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  1. 23/01/2026

    Radio 4's weekly obituary programme

  2. 16/01/2026

    Radio 4's weekly obituary programme

  3. 09/01/2026

    Radio 4's weekly obituary programme

  4. 02/01/2026

    Radio 4's weekly obituary programme

  5. Antony Price, Sister Stan Kennedy, Ena Collymore Woodstock, John Carey

    Jon Kay on a fashion designer, a nun, a barrister, a literary critic

  6. Rob Reiner, Joanna Trollope, Stanley Baxter, Sophie Kinsella

    Matthew Bannister on a film-maker, a comedian and two authors.

  7. Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Vera Weisfeld, Frank Gehry, Martin Parr

    Matthew Bannister on a zoologist, a businesswoman, an architect and a photographer.

  8. Sir Tom Stoppard, Pam Hogg, Yanxin He, Jack Shepherd

    Matthew Bannister on a playwright, a designer, a language speaker and an actor.

  9. Jimmy Cliff, Charlotte Bingham, Skye Gyngell, David Bellos

    Kirsty Lang on a musician, a writer, a chef and a translator.

  10. Baroness Newlove, Zoe Wicomb, Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC, Professor Roland Paxton

    Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, an author, a lawyer and a civil engineer.

  11. James Watson, Pauline Collins, Judith Vidal-Hall, Dugald Ross

    Matthew Bannister on a scientist, an actor, a journalist and a fossil hunter.

  12. Dick Cheney, Yvonne Brewster, Mary McGee, Peter Watkins

    Matthew Bannister on a US politician, a theatre director, a campaigner and a film-maker.

  13. Prunella Scales CBE, Gillian Tindall, Roger Smith, Anthony Grey

    Matthew Bannister on an actor, a writer, an outdoors champion, a journalist

  14. Raila Odinga, Bill Colley, Baroness Rosalind Howells, Sister Marion Irvine

    Matthew Bannister on a Kenyan politician, a boat builder, a campaigner, a nun'

  15. Peter Gurney, Diane Keaton, Peter Hall, Angela Bond

    Matthew Bannister on a bomb disposal expert, an actor, a winemaker and a theatre manager.

  16. Patrick Bradley, Dame Jilly Cooper, Sara Jane Moore, Dame Patricia Routledge

    Matthew Bannister on an electoral officer, an author, an attempted assassin and an actor.

  17. Dame Jane Goodall, Tony Harrison, Lord Menzies Campbell, Danny Thompson

    Matthew Bannister on a primatologist, a poet, a politician and a bass player.

  18. Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, John Stapleton, Mary Elizabeth Dodd, Claudia Cardinale

    Matthew Bannister on an architect, a TV presenter, a physiotherapist and an actor.

  19. Robert Redford, Barbara Harvey, Rosa Roisinblit, Stuart Craig

    Matthew Bannister on a film star, a historian, a campaigner and a designer.

  20. The Duchess of Kent, Giorgio Armani, Valerie Pearlman, Rick Davies

    John Wilson on a duchess, fashion designer, judge and a singer.

  21. Joe Bugner, Ann McManus, Angela Mortimer Barrett, Frank Strang

    John Wilson on a boxer, a writer, a tennis player and an entrepreneur.

  22. David Richardson, Doris Lockhart Saatchi, Dame Annette Brooke, Byron Rogers

    John Wilson on a broadcaster, an art collector, a former MP and a biographer.

  23. Terence Stamp, Stephanie Shirley, Kay Dunbar, Eric Midwinter

    John Wilson on an actor, tech pioneer, literacy festival founder, a polymath

  24. Jim Lovell, Biddy Baxter, Razia Jan, Iris Williams

    Matthew Bannister on an astronaut, an editor, an educator, a singer

  25. Dame Stella Rimington, Sylvia Young, Sir Jamie McGrigor, Joan Anderson

    Matthew Bannister on an spy boss, a drama school founder, a politician and a craze starter

  26. Dame Cleo Laine, Hulk Hogan, Margaret Boden, Tom Lehrer

    Matthew Bannister on a singer, a wrestler, a cognitive scientist and a satirist.

  27. Ozzy Osbourne, Connie Francis, Jacqui Browne, Douglas Chamberlain

    Matthew Bannister on two singers, a campaigner and a cardiologist.

  28. Sir Ian Blair, Jennie Street, Dr Anna Ornstein, Muhammadu Buhari

    Matthew Bannister on a police commissioner, a farmer, a psychoanalyst and a president.

  29. Lord Tebbit, Daphne Boden, James Leprino, Sir Francis Graham-Smith

    Matthew Bannister on a politician, a harpist, a businessman and an astronomer.

  30. Courtney Griffiths KC, Sara Venn, Nina Kuscik, Mohammad Hussain

    Matthew Bannister on a barrister, a gardener, a runner and a soldier.

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