Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
Tom Sutcliffe meditates with 'the happiest man in the world', Matthieu Ricard, and talks science with ecologist Stewart Brand, journalist Felicity Lawrence and Dr Andrea Sella.
DetailsAndrew Marr discusses anti-Semitism with Anthony Julius and risk with Graciela Chichilnisky; Jonathan Safran Foer gives up meat and Alexander McCall Smith on Scots.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to Antony Beevor about the civilian toll of D-Day, David Simon, creator of the cult TV show The Wire, Susan Hill on silence and Michio Kaku on the physics of the impossible.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. Guests include Max Hastings, John Simpson, Karen Armstrong and Joost Hiltermann.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to the Irish commentator, Fintan O'Toole, the MP Nick Boles, the cellist Steven Isserlis and the writer Deborah Cadbury.
DetailsAndrew Marr's guests include Jonathan Miller on a new production of La boheme, Howard Jacobson on Britishness in literature and economist Dambisa Moyo on why aid is not working.
DetailsAndrew Marr's guests include playwright Enda Walsh, who discusses his latest play The New Electric Ballroom, and writer Linda Grant, who talks about her book The Thoughtful Dresser.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. Guests include authors Michael Frayn, Alexandra Fuller and Amit Chaudhuri.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week with director Daniel Kramer, and academic Viktor Mayer-Schonberger discusses how the digital age refuses to forget.
DetailsAndrew Marr's guests are Louis de Bernieres, who discusses his new book The Partisan's Daughter, Samantha Power, an advisor to Barack Obama, Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Ronan Bennett.
DetailsAndrew Marr with Sir Peter Hall on directing comedy, Professor Edith Hall discussing Greek tragedy, Paul Roseby on Shakespeare and teenagers and John Freeman on sex.
DetailsAndrew Marr examines the political, cultural and economic history of America with his guests Niall Ferguson, Linda Colley, Lawrence Goldman and Susan Jacoby.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. Guests include James Rubin, former US State Department spokesperson.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. Guests include Peter Carey, who talks about his new novel His Illegal Self, and Tim Harford on his book The Logic of Life.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. His guests include David Aaronovitch, Monica Ali, Christopher Caldwell and Joshua Cooper Ramo.
DetailsAndrew Marr in conversation with the 'Great Amercan Novelist' Jonathan Franzen, the playwright Shelagh Stephenson, the philosopher Barry Smith and Robert Douglas-Fairhurst.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Philip Pullman, David Baddiel and Mona Siddiqui about truth and interpretation in sacred texts, blasphemy, Jesus and jokes.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. Guests include authors Nicholson Baker, Jeffrey Sachs and Leo Hollis.
DetailsAndrew Marr is joined by Matt Ridley, Roger Scruton, Linda Colley and Peter Hennessy. The panel pits rational optimism against humane pessimism.
DetailsAndrew Marr's guests include novelist PD James, former MI5 director general Stella Rimington, former Sunday Times editor Harold Evans and composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. He is joined by former Iraqi Defence Minister Ali Allawi and actor-playwright Wallace Shawn.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to Arundhati Roy, Timothy Garton Ash, Karen Armstrong and Hermione Lee.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week with guests Chris Patten, Chinese writer Xinran, historian Andrew Roberts and biographer Richard Holmes.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to the choreographer Matthew Bourne, the dance critic Jennifer Homans, the journalist David Aaronovitch and the psychotherapist Jane Haynes.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. Guests are author Lisa Jardine, cellist Stephen Isserlis, BBC presenter Dan Cruickshank and Lord David Owen.
DetailsAndrew Marr is joined by Alastair Campbell, prize-winning novelist Yann Martel, theatre director Thea Sharrock and playwright Joy Wilkinson.
DetailsAndrew Marr discusses the Enlightenment with Tzvetan Todorov, communism with Tariq Ali, Russian art with Andrew Graham-Dixon and The Second Sex with Janine di Giovanni.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks money with former World Bank economist Joseph Stiglitz and Enron playwright Lucy Prebble, and religion with director Peter Brook and theologian Robert Beckford.
DetailsAndrew Marr explores the mystery of music with John Adams and Philip Ball, the ruin of Detroit with Julien Temple and the long history of British-Asian cinema with Sangeeta Datta.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to John Keane about the life and death of democracy, director Katie Mitchell on virgin births and opera, Peter Hall on the vitality of regional theatre and Matthew Gale on Futurism.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. Guests include John Sutherland, Steven Pinker, Claire Tomalin and Orlando Figes.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to the Swedish poet, Lars Gustafsson, the writer Patrick Wilcken, the journalist Gillian Tett and the correspondent, Ed Vulliamy.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. His guests include the academic Gilles Kepel, who will be discussing his new book Beyond Terror and Martyrdom.
