BBC Radio Podcasts from Start the Week
Power to the people
Tom Sutcliffe discusses democracy with Erica Benner, Alpa Shah and Bobby Duffy.
Music and poetry
Kirsty Wark discusses poetry and music with Alison Balsom, Graeme Lawson and John Burnside
The war between science and religion
Tom Sutcliffe with Michael Taylor, Nick Spencer and Frances Flinter.
Crossing borders and belonging
Adam Rutherford with Viet Thanh Nguyen, Helena Lee and Jessica J Lee.
Intrigue and disinformation from the Russian Revolution to Ukraine invasion
Tom Sutcliffe with Andrey Kurkov, Peter Pomerantsev and Charlotte Jee.
Time passing: ageing, memory and nostalgia
Adam Rutherford with Venki Ramakrishnan, Charan Ranganath and Agnes Arnold-Forster
Mysterious Plants
Kirsty Wark with Chris Thorogood, Kelsey Byers and William Milliken
Weighty issues
Tom Sutcliffe with Naveed Sattar, Stephanie Yeboah and Henry Dimbleby
Arts: changing the world?
Tom Sutcliffe with Ellen E Jones, Hew Locke and Noora Niasari
Global influences
Kirsty Wark with Josephine Quinn, Carolina Rangel de Lima and Christopher Harding.
Opium trade to synthetic opiates
Tom Sutcliffe with Amitav Ghosh, Richard Brittan and Fiona Measham.
Made out of glass
Adam Rutherford with Jasmine Allen, Ayako Tani, John Parker and Claire Corkhill.
War crimes justice
Tom Sutcliffe with Gary J Bass, Lyndsey Stonebridge and Christopher Stephen.
Climate resolutions
Kirsty Wark with Hannah Ritchie, Akshat Rathi and Michael Meredith.
A century of Labour
Tom Sutcliffe with Jon Cruddas, Jane Green and Jonathan White.
AI, states and corporations
Tom Sutcliffe with Mike Wooldridge, Naomi Alderman and David Runciman.
Small states: global impact and survival
Adam Rutherford with Armen Sarkissian, Margaret MacMillan and Lyse Doucet
Playing games
Tom Sutcliffe with Marcus du Sautoy, Anthony Bale, Jane Draycott and GT Karber
Space – the human story
Kirsty Wark with astronaut Tim Peake, writer Samantha Harvey and physicist Roberto Trotta.
Monet and machine vision
Tom Sutcliffe with Jackie Wullschläger, Mat Collishaw and Jill Walker Rettberg
Music – from page to performance
Adam Rutherford with Errollyn Wallen, Laurence Cummings and Emma Smith.
China – its poetry and economy
Tom Sutcliffe with Noo Saro-Wiwa, Michael Wood and George Magnus
Soundtrack to life
Kirsty Wark with Natalie Merchant, Michel Faber and Jeffrey Boakye
Infected blood - from scandal to inquiry
Tom Sutcliffe with Cara McGoogan, Jason Evans and Gabriel Scally.
Unruly bodies
Adam Rutherford with Emma Dabiri, Carol Morley and Cat Bohannon.
Israel
Tom Sutcliffe with Nathan Thrall, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen and Jake Wallis Simons.
The Iliad and the right to rule
Adam Rutherford with Emily Wilson, Mary Beard and Ben Riley-Smith
Contains Strong Language Festival in Leeds
Tom Sutcliffe with Lemn Sissay, Lebogang Mashile and Clare O’Dowd
Homo Sapiens +/-
Tom Sutcliffe with Sebastian Faulks, Ludovic Slimak and Lauren Gunderson.
The NHS at 75
Kirsty Wark with Kevin Fong, Isabel Hardman, Phil Whitaker and Andrew Seaton
Materials that shape our world
Tom Sutcliffe with Ed Conway, Aarathi Prasad and Jamie Fraser.
Sums, stories and musical scores
Kirsty Wark with Eugenia Cheng, Sarah Hart and Emily Howard.
Hacking and cybercrime
Tom Sutcliffe with Scott Shapiro, Alice Hutchings and Jenny Radcliffe.
Allergies and the Microbiome
Adam Rutherford with Theresa MacPhail, James Kinross and Johnny Drain.
Hay Festival - Dickens in the 21st century
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Barbara Kingsolver, Michael Rosen and Natalie Haynes.
Birds and moths
Kirsty Wark with Tim Blackburn, Cheryl Tipp and Mark Cocker
Virtuous bankers?
Adam Rutherford with Anne Murphy, Edward Chancellor and David Fishwick.
Monster artist/monstrous art?
Tom Sutcliffe with Claire Dederer, Devika Ponnambalam and Michael Bond.
Life behind the iron curtain
Adam Rutherford with Karl Schlögel, Katja Hoyer and Adam Curtis
Ancient trees
Kirsty Wark with Peter Wohlleben, Jill Butler and Carolyne Larrington.
A place called home
Tom Sutcliffe with Kieran Yates, Natasha Carthew, Christine Whitehead and Alice Brownfield
Ai Weiwei and design values
Adam Rutherford with Ai Weiwei, Roma Agrawal and Bent Flyvbjerg
Mastering a new skill
Tom Sutcliffe with Adam Gopnik, Hannah Critchlow and Rebecca Struthers.
Climate - past, present and future
Kirsty Wark with Peter Frankopan, Jane Francis and Jessie Greengrass.
Humanism - what is it good for?
Adam Rutherford with Sarah Bakewell, Julian Baggini and Leila Aboulela
George Eliot and married life
Tom Sutcliffe with Clare Carlisle, Claudia Rankine and David Eldridge
The Iraq War – 20 years on
Kirsty Wark with Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Emma Sky and Gordon Corera.
Democratic capitalism – marriage on the rocks
Tom Sutcliffe with Bernie Sanders, Martin Wolf and Kate Raworth.
Ancient knowledge
Adam Rutherford with Carlo Rovelli, Ann Yee and Kapka Kassabova.
The food we eat
Kimberley Wilson, Louise Gray and Rebecca O'Connell with Tom Sutcliffe
Power, violence and witches
Kirsty Wark with Zinnie Harris, Marion Gibson and Jo Ingabire Moys.
The Victims of War
Tom Sutcliffe with Dan Stone, Catherine Merridale and Bernard Wasserstein.
Videogames – from fantasy to reality
Adam Rutherford with Sandra Youkhana, Adrian Hon and Louise Blain
The view from Latin America
Kirsty Wark with Caroline Dodds Pennock, Adrian Locke and Iokiñe Rodríguez Fernandez.
Where are you from?
Tom Sutcliffe with Kenan Malik, Francesca Sobande and Don Paterson.
Awesome
Tom Sutcliffe with Dacher Keltner, Anna Lapwood and Felix Flicker
Dance Pioneers
Kirsty Wark with Wayne McGregor, Cassa Pancho and Jennifer Homans.
Listening in the dark
Adam Rutherford with Johan Eklöf, Kate Summerscale, Simon McBurney and Geraint Rees
Returning to the moon
Tom Sutcliffe with Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Oliver Morton and Luke Jerram.
Faith: lost in translation?
Adam Rutherford with Kaveh Akbar, John Barton and Emma Donoghue
Taking a stand
Kirsty Wark with Maria Ressa, Zsuzsanna Szelényi and Simon Schama.
Perfect skin
Adam Rutherford with Caroline Vout, Katy Hessel and Matt Lodder
The authentic taste of Britain
Tom Sutcliffe with Jonathan Coe, Emily Bootle and Soweto Kinch
Building the Body, Opening the Heart
Adam Rutherford with Siddhartha Mukherjee, Sian Harding and Paul McAuley.
Zombies, exiles and monsters
Tom Sutcliffe with George Saunders, Helen Rappaport and Anna Bogutskaya.
Black Britain and beyond
Adam Rutherford with Christine Checinska, Miranda Kaufmann, Yomi Ṣode and Peter Frankopan.
Power plays and family dynamics
Tom Sutcliffe with AM Homes, Nick Hytner and Simon Sebag Montefiore.
Political leadership and oversight
Kirsty Wark with Adam Wagner, Isabel Hardman, Tim Bale and Annalisa Piras.
Bradford - Brave New World
Adam Rutherford with Matthew Cobb, Alison Bashford and Deborah Lawlor
Birmingham
Kit de Waal, Richard Vinen and Liz Berry, with Tom Sutcliffe
Health, sickness and exploitation
Adam Rutherford with Jules Montague, Gavin Francis and Jennifer Jacquet
Justice, war crimes and targeted killings
Helen Lewis with Linda Kinstler, Ronen Bergman and Philippe Sands.
Social inequality - up close
Adam Rutherford with Darren McGarvey, Jo Clement and Brett Scott
A revolution in food and farming
Tom Sutcliffe with George Monbiot, Sarah Langford and Claire Ratinon.
Family drama at Hay Festival
Helen Lewis with Damon Galgut, Margo Jefferson and Jennifer Egan at the Hay Festival
Learning from apes, fish and wasps
Adam Rutherford with Frans de Waal, Seirian Sumner and Nichola Raihani.
The body clock and sleep
Tom Sutcliffe with Russell Foster, Sonja Linden and Ros Holmes.
