Start the Week

Below is a list of all Episodes from all Seasons of Start the Week

Season 1

0. God and Science
0. The Digital Future
0. Persecution and Progress
0. Democracy and Revolution
0. What's Your Type?
0. Identity Politics
0. Pirates
0. Poland
0. Ice and Snow
0. Who Is Watching You?
0. The Mind Unravelling
0. The Body Beautiful
0. Start the Week
0. Language and Culture
0. For King and Country
0. Free Thinking Festival
0. Ageing
0. Ian McEwan
0. Town Mouse and Country Mouse
0. Life in the Wilderness
0. National Crisis
0. Where Power Lies
0. Love and Unreason
0. Westminster Abbey
0. Artistic influence: Beethoven, Rembrandt and MeToo
0. Dresden - 75 Years On
0. Love of Home
0. Sexual Politics
0. Hilary Mantel
0. Morality, Money and Power
0. Sharing Cultural Icons from Shakespeare to Superman
0. Famous Faces
0. Cultural Icons from Shakespeare to Superheroes
0. Famous and Infamous
0. Secret Gardens and Spiritual Ideas
0. Nature Worship
0. The Soul of a Nation
0. Art in an Emergency
0. Richard Ford
0. Classics and Class
0. The Future
0. Our Coercive Politics
0. Meritocracy and Inequality
0. The Radical Agenda
0. Claudia Rankine and Margaret Atwood on Power and Poetry
0. Faith in the Modern world
0. Contested Histories
0. Care and Compassion
0. Great women of the Classics
0. Physics in All Its Glory
0. Places and Settings
0. Derrida, Woolf, and the Pleasure of Reading
0. Landscapes Real and Imagined
0. Human Ingenuity and Shared Inheritance
0. 07/11/2020
0. Laughter
0. Inspiring Awe - From the Heavens to the Oceans
0. Nicholas Hytner
0. Scotland and the Union
0. Francis Bacon Revealed
0. Mariana Mazzucato on Moonshot Economics
0. Empire and Class, Shaping Britain
0. Living Online and IRL
0. Monsters of the Deep
0. Family Struggles - From Greek Tragedy to The Troubles
0. Understanding Melancholy
0. Rights and Responsibilities
0. Newton: Science and Worldly Riches
0. Trade Deals and Human Rghts in Africa and China
0. Defining Mental Illness
0. Nuclear Destruction
0. What if the Incas Colonised Europe?
0. Personal Faith and the Church
0. Art: Plunder, Power and Prestige
0. The Opioid Crisis and the Erosion of Trust
0. Daniel Kahneman on Noisy Human Judgement
0. The Age of the Strongman Leader
0. Curiosity, Ingenuity and Experimentation
0. Marwa Al-Sabouni - Rebuilding with Hope
0. The Body Clock and Sleep
0. Learning from Apes, Fish and Wasps
0. Family Drama at Hay Festival
0. A Revolution in Food and Farming
0. Social Inequality - Up Close
0. Health, Sickness and Exploitation
0. Birmingham - Contains Strong Language Festival
0. Black Britain and Beyond
0. Faith: Lost in Translation?
0. Returning to the Moon
0. Listening in the Dark
0. Dance Pioneers
0. George Eliot and Married Life
0. Mastering a New Skill
0. Ai Weiwei and Design Values
0. A Place Called Home
0. Ancient Trees
0. Life Behind the Iron Curtain
0. Monster Artist/Monstrous Art?
0. Virtuous Bankers?
0. Birds and Moths
0. Hay Festival - Dickens in the 21st Century
0. Allergies and the Microbiome
0. Hacking and Cybercrime
0. Sums, Stories and Musical Scores
0. Materials that Shape Our World
0. The NHS at 75
0. Homo Sapiens +/-
0. Contains Strong Language Festival in Leeds
0. The Iliad and the Right to Rule
0. Israel
0. Unruly Bodies
0. Infected Blood - from Scandal to Inquiry
0. Soundtrack to Life
0. China: It's Poetry and Economy
0. Music: From Page to Performance
0. Monet and Machine Vision
0. Space: The Human Story
0. Playing Games
0. Small States: Global Impact and Survival
0. AI, States and Corporations
0. A century of Labour
0. Climate Resolutions
0. War Crimes Justice
0. Made Out of Glass
0. Opium Trade to Synthetic Opiates
0. Global Influences
0. Arts: Changing the World?
0. Weighty Issues
0. Mysterious Plants
0. Time Passing: Ageing, Memory and Nostalgia
0. Intrigue and Disinformation from the Russian Revolution to Ukraine invasion
0. Crossing Borders and Belonging
0. The War Between Science and Religion
0. From Sapiens to AI
0. Writing and Rewriting History
0. Community and Industrial Decline
0. The Great Auk Meets Victorian Explorers, and Zombie Ponds
0. How Political Ideology Affects the Brain
0. Lockdown and the Covid Generation
0. Abdulrazak Gurnah on Family and Resistance
