Start the Week
Summary: Start The Week sets the cultural agenda for the week ahead, with high-profile guests discussing the ideas behind their work in the fields of art, literature, film, science, history, society and politics.
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Podcasts:
Andrew Marr talks to Will Hutton about the need to transform a country blighted by inequality; Lars Kroijer comes clean about the life and decisions of a hedge fund manager; Billy Ivory discusses his screenplay for Made In Dagenham, which charts the walkout of the women workers at the Ford car plant and Ronit Avni discusses her new documentary, Budrus, which shows how one community organiser united both Palestinian and Israeli supporters to save his village.
In the first programme of a new series of Start the Week the former MP Lord Hattersley charts the life and politics of David Lloyd George, the writer Andy McSmith argues that the 1980s was a decade of conflict, the philosopher Mary Midgley criticises the individualism of our time and Richard Bean discusses his new play which deals with American funding of the IRA.
