Start the Week Episodes Episode guide
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鈥楲eft behind鈥�, but not forgotten
Tom Sutcliffe with Paul Collier, Joanna Kusiak and Matthew Xia.
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Hay Festival: ancient wisdom and ecology
Adam Rutherford with Robin Wall Kimmerer, Hugh Warwick and Olivia Laing at Hay Festival
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Reading the Bible
Kirsty Wark swaps Bible stories with Marilynne Robinson, Naomi Alderman and Malika Booker
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Art: market, money and malfeasance
Tom Sutcliffe with Francesca Whitlum-Cooper, Orlando Whitfield and Angelina Giovani
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Bees 鈥� culture and survival
Tom Sutcliffe with Wolfgang Buttress, Claire Preston, Lars Chittka and Alison Benjamin
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Protest and patriotism
Jackie Kay, Caroline Lucas and Simon Heffer with Adam Rutherford.
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Alien life and gravity
Tom Sutcliffe with Lisa Kaltenegger, Claudia de Rham and Mark Fromhold
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City living
Adam Rutherford explores the city with Ben Power, Amanda Levete and Simon Kuper.
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Power to the people
Tom Sutcliffe discusses democracy with Erica Benner, Alpa Shah and Bobby Duffy.
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Music and poetry
Kirsty Wark discusses poetry and music with Alison Balsom, Graeme Lawson and John Burnside
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The war between science and religion
Tom Sutcliffe with Michael Taylor, Nick Spencer and Frances Flinter.
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Crossing borders and belonging
Adam Rutherford with Viet Thanh Nguyen, Helena Lee and Jessica J Lee.
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Intrigue and disinformation from the Russian Revolution to Ukraine invasion
Tom Sutcliffe with Andrey Kurkov, Peter Pomerantsev and Charlotte Jee.
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Time passing: ageing, memory and nostalgia
Adam Rutherford with Venki Ramakrishnan, Charan Ranganath and Agnes Arnold-Forster
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Mysterious Plants
Kirsty Wark with Chris Thorogood, Kelsey Byers and William Milliken
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Weighty issues
Tom Sutcliffe with Naveed Sattar, Stephanie Yeboah and Henry Dimbleby
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Arts: changing the world?
Tom Sutcliffe with Ellen E Jones, Hew Locke and Noora Niasari
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Global influences
Kirsty Wark with Josephine Quinn, Carolina Rangel de Lima and Christopher Harding.
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Opium trade to synthetic opiates
Tom Sutcliffe with Amitav Ghosh, Richard Brittan and Fiona Measham.
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Made out of glass
Adam Rutherford with Jasmine Allen, Ayako Tani, John Parker and Claire Corkhill.
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War crimes justice
Tom Sutcliffe with Gary J Bass, Lyndsey Stonebridge and Christopher Stephen.
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Climate resolutions
Kirsty Wark with Hannah Ritchie, Akshat Rathi and Michael Meredith.
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A century of Labour
Tom Sutcliffe with Jon Cruddas, Jane Green and Jonathan White.
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AI, states and corporations
Tom Sutcliffe with Mike Wooldridge, Naomi Alderman and David Runciman.
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Small states: global impact and survival
Adam Rutherford with Armen Sarkissian, Margaret MacMillan and Lyse Doucet
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Playing games
Tom Sutcliffe with Marcus du Sautoy, Anthony Bale, Jane Draycott and GT Karber
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Space 鈥� the human story
Kirsty Wark with astronaut Tim Peake, writer Samantha Harvey and physicist Roberto Trotta.
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Monet and machine vision
Tom Sutcliffe with Jackie Wullschl盲ger, Mat Collishaw and Jill Walker Rettberg
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Music 鈥� from page to performance
Adam Rutherford with Errollyn Wallen, Laurence Cummings and Emma Smith.
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China 鈥� its poetry and economy
Tom Sutcliffe with Noo Saro-Wiwa, Michael Wood and George Magnus
