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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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Ice lens by Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey created during the March 2005 expedition to the Arctic.
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
Harold Shipman is the most prolific serial killer in British history, but what lessons have we learnt from his murders? Professor of Criminology David Wilson discusses the lessons that we failed to learn from the Shipman case and argues that the actions of serial killers identify social breakdowns. He questions why the case did not spark debate about the place of the elderly in today's society and the professional organisation of general practice. David Wilson's article Theorising the Puzzle that is Harold Shipman will be published in this month's The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology.
Booker Prize-winning author Ian McEwan talks about a new Cape Farewell exhibition, The Ice Garden - the result of a trip he took to the High Arctic with a "bunch of artists". He tells us whether artists can make a difference in the environmental debate and, as a writer, what he's going to get out of it. The Ice Garden is at Clarendon Quad, Bodleian Library, Oxford and runs from 15-18 December, 4.00pm-8.00pm and admission is free.
It's 40 years since the Race Relations Act was passed. A new Radio 4 series asks just how racist is Britain today? Do we still need race advisors and diversity trainers? Or are they actually part of the problem? Munira Mirza presents The Business of Race, starting on Monday 12 December at 11.00am.
Schott's Original Miscellany has sold in millions. An odd little book full of fascinating facts and trivial tidbits, it became a runaway bestseller. Now its author has reinvented the yearbook. Ben Schott talks about Schott's Almanac 2006, published by Bloomsbury.
On the programme, David Wilson told us that the British Crime Survey was conducted every two years. It has, in fact, been an annual event since 2001/2, as listed in Ben Schott's 2006 Almanac.
Next week:
Evelyn Glennie
Penelope Lively
John Krebs
Jennifer Westwood
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