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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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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
ALEXANDER DEANE, a Conservative Party advisor, blames the middle class for Britain's moral and social decline, accusing them of abandoning their traditional moral values. He believes that "the middle class should wield a controlling influence on society's morality and conscience, in a broadly conservative and judgemental way". The Great Abdication: Why Britain's Decline is the Fault of the Middle Class is published by Imprint Academic.
BARONESS JAMES, aka P D James, is one of our best known crime writers, but one of her earliest jobs was in the Police Department of the Home Office. She recently gave a lecture to the Police Foundation about how the policing world has changed - in fact and in fiction.
TOBY YOUNG was editor of the Modern Review, a magazine he co-founded with Julie Burchill, which aimed to cover popular culture with quality journalism. But they fell out, he folded the magazine, wrote a book about his failure to conquer America and now he's written a play exposing his colleagues at The Spectator. When Toby Met Julie will be broadcast tonight on BBC4 at 9.00pm.
Writer and broadcaster PETER STANFORD has edited a collection of essays which explores what it means to be a Catholic in today's world. Why do Catholics remain faithful to a church that many see as an anachronism, out of step with the world on issues like sexuality, gender, abortion, contraception and war and peace? Why I am Still a Catholic: Essays in Faith and Perspective is published by Continuum.
Next week:
Julian Barnes on his new novel about the creator of Sherlock Holmes and a real life miscarriage of justice
Peter Singer on philosophy, ethics and the campaign for animal rights
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