Start the Week Podcast
Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
Episodes to download
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DH Lawrence: life and work
Mon 31 May 2021
Andrew Marr with Frances Wilson, Salman Rushdie and Simon Armitage
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On Thin Ice: Glaciers, Geopolitics, and Nature's Goods
Mon 24 May 2021
Kirsty Wark with Jemma Wadham, Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson and Dwayne Ryan Menezes.
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Daniel Kahneman on 'noisy' human judgement
Mon 17 May 2021
Andrew Marr with Daniel Kahneman, Gillian Tett and Ann Cairns.
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The opioid crisis and erosion of trust
Mon 10 May 2021
Amol Rajan with Patrick Radden Keefe, Zoe Williams and Heidi Larson
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Art - plunder, power and prestige
Mon 3 May 2021
Andrew Marr with Cynthia Saltzman, Francesco da Mosto and Charles Saumarez Smith.
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Personal faith and the Church
Mon 26 Apr 2021
Tom Sutcliffe with Chine McDonald, Giles Fraser and Jeet Thayil.
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What if the Incas had colonised Europe?
Mon 19 Apr 2021
Andrew Marr with Laurent Binet, Caroline Dodds Pennock and Christienna Fryar.
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Nuclear destruction
Mon 12 Apr 2021
Amol Rajan with Serhii Plokhy, Patricia Lewis and Sarah Rainsford
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Defining mental illness
Mon 5 Apr 2021
Andrew Marr with Suzanne O鈥橲ullivan, Lucy Foulkes and Sally Holland
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Trade deals and human rights 鈥� in Africa and China
Mon 29 Mar 2021
Andrew Marr with Tom Tugendhat, Geetha Tharmaratnam and Michela Wrong.
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Newton: science and worldly riches
Mon 22 Mar 2021
Tom Sutcliffe with Edward St Aubyn, Patricia Fara and Chris van Tulleken.
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Rights and responsibilities
Mon 15 Mar 2021
Andrew Marr with Matthew d鈥橝ncona, Minouche Shafik and Kenan Malik
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Understanding Melancholy
Mon 8 Mar 2021
Amol Rajan with Mary Ann Lund, Horatio Clare and Ahmed Hankir.
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Monsters of the deep
Mon 1 Mar 2021
Andrew Marr with Helen Scales, Philip Hoare and Elizabeth Kolbert
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Family struggles - from Greek tragedy to The Troubles
Mon 22 Feb 2021
Kirsty Wark with Sally Bayley, Kerri n铆 Dochartaigh and Lisa Dwan.
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Living online and IRL
Mon 15 Feb 2021
Andrew Marr with Patricia Lockwood, Roisin Kiberd and Matthew Syed.
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Empire and class, shaping Britain
Mon 8 Feb 2021
Tom Sutcliffe with Sathnam Sanghera, Selina Todd and Anthony Anaxagorou
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The fall of Maxwell 鈥� the end of an era.
Mon 1 Feb 2021
Andrew Marr with John Preston, Julia Langdon and Emily Bell.
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Mariana Mazzucato on moonshot economics
Mon 25 Jan 2021
Amol Rajan with Mariana Mazzucato, Vince Cable and Robert Verkaik
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Francis Bacon revealed
Mon 18 Jan 2021
Andrew Marr with Annalyn Swan, Russell T Davies and Mark-Anthony Turnage
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Scotland and the Union
Mon 11 Jan 2021
Andrew Marr with Ailsa Henderson, Ruth Wishart, Ben Jackson and Karin Bowie.
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Nicholas Hytner
Mon 28 Dec 2020
The award-winning theatre director Nicholas Hytner in conversation with Andrew Marr.
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Thomas Becket and the rift between church and state
Mon 21 Dec 2020
Andrew Marr with Laura Ashe, Christopher de Hamel and Andrew Hussey.
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Inspiring awe 鈥� from the heavens to the oceans
Mon 14 Dec 2020
Tom Sutcliffe with Stuart Clark, Rebecca Giggs and Antony Gormley.
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Human ingenuity and shared inheritance
Mon 30 Nov 2020
Amol Rajan with Simon Baron-Cohen, Rebecca Wragg Sykes and Susana Carvalho.
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Derrida, Woolf, and the pleasure of reading
Mon 23 Nov 2020
Andrew Marr with Bernhard Schlink, Alexandra Harris and Peter Salmon
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Landscapes real and imagined
Mon 16 Nov 2020
Daisy Johnson, Caleb Femi and Kevin Barry with Tom Sutcliffe.
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Physics in all its glory
Mon 9 Nov 2020
Roger Penrose, Carlo Rovelli and Helen Czerski with Andrew Marr
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Great women of the classics
Mon 2 Nov 2020
Kirsty Wark with Shadi Bartsch, Natalie Haynes and Letizia Treves
