Start the Week
By BBC Radio 4
Listen to a podcast, please open Podcast Republic app. Available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
Image by BBC Radio 4
Category: Society & Culture
Open in Apple Podcasts
Open RSS feed
Open Website
Rate for this podcast
Subscribers: 1082
Reviews: 1
Episodes: 648
Norman
Oct 3, 2019
Always excellent!
Description
Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
| Episode | Date |
|---|---|
|
German history
|
May 11, 2026 |
|
Laurie Anderson: Strange and Disorientating Landscapes
|
May 04, 2026 |
|
Chemical Reactions
|
Apr 27, 2026 |
|
Why Stuff Matters: Objects, Power and the Past
|
Apr 20, 2026 |
|
Challenges and solutions
|
Apr 13, 2026 |
|
Zoos, sex and conservation
|
Apr 06, 2026 |
|
Industrial action: from 1926 General Strike to today
|
Mar 30, 2026 |
|
Growing Up
|
Mar 23, 2026 |
|
Consciousness and Identity
|
Mar 16, 2026 |
|
Under the sea
|
Mar 09, 2026 |
|
Reading and storytelling
|
Mar 02, 2026 |
|
Thinking about war
|
Feb 23, 2026 |
|
Breakage and repair
|
Feb 16, 2026 |
|
Fun and games
|
Feb 09, 2026 |
|
Censorship
|
Feb 02, 2026 |
|
Biology, technology and the future
|
Jan 26, 2026 |
|
Rethinking politics
|
Jan 19, 2026 |
|
The arts and health
|
Jan 12, 2026 |
|
Animals and Meaning
|
Dec 29, 2025 |
|
Poetry - reading, writing, editing and translating
|
Dec 22, 2025 |
|
The Dark
|
Dec 15, 2025 |
|
Histories, emotions and identity
|
Dec 08, 2025 |
|
Space, Quantum Frontiers and Cosmic Clues
|
Dec 01, 2025 |
|
Genes and hands: mapping character and health
|
Nov 24, 2025 |
|
Digital Futures and Information Crises
|
Nov 17, 2025 |
|
Saving Tigers, Green Crime and Cli-fi
|
Nov 10, 2025 |
|
Storytelling: Jeanette Winterson, Rory Stewart and Soweto Kinch
|
Nov 03, 2025 |
|
Crossing genres with Wayne McGregor
|
Oct 27, 2025 |
|
Maps – lost, secret and revealing
|
Oct 20, 2025 |
|
Endangered languages and vanishing landscapes
|
Oct 13, 2025 |
|
Yanis Varoufakis on Greece’s civil war
|
Oct 06, 2025 |
|
Steven Pinker on common knowledge
|
Sep 29, 2025 |
|
Contains Strong Language Festival, Bradford
|
Sep 22, 2025 |
|
Afghanistan and the DRC
|
Sep 15, 2025 |
|
Arundhati Roy and maternal inheritance
|
Sep 08, 2025 |
|
Sanctuary, refuge and exile
|
Jun 23, 2025 |
|
The Idea of Genius
|
Jun 16, 2025 |
|
Hidden spaces and dangerous places
|
Jun 09, 2025 |
|
The uses and abuses of the atom
|
Jun 02, 2025 |
|
Hay Festival: exposing the secrets of rubbish
|
May 26, 2025 |
|
Mathematics, Symbiosis and Japanese art
|
May 19, 2025 |
|
History: private, personal and political
|
May 12, 2025 |
|
Smell – the underrated sense
|
May 05, 2025 |
|
Advocating for nature
|
Apr 28, 2025 |
|
Christianity and British society
|
Apr 21, 2025 |
|
Impunity and fighting for justice
|
Apr 14, 2025 |
|
Untangling fact from fiction
|
Apr 07, 2025 |
|
Delusions of grandeur and freedom of speech
|
Mar 31, 2025 |
|
Abdulrazak Gurnah on family and resistance
|
Mar 24, 2025 |
|
Lockdown and the Covid generation
|
Mar 17, 2025 |
|
How political ideology affects the brain
|
Mar 10, 2025 |
|
The Great Auk meets Victorian explorers, and zombie ponds
|
Mar 03, 2025 |
|
Community and industrial decline
|
Feb 24, 2025 |
|
Writing and rewriting history
|
Feb 17, 2025 |
|
Wages for Housework – then and now
|
Feb 10, 2025 |
|
Manufacturing and sustainability
|
Feb 03, 2025 |
|
Climate Crisis: truth, lies and compromise
|
Jan 27, 2025 |
|
Music and movement; mind and body
|
Jan 20, 2025 |
|
Socrates, optimism and racism
|
Jan 13, 2025 |
|
Human intelligence and imagination
|
Dec 30, 2024 |
|
Animals – up close and talking
|
Dec 23, 2024 |
|
Acoustics, music and architecture
|
Dec 16, 2024 |
|
Security threats and future prospects for Britain and the EU
|
Dec 09, 2024 |
|
The story of British art - from cave paintings to landscapes
|
Dec 02, 2024 |
|
The high street
|
Nov 25, 2024 |
|
Rise and fall of the political fixer
|
Nov 18, 2024 |
|
Sex and Christianity
|
Nov 11, 2024 |
|
Ancient crafts: feathers, leather and thatch
|
Nov 04, 2024 |
|
Female ambition and control
|
Oct 28, 2024 |
|
A duty of care
|
Oct 21, 2024 |
|
From Sapiens to AI
|
Oct 14, 2024 |
|
Oceans and the game of evolution
|
Oct 07, 2024 |
|
Ancient India and China: from golden to silk roads
|
Sep 30, 2024 |
|
Chance and fortune
|
Sep 23, 2024 |
|
On Freedom
|
Sep 16, 2024 |
|
Weaving magic in words, clay and paper
|
Jul 01, 2024 |
|
Animal communication
|
Jun 24, 2024 |
|
Politeness and civility
|
Jun 17, 2024 |
|
‘Left behind’, but not forgotten
|
Jun 10, 2024 |
|
Hay Festival: ancient wisdom and ecology
|
Jun 03, 2024 |
|
Reading the Bible
|
May 27, 2024 |
|
Art: market, money and malfeasance
|
May 20, 2024 |
|
Bees – culture and survival
|
May 13, 2024 |
|
Protest and patriotism
|
May 06, 2024 |
|
Alien life and gravity
|
Apr 29, 2024 |
|
City living
|
Apr 22, 2024 |
|
Power to the people
|
Apr 15, 2024 |
|
Music and poetry
|
Apr 08, 2024 |
|
The war between science and religion
|
Apr 01, 2024 |
|
Crossing borders and belonging
|
Mar 25, 2024 |
|
Intrigue and disinformation from the Russian Revolution to Ukraine invasion
|
Mar 18, 2024 |
|
Time passing: ageing, memory and nostalgia
|
Mar 11, 2024 |
|
Mysterious Plants
|
Mar 04, 2024 |
|
Weighty issues
|
Feb 26, 2024 |
|
Arts: changing the world?
