Start the Week Episodes Episode guide
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Black Britain and beyond
Adam Rutherford with Christine Checinska, Miranda Kaufmann, Yomi 峁de 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
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Justice, war crimes and targeted killings
Helen Lewis with Linda Kinstler, Ronen Bergman and Philippe Sands.
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Social inequality - up close
Adam Rutherford with Darren McGarvey, Jo Clement and Brett Scott
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A revolution in food and farming
Tom Sutcliffe with George Monbiot, Sarah Langford and Claire Ratinon.
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Family drama at Hay Festival
Helen Lewis with Damon Galgut, Margo Jefferson and Jennifer Egan at the Hay Festival
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Learning from apes, fish and wasps
Adam Rutherford with Frans de Waal, Seirian Sumner and Nichola Raihani.
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The body clock and sleep
Tom Sutcliffe with Russell Foster, Sonja Linden and Ros Holmes.
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Marwa Al-Sabouni - Rebuilding with hope
Helen Lewis with Marwa Al-Sabouni, Jo da Silva and Jessie Childs
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Curiosity, ingenuity and experimentation
Kirsty Wark talks to Suzie Sheehy, Laura Beatty and Philip Ball
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The age of the strongman leader
Tom Sutcliffe with Gideon Rachman, Judy Dempsey and Christopher de Bellaigue.
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NoViolet Bulawayo on Glory
Adam Rutherford with NoViolet Bulawayo, Dipo Faloyin and Julia Gallagher
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Love poetry; love books
Kirsty Wark with Katherine Rundell, Emma Smith and Megan Walsh
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Resistance
Tom Sutcliffe with Halik Kochanski, Arkady Ostrovsky and Nathan Law
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Liberalism in crisis
Amol Rajan with Francis Fukuyama, Helen Thompson and Edward Shawcross.
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Welsh identities
Helen Lewis with Richard Wyn Jones, Hanan Issa, Marion Loeffler and Richard King.
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Feathered friends
Tom Sutcliffe with Tim Birkhead, Alison Richard and Mark Glancy
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Creating art; reflecting life
Kirsty Wark with Kwame Kwei-Armah, Warsan Shire and Ralph Rugoff.
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Post-war/post-Covid
Helen Lewis with Peter Hennessy, Jane Alison and Farhan Samanani.
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Wealth, influence and the global elite
Tom Sutcliffe with Pankaj Mishra, Joseph Sassoon and Susan Newman
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Stonehenge, and conserving the future
Adam Rutherford with Neil Wilkin, Rebecca Nesbit and Thomas Halliday.
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The Georgians
Tom Sutcliffe with Penelope Corfield, Tristram Hunt and Philip McCann.
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Bullish masculinity
Helen Lewis with Fiona Benson, Ivan Jablonka, Nina Power and Angelica Malin.
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Modernism
Kirsty Wark with Matthew Sweet, Charlotte Sleigh, Soweto Kinch and Suzanne Hobson.
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Old battles, new warfare
Adam Rutherford with Mark Galeotti, C茅cile Fabre and Kirsty Graham.
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Finding consolation and community in reading
Tom Sutcliffe with Michael Ignatieff, Christopher Prendergast and Toby Brothers.
