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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
Novelist PENELOPE LIVELY discusses the current enthusiasm for 'bio-fiction': novels, and films, based on real lives. Penelope recently spoke about this at the Royal Society of Literature and suggests that the autobiography is, in fact, a form of fiction. Her novel, Making It Up, was published by Viking earlier this year.
Stop at any English town or village or wander through the countryside and you will almost certainly brush up against some deep-rooted local myth or legend - whether it's the pub that claims to have given lodging to Dick Turpin or the hill that is supposed to contain buried treasure. How did such stories arise and why have they persisted? JENNIFER WESTWOOD has tried to answer those questions in her new county by county survey of England 's legends... The Lore of the Land, co-authored with Dr Jacqueline Simpson, is published by Penguin.
Percussionist EVELYN GLENNIE talks about performing with disadvantaged and exceptionally talented children, the role of percussion and how we use our senses today. Evelyn is performing in a concert on Tuesday 20 December with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Cadogan Hall, London. The concert is in support of the Music of Life Foundation that helps to support disadvantaged children with exceptional musical talent.
What did our ancestors eat? What makes food taste good or disgusting? What are the myths and realities of healthy eating? How can food kill? And what will mealtimes be like in the future? Former Chair of the Food Standards Agency, SIR JOHN KREBS, discusses Food Matters - the subject of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. The lectures begin on Boxing Day and will also be broadcast live on television on Five.
Next week:
The Noughties - how does the decade compare so far and what will it offer us in the next five years? With:
Will Self
Chris Patten
Mary Kaldor
Jonathan Bate
Nancy Rothwell
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