|
Feb 19, 2024 |
|
Global influences
|
Feb 12, 2024 |
|
Opium trade to synthetic opiates
|
Feb 05, 2024 |
|
Made out of glass
|
Jan 29, 2024 |
|
War crimes justice
|
Jan 22, 2024 |
|
Climate resolutions
|
Jan 15, 2024 |
|
A century of Labour
|
Jan 08, 2024 |
|
AI, states and corporations
|
Dec 18, 2023 |
|
Small states: global impact and survival
|
Dec 11, 2023 |
|
Playing games
|
Dec 04, 2023 |
|
Space – the human story
|
Nov 27, 2023 |
|
Monet and machine vision
|
Nov 20, 2023 |
|
Music – from page to performance
|
Nov 13, 2023 |
|
China – its poetry and economy
|
Nov 06, 2023 |
|
Soundtrack to life
|
Oct 30, 2023 |
|
Infected blood - from scandal to inquiry
|
Oct 23, 2023 |
|
Unruly bodies
|
Oct 16, 2023 |
|
Israel
|
Oct 09, 2023 |
|
The Iliad and the right to rule
|
Oct 02, 2023 |
|
Contains Strong Language Festival in Leeds
|
Sep 25, 2023 |
|
Homo Sapiens +/-
|
Sep 18, 2023 |
|
The NHS at 75
|
Jul 03, 2023 |
|
Materials that shape our world
|
Jun 26, 2023 |
|
Sums, stories and musical scores
|
Jun 19, 2023 |
|
Hacking and cybercrime
|
Jun 12, 2023 |
|
Allergies and the Microbiome
|
Jun 05, 2023 |
|
Hay Festival - Dickens in the 21st century
|
May 29, 2023 |
|
Birds and moths
|
May 22, 2023 |
|
Virtuous bankers?
|
May 15, 2023 |
|
Monster artist/monstrous art?
|
May 08, 2023 |
|
Life behind the iron curtain
|
May 01, 2023 |
|
Ancient trees
|
Apr 24, 2023 |
|
A place called home
|
Apr 17, 2023 |
|
Ai Weiwei and design values
|
Apr 10, 2023 |
|
Mastering a new skill
|
Apr 03, 2023 |
|
Climate - past, present and future
|
Mar 27, 2023 |
|
Humanism - what is it good for?
|
Mar 20, 2023 |
|
George Eliot and married life
|
Mar 13, 2023 |
|
The Iraq War – 20 years on
|
Mar 06, 2023 |
|
Democratic capitalism – marriage on the rocks
|
Feb 27, 2023 |
|
Ancient knowledge
|
Feb 20, 2023 |
|
The food we eat
|
Feb 13, 2023 |
|
Power, violence and witches
|
Feb 06, 2023 |
|
The Victims of War
|
Jan 30, 2023 |
|
Videogames – from fantasy to reality
|
Jan 23, 2023 |
|
The view from Latin America
|
Jan 16, 2023 |
|
Where are you from?
|
Jan 09, 2023 |
|
Awesome
|
Dec 26, 2022 |
|
Dance Pioneers
|
Dec 19, 2022 |
|
Listening in the dark
|
Dec 12, 2022 |
|
Returning to the moon
|
Dec 05, 2022 |
|
Faith: lost in translation?
