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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
CLIVE STAFFORD SMITH is a renowned human rights lawyer and the Legal Director of Reprieve, a UK charity fighting for people facing the death penalty and other human rights abuses. He has represented 40 of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and has written an article on the subject for this week's issue of the New Statesman. Reprieve is sponsoring a London conference today on Guantanamo and the dissolution of the rule of law.
P D JAMES is one of our best known crime writers, having written fifteen novels which are currently available in bookshops and libraries around the country. But will it always be the case? In a lecture she's delivered to Christ's College Cambridge, she argues that the future of the book is under threat and must be protected.
What does the world want? According to JOHN BATTELLE, the company which knows the answer to that question is Google. Not only is the search engine now the gateway to so much of our knowledge but, in a world where every click can be preserved for ever and tells someone, somewhere, what you want, companies like Google are changing more than technology and the workplace: they're transforming our way of life ... The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture is published by Nicholas Brealey Publishing.
The Glittering Prizes was a landmark BBC TV series 30 years ago. It charted the lives and loves of a group of Cambridge students in the Fifties. FREDERIC RAPHAEL, the author, talks about his new adaptation for Radio 4 which continues on Sunday.
Next week:
Kristin Scott Thomas
Robert Winston
Grayson Perry
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