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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
In a five-part Radio 4 series, JONATHAN MILLER returns to his roots in medicine and tells the story of how we came to understand reproduction and heredity. Self-Made Things begins on Radio 4 on 27 July at 9.00pm.
Broadcaster and academic LAURIE TAYLOR explores our failure to come to terms with the slowness and painfulness of a modern death and the failure of the NHS to relieve unnecessary pain. On Pain of Death is screened on Channel 4 tonight.
GEORGE PENDLE has written a book about the life and death of John Parsons, a maverick scientist who helped to transform the rocket from a derided sci-fi plotline into a reality, but who is now overlooked by history. Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
CATRIONA KELLY is Professor of Russian at Oxford University. Comrade Pavlik looks at the murder of two young boys in Soviet Russia and sets out not only to investigate who really killed them, but also to explore how Stalin's regime turned the boys into heroes designed to produce good Soviet citizens. Comrade Pavlik is published by Granta Books.
Next week:
David Hare on political theatre
Matt Collings on looking at self portraits
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