Start the Week Episodes Episode guide
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Ai Weiwei and design values
Adam Rutherford with Ai Weiwei, Roma Agrawal and Bent Flyvbjerg
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Mastering a new skill
Tom Sutcliffe with Adam Gopnik, Hannah Critchlow and Rebecca Struthers.
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Climate - past, present and future
Kirsty Wark with Peter Frankopan, Jane Francis and Jessie Greengrass.
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Humanism - what is it good for?
Adam Rutherford with Sarah Bakewell, Julian Baggini and Leila Aboulela
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George Eliot and married life
Tom Sutcliffe with Clare Carlisle, Claudia Rankine and David Eldridge
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The Iraq War – 20 years on
Kirsty Wark with Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Emma Sky and Gordon Corera.
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Democratic capitalism – marriage on the rocks
Tom Sutcliffe with Bernie Sanders, Martin Wolf and Kate Raworth.
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Ancient knowledge
Adam Rutherford with Carlo Rovelli, Ann Yee and Kapka Kassabova.
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The food we eat
Kimberley Wilson, Louise Gray and Rebecca O'Connell with Tom Sutcliffe
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Power, violence and witches
Kirsty Wark with Zinnie Harris, Marion Gibson and Jo Ingabire Moys.
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The Victims of War
Tom Sutcliffe with Dan Stone, Catherine Merridale and Bernard Wasserstein.
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Videogames – from fantasy to reality
Adam Rutherford with Sandra Youkhana, Adrian Hon and Louise Blain
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The view from Latin America
Kirsty Wark with Caroline Dodds Pennock, Adrian Locke and Iokiñe RodrÃguez Fernandez.
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Where are you from?
Tom Sutcliffe with Kenan Malik, Francesca Sobande and Don Paterson.
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Awesome
Tom Sutcliffe with Dacher Keltner, Anna Lapwood and Felix Flicker
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Dance Pioneers
Kirsty Wark with Wayne McGregor, Cassa Pancho and Jennifer Homans.
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Listening in the dark
Adam Rutherford with Johan Eklöf, Kate Summerscale, Simon McBurney and Geraint Rees
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Returning to the moon
Tom Sutcliffe with Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Oliver Morton and Luke Jerram.
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Faith: lost in translation?
Adam Rutherford with Kaveh Akbar, John Barton and Emma Donoghue
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Taking a stand
Kirsty Wark with Maria Ressa, Zsuzsanna Szelényi and Simon Schama.
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Perfect skin
Adam Rutherford with Caroline Vout, Katy Hessel and Matt Lodder
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The authentic taste of Britain
Tom Sutcliffe with Jonathan Coe, Emily Bootle and Soweto Kinch
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Building the Body, Opening the Heart
Adam Rutherford with Siddhartha Mukherjee, Sian Harding and Paul McAuley.
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Zombies, exiles and monsters
Tom Sutcliffe with George Saunders, Helen Rappaport and Anna Bogutskaya.
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Black Britain and beyond
Adam Rutherford with Christine Checinska, Miranda Kaufmann, Yomi á¹¢ode and Peter Frankopan.
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Power plays and family dynamics
Tom Sutcliffe with AM Homes, Nick Hytner and Simon Sebag Montefiore.
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Political leadership and oversight
Kirsty Wark with Adam Wagner, Isabel Hardman, Tim Bale and Annalisa Piras.
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Bradford - Brave New World
Adam Rutherford with Matthew Cobb, Alison Bashford and Deborah Lawlor
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Birmingham
Kit de Waal, Richard Vinen and Liz Berry, with Tom Sutcliffe
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Health, sickness and exploitation
Adam Rutherford with Jules Montague, Gavin Francis and Jennifer Jacquet