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STW: Perth 31 Oct 11 Updated: 2011-10-31 12:30:00 Description: Andrew Marr is in Perth in Australia for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, to discuss mining, money and the monarchy. With Danny Sriskandarajah, Geoff Hutchison, Norman Moore and Andrew Charlton....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Violence and Poetry with Jarvis Cocker, Jez Butterworth, Melanie Challenger and Matthew White 24 Oct 11 Updated: 2011-10-24 09:04:00 Description: Andrew Marr talks to musician Jarvis Cocker about lyrics and the lyricism of the everyday; to playwright Jez Butterworth about his vision of bucolic myths and modern brutality in the English countryside; to poet Melanie Challenger about the extinctio...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: God and science with the Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Richard Dawkins and Lisa Randall 17 Oct 11 Updated: 2011-10-17 09:14:00 Description: Andrew Marr discusses the wonders of the universe with Lisa Randall, Richard Dawkins and the Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Empire with Jeremy Paxman, Richard Gott, Mariéme Jamme, Sun Shuyun 10 Oct 2011 Updated: 2011-10-10 09:13:00 Description: Andrew Marr looks at the lasting impact of the British Empire with Jeremy Paxman, Richard Gott, Mariéme Jamme and Sun Shuyun....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Rory Stewart, Gordon Corera, Rosemary Hollis and Frank Ledwidge 03 Oct 11 Updated: 2011-10-03 13:18:00 Description: Andrew Marr discusses foreign intervention with the Conservative MP Rory Stewart and the former intelligence officer, Frank Ledwidge. The BBC's security correspondent Gordon Corera discusses the role of the British secret service, from the Cold War ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Simon Jenkins, Gillian Clarke, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Peter Conrad 26th Sept 2011 Updated: 2011-09-26 09:41:00 Description: Andrew Marr discusses the work of the 'Godfather' of new music Pierre Boulez. The French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard explains the joy of his compositions, which are in a state of permanent revolution. The writer Peter Conrad pits Verdi against Wagn...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Misha Glenny, Martin Kemp, Jane Pavitt, Tom Uglow 19 Sept 2011 Updated: 2011-09-19 09:51:00 Description: Andrew Marr talks to the journalist Misha Glenny about the murky world of internet crime, as the cybercops pit their wits against the cyberthieves and hackers. The creative director at Google, Ton Uglow, celebrates the art and ingenuity that comes wi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Life and Fate with Andrey Kurkov, Anthony Beevor and Linda Grant 12 Sept 11 Updated: 2011-09-12 13:47:00 Description: Andrew Marr discusses the life and work of the writer Vasily Grossman in a special programme recorded at an event in Oxford to celebrate his greatest novel, Life and Fate. Grossman was a Ukrainian Jew who spent most of WWII reporting on the front lin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: A N Wilson, Jonathan Bate, Jo Shapcott, China Mieville 04 Jul 11 Updated: 2011-07-04 10:32:00 Description: Andrew Marr talks to the science fiction writer China Mieville, whose latest planetary creation explores the links between language and thought, and asks what it means to have no concept of lying. A N Wilson explores a world closer to home, but no le...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Raymond Tallis, Aubrey de Grey, Barbara Sahakian 27 Jun 11 Updated: 2011-06-27 10:30:00 Description: Andrew Marr explores the limits of science. Philosopher and neuroscientist Raymond Tallis mounts an assault on those who see neuroscience and evolutionary theory as holding the key to understanding human consciousness. Fellow scientist Barbara Sahaki...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Eli Pariser, Tim Harford, Andrew Adonis, Priyamvada Gopal 20 Jun 11 Updated: 2011-06-20 15:43:00 Description: Andrew Marr talks to Tim Harford about the key to success. The 'undercover economist' argues that the fear of failure paradoxically leads to greater and more dangerous failures - from oil disasters to world conflict. Success in Parliament is often me...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: John Hegarty, Iain Sinclair, Richard Sennett, Kate O'Regan 13 Jun 11 Updated: 2011-06-13 09:28:00 Description: Andrew Marr talks to Richard Sennett about increasing urbanisation. With half the world's population living in major cities, Sennett asks why the art of designing cities has declined so dramatically in the last century. Iain Sinclair turns a critical...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Jane Shaw, Ross Perlin, Ziauddin Sardar, Jonathan Kent 06 Jun 11 Updated: 2011-06-06 10:30:00 Description: Andrew Marr talks to the historian Jane Shaw about the story of Mabel Barltrop: her followers believed she was the daughter of God. Theatre director Jonathan Kent brings the last non-Christian ruler of the Roman Empire to the stage, in the little kno...