Start the Week Podcast
Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
Episodes to download
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Art: market, money and malfeasance
Mon 20 May 2024
Tom Sutcliffe with Francesca Whitlum-Cooper, Orlando Whitfield and Angelina Giovani
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Bees 鈥� culture and survival
Mon 13 May 2024
Tom Sutcliffe with Wolfgang Buttress, Claire Preston, Lars Chittka and Alison Benjamin
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Protest and patriotism
Mon 6 May 2024
Jackie Kay, Caroline Lucas and Simon Heffer with Adam Rutherford.
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Alien life and gravity
Mon 29 Apr 2024
Tom Sutcliffe with Lisa Kaltenegger, Claudia de Rham and Mark Fromhold
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City living
Mon 22 Apr 2024
Adam Rutherford explores the city with Ben Power, Amanda Levete and Simon Kuper.
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Power to the people
Mon 15 Apr 2024
Tom Sutcliffe discusses democracy with Erica Benner, Alpa Shah and Bobby Duffy.
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Music and poetry
Mon 8 Apr 2024
Kirsty Wark discusses poetry and music with Alison Balsom, Graeme Lawson and John Burnside
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The war between science and religion
Mon 1 Apr 2024
Tom Sutcliffe with Michael Taylor, Nick Spencer and Frances Flinter.
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Crossing borders and belonging
Mon 25 Mar 2024
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
Mon 18 Mar 2024
Tom Sutcliffe with Andrey Kurkov, Peter Pomerantsev and Charlotte Jee.
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Time passing: ageing, memory and nostalgia
Mon 11 Mar 2024
Adam Rutherford with Venki Ramakrishnan, Charan Ranganath and Agnes Arnold-Forster
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Mysterious Plants
Mon 4 Mar 2024
Kirsty Wark with Chris Thorogood, Kelsey Byers and William Milliken
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Weighty issues
Mon 26 Feb 2024
Tom Sutcliffe with Naveed Sattar, Stephanie Yeboah and Henry Dimbleby
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Arts: changing the world?
Mon 19 Feb 2024
Tom Sutcliffe with Ellen E Jones, Hew Locke and Noora Niasari
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Global influences
Mon 12 Feb 2024
Kirsty Wark with Josephine Quinn, Carolina Rangel de Lima and Christopher Harding.
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Opium trade to synthetic opiates
Mon 5 Feb 2024
Tom Sutcliffe with Amitav Ghosh, Richard Brittan and Fiona Measham.
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Made out of glass
Mon 29 Jan 2024
Adam Rutherford with Jasmine Allen, Ayako Tani, John Parker and Claire Corkhill.
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War crimes justice
Mon 22 Jan 2024
Tom Sutcliffe with Gary J Bass, Lyndsey Stonebridge and Christopher Stephen.
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Climate resolutions
Mon 15 Jan 2024
Kirsty Wark with Hannah Ritchie, Akshat Rathi and Michael Meredith.
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AI, states and corporations
Mon 18 Dec 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Mike Wooldridge, Naomi Alderman and David Runciman.
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Small states: global impact and survival
Mon 11 Dec 2023
Adam Rutherford with Armen Sarkissian, Margaret MacMillan and Lyse Doucet
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Playing games
Mon 4 Dec 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Marcus du Sautoy, Anthony Bale, Jane Draycott and GT Karber
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Space 鈥� the human story
Mon 27 Nov 2023
Kirsty Wark with astronaut Tim Peake, writer Samantha Harvey and physicist Roberto Trotta.
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Monet and machine vision
Mon 20 Nov 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Jackie Wullschl盲ger, Mat Collishaw and Jill Walker Rettberg
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Music 鈥� from page to performance
Mon 13 Nov 2023
Adam Rutherford with Errollyn Wallen, Laurence Cummings and Emma Smith.
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China 鈥� its poetry and economy
Mon 6 Nov 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Noo Saro-Wiwa, Michael Wood and George Magnus
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Soundtrack to life
Mon 30 Oct 2023
Kirsty Wark with Natalie Merchant, Michel Faber and Jeffrey Boakye
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Infected blood - from scandal to inquiry
Mon 23 Oct 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Cara McGoogan, Jason Evans and Gabriel Scally.
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