Start the Week Podcast
Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
Episodes to download
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Justice, war crimes and targeted killings
Mon 20 Jun 2022
Helen Lewis with Linda Kinstler, Ronen Bergman and Philippe Sands.
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Social inequality - up close
Mon 13 Jun 2022
Adam Rutherford with Darren McGarvey, Jo Clement and Brett Scott
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A revolution in food and farming
Mon 6 Jun 2022
Tom Sutcliffe with George Monbiot, Sarah Langford and Claire Ratinon.
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Family drama at Hay Festival
Mon 30 May 2022
Helen Lewis with Damon Galgut, Margo Jefferson and Jennifer Egan at the Hay Festival
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Learning from apes, fish and wasps
Mon 23 May 2022
Adam Rutherford with Frans de Waal, Seirian Sumner and Nichola Raihani.
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The body clock and sleep
Mon 16 May 2022
Tom Sutcliffe with Russell Foster, Sonja Linden and Ros Holmes.
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Marwa Al-Sabouni - Rebuilding with hope
Mon 9 May 2022
Helen Lewis with Marwa Al-Sabouni, Jo da Silva and Jessie Childs
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Curiosity, ingenuity and experimentation
Mon 2 May 2022
Kirsty Wark talks to Suzie Sheehy, Laura Beatty and Philip Ball
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The age of the strongman leader
Mon 25 Apr 2022
Tom Sutcliffe with Gideon Rachman, Judy Dempsey and Christopher de Bellaigue.
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NoViolet Bulawayo on Glory
Mon 18 Apr 2022
Adam Rutherford with NoViolet Bulawayo, Dipo Faloyin and Julia Gallagher
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Love poetry; love books
Mon 11 Apr 2022
Kirsty Wark with Katherine Rundell, Emma Smith and Megan Walsh
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Liberalism in crisis
Mon 28 Mar 2022
Amol Rajan with Francis Fukuyama, Helen Thompson and Edward Shawcross.
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Welsh identities
Mon 21 Mar 2022
Helen Lewis with Richard Wyn Jones, Hanan Issa, Marion Loeffler and Richard King.
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Creating art; reflecting life
Mon 7 Mar 2022
Kirsty Wark with Kwame Kwei-Armah, Warsan Shire and Ralph Rugoff.
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Post-war/post-Covid
Mon 28 Feb 2022
Helen Lewis with Peter Hennessy, Jane Alison and Farhan Samanani.
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Wealth, influence and the global elite
Mon 21 Feb 2022
Tom Sutcliffe with Pankaj Mishra, Joseph Sassoon and Susan Newman
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Stonehenge, and conserving the future
Mon 14 Feb 2022
Adam Rutherford with Neil Wilkin, Rebecca Nesbit and Thomas Halliday.
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Bullish masculinity
Mon 31 Jan 2022
Helen Lewis with Fiona Benson, Ivan Jablonka, Nina Power and Angelica Malin.
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Modernism
Mon 24 Jan 2022
Kirsty Wark with Matthew Sweet, Charlotte Sleigh, Soweto Kinch and Suzanne Hobson.
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Old battles, new warfare
Mon 17 Jan 2022
Adam Rutherford with Mark Galeotti, CΓ©cile Fabre and Kirsty Graham.
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Finding consolation and community in reading
Mon 10 Jan 2022
Tom Sutcliffe with Michael Ignatieff, Christopher Prendergast and Toby Brothers.
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Vaccinate, ventilate and breathe
Mon 27 Dec 2021
Andrew Marr with Catherine Noakes, Teresa Lambe and James Nestor.
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A musical journey – from the mountains to the multi-storey
Mon 20 Dec 2021
Andrew Marr with Steven Isserlis, Benjamin Appl and Kate Whitley.
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Living in the Matrix
Mon 13 Dec 2021
Tom Sutcliffe with Naomi Alderman, David J Chalmers and Philippa Garety.
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Levelling up; halting decline
Mon 29 Nov 2021
Kirsty Wark with Marit Kapla, Paul Batchelor and Paul Swinney.
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Christianity: Changing Fortunes
Mon 22 Nov 2021
Andrew Marr with Janine di Giovanni, Elle Hardy and Tricia Hillas.
