Start the Week Podcast
Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
Episodes to download
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The Vikings and Seafaring
Mon 3 Mar 2014
Tom Sutcliffe with Michael Wood, Rose George, David Barrie and Yrsa Sigurdardottir.
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Adair Turner on the Politics of Finance
Mon 24 Feb 2014
Tom Sutcliffe with Adair Turner, Charles Calomiris, Harris Irfan and Maggie Gee.
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Vanessa Feltz and Susie Orbach on Confession
Mon 17 Feb 2014
Andrew Marr with John Cornwell, Vanessa Feltz, Susie Orbach and Turney Duff.
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Irving Finkel on the Ark Tablet
Mon 10 Feb 2014
Tom Sutcliffe with Harry Collins, Irving Finkel, Hattie Naylor and Colin Blakemore.
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Spying and Surveillance: The Snowden Files
Mon 3 Feb 2014
Anne McElvoy with Luke Harding, Sir David Omand, Annette Dittert and Alain de Botton.
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Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Mon 27 Jan 2014
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Trevor Cox, Waldemar Januszczak and Victoria Williamson.
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Neuroscience and Free Will
Mon 20 Jan 2014
Tom Sutcliffe with Helen Dunmore, Dick Swaab, Natalie Abrahami and Julian Baggini.
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Unity and Disunity
Mon 13 Jan 2014
Anne McElvoy talks to Linda Colley, David Pilling, Maria Delgado and David Charter.
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Michael Gove on teaching history
Mon 30 Dec 2013
Andrew Marr discusses the teaching of history with the Education Minister Michael Gove.
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Clive James
Mon 23 Dec 2013
Andrew Marr talks to writer and former television presenter Clive James.
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Josie Rourke on strategy and Coriolanus
Mon 16 Dec 2013
Tom Sutcliffe with Josie Rourke, Dominic Lawson, David Runciman and Lawrence Freedman.
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The Building Blocks of Life and Intelligence
Mon 9 Dec 2013
Anne McElvoy talks to Alison Woollard, Kathryn Asbury, Roger Kneebone and Sir Mark Elder.
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Landscape and Community
Mon 2 Dec 2013
Bridget Kendall meets Patrick Keiller, Robin Robertson, Victoria Henshaw and Giles Fraser.
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Bianca Jagger on human rights
Mon 25 Nov 2013
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Bianca Jagger, Fatima Bhutto, Stephen Hopgood and Howard Brenton.
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Gandhi's Early Years
Mon 18 Nov 2013
Bridget Kendall with Ramachandra Guha, David Reynolds, Bronwen Maddox and Phelim McDermott
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Andrew Marr on poet George Herbert
Mon 11 Nov 2013
Andrew Marr with John Drury, John Tavener and Jeanette Winterson.
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Fiona Shaw; Simon McBurney; Journeys Into the Unknown
Mon 4 Nov 2013
Stephanie Flanders talks to Jeremy Webb, Carolin Crawford, Fiona Shaw and Simon McBurney.
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The Kremlin: A fortress that has shaped a nation
Mon 28 Oct 2013
Anne McElvoy with Catherine Merridale, Simon Thurley, Michael Chaplin and Amit Chaudhuri.
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Paul Collier on Immigration Controls
Mon 21 Oct 2013
Stephanie Flanders talks to Paul Collier, Kwasi Kwarteng, Nick Young and Lindsey Hilsum.
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Grayson Perry on contemporary art
Mon 14 Oct 2013
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Grayson Perry, Penelope Curtis, Philip Davis and Nicholas Lovell.
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Victorian Revivalism
Mon 7 Oct 2013
Anne McElvoy talks to Simon Heffer, Sonia Solicari, DJ Taylor and Prof Anthony King.
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Greek myth and the Indian epic Ramayana
Mon 30 Sep 2013
Stephanie Flanders with Anne Carson, Daljit Nagra, Richard Eyre and Graham Robb.
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Jamal Edwards on 'digital natives'
Mon 23 Sep 2013
Stephanie Flanders talks to Beeban Kidron, Jamal Edwards, Farida Vis and Adrian Hon.
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Margaret Atwood's Dystopian Future
Mon 16 Sep 2013
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Margaret Atwood, Vicky Featherstone and AC Grayling.
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Population: Ten Billion
Mon 1 Jul 2013
Sue MacGregor talks to Stephen Emmott, Danny Dorling, Jill Rutter and Amartya Sen.
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Zadie Smith on social mobility
Mon 24 Jun 2013
Stephanie Flanders with Zadie Smith, David Kynaston, David Willetts MP and Owen Jones.
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Hari Kunzru and Dystopia
Mon 17 Jun 2013
Jonathan Freedland with Hari Kunzru, Jane Rogers, James Robertson and Adam Broomberg.
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Putin's Russia
Mon 10 Jun 2013
Anne McElvoy discusses Russia with Fiona Hill, Vladislav Zubok and Oliver Bullough.
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Fairy Tale Physics?
Mon 3 Jun 2013
Allan Little with Jon Butterworth, Jim Baggott, Hilary Rose and Stephen Minger.
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Eric Schmidt on the New Digital Age
Mon 27 May 2013
Emily Maitlis speaks to Eric Schmidt, Honor Harger, David Spiegelhalter and James Ball.