|
Nov 28, 2022 |
|
Taking a stand
|
Nov 21, 2022 |
|
Perfect skin
|
Nov 14, 2022 |
|
The authentic taste of Britain
|
Nov 07, 2022 |
|
Building the Body, Opening the Heart
|
Oct 31, 2022 |
|
Zombies, exiles and monsters
|
Oct 24, 2022 |
|
Black Britain and beyond
|
Oct 17, 2022 |
|
Power plays and family dynamics
|
Oct 10, 2022 |
|
Political leadership and oversight
|
Oct 03, 2022 |
|
Bradford - Brave New World
|
Sep 26, 2022 |
|
Birmingham
|
Sep 12, 2022 |
|
Health, sickness and exploitation
|
Jun 27, 2022 |
|
Justice, war crimes and targeted killings
|
Jun 20, 2022 |
|
Social inequality - up close
|
Jun 13, 2022 |
|
A revolution in food and farming
|
Jun 06, 2022 |
|
Family drama at Hay Festival
|
May 30, 2022 |
|
Learning from apes, fish and wasps
|
May 23, 2022 |
|
The body clock and sleep
|
May 16, 2022 |
|
Marwa Al-Sabouni - Rebuilding with hope
|
May 09, 2022 |
|
Curiosity, ingenuity and experimentation
|
May 02, 2022 |
|
The age of the strongman leader
|
Apr 25, 2022 |
|
NoViolet Bulawayo on Glory
|
Apr 18, 2022 |
|
Love poetry; love books
|
Apr 11, 2022 |
|
Resistance
|
Apr 04, 2022 |
|
Liberalism in crisis
|
Mar 28, 2022 |
|
Welsh identities
|
Mar 21, 2022 |
|
Feathered friends
|
Mar 14, 2022 |
|
Creating art; reflecting life
|
Mar 07, 2022 |
|
Post-war/post-Covid
|
Feb 28, 2022 |
|
Wealth, influence and the global elite
|
Feb 21, 2022 |
|
Stonehenge, and conserving the future
|
Feb 14, 2022 |
|
The Georgians
|
Feb 07, 2022 |
|
Bullish masculinity
|
Jan 31, 2022 |
|
Modernism
|
Jan 24, 2022 |
|
Old battles, new warfare
|
Jan 17, 2022 |
|
Finding consolation and community in reading
|
Jan 10, 2022 |
|
Vaccinate, ventilate and breathe
|
Dec 27, 2021 |
|
A musical journey – from the mountains to the multi-storey
|
Dec 20, 2021 |
|
Living in the Matrix
|
Dec 13, 2021 |
|
Witches
|
Dec 06, 2021 |
|
Levelling up; halting decline
|
Nov 29, 2021 |
|
Christianity: Changing Fortunes
|
Nov 22, 2021 |
|
Ancient lives and legacies in Latin America
|
Nov 15, 2021 |
|
Internet influencers and generation gaps
|
Nov 08, 2021 |
|
Ai Weiwei on creative freedom
|
Nov 01, 2021 |
|
Working the land - Orwell and HG Wells
|
Oct 25, 2021 |
|
Rationality in an Irrational Age
|
Oct 18, 2021 |
|
Views from across the water
|
Oct 11, 2021 |
|
Images of power
|
Oct 04, 2021 |
|
Colm Tóibín on Thomas Mann
|
Sep 27, 2021 |
|
Climate activism: the next generation
|
Sep 20, 2021 |
|
Life in the first person
|
Sep 13, 2021 |
|
Ali Smith
|
Jun 28, 2021 |
|
Jackie Kay on Bessie Smith
|
Jun 21, 2021 |
|
London - villain and victim?
|
Jun 14, 2021 |
|
Lionel Shriver on life and death decisions
|
Jun 07, 2021 |
|
DH Lawrence: life and work
|
May 31, 2021 |
|
On Thin Ice: Glaciers, Geopolitics, and Nature's Goods
|
May 24, 2021 |
|
Daniel Kahneman on 'noisy' human judgement
|
May 17, 2021 |
|
The opioid crisis and erosion of trust
|
May 10, 2021 |
|
Art - plunder, power and prestige
|
May 03, 2021 |
|
Personal faith and the Church
|
Apr 26, 2021 |
|
What if the Incas had colonised Europe?
|
Apr 19, 2021 |
|
Nuclear destruction
|
Apr 12, 2021 |
|
Defining mental illness
|
Apr 05, 2021 |
|
Trade deals and human rights – in Africa and China
|
Mar 29, 2021 |
|
Newton: science and worldly riches
|
Mar 22, 2021 |
|
Rights and responsibilities
|
Mar 15, 2021 |
|
Understanding Melancholy
|
Mar 08, 2021 |
|
Monsters of the deep
|
Mar 01, 2021 |
|
Family struggles - from Greek tragedy to The Troubles
|
Feb 22, 2021 |
|
Living online and IRL
|
Feb 15, 2021 |
|
Empire and class, shaping Britain
|
Feb 08, 2021 |
|
The fall of Maxwell – the end of an era.
|
Feb 01, 2021 |
|
Mariana Mazzucato on moonshot economics
|
Jan 25, 2021 |
|
Francis Bacon revealed
|
Jan 18, 2021 |
|
Scotland and the Union
|
Jan 11, 2021 |
|
Nicholas Hytner
|
Dec 28, 2020 |
|
Thomas Becket and the rift between church and state
|
Dec 21, 2020 |
|
Inspiring awe – from the heavens to the oceans
|
Dec 14, 2020 |
|
Laughter
|
Dec 07, 2020 |
|
Human ingenuity and shared inheritance
|
Nov 30, 2020 |
|
Derrida, Woolf, and the pleasure of reading
|
Nov 23, 2020 |
|
Landscapes real and imagined
|
Nov 16, 2020 |
|
Physics in all its glory
|
Nov 09, 2020 |
|
Great women of the classics
|
Nov 02, 2020 |
|
China and the global order
|
Oct 26, 2020 |
|
Fake news and data lies: how to win an election
|
Oct 19, 2020 |
|
Care and compassion
|
Oct 12, 2020 |
|
Contested histories
|
Oct 05, 2020 |
|
Faith in the modern world
|
Sep 28, 2020 |
|
Claudia Rankine and Margaret Atwood
|
Sep 21, 2020 |
|
The Radical Agenda
|
Sep 14, 2020 |
|
Meritocracy and inequality
|
Sep 07, 2020 |
|
Nature notes, from farming to fungi
|
Aug 31, 2020 |
|
Brit Bennett on race, identity and protest
|
Jun 29, 2020 |
|
James Joyce
|
Jun 15, 2020 |
|
Our coercive politics
|
