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Last Rites

Last Rites

Di: Georgia Heneage and Sam C. Wells
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Fascinating lives taken from the pages of the obituaries

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  • The Man Who Revolutionised Jazz

    The Man Who Revolutionised Jazz
    Jun 17 2026

    Where does creative genius come from? And what are the costs?

    This episode of Last Rites digs into one of the most culturally explosive moments of the 20th century - the jazz renaissance of the 1950s - through Sonny Rollins, the maestro who helped define it.

    Rollins had his demons: he was an obsessive who never rested on his laurels and disappeared from the spotlight again and again, who kicked a heroin habit and went to jail for armed robbery.

    He was also a genius who helped revolutionise jazz with contemporaries such as Miles Davis and John Coltrane, known for his extraordinary improvisational technique and mastery of the saxophone.

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    51 min
  • The Woman Who Lived Among the Orangutans

    The Woman Who Lived Among the Orangutans
    May 28 2026

    This week we look at Birutė Galdikas, a primatologist who went into the rainforests of Borneo in 1971 to study one of the world’s least understood great apes: the orangutan. One of Louis Leakey’s famed “Trimates,” alongside Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Galdikas spent more than five decades documenting orangutan lives and fighting to protect their habitat against loggers and the exotic pet trade.
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    43 min
  • Bonus Episode: How I Wrote Matthew Perry's Obituary

    Bonus Episode: How I Wrote Matthew Perry's Obituary
    May 14 2026

    This week we discuss how Georgia wrote Matthew Perry's obituary before he died, and what this can tell us about the craft of obituary writing more generally.
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    33 min
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