DetailsAndrew Marr debates freedom of expression 20 years after the fatwa imposed on the novelist Salman Rushdie. His guests include Kenan Malik and Tariq Modood.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. Guests include novelist Amitav Ghosh on his new book Sea of Poppies, philosopher Simon Critchley and writer John Laughland.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks about the art of the curator with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Jewish history with Shlomo Sand.
DetailsAndrew Marr asks what has gone wrong in the West, with economist Dambisa Moyo, former Chancellor Lord Lawson, journalist Stephen Kinzer and former Home Secretary Charles Clarke.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. Guests include former Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell discussing his new autobiography.
DetailsLively discussion with Andrew Marr and Australia's foremost poet Les Murray, lobby journalist Colin Brown, botanist Dr Sandy Knapp and director Elen Bowman.
DetailsAndrew Marr's guests include the writer Sara Maitland, discussing her pursuit of silence, and Stefan Aust on the book and film The Baader Meinhof Complex.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. Guests include Cass Sunstein, who talks about his book Republic.com 2.0, which explores the effects of the internet on democracy.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, Barbara Ehrenreich exposes America's culture of positive thinking, and Simon Schama invesigates the Obama effect.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. Guests include Lisa Appignanesi, who discusses her book Mad, Bad and Sad, and Sudhir Venkatesh on his experiences of US gangs.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to David Akinsanya about children in care and AS Byatt about her new novel. Plus Peter Hitchens on British politics and Richard Overy on Britain's Morbid Age.
DetailsAndrew Marr, at the Cheltenham Literary Festival, is joined by the author of 'The Reader' Bernhard Schlink, Peter Snow, Margaret MacMillan and Sebastian Faulks.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. His guests include Adam Phillips, author Vikas Swarup and Tom Stoppard.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to playwright David Hare, musician Laurie Anderson, Danny Finkelstein about political apathy and Alex Bellos about rethinking maths.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. Guests include authors David Runciman, John Hutton and Elaine Feinstein.
DetailsAndrew Marr in conversation with Audrey Niffenegger on her new novel, historian Robert Service on Trotsky and the Economist's Edward Carr on polymaths.
DetailsAndrew Marr's guests include Commonwealth secretary general Don McKinnon, Prof Mary Beard on her book The Roman Triumph, and the Guardian's US correspondent Suzanne Goldenberg.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to Michael Portillo about violence, and asks John Gray if progress is a myth. Plus Amanda Craig on modern novels and Peter Ackroyd retelling The Canterbury Tales.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. His guests include Amartya Sen, Richard Sennett, Sally Muggeridge and Anders Ostergaard.
DetailsAndrew Marr is joined from the Cheltenham Literature Festival by Simon Schama, journalist Christina Lamb, correspondent Robert Fox and writer Jenny Uglow.
DetailsAndrew Marr with the conductor Semyon Bychkov, the scientist Mark Miodownik, the author Susan Hill and the television screen writer Tony Jordan.
DetailsAndrew Marr and guests set the cultural agenda for the week. Contributors include AS Byatt, Tom Paulin, Judith Weir and Simon Goldhill.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. Guests include Mike Leigh, Bernard O'Donoghue and Peggy Reynolds.
DetailsAndrew Marr is joined by journalist Gary Younge, science writer Rebecca Skloot, curator Jane Alison and journalist Jonathan Fenby.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. Guests include theatre director Katie Mitchell, former CIA officer Robert Baer and author Ophelia Field.
DetailsTom Sutcliffe explores the pitfalls of the web with Evgeny Morozov and Andrew Dalby, Amanda Goodall decries the 'manager', and art historian David Boyd Haycock on the YBAs of WWI.
DetailsAndrew Marr examines the workings of government with Lord Hurd and Michael Cockerell, Jonathan Miller discusses updating opera, and Lyndall Gordon reappraises Emily Dickinson.
DetailsAndrew Marr examines the workings of government with Lord Hurd and Michael Cockerell, Jonathan Miller discusses updating opera, and Lyndall Gordon reappraises Emily Dickinson.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to Ian McEwan about his new novel, Patricia Fara about the history of science, Paul Davies about alien lifeforms and James Crabtree about the Twitter election.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to Phillip Blond about civic society, Adam Wishart about NHS rationing, Elaine Showalter about being judged by our peers and AC Grayling about civil liberties.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to the writer William Boyd, the poet Craig Raine, the forensic psychotherapist Gwen Adshead and the writer and psychiatrist, Iain McGilchrist.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. His guests include Tim Kirby and astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
DetailsAndrew Marr's guest is director Mike Figgis, whose films includes Internal Affairs and Leaving Las Vegas. Mike talks about how digital technology is affecting film making.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. His guests include Marcel Theroux, who discusses his travels in Japan in a quest to understand the philosophy of wabi sabi.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. Guests include violinist Nigel Kennedy and James Cuno from the Art Institute of Chicago.
