Start the Week

podcast

Suscribirse

Start the Week

Por BBC Radio 4
En Start the Week

Building the Body, Opening the Heart

The Pulitzer-winning oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee recalls the thrill of seeing for the first...

Añadir a ... 

Zombies, exiles and monsters

The Man Booker prize winning novelist George Saunders turns to short-stories for his latest book,...

Añadir a ... 

Black Britain and beyond

The first event marking Black History Month UK took place thirty five years ago, and the...

Añadir a ... 

Power plays and family dynamics

In her latest novel, The Unfolding, the prize-winning AM Homes has created a compelling central...

Añadir a ... 

Political leadership and oversight

During the pandemic our laws were radically remade by a government which exercised almost...

Añadir a ... 

Bradford - Brave New World

In a special edition of the show, in front of an audience at the National Science and Media...

Añadir a ... 

Birmingham

Forget the north south divide, what about the ‘squeezed middle’? Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss...

Añadir a ... 

Health, sickness and exploitation

When people feel ill they go to the doctor for a diagnosis and what they hope will be the first...

Añadir a ... 

Justice, war crimes and targeted killings

Linda Kinstler’s Latvian grandfather disappeared after WWII and the family never spoke about him....

Añadir a ... 

Social inequality - up close

The failure of British politics and public institutions to tackle social inequality is down to...

Añadir a ... 

A revolution in food and farming

The environmentalist George Monbiot argues that farming is the world’s greatest cause of...

Añadir a ... 

Family drama at Hay Festival

In front of an audience at this year’s Hay Festival Helen Lewis talks to three prize winning...

Añadir a ... 

Learning from apes, fish and wasps

Adam Rutherford explores how other species can help us understand our own. The world-renowned...

Añadir a ... 

The body clock and sleep

Every moment of the day tiny biological clocks are ticking throughout the body, but Russell...

Añadir a ... 

Marwa Al-Sabouni - Rebuilding with hope

The Syrian architect Marwa al-Sabouni is the Guest Co-Director of this year’s Brighton Festival...

Añadir a ... 

Curiosity, ingenuity and experimentation

Wonder at the natural world has inspired people and fuelled curiosity for millennia. The ancient...

Añadir a ... 

The age of the strongman leader

In The Age of the Strongman, the journalist Gideon Rachman explores how populist and...

Añadir a ... 

NoViolet Bulawayo on Glory

The new novel, Glory, by prize winning writing NoViolet Bulawayo is a postcolonial tale of power...

Añadir a ... 

Love poetry; love books

"Stand still, and I will read to thee / A lecture, love, in love's philosophy." John Donne is one...

Añadir a ... 

Resistance

The picture of a lone figure, plastic bags in hand, standing in front of a column of tanks in...

Añadir a ...