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Start the Week
By BBC Radio 4
Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
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Hay Festival: exposing the secrets of rubbish
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The uses and abuses of the atom
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Hidden spaces and dangerous places
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The Idea of Genius
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Sanctuary, refuge and exile
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Arundhati Roy and maternal inheritance
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Afghanistan and the DRC
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Contains Strong Language Festival, Bradford
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Steven Pinker on common knowledge
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Yanis Varoufakis on Greece’s civil war
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Endangered languages and vanishing landscapes
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Maps – lost, secret and revealing
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Crossing genres with Wayne McGregor
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Storytelling: Jeanette Winterson, Rory Stewart and Soweto Kinch
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Saving Tigers, Green Crime and Cli-fi
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Digital Futures and Information Crises
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Genes and hands: mapping character and health
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Space, Quantum Frontiers and Cosmic Clues
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Histories, emotions and identity
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The Dark
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Poetry - reading, writing, editing and translating
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Animals and Meaning
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The arts and health
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Rethinking politics
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Biology, technology and the future
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Censorship
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Fun and games
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Breakage and repair
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Thinking about war
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Reading and storytelling
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Under the sea
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Consciousness and Identity
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Growing Up
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Industrial action: from 1926 General Strike to today
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Zoos, sex and conservation
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Challenges and solutions
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Why Stuff Matters: Objects, Power and the Past
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Chemical Reactions
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Laurie Anderson: Strange and Disorientating Landscapes
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German history
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Farming, food production and rural life
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Mythmaking at Hay: from Medea to Rasputin
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Searching for economic solutions
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Scientific discovery and misunderstanding
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Working-Class Lives: Identity and Political Fractures
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Life Online: Power, Risk and Resistance
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Gordon Brown: The Future Starts with Us
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Living with uncertainty
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Carlo Rovelli: complexity and value
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Contains Strong Language Festival in Salford
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- Publisher
- BBC Radio 4
- Category
- Podcast
- Language
- en
- Episodes
- 658
- Format
- episodic
- Website
- www.bbc.co.uk
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