Start the Week Episodes Episode guide
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AI, states and corporations
Tom Sutcliffe with Mike Wooldridge, Naomi Alderman and David Runciman.
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Small states: global impact and survival
Adam Rutherford with Armen Sarkissian, Margaret MacMillan and Lyse Doucet
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Playing games
Tom Sutcliffe with Marcus du Sautoy, Anthony Bale, Jane Draycott and GT Karber
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Space – the human story
Kirsty Wark with astronaut Tim Peake, writer Samantha Harvey and physicist Roberto Trotta.
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Monet and machine vision
Tom Sutcliffe with Jackie Wullschläger, Mat Collishaw and Jill Walker Rettberg
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Music – from page to performance
Adam Rutherford with Errollyn Wallen, Laurence Cummings and Emma Smith.
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China – its poetry and economy
Tom Sutcliffe with Noo Saro-Wiwa, Michael Wood and George Magnus
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Soundtrack to life
Kirsty Wark with Natalie Merchant, Michel Faber and Jeffrey Boakye
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Infected blood - from scandal to inquiry
Tom Sutcliffe with Cara McGoogan, Jason Evans and Gabriel Scally.
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Unruly bodies
Adam Rutherford with Emma Dabiri, Carol Morley and Cat Bohannon.
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Israel
Tom Sutcliffe with Nathan Thrall, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen and Jake Wallis Simons.
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The Iliad and the right to rule
Adam Rutherford with Emily Wilson, Mary Beard and Ben Riley-Smith
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Contains Strong Language Festival in Leeds
Tom Sutcliffe with Lemn Sissay, Lebogang Mashile and Clare O’Dowd
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Homo Sapiens +/-
Tom Sutcliffe with Sebastian Faulks, Ludovic Slimak and Lauren Gunderson.
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The NHS at 75
Kirsty Wark with Kevin Fong, Isabel Hardman, Phil Whitaker and Andrew Seaton
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Materials that shape our world
Tom Sutcliffe with Ed Conway, Aarathi Prasad and Jamie Fraser.
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Sums, stories and musical scores
Kirsty Wark with Eugenia Cheng, Sarah Hart and Emily Howard.
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Hacking and cybercrime
Tom Sutcliffe with Scott Shapiro, Alice Hutchings and Jenny Radcliffe.
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Allergies and the Microbiome
Adam Rutherford with Theresa MacPhail, James Kinross and Johnny Drain.
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Hay Festival - Dickens in the 21st century
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Barbara Kingsolver, Michael Rosen and Natalie Haynes.
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Birds and moths
Kirsty Wark with Tim Blackburn, Cheryl Tipp and Mark Cocker
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Virtuous bankers?
Adam Rutherford with Anne Murphy, Edward Chancellor and David Fishwick.
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Monster artist/monstrous art?
Tom Sutcliffe with Claire Dederer, Devika Ponnambalam and Michael Bond.
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Life behind the iron curtain
Adam Rutherford with Karl Schlögel, Katja Hoyer and Adam Curtis
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Ancient trees
Kirsty Wark with Peter Wohlleben, Jill Butler and Carolyne Larrington.
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A place called home
Tom Sutcliffe with Kieran Yates, Natasha Carthew, Christine Whitehead and Alice Brownfield
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Ai Weiwei and design values
Adam Rutherford with Ai Weiwei, Roma Agrawal and Bent Flyvbjerg
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Mastering a new skill
Tom Sutcliffe with Adam Gopnik, Hannah Critchlow and Rebecca Struthers.
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Climate - past, present and future
Kirsty Wark with Peter Frankopan, Jane Francis and Jessie Greengrass.
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Humanism - what is it good for?
Adam Rutherford with Sarah Bakewell, Julian Baggini and Leila Aboulela