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Start the Week

Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday

Ranked #1

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India's Rise?

India's Rise?

On Start the Week Andrew Marr discusses India. The Indian MP Shashi Tharoor looks back at the history of the Raj in Ingl... Read more

22 May 2017

41mins

Ranked #2

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Yuval Noah Harari

Yuval Noah Harari

Yuval Noah Harari offers his 21 lessons for the 21st century. In a wide ranging discussion with Andrew Marr, Harari look... Read more

1 Oct 2018

42mins

Ranked #3

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Play and Creativity

Play and Creativity

On Start the Week, Tom Sutcliffe considers the relationship between play and creativity. Steven Johnson examines how the... Read more

13 Feb 2017

44mins

Ranked #4

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British culture and European influence

British culture and European influence

Britain has imported its culture from Europe for generations. Andrew Marr presents a special edition from Hatchlands Par... Read more

2 Jul 2018

42mins

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Life Is a Dream

Life Is a Dream

Tom Sutcliffe discusses free will and fate; dreams and reality. Jesmyn Ward's prize-winning novel Sing, Unburied, Sing, ... Read more

23 Apr 2018

42mins

Ranked #6

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The Death of Democracy

The Death of Democracy

Will we recognise the signs that democracy has ended? Cambridge professor David Runciman worries that we spend far too m... Read more

7 May 2018

41mins

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1968: Radicals and Riots

1968: Radicals and Riots

Fifty years after radicals took to the streets of Paris and stormed campuses across the Western World, Andrew Marr unpic... Read more

16 Apr 2018

42mins

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Jordan Peterson: Rules for Life

Jordan Peterson: Rules for Life

Jordan Peterson, clinical psychologist and YouTube sensation, professes to bring order to chaos in his 12 Rules for Life... Read more

14 May 2018

41mins

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A Theory of Everything?

A Theory of Everything?

On Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe asks if one day we might know everything. The mathematician Marcus du Sautoy and the phy... Read more

20 Jun 2016

41mins

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