Start the Week Podcast
Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
Episodes to download
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Eliza Carthy and Nicholas Hytner: Art for All
Mon 24 Apr 2017
Kirsty Wark with Nicholas Hytner, Eliza Carthy, Jennifer Harris and Jules Evans.
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The Age of Spectacle?
Mon 17 Apr 2017
Andrew Marr with Tom Dyckhoff, Takeshi Hayatsu, Anissa Helou and Charles Spence.
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Christianity: Luther's Legacy
Mon 10 Apr 2017
Andrew Marr with Sarah Dunant, Peter Stanford, Alec Ryrie and Linda Woodhead.
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Dissecting Death
Mon 3 Apr 2017
Tom Sutcliffe with Raymond Tallis, Laura Tunbridge, Mark O'Connell and Carla Valentine.
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Sayeeda Warsi: Muslims in Britain
Mon 27 Mar 2017
Amol Rajan with Sayeeda Warsi, Paul Collier and Roger Scruton.
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The Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead
Mon 20 Mar 2017
Tom Sutcliffe with Russell Foster, Denise Mina, Stephen Westaby and Eugenia Cheng.
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Britain Divided: 1642-2016
Mon 13 Mar 2017
Andrew Marr with David Goodhart, Oliver Letwin, Erica Benner and Richard Bean.
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Paul Auster and the American Dream
Mon 6 Mar 2017
Andrew Marr with Paul Auster, Catherine Daunt and Simon McBurney.
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'Build That Wall': Barriers and Crossings
Mon 27 Feb 2017
Kirsty Wark with Ed Vulliamy, Dorit Rabinyan, Garrett Carr and Tom Holland.
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Sidney Nolan: Life and Work
Mon 20 Feb 2017
Andrew Marr with Elaine Feinstein, Rebecca Daniels, Trevor Nunn and Ryan Wigglesworth.
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Play and Creativity
Mon 13 Feb 2017
Tom Sutcliffe discusses play with Steven Johnson, Stella Duffy, Tim Harford and Ed Smith.
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Paul Abbott: finding comedy in the tragic
Mon 6 Feb 2017
Andrew Marr with Paul Abbott, Edouard Louis, Gwen Adshead and Paul Farley.
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Turkey: Past and Present
Mon 30 Jan 2017
Amol Rajan discusses Turkey with Elif Shafak, Kaya Genç, Fadi Hakura and Bettany Hughes.
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Les Misérables: novel of the century?
Mon 23 Jan 2017
Andrew Marr with David Bellos, Dinah Birch, Simon Callow and Barbara Hannigan.
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Sara Khan: The Battle within Islam
Mon 16 Jan 2017
Tom Sutcliffe with Graeme Wood, Ziauddin Sardar, Sara Khan and Loretta Napoleoni.
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Chibundu Onuzo and Martin Sixsmith on corruption and family drama
Mon 9 Jan 2017
Andrew Marr with Martin Sixsmith, Chibundu Onuzo, Laurence Cockcroft and Oladipo Agboluaje
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Maps, Music and Medieval Manuscripts
Boxing Day 2016
Andrew Marr with Christopher de Hamel, Lucie Skeaping and Edward Brooke-Hitching.
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Scientific Discoveries: from the mind to the cosmos
Mon 19 Dec 2016
Andrew Marr with Brian Cox, Saiful Islam, Andrea Wulf and Michael Lewis.
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The Bolshoi and Culture Wars
Mon 12 Dec 2016
Tom Sutcliffe with Simon Morrison, Ismene Brown, Edith Devaney and Nigel Cliff.
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Popular Protest and Patriotism
Mon 5 Dec 2016
Kirsty Wark with John Rees, Josie Rourke, Rachel Reeves and James Frayne.
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AIDS Activism and Surviving a Plague
Mon 28 Nov 2016
Tom Sutcliffe with Peter Staley, Anne Johnson, Peter Horby and Louise Welsh.
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Rewriting the Past: from Empire to ivory
Mon 21 Nov 2016
Andrew Marr with Ian Cobain, Edna Adan Ismail, Valerie Amos and Keith Somerville.
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Island Mentality
Mon 14 Nov 2016
Amol Rajan talks to Nicholas Crane, Madeleine Bunting, David Olusoga and Imtiaz Dharker.
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Virtue and Vice
Mon 7 Nov 2016
Andrew Marr with William Kentridge, Lucy Bailey, Susie Orbach and Simon Goldhill.
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Microbes, Genes and Human Endeavour
Mon 24 Oct 2016
Andrew Marr with Ed Yong, Adam Rutherford, Jonathan Maitland and Felicity Aston.
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Soldiering on: the British Army, Lenin and Putin
Mon 3 Oct 2016
Tom Sutcliffe with Richard Dannatt, Ben Macintyre, Catherine Merridale and John Lough.
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Radical Liverpool
Mon 26 Sep 2016
Andrew Marr with Phil Redmond, Gary Younge, John Belchem and Kajsa Norman in Liverpool.
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Political Drama: Robert Harris and Margaret Hodge
Mon 19 Sep 2016
Andrew Marr with Robert Harris, Margaret Hodge, John Armitt and Philip Webster.
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Love, Loss and Scandal
Mon 4 Jul 2016
Andrew Marr talks to Carrie Cracknell, Michel Faber, Peter Parker and John Preston.