Marwa Al-Sabouni - Rebuilding with hope
Helen Lewis with Marwa Al-Sabouni, Jo da Silva and Jessie Childs
Curiosity, ingenuity and experimentation
Kirsty Wark talks to Suzie Sheehy, Laura Beatty and Philip Ball
The age of the strongman leader
Tom Sutcliffe with Gideon Rachman, Judy Dempsey and Christopher de Bellaigue.
NoViolet Bulawayo on Glory
Adam Rutherford with NoViolet Bulawayo, Dipo Faloyin and Julia Gallagher
Love poetry; love books
Kirsty Wark with Katherine Rundell, Emma Smith and Megan Walsh
Resistance
Tom Sutcliffe with Halik Kochanski, Arkady Ostrovsky and Nathan Law
Liberalism in crisis
Amol Rajan with Francis Fukuyama, Helen Thompson and Edward Shawcross.
Welsh identities
Helen Lewis with Richard Wyn Jones, Hanan Issa, Marion Loeffler and Richard King.
Feathered friends
Tom Sutcliffe with Tim Birkhead, Alison Richard and Mark Glancy
Creating art; reflecting life
Kirsty Wark with Kwame Kwei-Armah, Warsan Shire and Ralph Rugoff.
Post-war/post-Covid
Helen Lewis with Peter Hennessy, Jane Alison and Farhan Samanani.
Wealth, influence and the global elite
Tom Sutcliffe with Pankaj Mishra, Joseph Sassoon and Susan Newman
Stonehenge, and conserving the future
Adam Rutherford with Neil Wilkin, Rebecca Nesbit and Thomas Halliday.
The Georgians
Tom Sutcliffe with Penelope Corfield, Tristram Hunt and Philip McCann.
Bullish masculinity
Helen Lewis with Fiona Benson, Ivan Jablonka, Nina Power and Angelica Malin.
Modernism
Kirsty Wark with Matthew Sweet, Charlotte Sleigh, Soweto Kinch and Suzanne Hobson.
Old battles, new warfare
Adam Rutherford with Mark Galeotti, Cécile Fabre and Kirsty Graham.
Finding consolation and community in reading
Tom Sutcliffe with Michael Ignatieff, Christopher Prendergast and Toby Brothers.
Vaccinate, ventilate and breathe
Andrew Marr with Catherine Noakes, Teresa Lambe and James Nestor.
A musical journey – from the mountains to the multi-storey
Andrew Marr with Steven Isserlis, Benjamin Appl and Kate Whitley.
Living in the Matrix
Tom Sutcliffe with Naomi Alderman, David J Chalmers and Philippa Garety.
Witches
Andrew Marr with Kathryn Hunter, Claire Askew and Malcolm Gaskill.
Levelling up; halting decline
Kirsty Wark with Marit Kapla, Paul Batchelor and Paul Swinney.
Christianity: Changing Fortunes
Andrew Marr with Janine di Giovanni, Elle Hardy and Tricia Hillas.
Ancient lives and legacies in Latin America
Tom Sutcliffe with Mario Vargas Llosa, Jago Cooper and Natalia Sobrevilla Perea
Internet influencers and generation gaps
Andrew Marr with Olivia Yallop, Sarah Ogilvie and Bobby Duffy.
Ai Weiwei on creative freedom
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Ai Weiwei, Lea Ypi and Kirill Gerstein.
Working the land - Orwell and HG Wells
Andrew Marr with Rebecca Solnit, Claire Tomalin and Peter Hetherington
Rationality in an Irrational Age
Amol Rajan talks about rationality with Steven Pinker, Amia Srinivasan and Irving Finkel.
Views from across the water
Andrew Marr with Clare Jackson, Benedicte Paviot and Fintan O’Toole.
Images of power
Kirsty Wark with Mary Beard, Andrew Roberts and Ayesha Hazarika
Colm Tóibín on Thomas Mann
Andrew Marr talks to Colm Tóibín, Karen Leeder and Jesse Armstrong
Climate activism: the next generation
Richard Powers, Mya-Rose Craig and Simon Mundy talk to Andrew Marr
Life in the first person
Oliver Mears, Tiffany Watt Smith and Anil Seth talk to Tom Sutcliffe.
Ali Smith
Ali Smith in conversation with Andrew Marr
Jackie Kay on Bessie Smith
Kirsty Wark with Jackie Kay, Rosemary Hill and Michael Armitage
London - villain and victim?
Andrew Marr with Iestyn Davies, Jennifer Kavanagh and Jack Brown
Lionel Shriver on life and death decisions
Tom Sutcliffe with Lionel Shriver, David Jarrett and Jack Thorne.
DH Lawrence: life and work
Andrew Marr with Frances Wilson, Salman Rushdie and Simon Armitage
On Thin Ice: Glaciers, Geopolitics, and Nature's Goods
Kirsty Wark with Jemma Wadham, Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson and Dwayne Ryan Menezes.
Daniel Kahneman on 'noisy' human judgement
Andrew Marr with Daniel Kahneman, Gillian Tett and Ann Cairns.
The opioid crisis and erosion of trust
Amol Rajan with Patrick Radden Keefe, Zoe Williams and Heidi Larson
Art - plunder, power and prestige
Andrew Marr with Cynthia Saltzman, Francesco da Mosto and Charles Saumarez Smith.
Personal faith and the Church
Tom Sutcliffe with Chine McDonald, Giles Fraser and Jeet Thayil.
What if the Incas had colonised Europe?
Andrew Marr with Laurent Binet, Caroline Dodds Pennock and Christienna Fryar.
Nuclear destruction
Amol Rajan with Serhii Plokhy, Patricia Lewis and Sarah Rainsford
Defining mental illness
Andrew Marr with Suzanne O’Sullivan, Lucy Foulkes and Sally Holland
Trade deals and human rights – in Africa and China
Andrew Marr with Tom Tugendhat, Geetha Tharmaratnam and Michela Wrong.
Newton: science and worldly riches
Tom Sutcliffe with Edward St Aubyn, Patricia Fara and Chris van Tulleken.
Rights and responsibilities
Andrew Marr with Matthew d’Ancona, Minouche Shafik and Kenan Malik
Understanding Melancholy
Amol Rajan with Mary Ann Lund, Horatio Clare and Ahmed Hankir.
Monsters of the deep
Andrew Marr with Helen Scales, Philip Hoare and Elizabeth Kolbert
Family struggles - from Greek tragedy to The Troubles
Kirsty Wark with Sally Bayley, Kerri ní Dochartaigh and Lisa Dwan.
Living online and IRL
Andrew Marr with Patricia Lockwood, Roisin Kiberd and Matthew Syed.
Empire and class, shaping Britain
Tom Sutcliffe with Sathnam Sanghera, Selina Todd and Anthony Anaxagorou
The fall of Maxwell – the end of an era.
Andrew Marr with John Preston, Julia Langdon and Emily Bell.
Mariana Mazzucato on moonshot economics
Amol Rajan with Mariana Mazzucato, Vince Cable and Robert Verkaik
Francis Bacon revealed
Andrew Marr with Annalyn Swan, Russell T Davies and Mark-Anthony Turnage
Scotland and the Union
Andrew Marr with Ailsa Henderson, Ruth Wishart, Ben Jackson and Karin Bowie.
Nicholas Hytner
The award-winning theatre director Nicholas Hytner in conversation with Andrew Marr.
Thomas Becket and the rift between church and state
Andrew Marr with Laura Ashe, Christopher de Hamel and Andrew Hussey.
Inspiring awe – from the heavens to the oceans
Tom Sutcliffe with Stuart Clark, Rebecca Giggs and Antony Gormley.
Laughter
Andrew Marr with Sindhu Vee, John Mullan and Jonathan Silvertown.
Human ingenuity and shared inheritance
Amol Rajan with Simon Baron-Cohen, Rebecca Wragg Sykes and Susana Carvalho.
Derrida, Woolf, and the pleasure of reading
Andrew Marr with Bernhard Schlink, Alexandra Harris and Peter Salmon
Landscapes real and imagined
Daisy Johnson, Caleb Femi and Kevin Barry with Tom Sutcliffe.
Physics in all its glory
Roger Penrose, Carlo Rovelli and Helen Czerski with Andrew Marr
Great women of the classics
Kirsty Wark with Shadi Bartsch, Natalie Haynes and Letizia Treves
China and the global order
Andrew Marr with John Micklethwait, Katya Adler and Rana Mitter.
Fake news and data lies: how to win an election
Amol Rajan with Jill Lepore and Richard Evans.
Care and compassion
Andrew Marr with Madeleine Bunting, Jeremy Hunt and Helen Kingston.
Contested histories
Tom Sutcliffe with Olivette Otele, Kate Williams and Sudhir Hazareesingh
Faith in the modern world
Marilynne Robinson and Rowan Williams with Andrew Marr.
Claudia Rankine and Margaret Atwood
Claudia Rankine and Margaret Atwood with Kirsty Wark.
The Radical Agenda
Andrew Marr with Owen Jones, Rachel Holmes and Danny Finkelstein.
Meritocracy and inequality
Michael Sandel, Elif Shafak and David Goodhart with Amol Rajan
Nature notes, from farming to fungi
Andrew Marr with James Rebanks, Melissa Harrison and Merlin Sheldrake
Brit Bennett on race, identity and protest
Tom Sutcliffe with Brit Bennett and Gary Younge
James Joyce
Edna O'Brien, Colm Tóibín and Mary Costello discuss James Joyce with Andrew Marr.
