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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
The word "Londonistan" has been used to describe the networks of extreme Islamic groups working in the capital, and the freedom that they currently enjoy. It's sparked a debate in which some are calling for new legislation. The Editor of Terrorism Monitor, MAHAN ABEDIN, sets out how and why these groups have come about and Birmingham MP KHALID MAHMOOD discusses his campaign for legislation.
KATE MOSSE, co-founder of the women's literary prize, the Orange Prize for Fiction, explains why she wants to inaugurate a new genre of women's adventure fiction with her new novel Labyrinth . Labyrinth is published by Orion.
Artist, writer and broadcaster MATT COLLINGS charts the history of the self-portrait, an art form which we now take for granted but one which, at the outset, was a radical new form. The Me Generation is a three-part series for Channel 4 beginning on 10 September.
Neuroscientist DANIEL GLASER lifts the lid on science funding. He explains who decides on funding for research and how these decisions drive the scientific agenda. Under Laboratory Conditions will be shown on BBC 4 this month.
Next week:
An edition of Start The Week on the subject of The Sea with John Banville, Trevor Norton, Jacqueline McGlade and Adam Nicolson.
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