Start the Week Podcast
Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
Episodes to download
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Creating art; reflecting life
Mon 7 Mar 2022
Kirsty Wark with Kwame Kwei-Armah, Warsan Shire and Ralph Rugoff.
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Post-war/post-Covid
Mon 28 Feb 2022
Helen Lewis with Peter Hennessy, Jane Alison and Farhan Samanani.
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Wealth, influence and the global elite
Mon 21 Feb 2022
Tom Sutcliffe with Pankaj Mishra, Joseph Sassoon and Susan Newman
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Stonehenge, and conserving the future
Mon 14 Feb 2022
Adam Rutherford with Neil Wilkin, Rebecca Nesbit and Thomas Halliday.
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Bullish masculinity
Mon 31 Jan 2022
Helen Lewis with Fiona Benson, Ivan Jablonka, Nina Power and Angelica Malin.
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Modernism
Mon 24 Jan 2022
Kirsty Wark with Matthew Sweet, Charlotte Sleigh, Soweto Kinch and Suzanne Hobson.
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Old battles, new warfare
Mon 17 Jan 2022
Adam Rutherford with Mark Galeotti, C茅cile Fabre and Kirsty Graham.
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Finding consolation and community in reading
Mon 10 Jan 2022
Tom Sutcliffe with Michael Ignatieff, Christopher Prendergast and Toby Brothers.
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Vaccinate, ventilate and breathe
Mon 27 Dec 2021
Andrew Marr with Catherine Noakes, Teresa Lambe and James Nestor.
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A musical journey 鈥� from the mountains to the multi-storey
Mon 20 Dec 2021
Andrew Marr with Steven Isserlis, Benjamin Appl and Kate Whitley.
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Living in the Matrix
Mon 13 Dec 2021
Tom Sutcliffe with Naomi Alderman, David J Chalmers and Philippa Garety.
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Levelling up; halting decline
Mon 29 Nov 2021
Kirsty Wark with Marit Kapla, Paul Batchelor and Paul Swinney.
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Christianity: Changing Fortunes
Mon 22 Nov 2021
Andrew Marr with Janine di Giovanni, Elle Hardy and Tricia Hillas.
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Ancient lives and legacies in Latin America
Mon 15 Nov 2021
Tom Sutcliffe with Mario Vargas Llosa, Jago Cooper and Natalia Sobrevilla Perea
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Internet influencers and generation gaps
Mon 8 Nov 2021
Andrew Marr with Olivia Yallop, Sarah Ogilvie and Bobby Duffy.
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Ai Weiwei on creative freedom
Mon 1 Nov 2021
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Ai Weiwei, Lea Ypi and Kirill Gerstein.
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Working the land - Orwell and HG Wells
Mon 25 Oct 2021
Andrew Marr with Rebecca Solnit, Claire Tomalin and Peter Hetherington
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Rationality in an Irrational Age
Mon 18 Oct 2021
Amol Rajan talks about rationality with Steven Pinker, Amia Srinivasan and Irving Finkel.
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Views from across the water
Mon 11 Oct 2021
Andrew Marr with Clare Jackson, Benedicte Paviot and Fintan O鈥橳oole.
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Colm T贸ib铆n on Thomas Mann
Mon 27 Sep 2021
Andrew Marr talks to Colm T贸ib铆n, Karen Leeder and Jesse Armstrong
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Climate activism: the next generation
Mon 20 Sep 2021
Richard Powers, Mya-Rose Craig and Simon Mundy talk to Andrew Marr
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Life in the first person
Mon 13 Sep 2021
Oliver Mears, Tiffany Watt Smith and Anil Seth talk to Tom Sutcliffe.
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Jackie Kay on Bessie Smith
Mon 21 Jun 2021
Kirsty Wark with Jackie Kay, Rosemary Hill and Michael Armitage
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London - villain and victim?
Mon 14 Jun 2021
Andrew Marr with Iestyn Davies, Jennifer Kavanagh and Jack Brown
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Lionel Shriver on life and death decisions
Mon 7 Jun 2021
Tom Sutcliffe with Lionel Shriver, David Jarrett and Jack Thorne.
