Start the Week Podcast
Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
Episodes to download
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Israel
Mon 9 Oct 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Nathan Thrall, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen and Jake Wallis Simons.
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The Iliad and the right to rule
Mon 2 Oct 2023
Adam Rutherford with Emily Wilson, Mary Beard and Ben Riley-Smith
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Contains Strong Language Festival in Leeds
Mon 25 Sep 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Lemn Sissay, Lebogang Mashile and Clare O鈥橠owd
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Homo Sapiens +/-
Mon 18 Sep 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Sebastian Faulks, Ludovic Slimak and Lauren Gunderson.
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The NHS at 75
Mon 3 Jul 2023
Kirsty Wark with Kevin Fong, Isabel Hardman, Phil Whitaker and Andrew Seaton
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Materials that shape our world
Mon 26 Jun 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Ed Conway, Aarathi Prasad and Jamie Fraser.
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Sums, stories and musical scores
Mon 19 Jun 2023
Kirsty Wark with Eugenia Cheng, Sarah Hart and Emily Howard.
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Hacking and cybercrime
Mon 12 Jun 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Scott Shapiro, Alice Hutchings and Jenny Radcliffe.
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Allergies and the Microbiome
Mon 5 Jun 2023
Adam Rutherford with Theresa MacPhail, James Kinross and Johnny Drain.
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Hay Festival - Dickens in the 21st century
Mon 29 May 2023
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Barbara Kingsolver, Michael Rosen and Natalie Haynes.
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Virtuous bankers?
Mon 15 May 2023
Adam Rutherford with Anne Murphy, Edward Chancellor and David Fishwick.
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Monster artist/monstrous art?
Mon 8 May 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Claire Dederer, Devika Ponnambalam and Michael Bond.
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Life behind the iron curtain
Mon 1 May 2023
Adam Rutherford with Karl Schl枚gel, Katja Hoyer and Adam Curtis
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Ancient trees
Mon 24 Apr 2023
Kirsty Wark with Peter Wohlleben, Jill Butler and Carolyne Larrington.
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A place called home
Mon 17 Apr 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Kieran Yates, Natasha Carthew, Christine Whitehead and Alice Brownfield
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Ai Weiwei and design values
Mon 10 Apr 2023
Adam Rutherford with Ai Weiwei, Roma Agrawal and Bent Flyvbjerg
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Mastering a new skill
Mon 3 Apr 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Adam Gopnik, Hannah Critchlow and Rebecca Struthers.
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Climate - past, present and future
Mon 27 Mar 2023
Kirsty Wark with Peter Frankopan, Jane Francis and Jessie Greengrass.
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Humanism - what is it good for?
Mon 20 Mar 2023
Adam Rutherford with Sarah Bakewell, Julian Baggini and Leila Aboulela
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George Eliot and married life
Mon 13 Mar 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Clare Carlisle, Claudia Rankine and David Eldridge
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The Iraq War 鈥� 20 years on
Mon 6 Mar 2023
Kirsty Wark with Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Emma Sky and Gordon Corera.
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Democratic capitalism 鈥� marriage on the rocks
Mon 27 Feb 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Bernie Sanders, Martin Wolf and Kate Raworth.
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The food we eat
Mon 13 Feb 2023
Kimberley Wilson, Louise Gray and Rebecca O'Connell with Tom Sutcliffe
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Power, violence and witches
Mon 6 Feb 2023
Kirsty Wark with Zinnie Harris, Marion Gibson and Jo Ingabire Moys.
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The Victims of War
Mon 30 Jan 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Dan Stone, Catherine Merridale and Bernard Wasserstein.
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Videogames 鈥� from fantasy to reality
Mon 23 Jan 2023
Adam Rutherford with Sandra Youkhana, Adrian Hon and Louise Blain
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The view from Latin America
Mon 16 Jan 2023
Kirsty Wark with Caroline Dodds Pennock, Adrian Locke and Ioki帽e Rodr铆guez Fernandez.
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Where are you from?
Mon 9 Jan 2023
Tom Sutcliffe with Kenan Malik, Francesca Sobande and Don Paterson.
