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Start the Week sets the cultural agenda every Monday. Guests are drawn from the top movers and shakers in politics, history, science and the arts. |
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Presented by SUE MACGREGOR
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Does money buy happiness? Writer and broadcaster RICHARD D NORTH offers an unashamed defence of mass affluence, inequality and the capitalist system. Rich is Beautiful: A Very Personal Defence of Mass Affluence is published by the Social Affairs Unit.
Historian LISA HILTON has written a biography of Lavinia, Duchess of Bolton and explains how political rivals used the theatre to play out their disputes in the eighteenth century. Mistress Peachum's Pleasure: The Life of Lavinia, Duchess of Bolton is published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
ZAC GOLDSMITH, editor of The Ecologist , is taking part in a debate organised by Intelligence Squared on Tuesday 19 April. He argues that nuclear power can never be an acceptable or affordable solution to climate change and will be arguing against the motion that "nuclear energy must power our future".
As a new production of Julius Caesar opens in London, actor SIMON RUSSELL BEALE talks about the relevance of a play that was first performed in London over 400 years ago, but covers a story of political intrigue and murder from ancient Rome. Julius Caesar is at the Barbican until 14 May.
Next week:
David Wilson - why so many people are dying in custody
Olivia Judson - are humans designed to be monogamous?
William Black - the lost foods of Britain
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