Start the Week Podcast
Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
Episodes to download
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Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead
Mon 12 Mar 2018
Kirsty Wark with Lionel Shriver, Linda Yueh, Bev Skeggs and Sean O'Brien.
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Art and Civilisations
Mon 5 Mar 2018
Andrew Marr with Mary Beard, Simon Schama, David Olusoga and Tacita Dean.
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Who Am I? The Brain and Personality
Mon 26 Feb 2018
Tom Sutcliffe with Jules Montague, Anthony David, Nick Chater and Stephen Beresford.
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Fascism and the Enlightenment with Steven Pinker
Mon 19 Feb 2018
Steven Pinker, Rob Riemen and Tali Sharot discuss fascism and humanism with Andrew Marr.
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Rise and Fall of the City
Mon 12 Feb 2018
Amol Rajan with Richard Sennett, David Farr, Roma Agrawal and Edward Burman.
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Money Makes the World Go Around
Mon 5 Feb 2018
Andrew Marr with Diane Coyle, Dharshini David, Anna Ledwich and Jon Kalman Stefansson.
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Mohsin Hamid on leaving home
Mon 29 Jan 2018
Mohsin Hamid, Carol Bohmer, Robert Hastie and Bruno Macaes with Kirsty Wark.
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The Power of Art
Mon 22 Jan 2018
Andrew Marr with Andrew Graham-Dixon, Leanda de Lisle, Kelly Chorpening and Don Thompson.
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Peter Carey on legacies of the past
Mon 15 Jan 2018
Tom Sutcliffe with author Peter Carey, broadcaster Afua Hirsch and journalist Geert Mak.
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Votes for Women
Mon 8 Jan 2018
Andrew Marr with Jane Robinson, Christopher Finlay, Peter Kennard and Fiona Sampson.
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Who governs Britain?
Mon 18 Dec 2017
Andrew Marr with Lord Neuberger, Barbara Hosking, Robert Harris and Tim Bale.
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The power and beauty of objects.
Mon 11 Dec 2017
Jessie Burton, Jonathan Haskel, Marion Rankine and Andrew Nahum with Tom Sutcliffe.
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Russia, religion and the Middle East
Mon 4 Dec 2017
Masha Gessen, Dominic Rubin, Liwaa Yazji and Roy Allison with Andrew Marr.
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Finland at 100
Mon 27 Nov 2017
Amol Rajan with Sakari Oramo, Sointu Fritze, Horatio Clare and Martin Sandbu.
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Blood, guts and swearing robots
Mon 20 Nov 2017
Andrew Marr with Lindsey Fitzharris, Lesley Colvin, Beth Singler and Emma Byrne.
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Anger and deprivation
Mon 13 Nov 2017
Francine Stock with Nico Muhly, Ivo van Hove, Darren McGarvey and Caroline Relton.
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Heart of Darkness: Conrad and Orwell
Mon 6 Nov 2017
Andrew Marr with Maya Jasanoff, Robert Colls, Ishion Hutchinson and Gideon Rachman.
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Animals: tamed, exploited and resurrected
Mon 30 Oct 2017
Alice Roberts, Britt Wray and Gaia Vince discuss our relationship with the animal kingdom.
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Living with the Gods
Mon 23 Oct 2017
Andrew Marr with Neil MacGregor, Jennifer Sliwka, Dan Jones and Caspar Henderson.
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The End of War?
Mon 16 Oct 2017
Peace and War: Oona Hathaway, Mona Juul, Elisabeth Kendall and Philip Collins.
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Russian Revolution a hundred years on
Mon 9 Oct 2017
The Russian Revolution with Mikhail Zygar, Arkady Ostrovsky and Zelfira Tregulova.
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Power, the People and the Party
Mon 2 Oct 2017
Power and the people with David Cannadine, Hilary Spurling, Jane Green and Phillip Blond.
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Hard work and sweet slumber
Mon 25 Sep 2017
Francine Stock with Matthew Walker, Sasha Handley, Matthew Taylor and Susan Foister.
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Orhan Pamuk on competing myths
Mon 18 Sep 2017
Andrew Marr with Orhan Pamuk, Jon Sopel, Shobana Jeyasingh and Roxana Silbert.
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From Darwin to Big Data with Richard Dawkins
Mon 3 Jul 2017
Andrew Marr with Richard Dawkins, Deborah Kelemen, Cathy O'Neil and Alex Bellos.
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Power: Fleet Street and Whitehall
Mon 26 Jun 2017
Tom Sutcliffe with Chris Patten, Tessa Blackstone, James Graham and Kerry-Anne Mendoza.
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Health Inequality: TB, Trauma and Technology
Mon 19 Jun 2017
Andrew Marr with Lynne Jones, Michael Marmot, Kathryn Lougheed and John Powell.
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Crossing the Boundaries of Gender, Race and Class
Mon 12 Jun 2017
Kirsty Wark with Thomas Page McBee, Gary Owen, Kayo Chingonyi and Penny Woolcock.
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Inventing the Self: Fact and Fiction
Mon 5 Jun 2017
Andrew Marr with Robert Lepage, Rebecca Stott, Miranda Doyle and Andrew O'Hagan.
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Live from the Hay Festival
Mon 29 May 2017
Tom Sutcliffe with Colm Toibin, Sebastian Barry, Meg Rosoff and Jan Kizilhan.
