Start the Week Podcast
Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
Episodes to download
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Levelling up; halting decline
Mon 29 Nov 2021
Kirsty Wark with Marit Kapla, Paul Batchelor and Paul Swinney.
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Christianity: Changing Fortunes
Mon 22 Nov 2021
Andrew Marr with Janine di Giovanni, Elle Hardy and Tricia Hillas.
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Ancient lives and legacies in Latin America
Mon 15 Nov 2021
Tom Sutcliffe with Mario Vargas Llosa, Jago Cooper and Natalia Sobrevilla Perea
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Internet influencers and generation gaps
Mon 8 Nov 2021
Andrew Marr with Olivia Yallop, Sarah Ogilvie and Bobby Duffy.
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Ai Weiwei on creative freedom
Mon 1 Nov 2021
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Ai Weiwei, Lea Ypi and Kirill Gerstein.
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Working the land - Orwell and HG Wells
Mon 25 Oct 2021
Andrew Marr with Rebecca Solnit, Claire Tomalin and Peter Hetherington
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Rationality in an Irrational Age
Mon 18 Oct 2021
Amol Rajan talks about rationality with Steven Pinker, Amia Srinivasan and Irving Finkel.
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Views from across the water
Mon 11 Oct 2021
Andrew Marr with Clare Jackson, Benedicte Paviot and Fintan O鈥橳oole.
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Colm T贸ib铆n on Thomas Mann
Mon 27 Sep 2021
Andrew Marr talks to Colm T贸ib铆n, Karen Leeder and Jesse Armstrong
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Climate activism: the next generation
Mon 20 Sep 2021
Richard Powers, Mya-Rose Craig and Simon Mundy talk to Andrew Marr
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Life in the first person
Mon 13 Sep 2021
Oliver Mears, Tiffany Watt Smith and Anil Seth talk to Tom Sutcliffe.
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Jackie Kay on Bessie Smith
Mon 21 Jun 2021
Kirsty Wark with Jackie Kay, Rosemary Hill and Michael Armitage
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London - villain and victim?
Mon 14 Jun 2021
Andrew Marr with Iestyn Davies, Jennifer Kavanagh and Jack Brown
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Lionel Shriver on life and death decisions
Mon 7 Jun 2021
Tom Sutcliffe with Lionel Shriver, David Jarrett and Jack Thorne.
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DH Lawrence: life and work
Mon 31 May 2021
Andrew Marr with Frances Wilson, Salman Rushdie and Simon Armitage
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On Thin Ice: Glaciers, Geopolitics, and Nature's Goods
Mon 24 May 2021
Kirsty Wark with Jemma Wadham, Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson and Dwayne Ryan Menezes.
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Daniel Kahneman on 'noisy' human judgement
Mon 17 May 2021
Andrew Marr with Daniel Kahneman, Gillian Tett and Ann Cairns.
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The opioid crisis and erosion of trust
Mon 10 May 2021
Amol Rajan with Patrick Radden Keefe, Zoe Williams and Heidi Larson
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Art - plunder, power and prestige
Mon 3 May 2021
Andrew Marr with Cynthia Saltzman, Francesco da Mosto and Charles Saumarez Smith.
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Personal faith and the Church
Mon 26 Apr 2021
Tom Sutcliffe with Chine McDonald, Giles Fraser and Jeet Thayil.
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What if the Incas had colonised Europe?
Mon 19 Apr 2021
Andrew Marr with Laurent Binet, Caroline Dodds Pennock and Christienna Fryar.
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Nuclear destruction
Mon 12 Apr 2021
Amol Rajan with Serhii Plokhy, Patricia Lewis and Sarah Rainsford
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Defining mental illness
Mon 5 Apr 2021
Andrew Marr with Suzanne O鈥橲ullivan, Lucy Foulkes and Sally Holland
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Trade deals and human rights 鈥� in Africa and China
Mon 29 Mar 2021
Andrew Marr with Tom Tugendhat, Geetha Tharmaratnam and Michela Wrong.
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Newton: science and worldly riches
Mon 22 Mar 2021
Tom Sutcliffe with Edward St Aubyn, Patricia Fara and Chris van Tulleken.
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Rights and responsibilities
Mon 15 Mar 2021
Andrew Marr with Matthew d鈥橝ncona, Minouche Shafik and Kenan Malik
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Understanding Melancholy
Mon 8 Mar 2021
Amol Rajan with Mary Ann Lund, Horatio Clare and Ahmed Hankir.
