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
1. Life in the First Person
1. Finding Consolation and Community in Reading
1. Resistance
1. Where Are Your From?
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
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
4. Images of Power
4. Bullish Masculinity
4. Political Leadership and Oversight
4. The Victims of War
4. City Living
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
6. Rationality in an Irrational Age
6. Stonehenge, and Conserving the Future
6. The Food We Eat
6. Protest and Patriotism
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
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
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
10. Life and Death
10. Life and Death Decisions
10. Ancient Lives and Legacies in Latin America
10. Feathered Friends
11. London: Victim or Villain?
11. Christianity: Changing Fortunes
11. Welsh Identities
11. Humanism: What Is It Good For?
12. Jackie Kay on Bessie Smith
12. Leveling Up, Halting Decline
12. Liberalism in Crisis
12. Climate: Past, Present and Future
13. Ali Smith
13. Witches
14. Living in the Matrix
15. A Musical Journey - From the Mountains to the Multi-Storey
16. Vaccinate, Ventilate and Breathe
16. Awesome

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Database last updated: 23 April - 19:11