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Radio 4's weekly obituary programme, telling the life stories of those who have died recently

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Last Word: Rick Jolly, Dolores O'Riordan, Cyrille Regis, Jenny Joseph, Peter Wyngarde

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Rick Jolly, Dolores O'Riordan, Cyrille Regis, Jenny Joseph, Peter Wyngarde

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Rick Jolly, Dolores O'Riordan, Cyrille Regis, Jenny Joseph, Peter Wyngarde

Matthew Bannister on a doctor, a singer, a footballer, a poet, an actor.

Obituary series. Matthew Bannister on navy doctor Rick Jolly, singer Dolores O'Riordan, footballer Cyrille Regis, poet Jenny Joseph and actor Peter Wyngarde.

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Surgeon Captain Rick Jolly, the navy doctor who set up a makeshift field hospital during the Falklands War to treat both British and Argentine casualties.

Dolores O'Riordan, lead singer of the Irish band the Cranberries who sold forty million albums.

Cyrille Regis, the West Brom and England striker who experienced racism from fans in the 1980s.

Jenny Joseph who wrote Britain's best loved post war poem "Warning"

Peter Wyngarde the actor who played the TV detective Jason King and partly inspired the Austin Powers films.

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