Jun 08, 2020 |
|
The Future
|
Jun 01, 2020 |
|
Classics and class
|
May 25, 2020 |
|
Richard Ford, writing from the edges
|
May 18, 2020 |
|
Art in an emergency
|
May 11, 2020 |
|
Globalisation
|
May 04, 2020 |
|
Changing behaviour, from bystander to actor
|
Apr 27, 2020 |
|
Crisis in Europe from Notre-Dame to coronavirus
|
Apr 20, 2020 |
|
Nature worship
|
Apr 13, 2020 |
|
The genetic gender gap
|
Apr 06, 2020 |
|
Rebuilding conservatism in changing times
|
Mar 30, 2020 |
|
Famous and Infamous
|
Mar 23, 2020 |
|
Cultural icons from Shakespeare to Superman
|
Mar 16, 2020 |
|
Morality, money and power
|
Mar 09, 2020 |
|
Hilary Mantel
|
Mar 02, 2020 |
|
Leila Slimani on Sexual Politics
|
Feb 24, 2020 |
|
Love of home
|
Feb 17, 2020 |
|
Dresden - 75 years on
|
Feb 10, 2020 |
|
Artistic influence: Beethoven, Rembrandt and MeToo
|
Feb 03, 2020 |
|
Grayson Perry - the early years
|
Jan 27, 2020 |
|
Puritans and God-given government
|
Jan 20, 2020 |
|
No work, rest and play
|
Jan 13, 2020 |
|
A house and a home
|
Jan 06, 2020 |
|
Westminster Abbey
|
Dec 23, 2019 |
|
Numbers, nightmares and nanotech
|
Dec 16, 2019 |
|
Living near water
|
Dec 09, 2019 |
|
India past and present
|
Dec 02, 2019 |
|
Love and unreason
|
Nov 25, 2019 |
|
Life, death and taxes
|
Nov 18, 2019 |
|
Animals and us
|
Nov 11, 2019 |
|
Nobel Prize winner Esther Duflo
|
Nov 04, 2019 |
|
The artist - warts and all
|
Oct 28, 2019 |
|
Breaking bread together
|
Oct 21, 2019 |
|
Global culture
|
Oct 14, 2019 |
|
Lenny Henry
|
Oct 07, 2019 |
|
Where is power now?
|
Sep 30, 2019 |
|
Antony Gormley: challenging conventions
|
Sep 23, 2019 |
|
Escaping the past
|
Sep 16, 2019 |
|
Epic quests and Greek myths
|
Jul 01, 2019 |
|
The power of poetry
|
Jun 24, 2019 |
|
Money - in your pocket and in the bank
|
Jun 17, 2019 |
|
Beyond the headlines
|
Jun 10, 2019 |
|
Jared Diamond on national crisis
|
Jun 03, 2019 |
|
Hay Festival
|
May 27, 2019 |
|
Medical controversies
|
May 20, 2019 |
|
Billy Bragg on anger and hope
|
May 13, 2019 |
|
Icons of English literature
|
May 06, 2019 |
|
Freedom: From Kierkegaard to Black Lives Matter
|
Apr 29, 2019 |
|
Life in the wilderness
|
Apr 22, 2019 |
|
Ian McEwan
|
Apr 15, 2019 |
|
Ageing visibly
|
Apr 08, 2019 |
|
Free Thinking Festival
|
Apr 01, 2019 |
|
Art for all
|
Mar 25, 2019 |
|
Understanding China
|
Mar 18, 2019 |
|
The battle against so-called Islamic State
|
Mar 11, 2019 |
|
Language and Culture
|
Mar 04, 2019 |
|
Populations and contested lands
|
Feb 25, 2019 |
|
The Eye of the Beholder
|
Feb 18, 2019 |
|
The mind unravelling
|
Feb 11, 2019 |
|
Who is watching you?
|
Feb 04, 2019 |
|
The health of science
|
Jan 28, 2019 |
|
Art, truth and power
|
Jan 21, 2019 |
|
Violence and Conflict
|
Jan 14, 2019 |
|
Searching for happiness
|
Jan 07, 2019 |
|
Ice and Snow
|
Dec 24, 2018 |
|
National myths with Neil MacGregor
|
Dec 17, 2018 |
|
Trees: a wood wide web
|
Dec 10, 2018 |
|
Power in Politics
|
Dec 03, 2018 |
|
How the World Thinks
|
Nov 26, 2018 |
|
Safe spaces and snowflakes
|
Nov 19, 2018 |
|
Poland: A hundred years of history
|
Nov 12, 2018 |
|
Reporting from the Front Line
|
Nov 05, 2018 |
|
That's not fair
|
Nov 05, 2018 |
|
Pirates
|
Oct 22, 2018 |
|
Identity Politics
|
Oct 15, 2018 |
|
What's Your Type?
|
Oct 08, 2018 |
|
Yuval Noah Harari
|
Oct 01, 2018 |
|
From Ubermensch to Superman
|
Sep 24, 2018 |
|
David Attenborough: Life on Earth and Beyond
|
Sep 17, 2018 |
|
The Reality of War
|
Sep 10, 2018 |
|
Storytelling at the Edinburgh Festivals
|
Aug 27, 2018 |
|
British culture and European influence
|
Jul 02, 2018 |
|
Shame, Status and Self-invention
|
Jun 25, 2018 |
|
Deserts and the Nuclear Age
|
Jun 18, 2018 |
|
Altered Minds
|
Jun 11, 2018 |
|
Arundhati Roy on castes and outcasts
|
Jun 04, 2018 |
|
Survival and Destruction
|
May 28, 2018 |
|
Dark Satanic Mills
|
May 21, 2018 |
|
Jordan Peterson: Rules for Life
|
May 14, 2018 |
|
The Death of Democracy
|
May 07, 2018 |
|
Mysteries of the Universe
|
Apr 30, 2018 |
|
Life Is a Dream
|
Apr 23, 2018 |
|
1968: Radicals and Riots
|
Apr 16, 2018 |
|
The Good Samaritan
|
Apr 09, 2018 |
|
Faith and Doubt
|
Apr 02, 2018 |
|
Love and Loss
|
Mar 26, 2018 |
|
In Praise of Passion
|
Mar 19, 2018 |
|
Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead
|
Mar 12, 2018 |
|
Art and Civilisations
|
Mar 05, 2018 |
|
Who Am I? The Brain and Personality
|
Feb 26, 2018 |
|
Fascism and the Enlightenment with Steven Pinker
|
Feb 19, 2018 |
|
Rise and Fall of the City
|
Feb 12, 2018 |
|
Money Makes the World Go Around
|
Feb 05, 2018 |
|
Mohsin Hamid on leaving home
|
Jan 29, 2018 |
|
The Power of Art
|
Jan 22, 2018 |
|
Peter Carey on legacies of the past
|
Jan 15, 2018 |
|
Votes for Women
|
Jan 08, 2018 |
|
Who governs Britain?