Our coercive politics
Amol Rajan with David Runciman and Ute Frevert.
The Future
Andrew Marr with Riel Miller and Meehan Crist.
Classics and class
Tom Sutcliffe with Edith Hall and Ansgar Allen
Richard Ford, writing from the edges
Andrew Marr with Richard Ford and Ruth Livesey
Art in an emergency
Tom Sutcliffe with Olivia Laing and James Meek
Globalisation
Andrew Marr with Valerie Hansen and Gideon Rachman.
Changing behaviour, from bystander to actor
Kirsty Wark with Catherine Sanderson and David Halpern.
Crisis in Europe from Notre-Dame to coronavirus
Andrew Marr with Agnès Poirier and Martyn Rady.
Nature worship
Andrew Marr with Sue Stuart-Smith and Jonathan Bate
The genetic gender gap
Kirsty Wark with Sharon Moalem and Gina Rippon.
Rebuilding conservatism in changing times
Nick Timothy and Danny Dorling with Amol Rajan
Famous and Infamous
Tom Sutcliffe with Greg Jenner, Catherine Fletcher and Caroline Corbeau-Parsons
Cultural icons from Shakespeare to Superman
Tom Sutcliffe with James Shapiro, Mark Kermode, Teresa Bejan and Don Paterson
Morality, money and power
Andrew Marr with Jonathan Sacks, Mervyn King and Kate Fall.
Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel talks to Andrew Marr
Leila Slimani on Sexual Politics
Amol Rajan with Leila Slimani, Olivia Fane, Sally Howard and Chris Haywood
Love of home
Andrew Marr with Dan Jackson, Kapka Kassabova, Colin Mayer and Emily Thomas
Dresden - 75 years on
Tom Sutcliffe with Sinclair McKay, Edmund de Waal, Stefanie Bolzen and Sasha Havlicek
Artistic influence: Beethoven, Rembrandt and MeToo
Andrew Marr with Sir Antonio Pappano, Dame Mary Beard and An Van Camp.
Grayson Perry - the early years
Grayson Perry, Hashi Mohamed and Theresa Lolo with Amol Rajan
Puritans and God-given government
Andrew Marr with Paul Lay, Lisa Mullen, Stephen Tomkins and Lindsay Newman
No work, rest and play
Tom Sutcliffe with Daniel Susskind, Suzi Gage, Anoosh Chakelian and Sir John Strang
A house and a home
Andrew Marr with David Mikhail, Jude Yawson, Ben Ansell and Christina Hardyment.
Westminster Abbey
Andrew Marr at Westminster Abbey with David Cannadine, Lucy Worsley and Richard Harries.
Numbers, nightmares and nanotech
Kirsty Wark with Hannah Fry, Sonia Contera, Tim Harford and Izabella Kaminska
Living near water
Andrew Marr with David Lerner, Edward Platt, Tania Kovats and Leaf Arbuthnot.
India past and present
Amol Rajan with William Dalrymple, Anita Anand and Sumantra Bose.
Love and unreason
Andrew Marr with Bettany Hughes, Clare Carlisle, Emma Lewis and Mark Padmore.
Life, death and taxes
Tom Sutcliffe with Vicky Pryce, Dominic Frisby, Alexander Zevin and Judith Hawley.
Animals and us
Andrew Marr with Karsten Brensing, Emma Napper, Fritz Vollrath and Diana Donald.
Nobel Prize winner Esther Duflo
Nobel prize-winner Esther Duflo, Julian Barnes and Richard Evans with Tom Sutcliffe.
The artist - warts and all
Andrew Marr with William Feaver, Humphrey Ocean and Kate Grandjouan
Breaking bread together
Kirsty Wark with Shamil Thakrar, Priya Basil, Joanna Blythman and Thomas Harding.
Global culture
Andrew Marr with Fatima Bhutto, Erica Whyman, Sook-Kyung Lee and John Burnside.
Lenny Henry
Lenny Henry, Tessa McWatt, Matthew Syed and Keon West with Kirsty Wark
Where is power now?
Andrew Marr with Steve Richards, Ruth Kinna, Catherine Haddon and Eleanor Rhode.
Antony Gormley: challenging conventions
Tom Sutcliffe with Antony Gormley, Laura Wade, Charles Hazlewood and Daniel Rachel.
Escaping the past
Andrew Marr with Susan Neiman, David Howell, Jane Green and Stuart Ward.
Epic quests and Greek myths
Stephen Fry, Alison Balsom, David Hare and Lucy Hughes-Hallett with Tom Sutcliffe
The power of poetry
Andrew Marr with Rowan Williams, Martin Sixsmith, Jay Bernard and Kate Clanchy
Money - in your pocket and in the bank
Andrew Marr with John Guy, Miatta Fahnbulleh, Paul Tucker and Alice Tapper.
Beyond the headlines
Kirsty Wark with Chris King, Hussein Kesvani, Nicole Rousmaniere and Shahidha Bari.
Jared Diamond on national crisis
Andrew Marr with Jared Diamond, David Runciman and Kate Andrews.
Hay Festival
Jeanette Winterson, Naomi Wolf and John Browne join Tom Sutcliffe at the Hay Festival.
Medical controversies
Andrew Marr with Joshua Mezrich, Angela Saini, Caroline Criado Perez and Richard Ashcroft.
Billy Bragg on anger and hope
Tom Sutcliffe with Kerry Hudson, Billy Bragg, Howard Brenton and Will Tanner.
Icons of English literature
Andrew Marr with Marion Turner, Emma Smith and Juliet John.
Freedom: From Kierkegaard to Black Lives Matter
Amol Rajan with DeRay Mckesson, Clare Carlisle, Inua Ellams and Elizabeth Day
Life in the wilderness
Kirsty Wark with Dan Richards, Rebecca Frecknall, Sarah O'Connor and Heida.
Ian McEwan
Andrew Marr with Booker prize-winning novelist Ian McEwan.
Ageing visibly
Andrew Marr with Nicci Gerrard, Sue Armstrong, John Agard and David Slater.
Free Thinking Festival
Tom Sutcliffe with Harriet Shawcross, William J Burns, Kathryn Tickell and Thomas Dixon
Art for all
Tom Sutcliffe with Karl Ove Knausgaard, Fiona MacCarthy, Tamsin Wimhurst and Alison Brown.
Understanding China
Andrew Marr with Xinran, Julia Lovell, David KS Tse and Roel Sterckx.
The battle against so-called Islamic State
Kirsty Wark with David Nott, Azad Cudi, Joana Cook and Claire Foster-Gilbert
Language and Culture
Andrew Marr with Jhumpa Lahiri, April De Angelis, Katrin Kohl and Marcus du Sautoy
Populations and contested lands
Amol Rajan with Paul Morland, Julia Blackburn and Diarmaid Ferriter.
The Eye of the Beholder
Andrew Marr with Jill Burke, Elizabeth Goldring, Tom Stuart and Martin Sherman.
The mind unravelling
Kirsty Wark with Randolph Nesse, AK Benjamin and George Szirtes.
Who is watching you?
Shoshana Zuboff, John Thornhill and Ece Temelkuran with Andrew Marr.
The health of science
Tom Sutcliffe with Sir Robert Lechler, Jo Dunkley, Bernie Bulkin and Elizabeth Pisani.
Art, truth and power
Andrew Marr with Fiona Benson, Louise Pullen, Stephen Bayley and Liam Bright.
Violence and Conflict
John Lanchester, Patricia Lewis, Richard Wrangham and Eleanor Robson with Amol Rajan
Searching for happiness
Andrew Marr with Paul Dolan, Linda Geddes, Laura Freeman and Edward Bullmore.
Ice and Snow
Andrew Marr with Michelle Paver, Ben Saunders, Mark Miodownik and Nancy Campbell.
National myths with Neil MacGregor
Neil MacGregor, Christopher Harding and Kajsa Norman with Kirsty Wark.
Trees: a wood wide web
Andrew Marr with Peter Wohlleben, Kathleen Jamie, Ruth Pavey and Gary Fuller.
Power in Politics
Tom Sutcliffe with Isabel Hardman, James Graham, Diarmaid MacCulloch and Steven Fielding.
How the World Thinks
Julian Baggini, Ann Wroe, Amit Chaudhuri and Paulette Randall with Andrew Marr
Safe spaces and snowflakes
Jonathan Haidt, Olivia Sudjic, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Mark Ravenhill with Amol Rajan
Poland: A hundred years of history
Amol Rajan with Witold Szablowski, Roxanna Panufnik, Michal Murawski and Adam Zamoyski.
Reporting from the Front Line
Andrew Marr with Lindsey Hilsum, Eve Pollard, Anabel Hernandez and Gillian Clarke
That's not fair
Helena Kennedy, Paul Collier, David Willetts and Tiffany Watt Smith with Andrew Marr.
Pirates
Kirsty Wark with Michael Scott Moore, Anna Beer, Veerle Nouwens and Will Newton.
Identity Politics
Francis Fukuyama, Josie Rourke, Roseanne Chantiluke and Eric Kaufmann with Andrew Marr.
