Start the Week Podcast
Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
Episodes to download
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Violence and Conflict
Mon 14 Jan 2019
John Lanchester, Patricia Lewis, Richard Wrangham and Eleanor Robson with Amol Rajan
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Searching for happiness
Mon 7 Jan 2019
Andrew Marr with Paul Dolan, Linda Geddes, Laura Freeman and Edward Bullmore.
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Ice and Snow
Christmas Eve 2018
Andrew Marr with Michelle Paver, Ben Saunders, Mark Miodownik and Nancy Campbell.
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National myths with Neil MacGregor
Mon 17 Dec 2018
Neil MacGregor, Christopher Harding and Kajsa Norman with Kirsty Wark.
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Trees: a wood wide web
Mon 10 Dec 2018
Andrew Marr with Peter Wohlleben, Kathleen Jamie, Ruth Pavey and Gary Fuller.
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Power in Politics
Mon 3 Dec 2018
Tom Sutcliffe with Isabel Hardman, James Graham, Diarmaid MacCulloch and Steven Fielding.
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How the World Thinks
Mon 26 Nov 2018
Julian Baggini, Ann Wroe, Amit Chaudhuri and Paulette Randall with Andrew Marr
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Safe spaces and snowflakes
Mon 19 Nov 2018
Jonathan Haidt, Olivia Sudjic, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Mark Ravenhill with Amol Rajan
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Poland: A hundred years of history
Mon 12 Nov 2018
Amol Rajan with Witold Szablowski, Roxanna Panufnik, Michal Murawski and Adam Zamoyski.
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Reporting from the Front Line
Mon 5 Nov 2018
Andrew Marr with Lindsey Hilsum, Eve Pollard, Anabel Hernandez and Gillian Clarke
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That's not fair
Mon 29 Oct 2018
Helena Kennedy, Paul Collier, David Willetts and Tiffany Watt Smith with Andrew Marr.
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Pirates
Mon 22 Oct 2018
Kirsty Wark with Michael Scott Moore, Anna Beer, Veerle Nouwens and Will Newton.
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Identity Politics
Mon 15 Oct 2018
Francis Fukuyama, Josie Rourke, Roseanne Chantiluke and Eric Kaufmann with Andrew Marr.
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Yuval Noah Harari
Mon 1 Oct 2018
The author of Sapiens and Homo Deus in conversation with Andrew Marr
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From Ubermensch to Superman
Mon 24 Sep 2018
William Boyd, Sue Prideaux, Adena Jacobs and Peter Biskind with Amol Rajan.
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David Attenborough: Life on Earth and Beyond
Mon 17 Sep 2018
David Attenborough, Martin Rees, Philippa Mason and Michael Quetting with Andrew Marr.
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The Reality of War
Mon 10 Sep 2018
Andrew Marr with Max Hastings, Helen Parr, Richard Dannatt and Deborah Haynes.
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Storytelling at the Edinburgh Festivals
Mon 27 Aug 2018
Andrew Marr with Pat Barker, Sjon, James Robertson and Karine Polwart.
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British culture and European influence
Mon 2 Jul 2018
Andrew Marr with Munira Mirza, Laura Tunbridge and Paul Kildea.
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Shame, Status and Self-invention
Mon 25 Jun 2018
Amol Rajan with Tina Brown, Didier Eribon, Miranda France and Timothy Sheader.
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Deserts and the Nuclear Age
Mon 18 Jun 2018
Andrew Marr with William Atkins, Jane Kinninmont and Fred Pearce.
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Altered Minds
Mon 11 Jun 2018
Kirsty Wark with Michael Pollan, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Tammy Burmeister and Andrew Motion.
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Arundhati Roy on castes and outcasts
Mon 4 Jun 2018
Arundhati Roy, Hattie Naylor, Damian Le Bas and Daniel Finkelstein with Andrew Marr.
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Survival and Destruction
Mon 28 May 2018
Antony Beevor, Emily Wilson, David Christian and Jonathan D Quick at Hay Festival.
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Dark Satanic Mills
Mon 21 May 2018
Amol Rajan with Mariana Mazzucato, Joshua Freeman, Rowan Moore and Jane Commane.
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Jordan Peterson: Rules for Life
Mon 14 May 2018
Jordan Peterson, Louise O'Neill, Hashi Mohamed and Lawrence Wright with Tom Sutcliffe.
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The Death of Democracy
Mon 7 May 2018
Amol Rajan with Anne Applebaum, David Runciman and Nic Cheeseman.
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Mysteries of the Universe
Mon 30 Apr 2018
Carlo Rovelli, Carole Mundell, Helen Scales and Laura Walker with Andrew Marr.
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Life Is a Dream
Mon 23 Apr 2018
Tom Sutcliffe with Jesmyn Ward, Kim Brandstrup, Edith Hall and John Gray.
