Start the Week Podcast
Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
Episodes to download
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Rewriting the Past: from Empire to ivory
Mon 21 Nov 2016
Andrew Marr with Ian Cobain, Edna Adan Ismail, Valerie Amos and Keith Somerville.
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Island Mentality
Mon 14 Nov 2016
Amol Rajan talks to Nicholas Crane, Madeleine Bunting, David Olusoga and Imtiaz Dharker.
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Virtue and Vice
Mon 7 Nov 2016
Andrew Marr with William Kentridge, Lucy Bailey, Susie Orbach and Simon Goldhill.
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Microbes, Genes and Human Endeavour
Mon 24 Oct 2016
Andrew Marr with Ed Yong, Adam Rutherford, Jonathan Maitland and Felicity Aston.
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Soldiering on: the British Army, Lenin and Putin
Mon 3 Oct 2016
Tom Sutcliffe with Richard Dannatt, Ben Macintyre, Catherine Merridale and John Lough.
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Radical Liverpool
Mon 26 Sep 2016
Andrew Marr with Phil Redmond, Gary Younge, John Belchem and Kajsa Norman in Liverpool.
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Political Drama: Robert Harris and Margaret Hodge
Mon 19 Sep 2016
Andrew Marr with Robert Harris, Margaret Hodge, John Armitt and Philip Webster.
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Love, Loss and Scandal
Mon 4 Jul 2016
Andrew Marr talks to Carrie Cracknell, Michel Faber, Peter Parker and John Preston.
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Food: From Bread Riots to Obesity
Mon 27 Jun 2016
Andrew Marr with Bee Wilson, William Sitwell and Jane Harrigan.
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A Theory of Everything?
Mon 20 Jun 2016
Tom Sutcliffe with Marcus du Sautoy, Roger Penrose, Suzie Sheehy and Joanna Kavenna.
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New Artistic Director of the ENO, Daniel Kramer
Mon 13 Jun 2016
Andrew Marr with Daniel Kramer, Roger Scruton, Franny Moyle and Julia Peyton-Jones.
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Genes: Our medical inheritance
Mon 6 Jun 2016
Andrew Marr with Siddhartha Mukherjee, Giles Yeo, Aarathi Prasad and Emily Mayhew.
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Hay Festival: Spooks, war and genocide
Mon 30 May 2016
Tom Sutcliffe with Michael Hayden, Philippe Sands, Janine di Giovanni and Harry Parker.
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Lost and Found: Ancient Egypt to Modern Art
Mon 23 May 2016
Simon Armitage, Cornelia Parker, Cyprian Broodbank and Aurelia Masson-Berghoff.
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World on the Move
Mon 16 May 2016
Andrew Marr talks to Frank Dikotter, Sir Hew Strachan, Patience Agbabi and Tahmima Anam.
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Technology in Education
Mon 9 May 2016
Andrew Marr on education with Sugata Mitra, Neil Selwyn, Tony Little and Lynsey Hanley.
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Cross-dressing and masculinity with Grayson Perry
Mon 2 May 2016
Grayson Perry, Emma Rice, Alice Coote and Kelley Swain with Mary Ann Sieghart.
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Anish Kapoor on Light and Dark
Mon 25 Apr 2016
Anish Kapoor, Lucie Green, Ann Wroe and Martin Ward are with Andrew Marr.
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Reporting War and Conflict
Mon 18 Apr 2016
Tom Sutcliffe with Patrick Cockburn, Ece Temelkuran, Seymour Hersh and Charlie Beckett.
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Loneliness and Inner Voices
Mon 11 Apr 2016
Andrew Marr with Charles Fernyhough, Olivia Laing, Alistair McDowall and Frances Wilson.
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Greece and the Eurozone with Yanis Varoufakis
Mon 4 Apr 2016
Yanis Varoufakis, Paul Cartledge, Karen Van Dyck, Erik Berglof and Gerard Lyons.
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Existentialism and Ways of Seeing
Mon 28 Mar 2016
Kirsty Wark with Sarah Bakewell, Sunil Khilnani, Frances Borzello and Stuart Franklin.
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Is Faster Better?
Mon 21 Mar 2016
Andrew Marr with Robert Colvile, Carl Honore, Sarah Dunant and Steve Jones.
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The Easter Rising: 100 Years On
Mon 14 Mar 2016
Tom Sutcliffe with Ruth Dudley Edwards, Heather Jones, David Rieff and Fintan O'Toole.
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Scotland
Mon 7 Mar 2016
Kirsty Wark with Tom Devine, Chris Whatley, Kathleen Jamie and Angus Farquhar.
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Nature or Nurture?
Mon 29 Feb 2016
Mary-Ann Sieghart with Helen Pearson, Oliver James, Marcus Munafo and Joseph Bullman.
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Future Economies
Mon 22 Feb 2016
Andrew Marr with Alec Ross, Steve Furber, Paul Mason and Hsiao-Hung Pai.
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Who Owns Culture?
Mon 15 Feb 2016
Tom Sutcliffe with Tiffany Jenkins, Tendai Huchu, Ellen McAdam and Waldemar Januszczak.
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Mind and Body
Mon 8 Feb 2016
Andrew Marr with Jane McGonigal, Jo Marchant, AC Grayling and Simon McBurney.
