Start the Week Episodes Episode guide
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Nuclear destruction
Amol Rajan with Serhii Plokhy, Patricia Lewis and Sarah Rainsford
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Defining mental illness
Andrew Marr with Suzanne O’Sullivan, Lucy Foulkes and Sally Holland
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Trade deals and human rights – in Africa and China
Andrew Marr with Tom Tugendhat, Geetha Tharmaratnam and Michela Wrong.
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Newton: science and worldly riches
Tom Sutcliffe with Edward St Aubyn, Patricia Fara and Chris van Tulleken.
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Rights and responsibilities
Andrew Marr with Matthew d’Ancona, Minouche Shafik and Kenan Malik
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Understanding Melancholy
Amol Rajan with Mary Ann Lund, Horatio Clare and Ahmed Hankir.
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Monsters of the deep
Andrew Marr with Helen Scales, Philip Hoare and Elizabeth Kolbert
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Family struggles - from Greek tragedy to The Troubles
Kirsty Wark with Sally Bayley, Kerri nà Dochartaigh and Lisa Dwan.
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Living online and IRL
Andrew Marr with Patricia Lockwood, Roisin Kiberd and Matthew Syed.
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Empire and class, shaping Britain
Tom Sutcliffe with Sathnam Sanghera, Selina Todd and Anthony Anaxagorou
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The fall of Maxwell – the end of an era.
Andrew Marr with John Preston, Julia Langdon and Emily Bell.
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Mariana Mazzucato on moonshot economics
Amol Rajan with Mariana Mazzucato, Vince Cable and Robert Verkaik
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Francis Bacon revealed
Andrew Marr with Annalyn Swan, Russell T Davies and Mark-Anthony Turnage
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Scotland and the Union
Andrew Marr with Ailsa Henderson, Ruth Wishart, Ben Jackson and Karin Bowie.
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Nicholas Hytner
The award-winning theatre director Nicholas Hytner in conversation with Andrew Marr.
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Thomas Becket and the rift between church and state
Andrew Marr with Laura Ashe, Christopher de Hamel and Andrew Hussey.
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Inspiring awe – from the heavens to the oceans
Tom Sutcliffe with Stuart Clark, Rebecca Giggs and Antony Gormley.
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Laughter
Andrew Marr with Sindhu Vee, John Mullan and Jonathan Silvertown.
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Human ingenuity and shared inheritance
Amol Rajan with Simon Baron-Cohen, Rebecca Wragg Sykes and Susana Carvalho.
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Derrida, Woolf, and the pleasure of reading
Andrew Marr with Bernhard Schlink, Alexandra Harris and Peter Salmon
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Landscapes real and imagined
Daisy Johnson, Caleb Femi and Kevin Barry with Tom Sutcliffe.
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Physics in all its glory
Roger Penrose, Carlo Rovelli and Helen Czerski with Andrew Marr
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Great women of the classics
Kirsty Wark with Shadi Bartsch, Natalie Haynes and Letizia Treves
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China and the global order
Andrew Marr with John Micklethwait, Katya Adler and Rana Mitter.
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Fake news and data lies: how to win an election
Amol Rajan with Jill Lepore and Richard Evans.
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Care and compassion
Andrew Marr with Madeleine Bunting, Jeremy Hunt and Helen Kingston.
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Contested histories
Tom Sutcliffe with Olivette Otele, Kate Williams and Sudhir Hazareesingh
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Faith in the modern world
Marilynne Robinson and Rowan Williams with Andrew Marr.
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Claudia Rankine and Margaret Atwood
Claudia Rankine and Margaret Atwood with Kirsty Wark.
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The Radical Agenda
Andrew Marr with Owen Jones, Rachel Holmes and Danny Finkelstein.