley
Jun 19, 202627 min
Founder of the ‘MOBOs’ and champion of black music – Kanya King
Jun 12, 202627 min
Larry King: The man behind Billie Jean King’s feminist tennis revolution
Jun 5, 202627 min
Clarence B Jones Judith Chalmers Dr Anna Ritchie Professor Frank Land
May 29, 202627 min
Michael Pennington, Cynthia Shange, Scott Hastings, Beverley Martyn
May 22, 202627 min
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