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Paul Theroux, Salil Shetty, Catherine Mayer, Charles Jencks 30 May 11 Updated: 2011-05-30 10:30:00 Description: Andrew Marr wanders the globe with writer Paul Theroux as he celebrates the pleasures and pains of travel. On Amnesty International's 50th anniversary, its General Secretary Salil Shetty looks back at how the organisation has changed. Journalist Cath...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Sherard Cowper-Coles, Richard Norton-Taylor, Angie Hobbs, David Pryce-Jones 23 May 11 Updated: 2011-05-23 11:45:00 Description: Andrew Marr talks to former British ambassador Sherard Cowper-Coles about the failures of Western policy in Afghanistan. In 2003 Baha Mousa was arrested by the British Army in Basra, in Iraq. Two days later he was dead. Richard Norton-Taylor sifts th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Pakistan special - Anatol Lieven, Francis Fukuyama, Mohsin Hamid, Tahmima Anam 16 May 11 Updated: 2011-05-16 10:30:00 Description: Andrew Marr talks to Anatol Lieven who argues that Pakistan, despite often being referred to as a 'failed state', has the makings of a viable and coherent country. Francis Fukuyama analyses the development of political institutions from early tribal ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Denis MacShane, Ruth Lea, Kutlug Ataman, Michael Craig-Martin 09 May 11 Updated: 2011-05-09 10:15:00 Description: Andrew Marr talks to the Labour MP Denis MacShane about the 30th anniversary of the election of France's first socialist President, Francois Mitterrand. The People's Pledge wants a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU, and one of its founders ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Simon Baron-Cohen, Gwen Adshead, Julian Baggini, Val McDermid 02 May 11 Updated: 2011-05-02 10:30:00 Description: Andrew Marr explores how far empathy, or the lack of it, can explain cruelty. Simon Baron-Cohen proposes turning the focus away from evil and says we should understand human behaviour by studying the 'empathy circuit' in the brain. Gwen Adshead, a fo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Greg Doran, Neil Astley, Claire Armitstead, Nicola Shulman 25 Apr 11 Updated: 2011-04-25 10:30:00 Description: Andrew Marr talks to theatre director Greg Doran about his production of Cardenio - a play he's described as Shakespeare's Lost Play re-imagined. Nicola Shulman explores the influence of Thomas Wyatt's poetry in Henry VIII's court. Neil Astley celebr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Sam Harris, Masha Gessen, Rev Lucy Winkett, Adam Rutherford 18 Apr 11 Updated: 2011-04-18 11:30:00 Description: Andrew Marr's guests include neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris who argues that science ought to influence human morality rather than religion; the writer Masha Gessen who describes the extraordinary story of the Russian maths genius Grigori P...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Elif Batuman, Martin Sixsmith, David Runciman, Anne Dudley 11 Apr 11 Updated: 2011-04-11 10:30:00 Description: Tom Sutcliffe talks to the BBC's former Moscow correspondent Martin Sixsmith about a thousand years of Russian history. Writer Elif Batuman follows the footsteps of her Russian literary heroes to see whether their lives and work can influence her own...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Archbishop Vincent Nichols, David Eagleman, Lisa Appignanesi, Michael Collins 4 Apr 11 Updated: 2011-04-04 10:45:00 Description: Andrew Marr talks to the Catholic Archbishop Vincent Nichols about how far his faith's social teachings chime with the Big Society. Writer Michael Collins charts the rise, fall and future of the council estate. Lisa Appignanesi gets to grips with the...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Niall Ferguson, George Magnus, Madawi Al-Rasheed, Peter Whittle 28 Mar 11 Updated: 2011-03-28 11:00:00 Description: Andrew Marr talks to historian Niall Ferguson about how the West came to triumph over the empires of the East, and whether that ascendancy is in permanent decline. Economist George Magnus questions whether China is really about to dominate the world....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: John Makepeace, Victoria Pomery, Pamela Yates, Melanie McGrath 21 Mar 11 Updated: 2011-03-21 11:45:00 Description: Andrew Marr talks to Pamela Yates about filming the mass killing of Guatemala's indigenous population during the 1980s, and how her footage has become evidence in a genocide case. Melanie McGrath discusses her latest book, White Heat, set in the vast...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Brian Greene, Brian Cox, Angela Saini 14 Mar 11 Updated: 2011-03-14 11:45:00 Description: Andrew Marr, with the physicists Brian Greene and Brian Cox, explores the universe in all its wonder and attempts to understand our relation to parallel universes. And science writer Angela Saini looks at why India is so successful in producing the n...