Start the Week Podcast
Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
Episodes to download
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Ancient trees
Mon 24 Apr 2023
Kirsty Wark with Peter Wohlleben, Jill Butler and Carolyne Larrington.
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A place called home
Mon 17 Apr 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Kieran Yates, Natasha Carthew, Christine Whitehead and Alice Brownfield
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Ai Weiwei and design values
Mon 10 Apr 2023
Adam Rutherford with Ai Weiwei, Roma Agrawal and Bent Flyvbjerg
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Mastering a new skill
Mon 3 Apr 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Adam Gopnik, Hannah Critchlow and Rebecca Struthers.
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Climate - past, present and future
Mon 27 Mar 2023
Kirsty Wark with Peter Frankopan, Jane Francis and Jessie Greengrass.
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Humanism - what is it good for?
Mon 20 Mar 2023
Adam Rutherford with Sarah Bakewell, Julian Baggini and Leila Aboulela
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George Eliot and married life
Mon 13 Mar 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Clare Carlisle, Claudia Rankine and David Eldridge
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The Iraq War 鈥� 20 years on
Mon 6 Mar 2023
Kirsty Wark with Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Emma Sky and Gordon Corera.
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Democratic capitalism 鈥� marriage on the rocks
Mon 27 Feb 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Bernie Sanders, Martin Wolf and Kate Raworth.
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The food we eat
Mon 13 Feb 2023
Kimberley Wilson, Louise Gray and Rebecca O'Connell with Tom Sutcliffe
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Power, violence and witches
Mon 6 Feb 2023
Kirsty Wark with Zinnie Harris, Marion Gibson and Jo Ingabire Moys.
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The Victims of War
Mon 30 Jan 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Dan Stone, Catherine Merridale and Bernard Wasserstein.
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Videogames 鈥� from fantasy to reality
Mon 23 Jan 2023
Adam Rutherford with Sandra Youkhana, Adrian Hon and Louise Blain
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The view from Latin America
Mon 16 Jan 2023
Kirsty Wark with Caroline Dodds Pennock, Adrian Locke and Ioki帽e Rodr铆guez Fernandez.
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Where are you from?
Mon 9 Jan 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Kenan Malik, Francesca Sobande and Don Paterson.
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Listening in the dark
Mon 12 Dec 2022
Adam Rutherford with Johan Ekl枚f, Kate Summerscale, Simon McBurney and Geraint Rees
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Returning to the moon
Mon 5 Dec 2022
Tom Sutcliffe with Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Oliver Morton and Luke Jerram.
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Faith: lost in translation?
Mon 28 Nov 2022
Adam Rutherford with Kaveh Akbar, John Barton and Emma Donoghue
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The authentic taste of Britain
Mon 7 Nov 2022
Tom Sutcliffe with Jonathan Coe, Emily Bootle and Soweto Kinch
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Building the Body, Opening the Heart
Mon 31 Oct 2022
Adam Rutherford with Siddhartha Mukherjee, Sian Harding and Paul McAuley.
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Zombies, exiles and monsters
Mon 24 Oct 2022
Tom Sutcliffe with George Saunders, Helen Rappaport and Anna Bogutskaya.
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Black Britain and beyond
Mon 17 Oct 2022
Adam Rutherford with Christine Checinska, Miranda Kaufmann, Yomi 峁de and Peter Frankopan.
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Power plays and family dynamics
Mon 10 Oct 2022
Tom Sutcliffe with AM Homes, Nick Hytner and Simon Sebag Montefiore.
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Political leadership and oversight
Mon 3 Oct 2022
Kirsty Wark with Adam Wagner, Isabel Hardman, Tim Bale and Annalisa Piras.
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Bradford - Brave New World
Mon 26 Sep 2022
Adam Rutherford with Matthew Cobb, Alison Bashford and Deborah Lawlor