0. Delusions of Grandeur and Freedom of Speech
0. Untangling Fact from Fiction
0. Impunity and Fighting for Justice
0. The Role of the Church
0. Advocating for Nature
0. Smell: The Underrated Sense
0. Christianity and British Society
0. History: Private, Personal and Political
0. Mathematics, Symbiosis and Japanese Art
0. Hay Festival: Exposing the Secrets of Rubbish
0. The Uses and Abuses of the Atom
0. Hidden Spaces and Dangerous Places
0. The Idea of Genius
0. Sanctuary, Refuge and Exile
0. Arundhati Roy and Maternal Inheritance
0. Afghanistan and the DRC
0. Contains Strong Language Festival, Bradford
0. Steven Pinker on Common Knowledge
0. Endangered Languages and Vanishing Landscapes
0. Maps: Lost, Secret and Revealing
0. Crossing Genres with Wayne McGregor
0. Storytelling, with Jeanette Winterson
0. Digital Futures and Information Crises
0. Saving Tigers, Green Crime and Cli-fi
0. Genes and Hands: Mapping Character and Health
0. Space, Quantum Frontiers and Cosmic Clues
0. Histories, Emotions and Mass Movements
0. The Dark
0. Histories, Emotions and Identities
0. Past Lives and Poetry
0. Animals and Meaning
0. Histories, Emotions and Identity
0. Poetry: Reading, Writing, Editing and Translating
0. The Arts and Health
0. Rethinking Politics
1. Life in the First Person
1. Finding Consolation and Community in Reading
1. Resistance
1. Where Are Your From?
1. On Freedom
1. Socrates, Optimism and Racism
2. Old Battles, New Warfare
2. Love Poetry, Love Books
2. Perfect Skin
2. The Amazon at the Centre
2. The View from Latin America
2. Music and Poetry
2. Chance and Fortune
2. Music and Movement; Mind and Body
3. Colm Tóibín on Thomas Mann
3. Modernism
3. Bradford - Brave New World
3. Taking a Stand
3. Videogames: From Fantasy to Reality
3. Power to the People
3. Ancient India and China: From Golden to Silk Roads
3. Climate Crisis: Truth, Lies and Compromise
4. Images of Power
4. Bullish Masculinity
4. Political Leadership and Oversight
4. The Victims of War
4. City Living
4. Oceans and the Game of Evolution
4. Manufacturing and Sustainability
5. Views from Across the Water
5. The Georgians
5. Power Plays and Family Dynamics
5. Power, Violence and Witches
5. Alien Life and Gravity
5. Wages for Housework: Then and Now
6. Rationality in an Irrational Age
6. Stonehenge, and Conserving the Future
6. The Food We Eat
6. Protest and Patriotism
6. A Duty of Care
7. Orwell: Working the Land
7. Working the Land: Orwell and HG Wells
7. Wealth, Influence and the Global Elite
7. Zombies, Exiles and Monsters
7. Bees: Culture and Survival
7. Female Ambition and Control
8. On Thin Ice: Glaciers, Geopolitics, and Nature's Goods
8. Post-war/Post-Covid
8. Building the Body, Opening the Heart
8. Democratic Capitalism - Marriage on the Rocks
8. Art: Market, Money and Malfeasance
8. Ancient Crafts: Feathers, Leather and Thatch
9. DH Lawrence: Life and Work
9. Ai Weiwei on Creative Freedom
9. Internet Influencers and Generation Gaps
9. Creating Art, Reflecting Life
9. The Authentic Taste of Britain
9. The Iraq War - 20 Years On
9. Reading Genesis
9. Reading the Bible
9. Sex and Christianity
10. Life and Death
10. Life and Death Decisions
10. Ancient Lives and Legacies in Latin America
10. Feathered Friends
10. Hay Festival: Ancient Wisdom and Ecology
10. Rise and Fall of the Political Fixer
11. London: Victim or Villain?
11. Christianity: Changing Fortunes
11. Welsh Identities
11. Humanism: What Is It Good For?
11. The High Street
12. Jackie Kay on Bessie Smith
12. Leveling Up, Halting Decline
12. Liberalism in Crisis
12. Climate: Past, Present and Future
12. Politeness and Civility
12. The Story of British Art - from Cave Paintings to the Sound of Nightingales
13. Ali Smith
13. Witches
13. Animal Communication
13. Future Prospects for Germany, Britain and the EU - At Home and Abroad
13. Security Threats and Future Prospects for Britain and the EU
14. Living in the Matrix
14. 01/11/2024
14. Weaving Magic in Words, Clay and Paper
14. Acoustics, Music and Architecture
15. A Musical Journey - From the Mountains to the Multi-Storey
15. Animals: Up Close and Talking
16. Vaccinate, Ventilate and Breathe
16. Awesome
16. Human Intelligence and Imagination

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