Start the Week Podcast
Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
Episodes to download
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Beyond the headlines
Mon 10 Jun 2019
Kirsty Wark with Chris King, Hussein Kesvani, Nicole Rousmaniere and Shahidha Bari.
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Jared Diamond on national crisis
Mon 3 Jun 2019
Andrew Marr with Jared Diamond, David Runciman and Kate Andrews.
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Hay Festival
Mon 27 May 2019
Jeanette Winterson, Naomi Wolf and John Browne join Tom Sutcliffe at the Hay Festival.
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Medical controversies
Mon 20 May 2019
Andrew Marr with Joshua Mezrich, Angela Saini, Caroline Criado Perez and Richard Ashcroft.
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Billy Bragg on anger and hope
Mon 13 May 2019
Tom Sutcliffe with Kerry Hudson, Billy Bragg, Howard Brenton and Will Tanner.
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Icons of English literature
Mon 6 May 2019
Andrew Marr with Marion Turner, Emma Smith and Juliet John.
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Freedom: From Kierkegaard to Black Lives Matter
Mon 29 Apr 2019
Amol Rajan with DeRay Mckesson, Clare Carlisle, Inua Ellams and Elizabeth Day
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Life in the wilderness
Mon 22 Apr 2019
Kirsty Wark with Dan Richards, Rebecca Frecknall, Sarah O'Connor and Heida.
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Ageing visibly
Mon 8 Apr 2019
Andrew Marr with Nicci Gerrard, Sue Armstrong, John Agard and David Slater.
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Free Thinking Festival
Mon 1 Apr 2019
Tom Sutcliffe with Harriet Shawcross, William J Burns, Kathryn Tickell and Thomas Dixon
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Art for all
Mon 25 Mar 2019
Tom Sutcliffe with Karl Ove Knausgaard, Fiona MacCarthy, Tamsin Wimhurst and Alison Brown.
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Understanding China
Mon 18 Mar 2019
Andrew Marr with Xinran, Julia Lovell, David KS Tse and Roel Sterckx.
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The battle against so-called Islamic State
Mon 11 Mar 2019
Kirsty Wark with David Nott, Azad Cudi, Joana Cook and Claire Foster-Gilbert
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Language and Culture
Mon 4 Mar 2019
Andrew Marr with Jhumpa Lahiri, April De Angelis, Katrin Kohl and Marcus du Sautoy
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Populations and contested lands
Mon 25 Feb 2019
Amol Rajan with Paul Morland, Julia Blackburn and Diarmaid Ferriter.
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The Eye of the Beholder
Mon 18 Feb 2019
Andrew Marr with Jill Burke, Elizabeth Goldring, Tom Stuart and Martin Sherman.
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The mind unravelling
Mon 11 Feb 2019
Kirsty Wark with Randolph Nesse, AK Benjamin and George Szirtes.
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Who is watching you?
Mon 4 Feb 2019
Shoshana Zuboff, John Thornhill and Ece Temelkuran with Andrew Marr.
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The health of science
Mon 28 Jan 2019
Tom Sutcliffe with Sir Robert Lechler, Jo Dunkley, Bernie Bulkin and Elizabeth Pisani.
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Art, truth and power
Mon 21 Jan 2019
Andrew Marr with Fiona Benson, Louise Pullen, Stephen Bayley and Liam Bright.
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Violence and Conflict
Mon 14 Jan 2019
John Lanchester, Patricia Lewis, Richard Wrangham and Eleanor Robson with Amol Rajan
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Searching for happiness
Mon 7 Jan 2019
Andrew Marr with Paul Dolan, Linda Geddes, Laura Freeman and Edward Bullmore.
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Ice and Snow
Christmas Eve 2018
Andrew Marr with Michelle Paver, Ben Saunders, Mark Miodownik and Nancy Campbell.
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National myths with Neil MacGregor
Mon 17 Dec 2018
Neil MacGregor, Christopher Harding and Kajsa Norman with Kirsty Wark.
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Trees: a wood wide web
Mon 10 Dec 2018
Andrew Marr with Peter Wohlleben, Kathleen Jamie, Ruth Pavey and Gary Fuller.
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Power in Politics
Mon 3 Dec 2018
Tom Sutcliffe with Isabel Hardman, James Graham, Diarmaid MacCulloch and Steven Fielding.
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How the World Thinks
Mon 26 Nov 2018
Julian Baggini, Ann Wroe, Amit Chaudhuri and Paulette Randall with Andrew Marr
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Safe spaces and snowflakes
Mon 19 Nov 2018
Jonathan Haidt, Olivia Sudjic, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Mark Ravenhill with Amol Rajan
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Poland: A hundred years of history
Mon 12 Nov 2018
Amol Rajan with Witold Szablowski, Roxanna Panufnik, Michal Murawski and Adam Zamoyski.
