Start the Week Podcast
Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
Episodes to download
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The Reality of War
Mon 10 Sep 2018
Andrew Marr with Max Hastings, Helen Parr, Richard Dannatt and Deborah Haynes.
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Storytelling at the Edinburgh Festivals
Mon 27 Aug 2018
Andrew Marr with Pat Barker, Sjon, James Robertson and Karine Polwart.
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British culture and European influence
Mon 2 Jul 2018
Andrew Marr with Munira Mirza, Laura Tunbridge and Paul Kildea.
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Shame, Status and Self-invention
Mon 25 Jun 2018
Amol Rajan with Tina Brown, Didier Eribon, Miranda France and Timothy Sheader.
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Deserts and the Nuclear Age
Mon 18 Jun 2018
Andrew Marr with William Atkins, Jane Kinninmont and Fred Pearce.
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Altered Minds
Mon 11 Jun 2018
Kirsty Wark with Michael Pollan, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Tammy Burmeister and Andrew Motion.
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Arundhati Roy on castes and outcasts
Mon 4 Jun 2018
Arundhati Roy, Hattie Naylor, Damian Le Bas and Daniel Finkelstein with Andrew Marr.
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Survival and Destruction
Mon 28 May 2018
Antony Beevor, Emily Wilson, David Christian and Jonathan D Quick at Hay Festival.
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Dark Satanic Mills
Mon 21 May 2018
Amol Rajan with Mariana Mazzucato, Joshua Freeman, Rowan Moore and Jane Commane.
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Jordan Peterson: Rules for Life
Mon 14 May 2018
Jordan Peterson, Louise O'Neill, Hashi Mohamed and Lawrence Wright with Tom Sutcliffe.
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The Death of Democracy
Mon 7 May 2018
Amol Rajan with Anne Applebaum, David Runciman and Nic Cheeseman.
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Mysteries of the Universe
Mon 30 Apr 2018
Carlo Rovelli, Carole Mundell, Helen Scales and Laura Walker with Andrew Marr.
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Life Is a Dream
Mon 23 Apr 2018
Tom Sutcliffe with Jesmyn Ward, Kim Brandstrup, Edith Hall and John Gray.
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1968: Radicals and Riots
Mon 16 Apr 2018
Andrew Marr with Sophie Pedder, Agnes Poirier, Richard Vinen and Roger Scruton.
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The Good Samaritan
Mon 9 Apr 2018
Andrew Marr with Chris Hughes, Caroline Slocock, Nick Spencer and Ian Goldin.
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Faith and Doubt
Mon 2 Apr 2018
Amol Rajan with Naomi Alderman, Richard Holloway, Laurie Stras and Malcolm Guite.
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Love and Loss
Mon 26 Mar 2018
Andrew Marr with Sue Black, Kit de Waal, Mark-Anthony Turnage and Jack Hartnell.
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In Praise of Passion
Mon 19 Mar 2018
Andrew Marr with Bettany Hughes, John Lewis-Stempel, Rachel Hewitt and Stephen Walsh.
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Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead
Mon 12 Mar 2018
Kirsty Wark with Lionel Shriver, Linda Yueh, Bev Skeggs and Sean O'Brien.
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Art and Civilisations
Mon 5 Mar 2018
Andrew Marr with Mary Beard, Simon Schama, David Olusoga and Tacita Dean.
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Who Am I? The Brain and Personality
Mon 26 Feb 2018
Tom Sutcliffe with Jules Montague, Anthony David, Nick Chater and Stephen Beresford.
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Fascism and the Enlightenment with Steven Pinker
Mon 19 Feb 2018
Steven Pinker, Rob Riemen and Tali Sharot discuss fascism and humanism with Andrew Marr.
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Rise and Fall of the City
Mon 12 Feb 2018
Amol Rajan with Richard Sennett, David Farr, Roma Agrawal and Edward Burman.
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Money Makes the World Go Around
Mon 5 Feb 2018
Andrew Marr with Diane Coyle, Dharshini David, Anna Ledwich and Jon Kalman Stefansson.
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Mohsin Hamid on leaving home
Mon 29 Jan 2018
Mohsin Hamid, Carol Bohmer, Robert Hastie and Bruno Macaes with Kirsty Wark.
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The Power of Art
Mon 22 Jan 2018
Andrew Marr with Andrew Graham-Dixon, Leanda de Lisle, Kelly Chorpening and Don Thompson.
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Peter Carey on legacies of the past
Mon 15 Jan 2018
Tom Sutcliffe with author Peter Carey, broadcaster Afua Hirsch and journalist Geert Mak.
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Votes for Women
Mon 8 Jan 2018
Andrew Marr with Jane Robinson, Christopher Finlay, Peter Kennard and Fiona Sampson.
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Who governs Britain?
Mon 18 Dec 2017
Andrew Marr with Lord Neuberger, Barbara Hosking, Robert Harris and Tim Bale.
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The power and beauty of objects.
Mon 11 Dec 2017
Jessie Burton, Jonathan Haskel, Marion Rankine and Andrew Nahum with Tom Sutcliffe.
