Start the Week Podcast
Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
Episodes to download
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Thomas Becket and the rift between church and state
Mon 21 Dec 2020
Andrew Marr with Laura Ashe, Christopher de Hamel and Andrew Hussey.
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Inspiring awe – from the heavens to the oceans
Mon 14 Dec 2020
Tom Sutcliffe with Stuart Clark, Rebecca Giggs and Antony Gormley.
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Human ingenuity and shared inheritance
Mon 30 Nov 2020
Amol Rajan with Simon Baron-Cohen, Rebecca Wragg Sykes and Susana Carvalho.
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Derrida, Woolf, and the pleasure of reading
Mon 23 Nov 2020
Andrew Marr with Bernhard Schlink, Alexandra Harris and Peter Salmon
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Landscapes real and imagined
Mon 16 Nov 2020
Daisy Johnson, Caleb Femi and Kevin Barry with Tom Sutcliffe.
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Physics in all its glory
Mon 9 Nov 2020
Roger Penrose, Carlo Rovelli and Helen Czerski with Andrew Marr
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Great women of the classics
Mon 2 Nov 2020
Kirsty Wark with Shadi Bartsch, Natalie Haynes and Letizia Treves
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China and the global order
Mon 26 Oct 2020
Andrew Marr with John Micklethwait, Katya Adler and Rana Mitter.
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Fake news and data lies: how to win an election
Mon 19 Oct 2020
Amol Rajan with Jill Lepore and Richard Evans.
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Care and compassion
Mon 12 Oct 2020
Andrew Marr with Madeleine Bunting, Jeremy Hunt and Helen Kingston.
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Contested histories
Mon 5 Oct 2020
Tom Sutcliffe with Olivette Otele, Kate Williams and Sudhir Hazareesingh
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Claudia Rankine and Margaret Atwood
Mon 21 Sep 2020
Claudia Rankine and Margaret Atwood with Kirsty Wark.
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The Radical Agenda
Mon 14 Sep 2020
Andrew Marr with Owen Jones, Rachel Holmes and Danny Finkelstein.
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Meritocracy and inequality
Mon 7 Sep 2020
Michael Sandel, Elif Shafak and David Goodhart with Amol Rajan
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Nature notes, from farming to fungi
Mon 31 Aug 2020
Andrew Marr with James Rebanks, Melissa Harrison and Merlin Sheldrake
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Brit Bennett on race, identity and protest
Mon 29 Jun 2020
Tom Sutcliffe with Brit Bennett and Gary Younge
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James Joyce
Mon 15 Jun 2020
Edna O'Brien, Colm TóibÃn and Mary Costello discuss James Joyce with Andrew Marr.
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Changing behaviour, from bystander to actor
Mon 27 Apr 2020
Kirsty Wark with Catherine Sanderson and David Halpern.
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Crisis in Europe from Notre-Dame to coronavirus
Mon 20 Apr 2020
Andrew Marr with Agnès Poirier and Martyn Rady.
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Rebuilding conservatism in changing times
Mon 30 Mar 2020
Nick Timothy and Danny Dorling with Amol Rajan