What's Your Type?
Tom Sutcliffe with Robert Plomin, Merve Emre and Naomi Eisenstadt
Yuval Noah Harari
The author of Sapiens and Homo Deus in conversation with Andrew Marr
From Ubermensch to Superman
William Boyd, Sue Prideaux, Adena Jacobs and Peter Biskind with Amol Rajan.
David Attenborough: Life on Earth and Beyond
David Attenborough, Martin Rees, Philippa Mason and Michael Quetting with Andrew Marr.
The Reality of War
Andrew Marr with Max Hastings, Helen Parr, Richard Dannatt and Deborah Haynes.
Storytelling at the Edinburgh Festivals
Andrew Marr with Pat Barker, Sjon, James Robertson and Karine Polwart.
British culture and European influence
Andrew Marr with Munira Mirza, Laura Tunbridge and Paul Kildea.
Shame, Status and Self-invention
Amol Rajan with Tina Brown, Didier Eribon, Miranda France and Timothy Sheader.
Deserts and the Nuclear Age
Andrew Marr with William Atkins, Jane Kinninmont and Fred Pearce.
Altered Minds
Kirsty Wark with Michael Pollan, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Tammy Burmeister and Andrew Motion.
Arundhati Roy on castes and outcasts
Arundhati Roy, Hattie Naylor, Damian Le Bas and Daniel Finkelstein with Andrew Marr.
Survival and Destruction
Antony Beevor, Emily Wilson, David Christian and Jonathan D Quick at Hay Festival.
Dark Satanic Mills
Amol Rajan with Mariana Mazzucato, Joshua Freeman, Rowan Moore and Jane Commane.
Jordan Peterson: Rules for Life
Jordan Peterson, Louise O'Neill, Hashi Mohamed and Lawrence Wright with Tom Sutcliffe.
The Death of Democracy
Amol Rajan with Anne Applebaum, David Runciman and Nic Cheeseman.
Mysteries of the Universe
Carlo Rovelli, Carole Mundell, Helen Scales and Laura Walker with Andrew Marr.
Life Is a Dream
Tom Sutcliffe with Jesmyn Ward, Kim Brandstrup, Edith Hall and John Gray.
1968: Radicals and Riots
Andrew Marr with Sophie Pedder, Agnes Poirier, Richard Vinen and Roger Scruton.
The Good Samaritan
Andrew Marr with Chris Hughes, Caroline Slocock, Nick Spencer and Ian Goldin.
Faith and Doubt
Amol Rajan with Naomi Alderman, Richard Holloway, Laurie Stras and Malcolm Guite.
Love and Loss
Andrew Marr with Sue Black, Kit de Waal, Mark-Anthony Turnage and Jack Hartnell.
In Praise of Passion
Andrew Marr with Bettany Hughes, John Lewis-Stempel, Rachel Hewitt and Stephen Walsh.
Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead
Kirsty Wark with Lionel Shriver, Linda Yueh, Bev Skeggs and Sean O'Brien.
Art and Civilisations
Andrew Marr with Mary Beard, Simon Schama, David Olusoga and Tacita Dean.
Who Am I? The Brain and Personality
Tom Sutcliffe with Jules Montague, Anthony David, Nick Chater and Stephen Beresford.
Fascism and the Enlightenment with Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker, Rob Riemen and Tali Sharot discuss fascism and humanism with Andrew Marr.
Rise and Fall of the City
Amol Rajan with Richard Sennett, David Farr, Roma Agrawal and Edward Burman.
Money Makes the World Go Around
Andrew Marr with Diane Coyle, Dharshini David, Anna Ledwich and Jon Kalman Stefansson.
Mohsin Hamid on leaving home
Mohsin Hamid, Carol Bohmer, Robert Hastie and Bruno Macaes with Kirsty Wark.
The Power of Art
Andrew Marr with Andrew Graham-Dixon, Leanda de Lisle, Kelly Chorpening and Don Thompson.
Peter Carey on legacies of the past
Tom Sutcliffe with author Peter Carey, broadcaster Afua Hirsch and journalist Geert Mak.
Votes for Women
Andrew Marr with Jane Robinson, Christopher Finlay, Peter Kennard and Fiona Sampson.
Who governs Britain?
Andrew Marr with Lord Neuberger, Barbara Hosking, Robert Harris and Tim Bale.
The power and beauty of objects.
Jessie Burton, Jonathan Haskel, Marion Rankine and Andrew Nahum with Tom Sutcliffe.
Russia, religion and the Middle East
Masha Gessen, Dominic Rubin, Liwaa Yazji and Roy Allison with Andrew Marr.
Finland at 100
Amol Rajan with Sakari Oramo, Sointu Fritze, Horatio Clare and Martin Sandbu.
Blood, guts and swearing robots
Andrew Marr with Lindsey Fitzharris, Lesley Colvin, Beth Singler and Emma Byrne.
Anger and deprivation
Francine Stock with Nico Muhly, Ivo van Hove, Darren McGarvey and Caroline Relton.
Heart of Darkness: Conrad and Orwell
Andrew Marr with Maya Jasanoff, Robert Colls, Ishion Hutchinson and Gideon Rachman.
Animals: tamed, exploited and resurrected
Alice Roberts, Britt Wray and Gaia Vince discuss our relationship with the animal kingdom.
Living with the Gods
Andrew Marr with Neil MacGregor, Jennifer Sliwka, Dan Jones and Caspar Henderson.
The End of War?
Peace and War: Oona Hathaway, Mona Juul, Elisabeth Kendall and Philip Collins.
Russian Revolution a hundred years on
The Russian Revolution with Mikhail Zygar, Arkady Ostrovsky and Zelfira Tregulova.
Power, the People and the Party
Power and the people with David Cannadine, Hilary Spurling, Jane Green and Phillip Blond.
Hard work and sweet slumber
Francine Stock with Matthew Walker, Sasha Handley, Matthew Taylor and Susan Foister.
Orhan Pamuk on competing myths
Andrew Marr with Orhan Pamuk, Jon Sopel, Shobana Jeyasingh and Roxana Silbert.
Les Misérables: novel of the century?
Andrew Marr with David Bellos, Dinah Birch, Simon Callow and Barbara Hannigan.
From Darwin to Big Data with Richard Dawkins
Andrew Marr with Richard Dawkins, Deborah Kelemen, Cathy O'Neil and Alex Bellos.
Power: Fleet Street and Whitehall
Tom Sutcliffe with Chris Patten, Tessa Blackstone, James Graham and Kerry-Anne Mendoza.
Health Inequality: TB, Trauma and Technology
Andrew Marr with Lynne Jones, Michael Marmot, Kathryn Lougheed and John Powell.
Crossing the Boundaries of Gender, Race and Class
Kirsty Wark with Thomas Page McBee, Gary Owen, Kayo Chingonyi and Penny Woolcock.
Inventing the Self: Fact and Fiction
Andrew Marr with Robert Lepage, Rebecca Stott, Miranda Doyle and Andrew O'Hagan.
Live from the Hay Festival
Tom Sutcliffe with Colm Toibin, Sebastian Barry, Meg Rosoff and Jan Kizilhan.
India's Rise?
Andrew Marr with Shashi Tharoor, Preti Taneja, Kate Sullivan de Estrada and Adam Roberts.
Post-Truth and Revolution
Amol Rajan with Matthew D'Ancona, Claire Wardle, China Mieville and Lijia Zhang.
Kate Tempest: Everyday Epic
Andrew Marr with Kate Tempest, Tracy Chevalier, Hanif Kureishi and Lewis Hyde.
Wendell Berry: The Natural World
Andrew Marr with Wendell Berry, Paul Kingsnorth and Kate Raworth.
Eliza Carthy and Nicholas Hytner: Art for All
Kirsty Wark with Nicholas Hytner, Eliza Carthy, Jennifer Harris and Jules Evans.
The Age of Spectacle?
Andrew Marr with Tom Dyckhoff, Takeshi Hayatsu, Anissa Helou and Charles Spence.
Christianity: Luther's Legacy
Andrew Marr with Sarah Dunant, Peter Stanford, Alec Ryrie and Linda Woodhead.
Dissecting Death
Tom Sutcliffe with Raymond Tallis, Laura Tunbridge, Mark O'Connell and Carla Valentine.
Sayeeda Warsi: Muslims in Britain
Amol Rajan with Sayeeda Warsi, Paul Collier and Roger Scruton.
The Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead
Tom Sutcliffe with Russell Foster, Denise Mina, Stephen Westaby and Eugenia Cheng.
Britain Divided: 1642-2016
Andrew Marr with David Goodhart, Oliver Letwin, Erica Benner and Richard Bean.
Paul Auster and the American Dream
Andrew Marr with Paul Auster, Catherine Daunt and Simon McBurney.
'Build That Wall': Barriers and Crossings
Kirsty Wark with Ed Vulliamy, Dorit Rabinyan, Garrett Carr and Tom Holland.
Sidney Nolan: Life and Work
Andrew Marr with Elaine Feinstein, Rebecca Daniels, Trevor Nunn and Ryan Wigglesworth.
Play and Creativity
Tom Sutcliffe discusses play with Steven Johnson, Stella Duffy, Tim Harford and Ed Smith.