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Tim Flannery, Phyllis Lee, Peter Harris, Richard Susskind 7 Mar 11 Updated: 2011-03-07 11:30:00 Description: Andrew Marr talks to the human rights lawyer Peter Harris who represented the ANC when apartheid in South Africa was at its height. Richard Susskind, the new President of the Society for Computers and Law, sees technology as the answer to today's pro...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Helena Kennedy, Mark Malloch-Brown, David Gilmour, Daniel Kawczynski 28 Feb 11 Updated: 2011-02-28 12:30:00 Description: Andrew Marr talks to former UN deputy secretary-general Mark Malloch-Brown, who argues that national governments are no longer equipped to address complex international issues. Conservative MP Daniel Kawczynski gives an insight into the rule of Libya...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Simon Wessely, John Stubbs, Athene Donald, Simon Sebag Montefiore 21 Feb 11 Updated: 2011-02-21 11:30:00 Description: Andrew Marr talks to Simon Wessely about the mental health of soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, historian John Stubbs revels in the antics of the 17th century Cavaliers, physicist Athene Donald argues that science is as creative as the arts a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: David Attenborough, Sheila Hancock, David Shields, Andrew Motion 14 Feb 11 Updated: 2011-02-14 11:30:00 Description: Andrew Marr talks to David Attenborough as he goes on the trail of the extinct elephant bird in Madagascar. Actress Sheila Hancock celebrates the work of watercolour artists. Writer David Shields heralds the death of the realist novel, and advocates ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Mike Figgis, Margaret Heffernan, Edward Higgs 7 Feb 11 Updated: 2011-02-07 17:45:00 Description: Andrew Marr talks to film-maker Mike Figgis about directing Donizetti's most psychologically profound opera, Lucrezia Borgia. Prof Jocelyn Bell Burnell discusses theories about the end of the world in 2012 and what it means for the communication of s...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Neville Brody, Alex Danchev, Susan Hiller, EC Osondu 31 Jan 11 Updated: 2011-01-31 11:45:00 Description: Andrew Marr talks to graphic designer Neville Brody, whose Anti-Design manifesto criticised the fear and lack of risk inherent in the art world. Objects, overlooked and rejected, lie at the heart of much of artist Susan Hiller's work. Alex Danchev ce...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: John Gray, Dai Smith, Paul McAuley, Kathleen Richardson 24 Jan 11 Updated: 2011-01-24 17:30:00 Description: Andrew Marr talks to John Gray about our delusional quest for immortality, anthropologist Kathleen Richardson assesses how far robots could take over the earth, science fiction writer Paul McAuley imagines a utopian world in the hostile environs of J...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Eric Hobsbawm, Michael Sandel, Nina Raine, Azzam Alwash 17 Jan 11 Updated: 2011-01-17 11:00:00 Description: Start the Week focuses on justice, fairness and ethical dilemmas. Leading Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm argues that Marx remains as relevant today as in the last century. The American academic Michael Sandel looks at the philosophy that underpins n...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Dambisa Moyo, Charles Clarke, Nigel Lawson, Stephen Kinzer 10 Jan 11 Updated: 2011-01-10 11:30:00 Description: Andrew Marr asks what has gone wrong in the West. Economist Dambisa Moyo charts 50 years of "economic folly" and argues that only radical changes in policy will stem permanent decline, while former Chancellor Lord Lawson exposes the "myths" surroundi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: 40th Anniversary Special 27 Dec 10 Updated: 2010-12-27 11:00:00 Description: Andrew Marr celebrates 40 years of Start the Week with former presenters Richard Baker and Melvyn Bragg....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Anthony Caro, Michael Peppiatt, Sir Mark Jones, Justine Picardie 20 Dec 10 Updated: 2010-12-20 11:00:00 Description: Andrew Marr talks to sculptor Anthony Caro about modern British sculpture and explores the importance of Alberto Giacometti's ramshackle studio with art critic Michael Peppiatt. As Sir Mark Jones prepares to stand down as head of the Victoria and Alb...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Semyon Bychkov, Mark Miodownik, Susan Hill 13 Dec 10 Updated: 2010-12-13 11:00:00 Description: Andrew Marr talks to the conductor Semyon Bychkov about Wagner's Tannhauser, scientist Mark Miodownik asks 'Does size matter?' in this year's Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, and author Susan Hill ponders kindness, grief and miracles....