Start the Week Podcast
Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
Episodes to download
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Space Survival and Exploration
Mon 21 Dec 2015
Andrew Marr with Kevin Fong, Martin Rees, Carole Haswell and Stephen Baxter.
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Cultural Lifespans
Mon 14 Dec 2015
Tom Sutcliffe meets James Crawford, Semyon Bychkov, Julia Sallabank and Peter Randall-Page
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Reforming Saudi Arabia
Mon 7 Dec 2015
Andrew Marr with Madawi Al-Rasheed, Deirdre McCloskey, Ian Morris and William Patey.
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Augustine, Desire, Doing good
Mon 30 Nov 2015
Andrew Marr with Robin Lane Fox, Larissa MacFarquhar and Adam Phillips.
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Jonathan Coe on Satire
Mon 23 Nov 2015
Mary Ann Sieghart with Jonathan Coe, Roger Michell, Peter Brookes and Mia Chung.
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France Special
Mon 16 Nov 2015
Andrew Marr with Agnes Desarthe, Karim Miske, Anne-Elisabeth Moutet and Robert Gildea.
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Claudia Rankine at the Free Thinking Festival
Mon 9 Nov 2015
Anne McElvoy with Claudia Rankine, Amir Darwish, Jules Holroyd and Catherine Fletcher.
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Embracing Failure and Uncertainty
Mon 2 Nov 2015
Tom Sutcliffe with Helga Nowotny, David Willetts, Matthew Syed and Oliver Morton.
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Social Class and Cultural Capital
Mon 26 Oct 2015
Andrew Marr with Siri Hustvedt, Ben Power, Peter Davies and Mike Savage.
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Power and Corruption with Stephen Frears and Mary Beard
Mon 19 Oct 2015
Tom Sutcliffe with Mary Beard, Stephen Frears, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Mehmet Ergen.
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Jonathan Franzen
Mon 5 Oct 2015
Tom Sutcliffe with Jonathan Franzen, Gillian Tett, Tacita Dean and Helen Margetts.
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Celts and Romans
Mon 28 Sep 2015
Mary Ann Sieghart with Tom Holland, Barry Cunliffe, Julia Farley and Matt Ridley.
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Edmund de Waal on Porcelain
Mon 21 Sep 2015
Andrew Marr talks to Edmund de Waal, Tim Marlow, Annie Freud and Mark Miodownik.
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Harmony and Balance
Mon 6 Jul 2015
Mary Ann Sieghart with Frank Wilczek, Shobana Jeyasingh, Matt Parker and Gerald Finley.
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Alan Watts and the Way of Translation
Mon 29 Jun 2015
Andrew Marr with Tim Lott, Mark Vernon, Maureen Freely and Marc Rees.
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Architecture and power - from Stalinist structures to model villages
Mon 22 Jun 2015
Tom Sutcliffe with Doug Aitken, Owen Hatherley, Jacqueline Yallop and Graham Morrison.
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The Value of Art with Grayson Perry and Hannah Rothschild
Mon 15 Jun 2015
Andrew Marr with Grayson Perry, Hannah Rothschild, Xavier Bray and Patrick Mark.
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Illness: Psychosomatic and Physical
Mon 8 Jun 2015
Tom Sutcliffe discusses health and wellbeing with guests.
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Saul Bellow and Finding a Voice
Mon 1 Jun 2015
Andrew Marr with guests Zachary Leader, Speech DeBelle, Robert Icke and Linda Grant.
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Hay Festival
Mon 25 May 2015
Tom Sutcliffe with Yuval Noah Harari, Beth Shapiro, Colm Toibin and Owen Sheers.
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Joseph Stiglitz and Steve Hilton on Inequality
Mon 18 May 2015
Andrew Marr with Joseph Stiglitz, Masha Gessen and Steve Hilton.
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Values from Ancient Greece to Contemporary Harlem
Mon 11 May 2015
Mariella Frostrup talks to Hamid Dabashi, Edith Hall, Douglas Murray and Glenn Ligon.
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Vikram Seth
Mon 4 May 2015
Tom Sutcliffe with Vikram Seth, Olivia Laing, Nick Groom and Nick Davies.
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Violence
Mon 27 Apr 2015
Anne McElvoy with Richard Bessel, Diana Preston, Helen Benedict and June Oscar.
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Life Underwater
Mon 20 Apr 2015
Tom Sutcliffe with Andrew Motion, Helen Scales, Nick Lane and Luke Rendell.
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David Sloan Wilson on Altruism
Mon 13 Apr 2015
Tom Sutcliffe with Lydia Cacho, David Sloan Wilson, William MacAskill and Tansy Davies.
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Lewis Carroll and the Story of Alice.
Mon 30 Mar 2015
Andrew Marr with Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Gillian Beer, Katherine Rundell, Damien Kempf.
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Susan Pinker on the benefits of face-to-face contact
Mon 23 Mar 2015
Anne McElvoy with Susan Pinker, Nicholas Lovell, Sam Riviere and Daniel Dennett.
