Start the Week Podcast
Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
Episodes to download
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Rise and fall of the political fixer
Monday
Tom Sutcliffe with Peter Kosminsky, Lucy Hughes-Hallett and Stephen Bush.
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Sex and Christianity
Mon 11 Nov 2024
Amanda Vickery with Diarmaid MacCulloch, Helen King and Ruth Padel.
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Ancient crafts: feathers, leather and thatch
Mon 4 Nov 2024
Adam Rutherford with James Rebanks, Alice Robinson and Andrew Raffle.
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Female ambition and control
Mon 28 Oct 2024
Tom Sutcliffe with Jade Scott, Zinnie Harris and Stefan Stern.
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From Sapiens to AI
Mon 14 Oct 2024
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Yuval Noah Harari, Madhumita Murgia and Edith Hall
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Oceans and the game of evolution
Mon 7 Oct 2024
Amanda Vickery talks to Richard Powers, Peter Godfrey-Smith and Heather Koldewey.
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Ancient India and China: from golden to silk roads
Mon 30 Sep 2024
Adam Rutherford with William Dalrymple, Shanay Jhaveri and Susan Whitfield.
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Chance and fortune
Mon 23 Sep 2024
Tom Sutcliffe with David Spiegelhalter, Eliza Filby and Roddy Doyle
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Weaving magic in words, clay and paper
Mon 1 Jul 2024
Kirsty Wark with Kathleen Jamie, Jennifer Lucy Allan, Mark Hearld and Naomi Robertson
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Animal communication
Mon 24 Jun 2024
Tom Sutcliffe with Martin Wikelski, Kapka Kassabova and Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas
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Politeness and civility
Mon 17 Jun 2024
Adam Rutherford with Louise Mullany, John Gallagher, Susie Dent and Matt Forde.
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鈥楲eft behind鈥�, but not forgotten
Mon 10 Jun 2024
Tom Sutcliffe with Paul Collier, Joanna Kusiak and Matthew Xia.
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Hay Festival: ancient wisdom and ecology
Mon 3 Jun 2024
Adam Rutherford with Robin Wall Kimmerer, Hugh Warwick and Olivia Laing at Hay Festival
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Reading the Bible
Mon 27 May 2024
Kirsty Wark swaps Bible stories with Marilynne Robinson, Naomi Alderman and Malika Booker
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Art: market, money and malfeasance
Mon 20 May 2024
Tom Sutcliffe with Francesca Whitlum-Cooper, Orlando Whitfield and Angelina Giovani
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Bees 鈥� culture and survival
Mon 13 May 2024
Tom Sutcliffe with Wolfgang Buttress, Claire Preston, Lars Chittka and Alison Benjamin
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Protest and patriotism
Mon 6 May 2024
Jackie Kay, Caroline Lucas and Simon Heffer with Adam Rutherford.
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Alien life and gravity
Mon 29 Apr 2024
Tom Sutcliffe with Lisa Kaltenegger, Claudia de Rham and Mark Fromhold
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City living
Mon 22 Apr 2024
Adam Rutherford explores the city with Ben Power, Amanda Levete and Simon Kuper.
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Power to the people
Mon 15 Apr 2024
Tom Sutcliffe discusses democracy with Erica Benner, Alpa Shah and Bobby Duffy.
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Music and poetry
Mon 8 Apr 2024
Kirsty Wark discusses poetry and music with Alison Balsom, Graeme Lawson and John Burnside
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The war between science and religion
Mon 1 Apr 2024
Tom Sutcliffe with Michael Taylor, Nick Spencer and Frances Flinter.
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Crossing borders and belonging
Mon 25 Mar 2024
Adam Rutherford with Viet Thanh Nguyen, Helena Lee and Jessica J Lee.
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Intrigue and disinformation from the Russian Revolution to Ukraine invasion
Mon 18 Mar 2024
Tom Sutcliffe with Andrey Kurkov, Peter Pomerantsev and Charlotte Jee.
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Time passing: ageing, memory and nostalgia
Mon 11 Mar 2024
Adam Rutherford with Venki Ramakrishnan, Charan Ranganath and Agnes Arnold-Forster
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Mysterious Plants
Mon 4 Mar 2024
Kirsty Wark with Chris Thorogood, Kelsey Byers and William Milliken
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Weighty issues
Mon 26 Feb 2024
Tom Sutcliffe with Naveed Sattar, Stephanie Yeboah and Henry Dimbleby
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Arts: changing the world?
Mon 19 Feb 2024
Tom Sutcliffe with Ellen E Jones, Hew Locke and Noora Niasari
