Start the Week Podcast
Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
Episodes to download
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Existentialism and Ways of Seeing
Mon 28 Mar 2016
Kirsty Wark with Sarah Bakewell, Sunil Khilnani, Frances Borzello and Stuart Franklin.
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Is Faster Better?
Mon 21 Mar 2016
Andrew Marr with Robert Colvile, Carl Honore, Sarah Dunant and Steve Jones.
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The Easter Rising: 100 Years On
Mon 14 Mar 2016
Tom Sutcliffe with Ruth Dudley Edwards, Heather Jones, David Rieff and Fintan O'Toole.
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Scotland
Mon 7 Mar 2016
Kirsty Wark with Tom Devine, Chris Whatley, Kathleen Jamie and Angus Farquhar.
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Nature or Nurture?
Mon 29 Feb 2016
Mary-Ann Sieghart with Helen Pearson, Oliver James, Marcus Munafo and Joseph Bullman.
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Future Economies
Mon 22 Feb 2016
Andrew Marr with Alec Ross, Steve Furber, Paul Mason and Hsiao-Hung Pai.
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Who Owns Culture?
Mon 15 Feb 2016
Tom Sutcliffe with Tiffany Jenkins, Tendai Huchu, Ellen McAdam and Waldemar Januszczak.
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Mind and Body
Mon 8 Feb 2016
Andrew Marr with Jane McGonigal, Jo Marchant, AC Grayling and Simon McBurney.
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Language and Reinvention
Mon 1 Feb 2016
Tom Sutcliffe with Edward Dusinberre, Mariame Clement, Vahni Capildeo and Diego Marani.
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Migration and Citizenship
Mon 25 Jan 2016
Andrew Marr with Thom Brooks, Daniel Hannan, Frances Stonor Saunders and Ben Rawlence.
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Alaa Al Aswany on Egypt
Mon 18 Jan 2016
Tom Sutcliffe with Alaa Al Aswany, Wendell Steavenson, Hugh Kennedy and Tarek Osman.
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Russia: Tsars to Putin
Mon 11 Jan 2016
With Sebag Montefiore, Amanda Vickery, Arkady Ostrovsky and David Aaronovitch.
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Shakespeare's Late Plays - recorded at the Globe's Playhouse
Mon 28 Dec 2015
Simon Russell Beale, Jeanette Winterson, Dominic Dromgoole and Katherine Duncan-Jones.
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Space Survival and Exploration
Mon 21 Dec 2015
Andrew Marr with Kevin Fong, Martin Rees, Carole Haswell and Stephen Baxter.
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Cultural Lifespans
Mon 14 Dec 2015
Tom Sutcliffe meets James Crawford, Semyon Bychkov, Julia Sallabank and Peter Randall-Page
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Reforming Saudi Arabia
Mon 7 Dec 2015
Andrew Marr with Madawi Al-Rasheed, Deirdre McCloskey, Ian Morris and William Patey.
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Augustine, Desire, Doing good
Mon 30 Nov 2015
Andrew Marr with Robin Lane Fox, Larissa MacFarquhar and Adam Phillips.
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Jonathan Coe on Satire
Mon 23 Nov 2015
Mary Ann Sieghart with Jonathan Coe, Roger Michell, Peter Brookes and Mia Chung.
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France Special
Mon 16 Nov 2015
Andrew Marr with Agnes Desarthe, Karim Miske, Anne-Elisabeth Moutet and Robert Gildea.
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Claudia Rankine at the Free Thinking Festival
Mon 9 Nov 2015
Anne McElvoy with Claudia Rankine, Amir Darwish, Jules Holroyd and Catherine Fletcher.
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Embracing Failure and Uncertainty
Mon 2 Nov 2015
Tom Sutcliffe with Helga Nowotny, David Willetts, Matthew Syed and Oliver Morton.
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Social Class and Cultural Capital
Mon 26 Oct 2015
Andrew Marr with Siri Hustvedt, Ben Power, Peter Davies and Mike Savage.
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Power and Corruption with Stephen Frears and Mary Beard
Mon 19 Oct 2015
Tom Sutcliffe with Mary Beard, Stephen Frears, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Mehmet Ergen.
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Jonathan Franzen
Mon 5 Oct 2015
Tom Sutcliffe with Jonathan Franzen, Gillian Tett, Tacita Dean and Helen Margetts.
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Celts and Romans
Mon 28 Sep 2015
Mary Ann Sieghart with Tom Holland, Barry Cunliffe, Julia Farley and Matt Ridley.
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Edmund de Waal on Porcelain
Mon 21 Sep 2015
Andrew Marr talks to Edmund de Waal, Tim Marlow, Annie Freud and Mark Miodownik.
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Harmony and Balance
Mon 6 Jul 2015
Mary Ann Sieghart with Frank Wilczek, Shobana Jeyasingh, Matt Parker and Gerald Finley.
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Alan Watts and the Way of Translation
Mon 29 Jun 2015
Andrew Marr with Tim Lott, Mark Vernon, Maureen Freely and Marc Rees.
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Architecture and power - from Stalinist structures to model villages
Mon 22 Jun 2015
Tom Sutcliffe with Doug Aitken, Owen Hatherley, Jacqueline Yallop and Graham Morrison.
