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 discusses the relationship between markets and morals with the political philosopher Michael Sandel; and the economists Diane Coyle and Grigory Yavlinsky.
Andrew Marr discusses Spain's economic crisis, and the legacy of Franco with historian Paul Preston; academic and film critic Maria Delgado; MEP Daniel Hannan; and economist Iain Begg.
Andrew Marr looks into the digital future with Nick Harkaway, Charles Arthur, Simon Ings and Anab Jain.
Andrew Marr discusses the science of creativity with neuroscientist Jonah Lehrer; author Joanna Kavenna; musician and sound artist Scanner; and chemist Rachel O'Reilly.
Andrew Marr discusses national identity and belonging with the author Iain Banks; the playwright David Hare; the composer George Benjamin; and the writer Rachel Seiffert.
Andrew Marr discusses the state of China with the authors Jonathan Fenby and Martin Jacques; the magazine editor and documentary film maker, Ou Ning; and the academic, writer and translator Julia Lovell.
Andrew Marr discusses scientific curiosity with author Peter Carey and the writers Philip Ball and Rebecca Stott.
Andrew Marr looks back at the political and cultural landscape of the last 20 years and asks whether Margaret Thatcher was right when she pronounced the death of socialism after the Conservative election victory in 1992. He is joined by the author Alwyn Turner; the journalist Janet Daley; the Labour MP Tristram Hunt; and the political cartoonist Martin Rowson.
Anne McElvoy explores ways of seeing with filmmaker Werner Herzog, writer Geoff Dyer, poet Paul Farley and filmmaker Liz Mermin.
Andrew Marr talks to the Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer, the Malawian poet Jack Mapanje, and the journalist Richard Dowden.
Andrew Marr discusses writers and their families, tribes and cultural ties with the authors, Colm Toibin and Will Eaves; evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel; and novelist A.S Byatt.
Andrew Marr celebrates middle age with the scientist David Bainbridge; the poet Simon Armitage; the writer Deborah Moggach; and the psychologist Claudia Hammond.
Andrew Marr discusses faith and doubt with former Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway; writer and speaker Karen Armstrong; author Jonathan Safran Foer; and playwright Helen Edmundson.
Tom Sutcliffe considers how science shapes civilisation with materials scientist Mark Miodownik; mathematician Ian Stewart; Jane Rapley, Head of Central Saint Martin's School of Art and Design; and the sculptor Peter Randall-Page.
Andrew Marr discusses history, how we view it and who the defining figures of the second Elizabethan Age might be with the historian, John Guy; the classicist, Mary Beard; author and historian, Max Hastings; and independent cross-bench peer Lola Young, Baroness of Hornsey.