Start the Week Podcast
Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
Episodes to download
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Hard work and sweet slumber
Mon 25 Sep 2017
Francine Stock with Matthew Walker, Sasha Handley, Matthew Taylor and Susan Foister.
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Orhan Pamuk on competing myths
Mon 18 Sep 2017
Andrew Marr with Orhan Pamuk, Jon Sopel, Shobana Jeyasingh and Roxana Silbert.
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From Darwin to Big Data with Richard Dawkins
Mon 3 Jul 2017
Andrew Marr with Richard Dawkins, Deborah Kelemen, Cathy O'Neil and Alex Bellos.
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Power: Fleet Street and Whitehall
Mon 26 Jun 2017
Tom Sutcliffe with Chris Patten, Tessa Blackstone, James Graham and Kerry-Anne Mendoza.
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Health Inequality: TB, Trauma and Technology
Mon 19 Jun 2017
Andrew Marr with Lynne Jones, Michael Marmot, Kathryn Lougheed and John Powell.
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Crossing the Boundaries of Gender, Race and Class
Mon 12 Jun 2017
Kirsty Wark with Thomas Page McBee, Gary Owen, Kayo Chingonyi and Penny Woolcock.
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Inventing the Self: Fact and Fiction
Mon 5 Jun 2017
Andrew Marr with Robert Lepage, Rebecca Stott, Miranda Doyle and Andrew O'Hagan.
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Live from the Hay Festival
Mon 29 May 2017
Tom Sutcliffe with Colm Toibin, Sebastian Barry, Meg Rosoff and Jan Kizilhan.
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India's Rise?
Mon 22 May 2017
Andrew Marr with Shashi Tharoor, Preti Taneja, Kate Sullivan de Estrada and Adam Roberts.
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Post-Truth and Revolution
Mon 15 May 2017
Amol Rajan with Matthew D'Ancona, Claire Wardle, China Mieville and Lijia Zhang.
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Kate Tempest: Everyday Epic
Mon 8 May 2017
Andrew Marr with Kate Tempest, Tracy Chevalier, Hanif Kureishi and Lewis Hyde.
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Wendell Berry: The Natural World
Mon 1 May 2017
Andrew Marr with Wendell Berry, Paul Kingsnorth and Kate Raworth.
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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 MisΓ©rables: 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.