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Matthew Bourne, Jennifer Homans, David Aaronovitch, Jane Haynes 06 Dec 10 Updated: 2010-12-06 22:00:00 Description: Andrew Marr talks to the choreographer Matthew Bourne about his vision for Cinderella, while the dance critic, Jennifer Homans sounds the death knell for ballet in her history of the art form. David Aaronovitch also asks whether Freud has had his hey...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Tarek Osman, Francis Spufford, Elif Shafak, Vicky Kaspi 29 Nov 10 Updated: 2010-11-29 12:00:00 Description: Andrew Marr explores Egypt's cosmopolitan past and the challenges it faces today with writer Tarek Osman, Francis Spufford imagines life in the Soviet Union under Krushchev and what could have happened if the dream of plenty had come true, Turkey's b...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: PJ O'Rourke, Armando Iannucci, Mary Beard, Simon McBurney 22 Nov 10 Updated: 2010-11-22 11:30:00 Description: Andrew Marr takes a satirical look at the world. Writer PJ O'Rourke makes a plea to the American public not to vote in his latest critique of liberal politics, while comedian Armando Iannucci explores the latest chapter in the life of his Machiavelli...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: William Boyd, Craig Raine, Gwen Adshead, Iain McGilchrist 15 Nov 10 Updated: 2010-11-15 11:00:00 Description: Andrew Marr talks to forensic psychotherapist Dr Gwen Adshead about the medicalisation of evil. William Boyd discusses his literary everyman, Logan Mounstuart, as his novel Any Human Heart is adapted for TV. Poet Craig Raine compares writing poetry t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Ed Vulliamy, Patrick Wilcken, Gillian Tett and Lars Gustafsson 8 Nov 10 Updated: 2010-11-08 10:45:00 Description: Andrew Marr talks to Swedish poet Lars Gustafsson about whether writers have a responsibility to challenge the establishment. Gillian Tett, the Financial Times journalist who predicted the financial crash, explains the growing attraction of gold. Wri...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Fintan O'Toole, Deborah Cadbury, Nick Boles, Steven Isserlis. 01 Nov 10 Updated: 2010-11-01 11:54:00 Description: Andrew Marr looks at what the future holds for Ireland after the financial crisis, with the cultural commentator, Fintan O'Toole, who argues for wholesale reform of the political system. While the Conservative MP, Nick Boles puts forward his blueprin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Alasdair Gray, David Starkey, Josie Rourke, Alan Berman 25 Oct 10 Updated: 2010-10-25 09:40:00 Description: Andrew Marr talks to the Scottish writer and artist Alasdair Gray about his life through the story of his paintings, director Josie Rourke on the tough reality of 1930s Glasgow, portrayed in the play Men Should Weep, David Starkey explores 2000 years...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Mary Warnock, Raymond Tallis, John Gummer, Stanley Hauerwas 18 Oct 10 Updated: 2010-10-18 11:05:00 Description: In a special programme, Start the Week discusses morality, religion and politics. The philosopher Mary Warnock, in her latest book, Dishonest To God, argues that religion has no place in politics, and that it's a mistake to believe that religion has ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Sebastian Faulks, Bernhard Schlink, Margaret MacMillan, Peter Snow 11 Oct 10 Updated: 2010-10-11 09:39:00 Description: In a special programme recorded at the Cheltenham Literature Festival Andrew Marr talks to Bernhard Schlink, author of 'The Reader', about his latest novel to be translated, which pits youthful idealism against the reality of terrorism. Margaret MacM...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Jonathan Franzen, Robert Douglas Fairhurst, Barry Smith, Shelagh Stephenson 04 Oct 10 Updated: 2010-10-04 08:51:00 Description: Andrew Marr talks to Jonathan Franzen, hailed as a 'Great American Novelist' for his latest book, Freedom. The playwright Shelagh Stephenson explores family tensions in her new play, about what happens when a missing child returns home. Philosophy is...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Will Hutton, Lars Kroijer, Billy Ivory, Ronit Avni. 27 Sep 10 Updated: 2010-09-27 09:20:00 Description: Andrew Marr talks to Will Hutton about the need to transform a country blighted by inequality; Lars Kroijer comes clean about the life and decisions of a hedge fund manager; Billy Ivory discusses his screenplay for Made In Dagenham, which charts the ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD STW: Roy Hattersley, Mary Midgley, Andy McSmith, Richard Bean 20 Sept 10 Updated: 2010-09-20 12:09:00 Description: In the first programme of a new series of Start the Week the former MP Lord Hattersley charts the life and politics of David Lloyd George, the writer Andy McSmith argues that the 1980s was a decade of conflict, the philosopher Mary Midgley criticises...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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