Start the Week is a Talk Show programme.

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Below is a list of all of the Season 1 Episodes of Start the Week

Season 1

• 1. Socrates, Optimism and Racism
• 1. Life in the First Person
• 1. Where Are Your From?
• 1. On Freedom
• 1. Resistance
• 1. Finding Consolation and Community in Reading
• 2. The View from Latin America
• 2. Music and Poetry
• 2. Music and Movement; Mind and Body
• 2. The Amazon at the Centre
• 2. Old Battles, New Warfare
• 2. Chance and Fortune
• 2. Love Poetry, Love Books
• 2. Perfect Skin
• 3. Modernism
• 3. Ancient India and China: From Golden to Silk Roads
• 3. Taking a Stand
• 3. Bradford - Brave New World
• 3. Videogames: From Fantasy to Reality
• 3. Power to the People
• 3. Colm Tóibín on Thomas Mann
• 3. Climate Crisis: Truth, Lies and Compromise
• 4. Political Leadership and Oversight
• 4. Bullish Masculinity
• 4. The Victims of War
• 4. Images of Power
• 4. City Living
• 4. Oceans and the Game of Evolution
• 4. Manufacturing and Sustainability
• 5. Power Plays and Family Dynamics
• 5. Alien Life and Gravity
• 5. Power, Violence and Witches
• 5. The Georgians
• 5. Views from Across the Water
• 5. Wages for Housework: Then and Now
• 6. The Food We Eat
• 6. Protest and Patriotism
• 6. Rationality in an Irrational Age
• 6. A Duty of Care
• 6. Stonehenge, and Conserving the Future
• 7. Bees: Culture and Survival
• 7. Working the Land: Orwell and HG Wells
• 7. Female Ambition and Control
• 7. Wealth, Influence and the Global Elite
• 7. Orwell: Working the Land
• 7. Zombies, Exiles and Monsters
• 8. Post-war/Post-Covid
• 8. Art: Market, Money and Malfeasance
• 8. Democratic Capitalism - Marriage on the Rocks
• 8. Ancient Crafts: Feathers, Leather and Thatch
• 8. Building the Body, Opening the Heart
• 8. On Thin Ice: Glaciers, Geopolitics, and Nature's Goods
• 9. The Iraq War - 20 Years On
• 9. Ai Weiwei on Creative Freedom
• 9. Internet Influencers and Generation Gaps
• 9. Reading Genesis
• 9. Sex and Christianity
• 9. The Authentic Taste of Britain
• 9. Creating Art, Reflecting Life
• 9. Reading the Bible
• 9. DH Lawrence: Life and Work
• 10. Life and Death
• 10. Life and Death Decisions
• 10. Ancient Lives and Legacies in Latin America
• 10. Rise and Fall of the Political Fixer
• 10. Feathered Friends
• 10. Hay Festival: Ancient Wisdom and Ecology
• 11. London: Victim or Villain?
• 11. Humanism: What Is It Good For?
• 11. The High Street
• 11. Christianity: Changing Fortunes
• 11. Welsh Identities
• 12. Politeness and Civility
• 12. The Story of British Art - from Cave Paintings to the Sound of Nightingales
• 12. Leveling Up, Halting Decline
• 12. Liberalism in Crisis
• 12. Climate: Past, Present and Future
• 12. Jackie Kay on Bessie Smith
• 13. Ali Smith
• 13. Security Threats and Future Prospects for Britain and the EU
• 13. Future Prospects for Germany, Britain and the EU - At Home and Abroad
• 13. Witches
• 13. Animal Communication
• 14. Weaving Magic in Words, Clay and Paper
• 14. 01/11/2024
• 14. Acoustics, Music and Architecture
• 14. Living in the Matrix
• 15. A Musical Journey - From the Mountains to the Multi-Storey
• 15. Animals: Up Close and Talking
• 16. Human Intelligence and Imagination
• 16. Vaccinate, Ventilate and Breathe
• 16. Awesome

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