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  1. 13/03/2026

    Radio 4's weekly obituary programme.

  2. 06/03/2026

    Radio 4's weekly obituary programme

  3. 27/02/2026

    Radio 4's weekly obituary programme

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

    Kirsty Lang on a civil rights leader, a campaigner, a clown and a charity worker.

  5. Meredith Hooper, David Young, Dorothy Solomon, Derek Kelly

    Matthew Bannister on an author, a lawyer, an agent and a farmer.

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

    Matthew Bannister on a physician, a politician, a linguist and a drummer.

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

    Matthew Bannister on a journalist, a campaigner, a mathematician and a shipwreck expert.

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

    Matthew Bannister on a conservationist, a judge, a chemist and a spy.

  9. Claudette Colvin, Ian Balding, Gerry Gable, Bob Weir, Juliet Robertson

    Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a racehorse trainer, an activist and an educationalist.

  10. Molly Parkin, Kristina Gjerde, Michael Barton, Eva Schloss

    Matthew Bannister on an artist, an activist, a 麻豆社 executive and a holocaust survivor.

  11. Brigitte Bardot, Sir Alec Reed, Alwyn Crawshaw, Dame Sh芒n Legge-Bourke

    Jon Kay on an actor, a businessman, an artist, a landowner

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  23. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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