Paul Abbott: finding comedy in the tragic
Andrew Marr with Paul Abbott, Edouard Louis, Gwen Adshead and Paul Farley.
Turkey: Past and Present
Amol Rajan discusses Turkey with Elif Shafak, Kaya Genç, Fadi Hakura and Bettany Hughes.
Sara Khan: The Battle within Islam
Tom Sutcliffe with Graeme Wood, Ziauddin Sardar, Sara Khan and Loretta Napoleoni.
Chibundu Onuzo and Martin Sixsmith on corruption and family drama
Andrew Marr with Martin Sixsmith, Chibundu Onuzo, Laurence Cockcroft and Oladipo Agboluaje
Maps, Music and Medieval Manuscripts
Andrew Marr with Christopher de Hamel, Lucie Skeaping and Edward Brooke-Hitching.
Scientific Discoveries: from the mind to the cosmos
Andrew Marr with Brian Cox, Saiful Islam, Andrea Wulf and Michael Lewis.
The Bolshoi and Culture Wars
Tom Sutcliffe with Simon Morrison, Ismene Brown, Edith Devaney and Nigel Cliff.
Popular Protest and Patriotism
Kirsty Wark with John Rees, Josie Rourke, Rachel Reeves and James Frayne.
AIDS Activism and Surviving a Plague
Tom Sutcliffe with Peter Staley, Anne Johnson, Peter Horby and Louise Welsh.
Rewriting the Past: from Empire to ivory
Andrew Marr with Ian Cobain, Edna Adan Ismail, Valerie Amos and Keith Somerville.
Island Mentality
Amol Rajan talks to Nicholas Crane, Madeleine Bunting, David Olusoga and Imtiaz Dharker.
Virtue and Vice
Andrew Marr with William Kentridge, Lucy Bailey, Susie Orbach and Simon Goldhill.
Alan Bennett
Andrew Marr talks to the writer Alan Bennett.
Microbes, Genes and Human Endeavour
Andrew Marr with Ed Yong, Adam Rutherford, Jonathan Maitland and Felicity Aston.
Soldiering on: the British Army, Lenin and Putin
Tom Sutcliffe with Richard Dannatt, Ben Macintyre, Catherine Merridale and John Lough.
Radical Liverpool
Andrew Marr with Phil Redmond, Gary Younge, John Belchem and Kajsa Norman in Liverpool.
Political Drama: Robert Harris and Margaret Hodge
Andrew Marr with Robert Harris, Margaret Hodge, John Armitt and Philip Webster.
Love, Loss and Scandal
Andrew Marr talks to Carrie Cracknell, Michel Faber, Peter Parker and John Preston.
Food: From Bread Riots to Obesity
Andrew Marr with Bee Wilson, William Sitwell and Jane Harrigan.
A Theory of Everything?
Tom Sutcliffe with Marcus du Sautoy, Roger Penrose, Suzie Sheehy and Joanna Kavenna.
New Artistic Director of the ENO, Daniel Kramer
Andrew Marr with Daniel Kramer, Roger Scruton, Franny Moyle and Julia Peyton-Jones.
Genes: Our medical inheritance
Andrew Marr with Siddhartha Mukherjee, Giles Yeo, Aarathi Prasad and Emily Mayhew.
Hay Festival: Spooks, war and genocide
Tom Sutcliffe with Michael Hayden, Philippe Sands, Janine di Giovanni and Harry Parker.
Lost and Found: Ancient Egypt to Modern Art
Simon Armitage, Cornelia Parker, Cyprian Broodbank and Aurelia Masson-Berghoff.
World on the Move
Andrew Marr talks to Frank Dikotter, Sir Hew Strachan, Patience Agbabi and Tahmima Anam.
Technology in Education
Andrew Marr on education with Sugata Mitra, Neil Selwyn, Tony Little and Lynsey Hanley.
Cross-dressing and masculinity with Grayson Perry
Grayson Perry, Emma Rice, Alice Coote and Kelley Swain with Mary Ann Sieghart.
Anish Kapoor on Light and Dark
Anish Kapoor, Lucie Green, Ann Wroe and Martin Ward are with Andrew Marr.
Reporting War and Conflict
Tom Sutcliffe with Patrick Cockburn, Ece Temelkuran, Seymour Hersh and Charlie Beckett.
Loneliness and Inner Voices
Andrew Marr with Charles Fernyhough, Olivia Laing, Alistair McDowall and Frances Wilson.
Greece and the Eurozone with Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis Varoufakis, Paul Cartledge, Karen Van Dyck, Erik Berglof and Gerard Lyons.
Existentialism and Ways of Seeing
Kirsty Wark with Sarah Bakewell, Sunil Khilnani, Frances Borzello and Stuart Franklin.
Is Faster Better?
Andrew Marr with Robert Colvile, Carl Honore, Sarah Dunant and Steve Jones.
The Easter Rising: 100 Years On
Tom Sutcliffe with Ruth Dudley Edwards, Heather Jones, David Rieff and Fintan O'Toole.
Scotland
Kirsty Wark with Tom Devine, Chris Whatley, Kathleen Jamie and Angus Farquhar.
Nature or Nurture?
Mary-Ann Sieghart with Helen Pearson, Oliver James, Marcus Munafo and Joseph Bullman.
Future Economies
Andrew Marr with Alec Ross, Steve Furber, Paul Mason and Hsiao-Hung Pai.
Who Owns Culture?
Tom Sutcliffe with Tiffany Jenkins, Tendai Huchu, Ellen McAdam and Waldemar Januszczak.
Mind and Body
Andrew Marr with Jane McGonigal, Jo Marchant, AC Grayling and Simon McBurney.
Language and Reinvention
Tom Sutcliffe with Edward Dusinberre, Mariame Clement, Vahni Capildeo and Diego Marani.
Migration and Citizenship
Andrew Marr with Thom Brooks, Daniel Hannan, Frances Stonor Saunders and Ben Rawlence.
Alaa Al Aswany on Egypt
Tom Sutcliffe with Alaa Al Aswany, Wendell Steavenson, Hugh Kennedy and Tarek Osman.
Russia: Tsars to Putin
With Sebag Montefiore, Amanda Vickery, Arkady Ostrovsky and David Aaronovitch.
Shakespeare's Late Plays - recorded at the Globe's Playhouse
Simon Russell Beale, Jeanette Winterson, Dominic Dromgoole and Katherine Duncan-Jones.
Space Survival and Exploration
Andrew Marr with Kevin Fong, Martin Rees, Carole Haswell and Stephen Baxter.
Cultural Lifespans
Tom Sutcliffe meets James Crawford, Semyon Bychkov, Julia Sallabank and Peter Randall-Page
Reforming Saudi Arabia
Andrew Marr with Madawi Al-Rasheed, Deirdre McCloskey, Ian Morris and William Patey.
Augustine, Desire, Doing good
Andrew Marr with Robin Lane Fox, Larissa MacFarquhar and Adam Phillips.
Jonathan Coe on Satire
Mary Ann Sieghart with Jonathan Coe, Roger Michell, Peter Brookes and Mia Chung.
France Special
Andrew Marr with Agnes Desarthe, Karim Miske, Anne-Elisabeth Moutet and Robert Gildea.
Claudia Rankine at the Free Thinking Festival
Anne McElvoy with Claudia Rankine, Amir Darwish, Jules Holroyd and Catherine Fletcher.
Embracing Failure and Uncertainty
Tom Sutcliffe with Helga Nowotny, David Willetts, Matthew Syed and Oliver Morton.
Social Class and Cultural Capital
Andrew Marr with Siri Hustvedt, Ben Power, Peter Davies and Mike Savage.
Power and Corruption with Stephen Frears and Mary Beard
Tom Sutcliffe with Mary Beard, Stephen Frears, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Mehmet Ergen.
Kissinger
Andrew Marr with Niall Ferguson, Jane Smiley and Gabriel Gorodetsky.
Jonathan Franzen
Tom Sutcliffe with Jonathan Franzen, Gillian Tett, Tacita Dean and Helen Margetts.
Celts and Romans
Mary Ann Sieghart with Tom Holland, Barry Cunliffe, Julia Farley and Matt Ridley.
Edmund de Waal on Porcelain
Andrew Marr talks to Edmund de Waal, Tim Marlow, Annie Freud and Mark Miodownik.
Harmony and Balance
Mary Ann Sieghart with Frank Wilczek, Shobana Jeyasingh, Matt Parker and Gerald Finley.
Alan Watts and the Way of Translation
Andrew Marr with Tim Lott, Mark Vernon, Maureen Freely and Marc Rees.
Architecture and power - from Stalinist structures to model villages
Tom Sutcliffe with Doug Aitken, Owen Hatherley, Jacqueline Yallop and Graham Morrison.
The Value of Art with Grayson Perry and Hannah Rothschild
Andrew Marr with Grayson Perry, Hannah Rothschild, Xavier Bray and Patrick Mark.
Illness: Psychosomatic and Physical
Tom Sutcliffe discusses health and wellbeing with guests.
Saul Bellow and Finding a Voice
Andrew Marr with guests Zachary Leader, Speech DeBelle, Robert Icke and Linda Grant.
