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Start the Week Episodes

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    Modernism

    Kirsty Wark with Matthew Sweet, Charlotte Sleigh, Soweto Kinch and Suzanne Hobson.

  2. Old battles, new warfare

    Adam Rutherford with Mark Galeotti, CΓ©cile Fabre and Kirsty Graham.

  3. Finding consolation and community in reading

    Tom Sutcliffe with Michael Ignatieff, Christopher Prendergast and Toby Brothers.

  4. Vaccinate, ventilate and breathe

    Andrew Marr with Catherine Noakes, Teresa Lambe and James Nestor.

  5. A musical journey – from the mountains to the multi-storey

    Andrew Marr with Steven Isserlis, Benjamin Appl and Kate Whitley.

  6. Living in the Matrix

    Tom Sutcliffe with Naomi Alderman, David J Chalmers and Philippa Garety.

  7. Witches

    Andrew Marr with Kathryn Hunter, Claire Askew and Malcolm Gaskill.

  8. Levelling up; halting decline

    Kirsty Wark with Marit Kapla, Paul Batchelor and Paul Swinney.

  9. Christianity: Changing Fortunes

    Andrew Marr with Janine di Giovanni, Elle Hardy and Tricia Hillas.

  10. Ancient lives and legacies in Latin America

    Tom Sutcliffe with Mario Vargas Llosa, Jago Cooper and Natalia Sobrevilla Perea

  11. Internet influencers and generation gaps

    Andrew Marr with Olivia Yallop, Sarah Ogilvie and Bobby Duffy.

  12. Ai Weiwei on creative freedom

    Tom Sutcliffe talks to Ai Weiwei, Lea Ypi and Kirill Gerstein.

  13. Working the land - Orwell and HG Wells

    Andrew Marr with Rebecca Solnit, Claire Tomalin and Peter Hetherington

  14. Rationality in an Irrational Age

    Amol Rajan talks about rationality with Steven Pinker, Amia Srinivasan and Irving Finkel.

  15. Views from across the water

    Andrew Marr with Clare Jackson, Benedicte Paviot and Fintan O’Toole.

  16. Images of power

    Kirsty Wark with Mary Beard, Andrew Roberts and Ayesha Hazarika

  17. Colm TΓ³ibΓ­n on Thomas Mann

    Andrew Marr talks to Colm TΓ³ibΓ­n, Karen Leeder and Jesse Armstrong

  18. Climate activism: the next generation

    Richard Powers, Mya-Rose Craig and Simon Mundy talk to Andrew Marr

  19. Life in the first person

    Oliver Mears, Tiffany Watt Smith and Anil Seth talk to Tom Sutcliffe.

  20. Ali Smith

    Ali Smith in conversation with Andrew Marr

  21. Jackie Kay on Bessie Smith

    Kirsty Wark with Jackie Kay, Rosemary Hill and Michael Armitage

  22. London - villain and victim?

    Andrew Marr with Iestyn Davies, Jennifer Kavanagh and Jack Brown

  23. Lionel Shriver on life and death decisions

    Tom Sutcliffe with Lionel Shriver, David Jarrett and Jack Thorne.

  24. DH Lawrence: life and work

    Andrew Marr with Frances Wilson, Salman Rushdie and Simon Armitage

  25. On Thin Ice: Glaciers, Geopolitics, and Nature's Goods

    Kirsty Wark with Jemma Wadham, Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson and Dwayne Ryan Menezes.

  26. Daniel Kahneman on 'noisy' human judgement

    Andrew Marr with Daniel Kahneman, Gillian Tett and Ann Cairns.

  27. The opioid crisis and erosion of trust

    Amol Rajan with Patrick Radden Keefe, Zoe Williams and Heidi Larson

  28. Art - plunder, power and prestige

    Andrew Marr with Cynthia Saltzman, Francesco da Mosto and Charles Saumarez Smith.

  29. Personal faith and the Church

    Tom Sutcliffe with Chine McDonald, Giles Fraser and Jeet Thayil.

  30. What if the Incas had colonised Europe?

    Andrew Marr with Laurent Binet, Caroline Dodds Pennock and Christienna Fryar.

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