Start the Week Podcast
Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
Episodes to download
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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.
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Shame, with Jon Ronson
Mon 16 Mar 2015
Tom Sutcliffe with Jennifer Jacquet, Jon Ronson, Peter Stanford and Michael Buffong.
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The Mathematical Mind with Cedric Villani
Mon 9 Mar 2015
Tom Sutcliffe with Cedric Villani, Vicky Neale, Zia Haider Rahman and Morgan Matthews.
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From Fringe to Frontline?
Mon 2 Mar 2015
Tom Sutcliffe with Robert Ford, Catherine de Vries, Srdja Popovic and John Fulljames.
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Joseph Nye on Soft Power
Mon 16 Feb 2015
Andrew Marr talks to Peter Pomerantsev, Anne Robbins and Joseph Nye.
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Life in Suburbia
Mon 9 Feb 2015
Anne McElvoy with Adam Thirlwell, Nick Hubble, Richard McGuire and Hannah Starkey.
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The Rise of Islamic State
Mon 2 Feb 2015
Tom Sutcliffe with Patrick Cockburn, Leena Hoffmann, Katherine Brown and Gerard Russell.
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Organising the Mind
Mon 26 Jan 2015
Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss creativity and the organised mind.
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Surveillance and Self-censorship
Mon 19 Jan 2015
Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss surveillance and self-censorship.
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Sense of Place
Mon 29 Dec 2014
Andrew Marr and guests discuss why some places mean so much more to us than others.
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Hedonism
Mon 22 Dec 2014
Tom Sutcliffe discusses hedonism with Greg Doran, Julia Twigg, Zoe Cormier and Kurt Lampe.
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Reinventing Inventions
Mon 15 Dec 2014
Tom Sutcliffe with Danielle George, Armand Leroi, John Barrow and Misbah Arif on invention
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Arabian Nights
Mon 8 Dec 2014
Anne McElvoy and guests discuss literature and art in the Arabic world.
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Evolution and Extinction
Mon 1 Dec 2014
Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the secrets of evolution and threats of extinction.
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Science Fiction
Mon 24 Nov 2014
Tom Sutcliffe with William Gibson, Michel Faber, Judy Wajcman and Dominic Sandbrook.
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Self-Portrayal
Mon 17 Nov 2014
Tom Sutcliffe with James Hall, Betsy Wieseman, John Burnside and Richard Tognetti.
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A Good Death
Mon 10 Nov 2014
Andrew Marr on mortality with Atul Gawande, Diana Athill, Deborah Bowman and Carl Watkins.
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The Language of Money
Mon 3 Nov 2014
Anne McElvoy talks to John Lanchester, Martin Wolf, Naomi Alderman and John Kampfner.
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Revolution
Mon 27 Oct 2014
Tom Sutcliffe with Russell Brand, Susan Neiman, Juliet Barker and David Babbs.
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Napoleon
Mon 20 Oct 2014
Tom Sutcliffe with Andrew Roberts, Jenny Uglow, Sudhir Hazareesingh and Gavin Plumley.
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Crime Stories and Ghost Stories
Mon 13 Oct 2014
Anne McElvoy with Val McDermid, Susan Hill, Alex Werner and David Clarke.
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Naomi Klein on climate change and growth
Mon 6 Oct 2014
Anne McElvoy with Naomi Klein, Tahmima Anam, Jeremy Oppenheim and Dieter Helm.
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Karen Armstrong on War and Religion
Mon 29 Sep 2014
Tom Sutcliffe with Karen Armstrong, Justin Marozzi and Christopher Coker.
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Hilary Mantel
Mon 22 Sep 2014
Tom Sutcliffe with Hilary Mantel, Neil MacGregor, Jeremy Deller and Kei Miller.
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Tom Sutcliffe discusses family secrets and Scottish royalty
Mon 7 Jul 2014
Tom Sutcliffe with Michael Holroyd, Rona Munro, Herman Koch and Hugo Blick.