|
Dec 18, 2017 |
|
The power and beauty of objects.
|
Dec 11, 2017 |
|
Russia, religion and the Middle East
|
Dec 04, 2017 |
|
Finland at 100
|
Nov 27, 2017 |
|
Blood, guts and swearing robots
|
Nov 20, 2017 |
|
Anger and deprivation
|
Nov 13, 2017 |
|
Heart of Darkness: Conrad and Orwell
|
Nov 06, 2017 |
|
Animals: tamed, exploited and resurrected
|
Oct 30, 2017 |
|
Living with the Gods
|
Oct 23, 2017 |
|
The End of War?
|
Oct 16, 2017 |
|
Russian Revolution a hundred years on
|
Oct 09, 2017 |
|
Power, the People and the Party
|
Oct 02, 2017 |
|
Hard work and sweet slumber
|
Sep 25, 2017 |
|
Orhan Pamuk on competing myths
|
Sep 18, 2017 |
|
Les Misérables: novel of the century?
|
Aug 22, 2017 |
|
From Darwin to Big Data with Richard Dawkins
|
Jul 03, 2017 |
|
Power: Fleet Street and Whitehall
|
Jun 26, 2017 |
|
Health Inequality: TB, Trauma and Technology
|
Jun 19, 2017 |
|
Crossing the Boundaries of Gender, Race and Class
|
Jun 12, 2017 |
|
Inventing the Self: Fact and Fiction
|
Jun 05, 2017 |
|
Live from the Hay Festival
|
May 29, 2017 |
|
India's Rise?
|
May 22, 2017 |
|
Post-Truth and Revolution
|
May 15, 2017 |
|
Kate Tempest: Everyday Epic
|
May 08, 2017 |
|
Wendell Berry: The Natural World
|
May 02, 2017 |
|
Eliza Carthy and Nicholas Hytner: Art for All
|
Apr 24, 2017 |
|
The Age of Spectacle?
|
Apr 17, 2017 |
|
Christianity: Luther's Legacy
|
Apr 10, 2017 |
|
Dissecting Death
|
Apr 03, 2017 |
|
Sayeeda Warsi: Muslims in Britain
|
Mar 27, 2017 |
|
The Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead
|
Mar 20, 2017 |
|
Britain Divided: 1642-2016
|
Mar 13, 2017 |
|
Paul Auster and the American Dream
|
Mar 06, 2017 |
|
'Build That Wall': Barriers and Crossings
|
Feb 27, 2017 |
|
Sidney Nolan: Life and Work
|
Feb 20, 2017 |
|
Play and Creativity
|
Feb 13, 2017 |
|
Paul Abbott: finding comedy in the tragic
|
Feb 06, 2017 |
|
Turkey: Past and Present
|
Jan 30, 2017 |
|
Sara Khan: The Battle within Islam
|
Jan 16, 2017 |
|
Chibundu Onuzo and Martin Sixsmith on corruption and family drama
|
Jan 09, 2017 |
|
Maps, Music and Medieval Manuscripts
|
Dec 26, 2016 |
|
Scientific Discoveries: from the mind to the cosmos
|
Dec 19, 2016 |
|
The Bolshoi and Culture Wars
|
Dec 12, 2016 |
|
Popular Protest and Patriotism
|
Dec 05, 2016 |
|
AIDS Activism and Surviving a Plague
|
Nov 28, 2016 |
|
Rewriting the Past: from Empire to ivory
|
Nov 21, 2016 |
|
Island Mentality
|
Nov 14, 2016 |
|
Virtue and Vice
|
Nov 07, 2016 |
|
Alan Bennett
|
Oct 31, 2016 |
|
Microbes, Genes and Human Endeavour
|
Oct 24, 2016 |
|
Soldiering on: the British Army, Lenin and Putin
|
Oct 04, 2016 |
|
Radical Liverpool
|
Sep 26, 2016 |
|
Political Drama: Robert Harris and Margaret Hodge
|
Sep 19, 2016 |
|
Love, Loss and Scandal
|
Jul 04, 2016 |
|
Food: From Bread Riots to Obesity
|
Jun 27, 2016 |
|
A Theory of Everything?
|
Jun 20, 2016 |
|
New Artistic Director of the ENO, Daniel Kramer
|
Jun 13, 2016 |
|
Genes: Our medical inheritance
|
Jun 06, 2016 |
|
Hay Festival: Spooks, war and genocide
|
May 30, 2016 |
|
Lost and Found: Ancient Egypt to Modern Art
|
May 23, 2016 |
|
World on the Move
|
May 16, 2016 |
|
Technology in Education
|
May 09, 2016 |
|
Cross-dressing and masculinity with Grayson Perry
|
May 02, 2016 |
|
Anish Kapoor on Light and Dark
|
Apr 25, 2016 |
|
Reporting War and Conflict
|
Apr 18, 2016 |
|
Loneliness and Inner Voices
|
Apr 11, 2016 |
|
Greece and the Eurozone with Yanis Varoufakis
|
Apr 04, 2016 |
|
Existentialism and Ways of Seeing
|
Mar 28, 2016 |
|
Is Faster Better?
