Start the Week Podcast
Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
Episodes to download
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Karen Armstrong on War and Religion
Mon 29 Sep 2014
Tom Sutcliffe with Karen Armstrong, Justin Marozzi and Christopher Coker.
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Hilary Mantel
Mon 22 Sep 2014
Tom Sutcliffe with Hilary Mantel, Neil MacGregor, Jeremy Deller and Kei Miller.
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Tom Sutcliffe discusses family secrets and Scottish royalty
Mon 7 Jul 2014
Tom Sutcliffe with Michael Holroyd, Rona Munro, Herman Koch and Hugo Blick.
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The Science of the Mind
Mon 30 Jun 2014
Andrew Marr with Mark Williams, Heidi Johansen-Berg, Charles Fernyhough and Ben Shephard.
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Joyce DiDonato and Julie Bindel on Women Behaving Badly
Mon 23 Jun 2014
Tom Sutcliffe talks with Julie Bindel, Helen Castor, Joyce DiDonato and Erica Whyman.
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Pain and Prejudice
Mon 16 Jun 2014
Tom Sutcliffe talks pain and suffering with Joanna Bourke, Norman Fowler and Jeremy Farrar
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What Is the State For?
Mon 9 Jun 2014
Tom Sutcliffe with Adrian Wooldridge, Tristram Hunt, Anjan Sundaram and Charu Lata Hogg.
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Rod Liddle on the selfish generation
Mon 2 Jun 2014
Tom Sutcliffe with Rod Liddle, Neil Jameson, Xiaolu Guo and Ramin Gray.
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Charleston Festival
Mon 26 May 2014
Tom Sutcliffe with Tim Winton, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Nicola Barker and Michael Schmidt.
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Alien Invaders
Mon 19 May 2014
Anne McElvoy and Ken Thompson, Monique Simmonds, Victoria Herridge and John Lewis-Stempel.
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The Myth of the Strong Leader?
Mon 12 May 2014
Tom Sutcliffe with Richard Hytner, Heather Rabbatts, Jonathan Powell and Archie Brown.
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Simon Armitage on Greek Tragedy
Mon 5 May 2014
Anne McElvoy with Simon Armitage, Frank McGuinness, Natalie Haynes and Kenan Malik.
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The Future of Capitalism
Mon 28 Apr 2014
Anne McElvoy with Jeremy Rifkin, Saskia Sassen and Kwasi Kwarteng.
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James Lovelock
Mon 21 Apr 2014
Anne McElvoy looks to the future with James Lovelock, Joanna Haigh and George Monbiot.
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Lucy Worsley on the Georgians
Mon 14 Apr 2014
Tom Sutcliffe with Lucy Worsley, Paula Byrne, Chris Bryant and Rupert Goold.
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Police drama with playwright Roy Williams
Mon 7 Apr 2014
Tom Sutcliffe with Roy Williams, Sam Bain, Christian Plowman and Jennifer Brown.
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AL Kennedy and David Sedaris on matters of the heart
Mon 31 Mar 2014
Tom Sutcliffe with AL Kennedy, Lavinia Greenlaw, David Sedaris and Simon Blackburn.
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Faisal I of Iraq and the making of the modern Middle East
Mon 24 Mar 2014
Anne McElvoy with Richard Evans, Malu Halasa, Scott Anderson and Ali Allawi.
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Decision-making with Daniel Kahneman and Michael Ignatieff
Mon 17 Mar 2014
Tom Sutcliffe with Daniel Kahneman, Michael Ignatieff, Henry Marsh and Lisa Appignanesi.
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Andrew Hussey on the legacy of France's Arab Empire
Mon 10 Mar 2014
Tom Sutcliffe with Gabrielle Rifkind, Andrew Hussey and Ziauddin Sardar.
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The Vikings and Seafaring
Mon 3 Mar 2014
Tom Sutcliffe with Michael Wood, Rose George, David Barrie and Yrsa Sigurdardottir.
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Adair Turner on the Politics of Finance
Mon 24 Feb 2014
Tom Sutcliffe with Adair Turner, Charles Calomiris, Harris Irfan and Maggie Gee.
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Vanessa Feltz and Susie Orbach on Confession
Mon 17 Feb 2014
Andrew Marr with John Cornwell, Vanessa Feltz, Susie Orbach and Turney Duff.
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Irving Finkel on the Ark Tablet
Mon 10 Feb 2014
Tom Sutcliffe with Harry Collins, Irving Finkel, Hattie Naylor and Colin Blakemore.
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Spying and Surveillance: The Snowden Files
Mon 3 Feb 2014
Anne McElvoy with Luke Harding, Sir David Omand, Annette Dittert and Alain de Botton.
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Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Mon 27 Jan 2014
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Trevor Cox, Waldemar Januszczak and Victoria Williamson.
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Neuroscience and Free Will
Mon 20 Jan 2014
Tom Sutcliffe with Helen Dunmore, Dick Swaab, Natalie Abrahami and Julian Baggini.
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Unity and Disunity
Mon 13 Jan 2014
Anne McElvoy talks to Linda Colley, David Pilling, Maria Delgado and David Charter.
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Michael Gove on teaching history
Mon 30 Dec 2013
Andrew Marr discusses the teaching of history with the Education Minister Michael Gove.
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Clive James
Mon 23 Dec 2013
Andrew Marr talks to writer and former television presenter Clive James.
