Start the Week Episodes Episode guide
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Writing and rewriting history
Tom Sutcliffe with Tom Holland, Moudhy Al-Rashid and Gus Casely-Hayford.
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Wages for Housework 鈥� then and now
Shahidha Bari with Emily Callaci, Rosie Campbell and Victoria Smith
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Manufacturing and sustainability
Tom Sutcliffe with Tim Minshall, Bernie Bulkin and Fiona Dear.
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Climate Crisis: truth, lies and compromise
Adam Rutherford with Mike Berners-Lee, Joe Murphy and Marianne Brown
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Music and movement; mind and body
Tom Sutcliffe with Daniel Levitin, Nwando Ebizie and Sara Veale
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Socrates, optimism and racism
Adam Rutherford with Agnes Callard, Sumit Paul-Choudhury and Keon West
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Human intelligence and imagination
Tom Sutcliffe with Naomi Alderman, Michelle Aroney and Adam Zeman
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Animals 鈥� up close and talking
Adam Rutherford with Simon Armitage, Amorina Kingdom and Christian Rutz.
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Acoustics, music and architecture
Tom Sutcliffe with Fiona Smyth, Trevor Cox and Jess Gillam
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Security threats and future prospects for Britain and the EU
Shahidha Bari talks to Sir Alex Younger, Armida van Rij and Ross Clark.
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The story of British art - from cave paintings to landscapes
Tom Sutcliffe with Bendor Grosvenor, Susan Owens and Lucinda Rogers.
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The high street
Adam Rutherford with Annie Gray, Vicky Payne and Angela Hui.
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Rise and fall of the political fixer
Tom Sutcliffe with Peter Kosminsky, Lucy Hughes-Hallett and Stephen Bush.
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Sex and Christianity
Amanda Vickery with Diarmaid MacCulloch, Helen King and Ruth Padel.
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Ancient crafts: feathers, leather and thatch
Adam Rutherford with James Rebanks, Alice Robinson and Andrew Raffle.
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Female ambition and control
Tom Sutcliffe with Jade Scott, Zinnie Harris and Stefan Stern.
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A duty of care
Adam Rutherford with David Goodhart, Kathryn Faulke and Anna Coote.
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From Sapiens to AI
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Yuval Noah Harari, Madhumita Murgia and Edith Hall
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Oceans and the game of evolution
Amanda Vickery talks to Richard Powers, Peter Godfrey-Smith and Heather Koldewey.
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Ancient India and China: from golden to silk roads
Adam Rutherford with William Dalrymple, Shanay Jhaveri and Susan Whitfield.
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Chance and fortune
Tom Sutcliffe with David Spiegelhalter, Eliza Filby and Roddy Doyle
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On Freedom
Tom Sutcliffe with Timothy Snyder, Oksana Maksymchuk and Lucy Ash
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Weaving magic in words, clay and paper
Kirsty Wark with Kathleen Jamie, Jennifer Lucy Allan, Mark Hearld and Naomi Robertson
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Animal communication
Tom Sutcliffe with Martin Wikelski, Kapka Kassabova and Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas
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Politeness and civility
Adam Rutherford with Louise Mullany, John Gallagher, Susie Dent and Matt Forde.
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鈥楲eft behind鈥�, but not forgotten
Tom Sutcliffe with Paul Collier, Joanna Kusiak and Matthew Xia.
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Hay Festival: ancient wisdom and ecology
Adam Rutherford with Robin Wall Kimmerer, Hugh Warwick and Olivia Laing at Hay Festival
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Reading the Bible
Kirsty Wark swaps Bible stories with Marilynne Robinson, Naomi Alderman and Malika Booker
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Art: market, money and malfeasance
Tom Sutcliffe with Francesca Whitlum-Cooper, Orlando Whitfield and Angelina Giovani
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Bees 鈥� culture and survival
Tom Sutcliffe with Wolfgang Buttress, Claire Preston, Lars Chittka and Alison Benjamin
