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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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"Marr has wide-ranging interests and intelligent curiosity to make him ideal for the role".
Helen Boaden, Controller, Radio 4
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Voice of the Listener and Viewer have voted Start the Week Best Radio Programme in their 2005 Awards. Start the Week also won in 1994 and is only the second programme to win the award twice.
Andrew Marr has also won the Best Contributor To Radio Award.
Guests
Award-winning writer JUNG CHANG has written a biography of Mao Tse-tung. He was a dominant world figure with the fate of a quarter of the world's population in his hands, yet little is known of him, and what is known is very much based on myths, often fostered by Mao himself. Mao: The Unknown Story is co-written by Jon Halliday and published by Jonathan Cape. Jung Chang will be appearing at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre, London SE1 on Monday 13 June at 7.30pm. The event will be chaired by Martha Kearney.
Writer and broadcaster JOHN CAREY is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Oxford University. His latest book addresses the question What Good are the Arts? John assesses the value of art and makes a case for the superiority of literature to all other art forms. What Good are the Arts? is published by Faber and Faber.
Writer and broadcaster EKOW ESHUN discusses his new book Black Gold of the Sun which describes his own personal journey back to Ghana in search of roots, family and his own identity. He unearths a surprising family history, confronts his dream of the country with the reality and concludes that who you are isn't just about where you are from. Black Gold of the Sun is published by Hamish Hamilton.
The film Super Size Me documented one man's quest to find out where personal responsibility ends and corporate responsibility begins. Writer, director and producer MORGAN SPURLOCK consumed only McDonald's food for a month and came to some upsetting conclusions, and now he's written a book about it. Don't Eat This Book is published by Penguin.
Next week:
Lisa Randall – are there more dimensions in the universe than we imagine?
Deyan Sudjic – back to basics architecture.
Anish Kapoor - new work at the Venice Biennale.
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