|
Mar 21, 2016 |
|
The Easter Rising: 100 Years On
|
Mar 14, 2016 |
|
Scotland
|
Mar 07, 2016 |
|
Nature or Nurture?
|
Feb 29, 2016 |
|
Future Economies
|
Feb 22, 2016 |
|
Who Owns Culture?
|
Feb 15, 2016 |
|
Mind and Body
|
Feb 08, 2016 |
|
Language and Reinvention
|
Feb 01, 2016 |
|
Migration and Citizenship
|
Jan 25, 2016 |
|
Alaa Al Aswany on Egypt
|
Jan 18, 2016 |
|
Russia: Tsars to Putin
|
Jan 11, 2016 |
|
Shakespeare's Late Plays - recorded at the Globe's Playhouse
|
Dec 28, 2015 |
|
Space Survival and Exploration
|
Dec 21, 2015 |
|
Cultural Lifespans
|
Dec 14, 2015 |
|
Reforming Saudi Arabia
|
Dec 07, 2015 |
|
Augustine, Desire, Doing good
|
Nov 30, 2015 |
|
Jonathan Coe on Satire
|
Nov 23, 2015 |
|
France Special
|
Nov 16, 2015 |
|
Claudia Rankine at the Free Thinking Festival
|
Nov 09, 2015 |
|
Embracing Failure and Uncertainty
|
Nov 02, 2015 |
|
Social Class and Cultural Capital
|
Oct 26, 2015 |
|
Power and Corruption with Stephen Frears and Mary Beard
|
Oct 19, 2015 |
|
Kissinger
|
Oct 12, 2015 |
|
Jonathan Franzen
|
Oct 05, 2015 |
|
Celts and Romans
|
Sep 28, 2015 |
|
Edmund de Waal on Porcelain
|
Sep 21, 2015 |
|
Harmony and Balance
|
Jul 06, 2015 |
|
Alan Watts and the Way of Translation
|
Jun 29, 2015 |
|
Architecture and power - from Stalinist structures to model villages
|
Jun 22, 2015 |
|
The Value of Art with Grayson Perry and Hannah Rothschild
|
Jun 15, 2015 |
|
Illness: Psychosomatic and Physical
|
Jun 08, 2015 |
|
Saul Bellow and Finding a Voice
|
Jun 01, 2015 |
|
Hay Festival
|
May 27, 2015 |
|
Joseph Stiglitz and Steve Hilton on Inequality
|
May 18, 2015 |
|
Values from Ancient Greece to Contemporary Harlem
|
May 11, 2015 |
|
Vikram Seth
|
May 04, 2015 |
|
Violence
|
Apr 27, 2015 |
|
Life Underwater
|
Apr 21, 2015 |
|
David Sloan Wilson on Altruism
|
Apr 13, 2015 |
|
The Amazons
|
Apr 06, 2015 |
|
Lewis Carroll and the Story of Alice.
|
Mar 30, 2015 |
|
Susan Pinker on the benefits of face-to-face contact
|
Mar 23, 2015 |
|
Shame, with Jon Ronson
|
Mar 16, 2015 |
|
The Mathematical Mind with Cedric Villani
|
Mar 09, 2015 |
|
From Fringe to Frontline?
|
Mar 02, 2015 |
|
Joseph Nye on Soft Power
|
Feb 16, 2015 |
|
Life in Suburbia
|
Feb 09, 2015 |
|
The Rise of Islamic State
|
Feb 02, 2015 |
|
Organising the Mind
|
Jan 26, 2015 |
|
Surveillance and Self-censorship
|
Jan 20, 2015 |
|
The Tudors
|
Jan 12, 2015 |
|
Sense of Place
|
Dec 29, 2014 |
|
Hedonism
|
Dec 22, 2014 |
|
Reinventing Inventions
|
Dec 15, 2014 |
|
Arabian Nights
|
Dec 08, 2014 |
|
Evolution and Extinction
|
Dec 01, 2014 |
|
Science Fiction
|
Nov 24, 2014 |
|
Self-Portrayal
|
Nov 17, 2014 |
|
A Good Death
|
Nov 10, 2014 |
|
The Language of Money
|
Nov 03, 2014 |
|
Revolution
|
Oct 27, 2014 |
|
Napoleon
|
Oct 20, 2014 |
|
Crime Stories and Ghost Stories
|
Oct 13, 2014 |
|
Naomi Klein on climate change and growth
|
Oct 06, 2014 |
|
Karen Armstrong on War and Religion
|
Sep 29, 2014 |
|
Hilary Mantel
|
Sep 22, 2014 |
|
Tom Sutcliffe discusses family secrets and Scottish royalty
|
Jul 07, 2014 |
|
The Science of the Mind
|
Jun 30, 2014 |
|
Joyce DiDonato and Julie Bindel on Women Behaving Badly
|
Jun 23, 2014 |
|
Pain and Prejudice
|
Jun 16, 2014 |
|
What Is the State For?
|
Jun 09, 2014 |
|
Rod Liddle on the selfish generation
|
Jun 02, 2014 |
|
Charleston Festival
|
May 23, 2014 |
|
Alien Invaders
|
May 19, 2014 |
|
The Myth of the Strong Leader?
