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Episodes from Last Word broadcast in 2011

December
  1. Matthew Bannister on Kim Jong-il, Chris Athey, Russell Hoban, Cesaria Evora, Vaclav Havel.
  2. John Wilson on Christopher Hitchens, Lynn Margulis, George Whitman and Jerry Robinson.
  3. John Wilson on Dev Anand, Christopher Logue, Socrates, Helen Forrester and Wilfred Lambert
  4. Matthew Bannister on Ken Russell, Gary Speed, Lana Peters and Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu.
November
  1. Matthew Bannister on Basil D'Oliveira, Shelagh Delaney, Sir David Jack, Peter Reading.
  2. Matthew Bannister on Jackie Leven, Evelyn Lauder, Dulcie Gray, Richard Scott, Jane Packer.
  3. Matthew Bannister on Wallace Cunningham, Lord Gould, Alfonso Cano and Joe Frazier.
  4. Matthew Bannister on Nusrat Bhutto, Sir Jimmy Savile, George Daniels and Norrie Woodhall.
October
  1. Matthew Bannister on Elouise Cobell, Edmundo Ros, Gil Hayward, Sue Mengers, Norman Corwin.
  2. Jane Little on Muammar Gaddafi, Dennis Ritchie, Sylvia Robinson, and Betty Driver.
  3. Matthew Bannister on George Baker, Ramiz Alia, Madeleine Simms and George Hinchcliffe.
  4. Matthew Bannister on Steve Jobs, Bert Jansch, Ralph Steinman and Robert Whitaker.
September
  1. Matthew Bannister on Wangari Maathai, David Croft, Gusty Spence and Carl Wood.
  2. Matthew Bannister on Burhanuddin Rabbani, Kurt Sanderling, Arthur Evans and Walter Bonatti
  3. Matthew Bannister on Richard Hamilton, Michael Hart, Gabriel Valdes and Wardell Quezergue.
  4. Matthew Bannister on Vann Nath, Betty Skelton, Ray Fisher, Eugene Nida and Len Ganley.
  5. Matthew Bannister on John McAleese, NF Simpson, Stetson Kennedy and David Honeyboy Edwards
August
  1. Matthew Bannister on Jerry Lieber, Diana Lamplugh, John Howard Davies and George Devol.
  2. Matthew Bannister on Robert Robinson, Mother Thelka, Shammi Kapoor, Paul Wilkinson.
  3. Matthew Bannister on Michael Bukht, Hugh Carey, John Hoyland, Nancy Wake and Joe Arroyo.
  4. Jane Little on John Stott, Stan Barstow, Derek Bryce-Smith and Fran Landesman.
July
  1. Matthew Bannister on Cec Thompson, Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, Robert Ettinger, Googie Withers.
  2. Matthew Bannister on Lucian Freud, Ahmed Wali Karzai, Roland Petit and Hanna Segal.
  3. Matthew Bannister on Betty Ford, the Earl of Harewood, Betty Callaway and Josef Suk.
  4. John Wilson on Otto van Habsburg, Cy Twombly, Anna Massey, Robin Nash and Robert Widmer.
  5. John Wilson on Arthur Goldreich, Peter Falk, Terry Marsland and Mario Cassandro.
June
  1. Matthew Bannister on Brian Haw, Mike Waterson, Yelena Bonner and Mietek Pemper.
  2. Jane Little on Albertina Sisulu, MF Husain, Patrick Leigh Fermor and John Mackenzie.
  3. Matthew Bannister on Lawrence Eagleburger, Josephine Hart, Miriam Karlin, Jack Kevorkian.
  4. Matthew Bannister on Dame Barbara Mills, Gil Scott-Heron, Leonora Carrington, Flick Colby.
May
  1. Matthew Bannister on Mala Sen, Willard Boyle, Lloyd Knibb, and the 7th Earl of Onslow.
  2. Matthew Bannister on Garret FitzGerald, Pam Gems, Elisabeth Svendsen and Ernesto Sabato.
  3. Matthew Bannister on Seve Ballesteros, Richard Holmes, Dana Wynter and Enid Seeney.
  4. Matthew Bannister on Osama bin Laden, Sir Henry Leach, Sir Henry Cooper, Hubert Schlafly.
April
  1. Matthew Bannister on John Sullivan, Sathya Sai Baba, Poly Styrene and Max Mathews.
  2. Jane Little on Tim Hetherington, TP Flanagan, David Bowen and Elisabeth Sladen.
  3. Matthew Bannister on Sidney Lumet, Baruch Blumberg, Roger Nichols and Ishbel MacAskill.
  4. Matthew Bannister on Juliano Mer Khamis, Leslie Collier, Pinetop Perkins and Andrew Tait.
  5. Matthew Bannister on Edward Stobart, Geraldine Ferraro, Diana Wynne Jones and Robert Tear.
March
  1. Matthew Bannister on Elizabeth Taylor, Warren Christopher, Fred Titmus and Jet Harris.
  2. Matthew Bannister on Donny George, Owsley Stanley, Harold Massingham and Bob Greaves.
  3. Matthew Bannister on Cyril Stein, Alberto Granado, Rachel Cameron and Anthony Brooke.
  4. Matthew Bannister on Suze Rotolo, Susan Crosland, Jane Russell and Major Peter Parkes.
February
  1. John Wilson on Raymond Burton, Maria Altmann, Ronald Hickman and David Tench.
  2. John Wilson on George Shearing, Derek Rawcliffe, Brian Jacques, Daniel Bell and TP McKenna
  3. John Wilson on Trevor Bailey, Ernest McCulloch, John Paul Getty III and Gary Moore.
  4. Matthew Bannister on Penny Feiwel, Dame Margaret Price, David Kato, and Malcolm Lyell.
January
  1. Matthew Bannister on Sargent Shriver, Reg Ward, Bhimsen Joshi and Jack Lalanne.
  2. Matthew Bannister on Vang Pao, Nat Lofthouse, John Gross, Susannah York and Stu Smith.
  3. Matthew Bannister on David Hart, Dick Winters, Dick King Smith and Jiri Dienstbier.
  4. Matthew Bannister on Jayaben Desai, Gerry Rafferty, Prunella Stack and Pete Postlethwaite.
  5. Matthew Bannister on Elisabeth Beresford, Judge James Pickles and Captain Beefheart.

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