What was it like to be in the newsroom on the day the Queen died?

This week we explore the life of Elizabeth II. Georgia interviews The Times Obituaries Editor Nigel Farndale, who takes us behind the scenes as news of the Queen’s death filtered through the newsroom, revealing what it was like to write the obituary of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch.

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.

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.