Hay Festival
Tom Sutcliffe with Yuval Noah Harari, Beth Shapiro, Colm Toibin and Owen Sheers.
Joseph Stiglitz and Steve Hilton on Inequality
Andrew Marr with Joseph Stiglitz, Masha Gessen and Steve Hilton.
Values from Ancient Greece to Contemporary Harlem
Mariella Frostrup talks to Hamid Dabashi, Edith Hall, Douglas Murray and Glenn Ligon.
Vikram Seth
Tom Sutcliffe with Vikram Seth, Olivia Laing, Nick Groom and Nick Davies.
Violence
Anne McElvoy with Richard Bessel, Diana Preston, Helen Benedict and June Oscar.
Life Underwater
Tom Sutcliffe with Andrew Motion, Helen Scales, Nick Lane and Luke Rendell.
David Sloan Wilson on Altruism
Tom Sutcliffe with Lydia Cacho, David Sloan Wilson, William MacAskill and Tansy Davies.
The Amazons
Tom Sutcliffe with Sarah Hall, Adrienne Mayor and John Gray.
Lewis Carroll and the Story of Alice.
Andrew Marr with Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Gillian Beer, Katherine Rundell, Damien Kempf.
Susan Pinker on the benefits of face-to-face contact
Anne McElvoy with Susan Pinker, Nicholas Lovell, Sam Riviere and Daniel Dennett.
Shame, with Jon Ronson
Tom Sutcliffe with Jennifer Jacquet, Jon Ronson, Peter Stanford and Michael Buffong.
The Mathematical Mind with Cedric Villani
Tom Sutcliffe with Cedric Villani, Vicky Neale, Zia Haider Rahman and Morgan Matthews.
From Fringe to Frontline?
Tom Sutcliffe with Robert Ford, Catherine de Vries, Srdja Popovic and John Fulljames.
Joseph Nye on Soft Power
Andrew Marr talks to Peter Pomerantsev, Anne Robbins and Joseph Nye.
Life in Suburbia
Anne McElvoy with Adam Thirlwell, Nick Hubble, Richard McGuire and Hannah Starkey.
The Rise of Islamic State
Tom Sutcliffe with Patrick Cockburn, Leena Hoffmann, Katherine Brown and Gerard Russell.
Organising the Mind
Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss creativity and the organised mind.
Surveillance and Self-censorship
Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss surveillance and self-censorship.
The Tudors
Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the Tudors.
Sense of Place
Andrew Marr and guests discuss why some places mean so much more to us than others.
Hedonism
Tom Sutcliffe discusses hedonism with Greg Doran, Julia Twigg, Zoe Cormier and Kurt Lampe.
Reinventing Inventions
Tom Sutcliffe with Danielle George, Armand Leroi, John Barrow and Misbah Arif on invention
Arabian Nights
Anne McElvoy and guests discuss literature and art in the Arabic world.
Evolution and Extinction
Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the secrets of evolution and threats of extinction.
Science Fiction
Tom Sutcliffe with William Gibson, Michel Faber, Judy Wajcman and Dominic Sandbrook.
Self-Portrayal
Tom Sutcliffe with James Hall, Betsy Wieseman, John Burnside and Richard Tognetti.
A Good Death
Andrew Marr on mortality with Atul Gawande, Diana Athill, Deborah Bowman and Carl Watkins.
The Language of Money
Anne McElvoy talks to John Lanchester, Martin Wolf, Naomi Alderman and John Kampfner.
Revolution
Tom Sutcliffe with Russell Brand, Susan Neiman, Juliet Barker and David Babbs.
Napoleon
Tom Sutcliffe with Andrew Roberts, Jenny Uglow, Sudhir Hazareesingh and Gavin Plumley.
Crime Stories and Ghost Stories
Anne McElvoy with Val McDermid, Susan Hill, Alex Werner and David Clarke.
Naomi Klein on climate change and growth
Anne McElvoy with Naomi Klein, Tahmima Anam, Jeremy Oppenheim and Dieter Helm.
Karen Armstrong on War and Religion
Tom Sutcliffe with Karen Armstrong, Justin Marozzi and Christopher Coker.
Hilary Mantel
Tom Sutcliffe with Hilary Mantel, Neil MacGregor, Jeremy Deller and Kei Miller.
Tom Sutcliffe discusses family secrets and Scottish royalty
Tom Sutcliffe with Michael Holroyd, Rona Munro, Herman Koch and Hugo Blick.
The Science of the Mind
Andrew Marr with Mark Williams, Heidi Johansen-Berg, Charles Fernyhough and Ben Shephard.
Joyce DiDonato and Julie Bindel on Women Behaving Badly
Tom Sutcliffe talks with Julie Bindel, Helen Castor, Joyce DiDonato and Erica Whyman.
Pain and Prejudice
Tom Sutcliffe talks pain and suffering with Joanna Bourke, Norman Fowler and Jeremy Farrar
What Is the State For?
Tom Sutcliffe with Adrian Wooldridge, Tristram Hunt, Anjan Sundaram and Charu Lata Hogg.
Rod Liddle on the selfish generation
Tom Sutcliffe with Rod Liddle, Neil Jameson, Xiaolu Guo and Ramin Gray.
Charleston Festival
Tom Sutcliffe with Tim Winton, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Nicola Barker and Michael Schmidt.
Alien Invaders
Anne McElvoy and Ken Thompson, Monique Simmonds, Victoria Herridge and John Lewis-Stempel.
The Myth of the Strong Leader?
Tom Sutcliffe with Richard Hytner, Heather Rabbatts, Jonathan Powell and Archie Brown.
Simon Armitage on Greek Tragedy
Anne McElvoy with Simon Armitage, Frank McGuinness, Natalie Haynes and Kenan Malik.
The Future of Capitalism
Anne McElvoy with Jeremy Rifkin, Saskia Sassen and Kwasi Kwarteng.
James Lovelock
Anne McElvoy looks to the future with James Lovelock, Joanna Haigh and George Monbiot.
Lucy Worsley on the Georgians
Tom Sutcliffe with Lucy Worsley, Paula Byrne, Chris Bryant and Rupert Goold.
Police drama with playwright Roy Williams
Tom Sutcliffe with Roy Williams, Sam Bain, Christian Plowman and Jennifer Brown.
AL Kennedy and David Sedaris on matters of the heart
Tom Sutcliffe with AL Kennedy, Lavinia Greenlaw, David Sedaris and Simon Blackburn.
Faisal I of Iraq and the making of the modern Middle East
Anne McElvoy with Richard Evans, Malu Halasa, Scott Anderson and Ali Allawi.
Decision-making with Daniel Kahneman and Michael Ignatieff
Tom Sutcliffe with Daniel Kahneman, Michael Ignatieff, Henry Marsh and Lisa Appignanesi.
Andrew Hussey on the legacy of France's Arab Empire
Tom Sutcliffe with Gabrielle Rifkind, Andrew Hussey and Ziauddin Sardar.
The Vikings and Seafaring
Tom Sutcliffe with Michael Wood, Rose George, David Barrie and Yrsa Sigurdardottir.
Adair Turner on the Politics of Finance
Tom Sutcliffe with Adair Turner, Charles Calomiris, Harris Irfan and Maggie Gee.
Vanessa Feltz and Susie Orbach on Confession
Andrew Marr with John Cornwell, Vanessa Feltz, Susie Orbach and Turney Duff.
Irving Finkel on the Ark Tablet
Tom Sutcliffe with Harry Collins, Irving Finkel, Hattie Naylor and Colin Blakemore.
Spying and Surveillance: The Snowden Files
Anne McElvoy with Luke Harding, Sir David Omand, Annette Dittert and Alain de Botton.
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Trevor Cox, Waldemar Januszczak and Victoria Williamson.
Neuroscience and Free Will
Tom Sutcliffe with Helen Dunmore, Dick Swaab, Natalie Abrahami and Julian Baggini.
Unity and Disunity
Anne McElvoy talks to Linda Colley, David Pilling, Maria Delgado and David Charter.
Michael Gove on teaching history
Andrew Marr discusses the teaching of history with the Education Minister Michael Gove.
Clive James
Andrew Marr talks to writer and former television presenter Clive James.
Josie Rourke on strategy and Coriolanus
Tom Sutcliffe with Josie Rourke, Dominic Lawson, David Runciman and Lawrence Freedman.
The Building Blocks of Life and Intelligence
Anne McElvoy talks to Alison Woollard, Kathryn Asbury, Roger Kneebone and Sir Mark Elder.
Landscape and Community
Bridget Kendall meets Patrick Keiller, Robin Robertson, Victoria Henshaw and Giles Fraser.
Bianca Jagger on human rights
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Bianca Jagger, Fatima Bhutto, Stephen Hopgood and Howard Brenton.
Gandhi's Early Years
Bridget Kendall with Ramachandra Guha, David Reynolds, Bronwen Maddox and Phelim McDermott
Andrew Marr on poet George Herbert
Andrew Marr with John Drury, John Tavener and Jeanette Winterson.
Fiona Shaw; Simon McBurney; Journeys Into the Unknown
Stephanie Flanders talks to Jeremy Webb, Carolin Crawford, Fiona Shaw and Simon McBurney.
The Kremlin: A fortress that has shaped a nation
Anne McElvoy with Catherine Merridale, Simon Thurley, Michael Chaplin and Amit Chaudhuri.
