Start the Week Podcast
Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
Episodes to download
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Playing games
Mon 4 Dec 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Marcus du Sautoy, Anthony Bale, Jane Draycott and GT Karber
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Space – the human story
Mon 27 Nov 2023
Kirsty Wark with astronaut Tim Peake, writer Samantha Harvey and physicist Roberto Trotta.
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Monet and machine vision
Mon 20 Nov 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Jackie Wullschläger, Mat Collishaw and Jill Walker Rettberg
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Music – from page to performance
Mon 13 Nov 2023
Adam Rutherford with Errollyn Wallen, Laurence Cummings and Emma Smith.
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China – its poetry and economy
Mon 6 Nov 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Noo Saro-Wiwa, Michael Wood and George Magnus
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Soundtrack to life
Mon 30 Oct 2023
Kirsty Wark with Natalie Merchant, Michel Faber and Jeffrey Boakye
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Infected blood - from scandal to inquiry
Mon 23 Oct 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Cara McGoogan, Jason Evans and Gabriel Scally.
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Israel
Mon 9 Oct 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Nathan Thrall, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen and Jake Wallis Simons.
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The Iliad and the right to rule
Mon 2 Oct 2023
Adam Rutherford with Emily Wilson, Mary Beard and Ben Riley-Smith
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Contains Strong Language Festival in Leeds
Mon 25 Sep 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Lemn Sissay, Lebogang Mashile and Clare O’Dowd
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Homo Sapiens +/-
Mon 18 Sep 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Sebastian Faulks, Ludovic Slimak and Lauren Gunderson.
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The NHS at 75
Mon 3 Jul 2023
Kirsty Wark with Kevin Fong, Isabel Hardman, Phil Whitaker and Andrew Seaton
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Materials that shape our world
Mon 26 Jun 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Ed Conway, Aarathi Prasad and Jamie Fraser.
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Sums, stories and musical scores
Mon 19 Jun 2023
Kirsty Wark with Eugenia Cheng, Sarah Hart and Emily Howard.
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Hacking and cybercrime
Mon 12 Jun 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Scott Shapiro, Alice Hutchings and Jenny Radcliffe.
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Allergies and the Microbiome
Mon 5 Jun 2023
Adam Rutherford with Theresa MacPhail, James Kinross and Johnny Drain.
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Hay Festival - Dickens in the 21st century
Mon 29 May 2023
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Barbara Kingsolver, Michael Rosen and Natalie Haynes.
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Virtuous bankers?
Mon 15 May 2023
Adam Rutherford with Anne Murphy, Edward Chancellor and David Fishwick.
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Monster artist/monstrous art?
Mon 8 May 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Claire Dederer, Devika Ponnambalam and Michael Bond.
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Life behind the iron curtain
Mon 1 May 2023
Adam Rutherford with Karl Schlögel, Katja Hoyer and Adam Curtis
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Ancient trees
Mon 24 Apr 2023
Kirsty Wark with Peter Wohlleben, Jill Butler and Carolyne Larrington.
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A place called home
Mon 17 Apr 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Kieran Yates, Natasha Carthew, Christine Whitehead and Alice Brownfield
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Ai Weiwei and design values
Mon 10 Apr 2023
Adam Rutherford with Ai Weiwei, Roma Agrawal and Bent Flyvbjerg
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Mastering a new skill
Mon 3 Apr 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Adam Gopnik, Hannah Critchlow and Rebecca Struthers.
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Climate - past, present and future
Mon 27 Mar 2023
Kirsty Wark with Peter Frankopan, Jane Francis and Jessie Greengrass.
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Humanism - what is it good for?
Mon 20 Mar 2023
Adam Rutherford with Sarah Bakewell, Julian Baggini and Leila Aboulela
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George Eliot and married life
Mon 13 Mar 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Clare Carlisle, Claudia Rankine and David Eldridge
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The Iraq War – 20 years on
Mon 6 Mar 2023
Kirsty Wark with Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Emma Sky and Gordon Corera.
