Start the Week Podcast
Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
Episodes to download
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James Joyce
Mon 15 Jun 2020
Edna O'Brien, Colm TΓ³ibΓn 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
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Famous and Infamous
Mon 23 Mar 2020
Tom Sutcliffe with Greg Jenner, Catherine Fletcher and Caroline Corbeau-Parsons
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Cultural icons from Shakespeare to Superman
Mon 16 Mar 2020
Tom Sutcliffe with James Shapiro, Mark Kermode, Teresa Bejan and Don Paterson
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Morality, money and power
Mon 9 Mar 2020
Andrew Marr with Jonathan Sacks, Mervyn King and Kate Fall.
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Leila Slimani on Sexual Politics
Mon 24 Feb 2020
Amol Rajan with Leila Slimani, Olivia Fane, Sally Howard and Chris Haywood
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Love of home
Mon 17 Feb 2020
Andrew Marr with Dan Jackson, Kapka Kassabova, Colin Mayer and Emily Thomas
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Dresden - 75 years on
Mon 10 Feb 2020
Tom Sutcliffe with Sinclair McKay, Edmund de Waal, Stefanie Bolzen and Sasha Havlicek
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Artistic influence: Beethoven, Rembrandt and MeToo
Mon 3 Feb 2020
Andrew Marr with Sir Antonio Pappano, Dame Mary Beard and An Van Camp.
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Grayson Perry - the early years
Mon 27 Jan 2020
Grayson Perry, Hashi Mohamed and Theresa Lolo with Amol Rajan
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Puritans and God-given government
Mon 20 Jan 2020
Andrew Marr with Paul Lay, Lisa Mullen, Stephen Tomkins and Lindsay Newman
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No work, rest and play
Mon 13 Jan 2020
Tom Sutcliffe with Daniel Susskind, Suzi Gage, Anoosh Chakelian and Sir John Strang
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A house and a home
Mon 6 Jan 2020
Andrew Marr with David Mikhail, Jude Yawson, Ben Ansell and Christina Hardyment.
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Westminster Abbey
Mon 23 Dec 2019
Andrew Marr at Westminster Abbey with David Cannadine, Lucy Worsley and Richard Harries.
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Numbers, nightmares and nanotech
Mon 16 Dec 2019
Kirsty Wark with Hannah Fry, Sonia Contera, Tim Harford and Izabella Kaminska
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Living near water
Mon 9 Dec 2019
Andrew Marr with David Lerner, Edward Platt, Tania Kovats and Leaf Arbuthnot.
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India past and present
Mon 2 Dec 2019
Amol Rajan with William Dalrymple, Anita Anand and Sumantra Bose.
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Love and unreason
Mon 25 Nov 2019
Andrew Marr with Bettany Hughes, Clare Carlisle, Emma Lewis and Mark Padmore.
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Life, death and taxes
Mon 18 Nov 2019
Tom Sutcliffe with Vicky Pryce, Dominic Frisby, Alexander Zevin and Judith Hawley.