Lives Well Lived

Kirsty Wark looks back at the extraordinary lives of some of the acting greats, celebrated singers and political giants who died in 2025. Reese Witherspoon, Ralph Fiennes, Elizabeth McGovern and Bob Woodward are among those paying tribute to Robert Redford, Diane Keaton and Gene Hackman, while James Galway and Sheila Hancock honour their friend, jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine. Dominic Monaghan remembers both Patricia Routledge's dramatic and comic performances, while John Cusack, Sting and Al Jardine describe how Brian Wilson reinvented pop music in the 1960s