|
May 12, 2014 |
|
Simon Armitage on Greek Tragedy
|
May 02, 2014 |
|
The Future of Capitalism
|
Apr 28, 2014 |
|
James Lovelock
|
Apr 21, 2014 |
|
Lucy Worsley on the Georgians
|
Apr 14, 2014 |
|
Police drama with playwright Roy Williams
|
Apr 07, 2014 |
|
AL Kennedy and David Sedaris on matters of the heart
|
Mar 31, 2014 |
|
Faisal I of Iraq and the making of the modern Middle East
|
Mar 24, 2014 |
|
Decision-making with Daniel Kahneman and Michael Ignatieff
|
Mar 17, 2014 |
|
Andrew Hussey on the legacy of France's Arab Empire
|
Mar 10, 2014 |
|
The Vikings and Seafaring
|
Mar 03, 2014 |
|
Adair Turner on the Politics of Finance
|
Feb 24, 2014 |
|
Vanessa Feltz and Susie Orbach on Confession
|
Feb 17, 2014 |
|
Irving Finkel on the Ark Tablet
|
Feb 10, 2014 |
|
Spying and Surveillance: The Snowden Files
|
Jan 29, 2014 |
|
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
|
Jan 24, 2014 |
|
Neuroscience and Free Will
|
Jan 20, 2014 |
|
Unity and Disunity
|
Jan 09, 2014 |
|
Michael Gove on teaching history
|
Dec 30, 2013 |
|
Clive James
|
Dec 23, 2013 |
|
Josie Rourke on strategy and Coriolanus
|
Dec 12, 2013 |
|
The Building Blocks of Life and Intelligence
|
Dec 09, 2013 |
|
Landscape and Community
|
Dec 02, 2013 |
|
Bianca Jagger on human rights
|
Nov 25, 2013 |
|
Gandhi's Early Years
|
Nov 18, 2013 |
|
Andrew Marr on poet George Herbert
|
Nov 11, 2013 |
|
Fiona Shaw; Simon McBurney; Journeys Into the Unknown
|
Nov 04, 2013 |
|
The Kremlin: A fortress that has shaped a nation
|
Oct 28, 2013 |
|
Paul Collier on Immigration Controls
|
Oct 17, 2013 |
|
Grayson Perry on contemporary art
|
Oct 14, 2013 |
|
Victorian Revivalism
|
Oct 04, 2013 |
|
Greek myth and the Indian epic Ramayana
|
Sep 27, 2013 |
|
Jamal Edwards on 'digital natives'
|
Sep 23, 2013 |
|
Margaret Atwood's Dystopian Future
|
Sep 16, 2013 |
|
Population: Ten Billion
|
Jul 01, 2013 |
|
Zadie Smith on social mobility
|
Jun 24, 2013 |
|
Hari Kunzru and Dystopia
|
Jun 17, 2013 |
|
Putin's Russia
|
Jun 10, 2013 |
|
Fairy Tale Physics?
|
Jun 03, 2013 |
|
Eric Schmidt on the New Digital Age
|
May 27, 2013 |
|
Antonia Fraser: Democracy and Reform
|
May 20, 2013 |
|
Music and the mind: Carrie Cracknell
|
May 13, 2013 |
|
Michael Rosen at the Brighton Festival
|
May 06, 2013 |
|
Gavin Turk on the Value of Art
|
Apr 29, 2013 |
|
Bernardo Bertolucci
|
Apr 19, 2013 |
|
The Origin and Future of Life
|
Apr 15, 2013 |
|
'Home' and cultural identity with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
|
Apr 08, 2013 |
|
Tom Sutcliffe talks to John Gray and Mary Beard
|
Apr 01, 2013 |
|
Mohsin Hamid talks about How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
|
Mar 25, 2013 |
|
Lisa Jardine talks to David Cannadine and Aleksandar Hemon
|
Mar 15, 2013 |
|
Ken Loach on post-war Britain
|
Mar 11, 2013 |
|
Feminism: Natasha Walter and Catherine Hakim
|
Mar 04, 2013 |
|
The Commonwealth - Don McKinnon and Kwasi Kwarteng
|
Feb 25, 2013 |
|
Mathematical modelling with Lisa Jardine
|
Feb 11, 2013 |
|
Al-Qaeda: Afghanistan to Mali
|
Feb 04, 2013 |
|
Political Writing: Joan Bakewell and Tim Montgomerie
|
Jan 28, 2013 |
|
History of Music - John Adams and Howard Goodall
|
Jan 21, 2013 |
|
Natural Capital: Tony Juniper
|
Jan 14, 2013 |
|
Family Secrets: Sarah Dunant and Deborah Cohen
|
Jan 09, 2013 |
|
The Human Voice: Rolando Villazon and Mark-Anthony Turnage
|
Dec 24, 2012 |
|
Science Special
|
Dec 17, 2012 |
|
Scotland - Ian Rankin and Alasdair Gray
|
Dec 10, 2012 |
|
Nuclear Iran - Shirley Williams and Geoffrey Robertson
|
Dec 03, 2012 |
|
Germany and the EU
|
Nov 26, 2012 |
|
Art and Design with Antony Gormley and Ron Arad
|
Nov 19, 2012 |
|
Award-winning film director Kevin Macdonald
|
Nov 12, 2012 |
|
Political Divide: Mary Robinson and Michael Ignatieff
|
Nov 05, 2012 |
|
Torture, terrorism and secrets
|
Oct 29, 2012 |
|
Modernism with Ali Smith and Kevin Jackson
|
Oct 22, 2012 |
|
Richard Ford on the US Elections
|
Oct 15, 2012 |
|
Diana Athill and Philip Hensher on the dying art of handwriting
|
Oct 08, 2012 |
|
Anne Applebaum on Eastern Europe
|
Oct 01, 2012 |
|
Grimm Tales with Philip Pullman
|
Sep 20, 2012 |
|
Salman Rushdie
|
Sep 17, 2012 |
|
National Identity with Maajid Nawaz and Sir Christopher Meyer.
|
Jul 02, 2012 |
|
The 'life unlived' with Adam Phillips and Helen Dunmore
|
Jun 25, 2012 |
|
Science and Politics: Professor David Nutt and David Blunkett
|
Jun 18, 2012 |
|
WWII with Antony Beevor and Max Hastings
|
Jun 11, 2012 |
|
Grayson Perry at the Charleston Festival
|
Jun 04, 2012 |
|
Thomas Heatherwick on design and architecture
|
May 28, 2012 |
|
Michael Sandel on Money and Morality
|
May 21, 2012 |
|
Spain in Crisis
|
May 11, 2012 |
|
The Digital Future
|
May 07, 2012 |
|
Creativity: Jonah Lehrer
|
Apr 30, 2012 |
|
Iain Banks and David Hare
|
Apr 20, 2012 |
|
China
|
Apr 16, 2012 |
|
Peter Carey on Start the Week
|
Apr 09, 2012 |
|
The 'death of socialism'?