Paul Collier on Immigration Controls
Stephanie Flanders talks to Paul Collier, Kwasi Kwarteng, Nick Young and Lindsey Hilsum.
Grayson Perry on contemporary art
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Grayson Perry, Penelope Curtis, Philip Davis and Nicholas Lovell.
Victorian Revivalism
Anne McElvoy talks to Simon Heffer, Sonia Solicari, DJ Taylor and Prof Anthony King.
Greek myth and the Indian epic Ramayana
Stephanie Flanders with Anne Carson, Daljit Nagra, Richard Eyre and Graham Robb.
Jamal Edwards on 'digital natives'
Stephanie Flanders talks to Beeban Kidron, Jamal Edwards, Farida Vis and Adrian Hon.
Margaret Atwood's Dystopian Future
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Margaret Atwood, Vicky Featherstone and AC Grayling.
Population: Ten Billion
Sue MacGregor talks to Stephen Emmott, Danny Dorling, Jill Rutter and Amartya Sen.
Zadie Smith on social mobility
Stephanie Flanders with Zadie Smith, David Kynaston, David Willetts MP and Owen Jones.
Hari Kunzru and Dystopia
Jonathan Freedland with Hari Kunzru, Jane Rogers, James Robertson and Adam Broomberg.
Putin's Russia
Anne McElvoy discusses Russia with Fiona Hill, Vladislav Zubok and Oliver Bullough.
Fairy Tale Physics?
Allan Little with Jon Butterworth, Jim Baggott, Hilary Rose and Stephen Minger.
Eric Schmidt on the New Digital Age
Emily Maitlis speaks to Eric Schmidt, Honor Harger, David Spiegelhalter and James Ball.
Antonia Fraser: Democracy and Reform
Anne McElvoy talks to Antonia Fraser, David Graeber and Jesse Norman.
Music and the mind: Carrie Cracknell
Jonathan Freedland with Carrie Cracknell, Jonathan Biss, Tom Burns and Richard Bentall.
Michael Rosen at the Brighton Festival
Stephanie Flanders with Michael Rosen, Jay Griffiths, Mariele Neudecker and Matt Adams.
Gavin Turk on the Value of Art
Lisa Jardine with Gavin Turk, Tanya Ronder, Rick Gekoski and Paul Roberts.
Bernardo Bertolucci
Tom Sutcliffe with Bernardo Bertolucci, Antonio Pappano, Annalisa Piras and Tim Parks.
The Origin and Future of Life
Jonathan Freedland talks to Adam Rutherford, Barbara Sahakian and Steve Jones.
'Home' and cultural identity with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, David Goodhart, Indhu Rubasingham and Michael Symmons Roberts.
Tom Sutcliffe talks to John Gray and Mary Beard
Tom Sutcliffe with James Lasdun, Mary Beard, Mark Ravenhill and John Gray.
Mohsin Hamid talks about How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Allan Little talks to Mohsin Hamid, Bruce Norris, Katherine Boo and Peter Moffat.
Lisa Jardine talks to David Cannadine and Aleksandar Hemon
Lisa Jardine with David Cannadine, Margaret MacMillan, Aleksandar Hemon and Ed Vulliamy.
Ken Loach on post-war Britain
Jonathan Freedland talks to Ken Loach, James Graham, David Boyle and Harriet Sergeant.
Feminism: Natasha Walter and Catherine Hakim
Anne McElvoy discusses feminism with Natasha Walter, Catherine Hakim and Shereen El Feki.
The Commonwealth - Don McKinnon and Kwasi Kwarteng
Bridget Kendall talks to Don McKinnon, Kwasi Kwarteng, Frances Harrison and Ronald Sanders
Mathematical modelling with Lisa Jardine
Lisa Jardine with James Weatherall, Kenneth Cukier, Tiffany Jenkins and Marcus du Sautoy.
Al-Qaeda: Afghanistan to Mali
Bridget Kendall discusses the spread of Al-Qaeda-style terrorism with guests.
Political Writing: Joan Bakewell and Tim Montgomerie
Allan Little talks to Joan Bakewell, Chris Mullin, Tim Montgomerie and Phil Collins.
History of Music - John Adams and Howard Goodall
Tom Sutcliffe talks to John Adams, Howard Goodall, Barb Jungr and Stephen Poliakoff.
Natural Capital: Tony Juniper
Anne McElvoy talks to Tony Juniper, William Fiennes, Ngaire Woods and John Penrose.
Family Secrets: Sarah Dunant and Deborah Cohen
Andrew Marr talks to Deborah Cohen, Sarah Dunant, Stephen Grosz and Alex Graham.
The Human Voice: Rolando Villazon and Mark-Anthony Turnage
Andrew Marr with Rolando Villazon, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Mary King and Michael Trimble.
Science Special
Andrew Marr talks to Dr Peter Wothers about modern day alchemy.
Scotland - Ian Rankin and Alasdair Gray
Andrew Marr on Scottishness with Ian Rankin, Alasdair Gray, Joyce McMillan and TM Devine.
Nuclear Iran - Shirley Williams and Geoffrey Robertson
With guests Shirley Williams, Geoffrey Robertson, Douglas Murray and David Patrikarakos.
Germany and the EU
Andrew Marr talks with Katinka Barysch, Gisela Stuart, Douglas Carswell and Karen Leeder.
Art and Design with Antony Gormley and Ron Arad
Andrew Marr on art with Antony Gormley, Christopher Frayling, Sarah Teasley and Ron Arad.
Award-winning film director Kevin Macdonald
Andrew Marr talks to Kevin Macdonald, Roger Graef, Jenny Uglow and Aman Sethi.
Political Divide: Mary Robinson and Michael Ignatieff
Andrew Marr with Mary Robinson, Michael Ignatieff and Amos Oz.
Torture, terrorism and secrets
Andrew Marr with guests Ian Cobain, David Anderson, Clare Bayley and MR Hall.
Modernism with Ali Smith and Kevin Jackson
Andrew Marr talks to Kevin Jackson, Ali Smith, Will Gompertz and Julian Anderson.
Richard Ford on the US Elections
Andrew Marr talks to Richard Ford, Lionel Shriver, Edward Luce and Thomas Grant.
Diana Athill and Philip Hensher on the dying art of handwriting
Andrew Marr talks to Diana Athill, Wendy Cope, Philip Hensher and Nigel Warburton.
Anne Applebaum on Eastern Europe
Andrew Marr talks to Anne Applebaum, Mark Mazower, Helen Szamuely and Victor Sebestyen.
Grimm Tales with Philip Pullman
Andrew Marr with Philip Pullman, Sara Maitland, Tim Supple and Keith Warner.
Salman Rushdie
Andrew Marr talks to the writer Salman Rushdie.
National Identity with Maajid Nawaz and Sir Christopher Meyer.
Andrew Marr with Maajid Nawaz, Robert Chesshyre, Elizabeth Truss and Christopher Meyer.
The 'life unlived' with Adam Phillips and Helen Dunmore
Andrew Marr with Adam Phillips, Julian Baggini, Helen Dunmore and Frances Ashcroft.
Science and Politics: Professor David Nutt and David Blunkett
Andrew Marr with David Nutt, Mark Henderson, Jill Rutter and David Blunkett.
WWII with Antony Beevor and Max Hastings
Andrew Marr with Antony Beevor, Max Hastings, Niall Ferguson and Juliet Gardiner.
Grayson Perry at the Charleston Festival
Andrew Marr with Grayson Perry, Virginia Nicholson, Faramerz Dabhoiwala & Janice Galloway.
Thomas Heatherwick on design and architecture
Andrew Marr and Thomas Heatherwick, Jonathan Meades, Anna Minton and Robert Macfarlane.
Michael Sandel on Money and Morality
Andrew Marr and guests Michael Sandel, Diane Coyle and Grigory Yavlinsky.
Spain in Crisis
Andrew Marr with Paul Preston, Maria Delgado, Daniel Hannan and Iain Begg.
The Digital Future
Andrew Marr with Nick Harkaway, Anab Jain, Charles Arthur and Simon Ings.
Creativity: Jonah Lehrer
Andrew Marr on creativity with Jonah Lehrer, Scanner, Rachel O'Reilly and Joanna Kavenna.
Iain Banks and David Hare
Andrew Marr with David Hare, Iain Banks, George Benjamin and Rachel Seiffert.
China
Andrew Marr talks about China with Jonathan Fenby, Martin Jacques, Ou Ning, Julia Lovell.
Peter Carey on Start the Week
Andrew Marr talks to Peter Carey, Rebecca Stott and Philip Ball.
The 'death of socialism'?
Andrew Marr with Alwyn Turner, Janet Daley, Tristram Hunt and Martin Rowson.
Werner Herzog on Start the Week
Anne McElvoy talks to Werner Herzog, Geoff Dyer, Liz Mermin and Paul Farley.
Nobel Prize winning author, Nadine Gordimer
Andrew Marr talks to Nadine Gordimer, Jack Mapanje and Richard Dowden.
Writers on Families: Colm Tóibín and AS Byatt
Andrew Marr with Colm Toibin, AS Byatt, Will Eaves and Mark Pagel.
