Start the Week Podcast
Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
Episodes to download
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Grayson Perry - the early years
Mon 27 Jan 2020
Grayson Perry, Hashi Mohamed and Theresa Lolo with Amol Rajan
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Puritans and God-given government
Mon 20 Jan 2020
Andrew Marr with Paul Lay, Lisa Mullen, Stephen Tomkins and Lindsay Newman
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No work, rest and play
Mon 13 Jan 2020
Tom Sutcliffe with Daniel Susskind, Suzi Gage, Anoosh Chakelian and Sir John Strang
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A house and a home
Mon 6 Jan 2020
Andrew Marr with David Mikhail, Jude Yawson, Ben Ansell and Christina Hardyment.
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Westminster Abbey
Mon 23 Dec 2019
Andrew Marr at Westminster Abbey with David Cannadine, Lucy Worsley and Richard Harries.
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Numbers, nightmares and nanotech
Mon 16 Dec 2019
Kirsty Wark with Hannah Fry, Sonia Contera, Tim Harford and Izabella Kaminska
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Living near water
Mon 9 Dec 2019
Andrew Marr with David Lerner, Edward Platt, Tania Kovats and Leaf Arbuthnot.
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India past and present
Mon 2 Dec 2019
Amol Rajan with William Dalrymple, Anita Anand and Sumantra Bose.
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Love and unreason
Mon 25 Nov 2019
Andrew Marr with Bettany Hughes, Clare Carlisle, Emma Lewis and Mark Padmore.
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Life, death and taxes
Mon 18 Nov 2019
Tom Sutcliffe with Vicky Pryce, Dominic Frisby, Alexander Zevin and Judith Hawley.
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Animals and us
Mon 11 Nov 2019
Andrew Marr with Karsten Brensing, Emma Napper, Fritz Vollrath and Diana Donald.
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Nobel Prize winner Esther Duflo
Mon 4 Nov 2019
Nobel prize-winner Esther Duflo, Julian Barnes and Richard Evans with Tom Sutcliffe.
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The artist - warts and all
Mon 28 Oct 2019
Andrew Marr with William Feaver, Humphrey Ocean and Kate Grandjouan
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Breaking bread together
Mon 21 Oct 2019
Kirsty Wark with Shamil Thakrar, Priya Basil, Joanna Blythman and Thomas Harding.
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Global culture
Mon 14 Oct 2019
Andrew Marr with Fatima Bhutto, Erica Whyman, Sook-Kyung Lee and John Burnside.
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Where is power now?
Mon 30 Sep 2019
Andrew Marr with Steve Richards, Ruth Kinna, Catherine Haddon and Eleanor Rhode.
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Antony Gormley: challenging conventions
Mon 23 Sep 2019
Tom Sutcliffe with Antony Gormley, Laura Wade, Charles Hazlewood and Daniel Rachel.
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Escaping the past
Mon 16 Sep 2019
Andrew Marr with Susan Neiman, David Howell, Jane Green and Stuart Ward.
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Epic quests and Greek myths
Mon 1 Jul 2019
Stephen Fry, Alison Balsom, David Hare and Lucy Hughes-Hallett with Tom Sutcliffe
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The power of poetry
Mon 24 Jun 2019
Andrew Marr with Rowan Williams, Martin Sixsmith, Jay Bernard and Kate Clanchy
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Money - in your pocket and in the bank
Mon 17 Jun 2019
Andrew Marr with John Guy, Miatta Fahnbulleh, Paul Tucker and Alice Tapper.
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Beyond the headlines
Mon 10 Jun 2019
Kirsty Wark with Chris King, Hussein Kesvani, Nicole Rousmaniere and Shahidha Bari.
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Jared Diamond on national crisis
Mon 3 Jun 2019
Andrew Marr with Jared Diamond, David Runciman and Kate Andrews.
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Hay Festival
Mon 27 May 2019
Jeanette Winterson, Naomi Wolf and John Browne join Tom Sutcliffe at the Hay Festival.
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Medical controversies
Mon 20 May 2019
Andrew Marr with Joshua Mezrich, Angela Saini, Caroline Criado Perez and Richard Ashcroft.
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Billy Bragg on anger and hope
Mon 13 May 2019
Tom Sutcliffe with Kerry Hudson, Billy Bragg, Howard Brenton and Will Tanner.
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Icons of English literature
Mon 6 May 2019
Andrew Marr with Marion Turner, Emma Smith and Juliet John.
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Freedom: From Kierkegaard to Black Lives Matter
Mon 29 Apr 2019
Amol Rajan with DeRay Mckesson, Clare Carlisle, Inua Ellams and Elizabeth Day
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Life in the wilderness
Mon 22 Apr 2019
Kirsty Wark with Dan Richards, Rebecca Frecknall, Sarah O'Connor and Heida.