|
Apr 02, 2012 |
|
Werner Herzog on Start the Week
|
Mar 26, 2012 |
|
Nobel Prize winning author, Nadine Gordimer
|
Mar 19, 2012 |
|
Writers on Families: Colm Tóibín and AS Byatt
|
Mar 12, 2012 |
|
Middle Age: David Bainbridge, Deborah Moggach, Simon Armitage and Claudia Hammond
|
Mar 05, 2012 |
|
Faith and Doubt: Richard Holloway, Karen Armstrong, Jonathan Safran Foer and Helen Edmundson
|
Feb 27, 2012 |
|
Ian Stewart, Peter Randall-Page, Mark Miodownik, Jane Rapley
|
Feb 20, 2012 |
|
Elizabethans: Max Hastings, Mary Beard, John Guy and Lola Young
|
Feb 13, 2012 |
|
Conservatism: Peter Hitchens, Margot James, Douglas Murray and Thomas Frank
|
Feb 06, 2012 |
|
Revolution: Wael Ghonim, Paul Mason and Mary King
|
Jan 30, 2012 |
|
Justice: with Simon Stephens, John Podmore, Shami Chakrabarti and Mike Hough
|
Jan 23, 2012 |
|
Financial Crisis: Philip Coggan, Angela Knight, Maurice Glasman and Detlev Schlichter
|
Jan 16, 2012 |
|
Austerity: Antony Gormley, David Kynaston and Anna Coote
|
Jan 09, 2012 |
|
David Hockney Special
|
Dec 26, 2011 |
|
The Spirit of Christmas: Claire Tomalin, Susan Hill and Canon Giles Fraser
|
Dec 19, 2011 |
|
12/12/2011
|
Dec 12, 2011 |
|
Philosophy: Bernard-Henri Levy, Mary Warnock and Roger Scruton
|
Dec 05, 2011 |
|
Political leadership: George Ayittey, Simon Heffer, Martin Wolf and Maha Azzam
|
Nov 28, 2011 |
|
The Arts and politics: Rory Bremner, Peter Kosminsky and Iwona Blazwick
|
Nov 21, 2011 |
|
Writing History with Peter Englund, Norman Davies, Boris Johnson and Alison Weir.
|
Nov 14, 2011 |
|
Australian culture with Thomas Keneally, Kate Grenville and Deborah Cheetham
|
Nov 10, 2011 |
|
31/10/2011
|
Oct 31, 2011 |
|
24/10/2011
|
Oct 24, 2011 |
|
God and science with the Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Richard Dawkins and Lisa Randall
|
Oct 17, 2011 |
|
Empire with Jeremy Paxman and Richard Gott
|
Oct 10, 2011 |
|
Afghanistan and the British Secret Service with Rory Stewart, Frank Ledwidge and Gordon Corera
|
Oct 03, 2011 |
|
Simon Jenkins' History of England, and the National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke
|
Sep 26, 2011 |
|
19/09/2011
|
Sep 19, 2011 |
|
Vasily Grossman: his life and legacy
|
Sep 12, 2011 |
|
04/07/2011
|
Jul 04, 2011 |
|
27/06/2011
|
Jun 27, 2011 |
|
20/06/2011
|
Jun 20, 2011 |
|
13/06/2011
|
Jun 13, 2011 |
|
06/06/2011
|
Jun 06, 2011 |
|
30/05/2011
|
May 30, 2011 |
|
23/05/2011
|
May 23, 2011 |
|
16/05/2011
|
May 16, 2011 |
|
09/05/2011
|
May 09, 2011 |
|
02/05/2011
|
May 02, 2011 |
|
25/04/2011
|
Apr 25, 2011 |
|
18/04/2011
|
Apr 18, 2011 |
|
11/04/2011
|
Apr 11, 2011 |
|
04/04/2011
|
Apr 04, 2011 |
|
28/03/2011
|
Mar 28, 2011 |
|
21/03/2011
|
Mar 21, 2011 |
|
14/03/2011
|
Mar 14, 2011 |
|
07/03/2011
|
Mar 07, 2011 |
|
28/02/2011
|
Feb 28, 2011 |
|
21/02/2011
|
Feb 21, 2011 |
|
14/02/2011
|
Feb 14, 2011 |
|
07/02/2011
|
Feb 07, 2011 |
|
31/01/2011
|
Jan 31, 2011 |
|
24/01/2011
|
Jan 24, 2011 |
|
17/01/2011
|
Jan 17, 2011 |
|
10/01/2011
|
Jan 10, 2011 |
|
27/12/2010
|
Dec 27, 2010 |
|
20/12/2010
|
Dec 20, 2010 |
|
13/12/2010
|
Dec 13, 2010 |
|
06/12/2010
|
Dec 06, 2010 |
|
29/11/2010
|
Nov 29, 2010 |
|
22/11/2010
|
Nov 22, 2010 |
|
15/11/2010
|
Nov 15, 2010 |
|
08/11/2010
|
Nov 08, 2010 |
|
01/11/2010
|
Nov 01, 2010 |
|
25/10/2010
|
Oct 25, 2010 |
|
18/10/2010
|
Oct 18, 2010 |
|
11/10/2010
|
Oct 11, 2010 |
|
04/10/2010
|
Oct 04, 2010 |
|
27/09/2010
|
Sep 27, 2010 |
|
20/09/2010
|
Sep 20, 2010 |