Middle Age: David Bainbridge, Deborah Moggach, Simon Armitage and Claudia Hammond
Andrew Marr with David Bainbridge, Deborah Moggach, Simon Armitage and Claudia Hammond.
Faith and Doubt: Richard Holloway, Karen Armstrong, Jonathan Safran Foer and Helen Edmundson
Andrew Marr and Jonathan Safran Foer, Richard Holloway and Karen Armstrong.
Ian Stewart, Peter Randall-Page, Mark Miodownik, Jane Rapley
Tom Sutcliffe with Mark Miodownik, Ian Stewart, Jane Rapley and Peter Randall-Page.
Elizabethans: Max Hastings, Mary Beard, John Guy and Lola Young
Andrew Marr and Max Hastings, Mary Beard, John Guy and Lola Young.
Conservatism: Peter Hitchens, Margot James, Douglas Murray and Thomas Frank
Andrew Marr and Peter Hitchens, Margot James, Douglas Murray and Thomas Frank.
Revolution: Wael Ghonim, Paul Mason and Mary King
Andrew Marr discusses revolution with Wael Ghonim, Paul Mason and Mary King.
Justice: with Simon Stephens, John Podmore, Shami Chakrabarti and Mike Hough
Andrew Marr with John Podmore, Simon Stephens, Mike Hough and Shami Chakrabarti.
Financial Crisis: Philip Coggan, Angela Knight, Maurice Glasman and Detlev Schlichter
Andrew Marr with Detlev Schlichter, Angela Knight, Maurice Glasman and Philip Coggan.
Austerity: Antony Gormley, David Kynaston and Anna Coote
Andrew Marr is joined by Antony Gormley, David Kynaston, Anna Coote and Fintan O'Toole.
David Hockney Special
Andrew Marr visits the artist David Hockney at his studio in Bridlington.
The Spirit of Christmas: Claire Tomalin, Susan Hill and Canon Giles Fraser
Andrew Marr on the idea of Christmas with Claire Tomalin, Giles Fraser and Susan Hill.
12/12/2011
Andrew Marr with Mihir Bose, Julian Savulescu, Brian Moore and Janie Hampton.
Philosophy: Bernard-Henri Levy, Mary Warnock and Roger Scruton
Andrew Marr with Bernard-Henri Levy, Baroness Mary Warnock and Roger Scruton.
Political leadership: George Ayittey, Simon Heffer, Martin Wolf and Maha Azzam
Andrew Marr with George Ayittey, Maha Azzam, Martin Wolf and Simon Heffer.
The Arts and politics: Rory Bremner, Peter Kosminsky and Iwona Blazwick
Andrew Marr with Rory Bremner, Peter Kosminsky, Iwona Blazwick and Sarah Gillespie.
Writing History with Peter Englund, Norman Davies, Boris Johnson and Alison Weir.
Andrew Marr with Peter Englund, Norman Davies, Boris Johnson, and Alison Weir.
Australian culture with Thomas Keneally, Kate Grenville and Deborah Cheetham
Andrew Marr with Thomas Keneally, Kate Grenville and Deborah Cheetham.
31/10/2011
Andrew Marr and Danny Sriskandarajah, Andrew Charlton, Geoff Hutchison and Norman Moore.
24/10/2011
Andrew Marr and Jarvis Cocker, Jez Butterworth, Melanie Challenger and Matthew White.
God and science with the Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Richard Dawkins and Lisa Randall
Andrew Marr with Richard Dawkins, Lisa Randall and the Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.
Empire with Jeremy Paxman and Richard Gott
Andrew Marr with Jeremy Paxman, Richard Gott, Marieme Jamme and Shuyun Sun.
Afghanistan and the British Secret Service with Rory Stewart, Frank Ledwidge and Gordon Corera
Andrew Marr with Rory Stewart, Gordon Corera, Rosemary Hollis and Frank Ledwidge.
Simon Jenkins' History of England, and the National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke
Andrew Marr with Peter Conrad, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Simon Jenkins and Gillian Clarke.
19/09/2011
Andrew Marr with Misha Glenny, Martin Kemp, Tom Uglow and Jane Pavitt.
Vasily Grossman: his life and legacy
Andrew Marr on the legacy of Vasily Grossman with Antony Beevor and Andrey Kurkov.
04/07/2011
Andrew Marr talks to China Mieville, Jo Shapcott, AN Wilson and Jonathan Bate.
27/06/2011
Andrew Marr and Raymond Tallis, Aubrey de Grey and Barbara Sahakian.
20/06/2011
Andrew Marr and Tim Harford, Andrew Adonis, Eli Pariser and Priyamvada Gopal.
13/06/2011
Andrew Marr and John Hegarty, Kate O'Regan, Iain Sinclair and Richard Sennett.
06/06/2011
Andrew Marr with Jane Shaw, Ross Perlin, Ziauddin Sardar and Jonathan Kent.
30/05/2011
Andrew Marr and Paul Theroux, Salil Shetty, Catherine Mayer and Charles Jencks.
23/05/2011
Sherard Cowper-Coles, Richard Norton-Taylor, Angie Hobbs and David Pryce-Jones.
16/05/2011
Andrew Marr and Anatol Lieven, Francis Fukuyama, Mohsin Hamid and Tahmima Anam.
09/05/2011
Andrew Marr and Denis MacShane, Ruth Lea, Kutlug Ataman and Michael Craig-Martin.
02/05/2011
Andrew Marr and Simon Baron-Cohen, Gwen Adshead, Julian Baggini and Val McDermid.
25/04/2011
Andrew Marr with Greg Doran, Neil Astley, Claire Armitstead and Nicola Shulman.
18/04/2011
Andrew Marr is joined by Sam Harris, Masha Gessen, Rev Lucy Winkett and Adam Rutherford.
11/04/2011
Tom Sutcliffe and Anne Dudley, Elif Batuman, Martin Sixsmith and David Runciman.
04/04/2011
Archbishop Vincent Nichols, David Eagleman, Lisa Appignanesi and Michael Collins.
28/03/2011
Andrew Marr and Niall Ferguson, George Magnus, Madawi Al-Rasheed and Peter Whittle.
21/03/2011
Andrew Marr with John Makepeace, Victoria Pomery, Pamela Yates and Melanie McGrath.
14/03/2011
Andrew Marr and Brian Greene, Brian Cox and Angela Saini.
07/03/2011
Andrew Marr and Tim Flannery, Phyllis Lee, Peter Harris and Richard Susskind.
28/02/2011
Andrew Marr with Helena Kennedy, Mark Malloch-Brown, David Gilmour and Daniel Kawczynski.
21/02/2011
Andrew Marr talks to Simon Wessely, John Stubbs, Athene Donald and Simon Sebag Montefiore.
14/02/2011
Andrew Marr with David Attenborough, Sheila Hancock, David Shields and Andrew Motion.
07/02/2011
Andrew Marr with Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Mike Figgis, Margaret Heffernan and Edward Higgs.
31/01/2011
Andrew Marr with guests Neville Brody, Prof Alex Danchev, Susan Hiller and EC Osondu.
24/01/2011
Andrew Marr and John Gray, Dai Smith, Paul McAuley and Kathleen Richardson.
17/01/2011
Andrew Marr with Eric Hobsbawm, Michael Sandel, Nina Raine and Azzam Alwash.
10/01/2011
Andrew Marr with Dambisa Moyo, Charles Clarke, Nigel Lawson and Stephen Kinzer.
27/12/2010
Andrew Marr celebrates 40 years of Start the Week with Richard Baker and Melvyn Bragg.
20/12/2010
Andrew Marr talks to Anthony Caro, Michael Peppiatt, Sir Mark Jones and Justine Picardie.
13/12/2010
Andrew Marr and Semyon Bychkov, Mark Miodownik, Susan Hill and Tony Jordan.
06/12/2010
Andrew Marr talks to Matthew Bourne, Jennifer Homans, David Aaronovitch and Jane Haynes.
29/11/2010
Andrew Marr and Tarek Osman, Francis Spufford, Elif Shafak and Vicky Kaspi.
22/11/2010
Andrew Marr and PJ O'Rourke, Armando Iannucci, Mary Beard and Simon McBurney.
15/11/2010
Andrew Marr talks to William Boyd, Craig Raine, Gwen Adshead and Iain McGilchrist.
08/11/2010
Andrew Marr with Ed Vulliamy, Patrick Wilcken, Gillian Tett and Lars Gustafsson.
01/11/2010
Andrew Marr with Fintan O'Toole, Deborah Cadbury, Nick Boles and Steven Isserlis.
25/10/2010
Andrew Marr talks to Alasdair Gray, David Starkey, Josie Rourke and Alan Berman.
18/10/2010
Andrew Marr with Mary Warnock, Raymond Tallis, John Gummer and Stanley Hauerwas.
11/10/2010
Andrew Marr with Bernhard Schlink, Peter Snow, Margaret MacMillan and Sebastian Faulks.
04/10/2010
Andrew Marr with Jonathan Franzen, Shelagh Stephenson and Barry Smith.
27/09/2010
Andrew Marr talks to Will Hutton, Lars Kroijer, Billy Ivory and Ronit Avni.
20/09/2010
Andrew Marr talks to Lord Hattersley, Mary Midgley, Andy McSmith and Richard Bean.