DetailsTom Sutcliffe in discussion with musician Nitin Sawhney, director Stephen Poliakoff, historian Harriet Ritvo and writer Dennis Sewell.
DetailsAndrew Marr with historian Eric Hobsbawm, American academic Michael Sandel, playwright Nina Raine and Iraqi water engineer Azzam Alwash.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. Guests include Susan Pinker, who discusses her new book The Sexual Paradox.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to historian and political advisor Norman Stone and Director of the British Museum Neil MacGregor, the journalist Ben Judah and Marina Warner.
DetailsAndrew Marr's guests include Christopher Bigsby, Adriano Shaplin and Peter Flannery.
DetailsTom Sutcliffe finds out about the art of deception with playwright John Guare and writer Ben Macintyre; AL Kennedy on the point of art, and book titles with Frances Spalding.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. Guests include Michael Burleigh on his book A Cultural History of Terrorism, actor Lucian Msamati and Stephan Collini.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to John Micklethwait on the return of God, Maggie Gee on cruelty, Richard Eyre on his new play, Robert Shiller on the animal spirits driving our financial system.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to the ethicist Mary Warnock, the American theologian Stanley Hauerwas, the humanist Raymond Tallis and the former MP and catholic convert, John Gummer.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. His guests include writer Daniel Tammet and scientist Graham Farmelo on a new biography of physicist Paul Dirac.
DetailsAndrew Marr hears from Gurinder Chadha on It's a Wonderful Afterlife, Stanley Wells on Shakespeare and sex, Pascal Bruckner on the Tyranny of Guilt and Linda Polman on aid and war.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. Guests include historian Anthony Pagden, author Susan Greenfield, director Jonathan Kent and journalist Elizabeth Pisani.
DetailsAndrew Marr discusses game theory with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Charles II with Jenny Uglow, the Russian holocaust with Orlando Figes and Kwame Kwei-Armah's play Seize the Day.
DetailsAndrew Marr and guests set the cultural agenda for the week. Guests include Oliver Sacks discussing his new book Musicophilia, philosopher AC Grayling and scientist Monica Grady.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to entrepreneur Nandan Nilekani and former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein. Plus Petina Gappah on Zimbabwe and Adam Gopnik on the parallel lives of Darwin and Lincoln.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. He is joined by James Purnell, Hanif Kureishi, David Haslam and Tristram Stuart.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to the former MP Lord Hattersley about David Lloyd George; plus writer Andy McSmith, philosopher Mary Midgely and playwright Richard Bean.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to sculptor Anthony Caro, art critic Michael Peppiatt, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum Sir Mark Jones and writer Justine Picardie.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. Guests include David King, until recently the government's Chief Scientific Adviser.
DetailsAndrew Marr's guests include the philosophers Daniel Dennett and Raymond Tallis. Biographer Carole Seymour Jones discusses her new book A Dangerous Liaison.
DetailsAndrew Marr is joined by actor Tom Hollander, ceramicist Edmund de Waal, academic Ruth Harris and playwright Mike Poulton.
DetailsAndrew Marr and guests discuss the state of political satire, the idea of Welsh identity, the foundation of the UN and the philosophy of wine.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks about war and the Chilcot Inquiry with Caroline Alexander and Andy Beckett, to Robert Winston about the downside of science, and Raymond Tallis about pointing.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to journalist John Simpson about reporting the 20th century, director Rob Lemkin discusses filming the Khmer Rouge, and John R Bowen asks, 'can Islam be French?'.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to Helen Mirren about playing Phedre, Martin Jacques about the rise of China, John Armstrong about civilisation and Anna Minton about the 21st century city.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to the satirists PJ O'Rourke and Armando Iannucci, the director Simon McBurney and the classicist Mary Beard.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. His guests include Amos Oz, Miri Rubin, Alistair Crooke and Penny Woolcock.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. His guests include American economist Richard Thaler, who discusses his book Nudge.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. Guests include Will Alsop, Kenan Malik, Ian Kershaw and Eva Figes.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks about identity with Tariq Ramadan and Sir Mark Walport, the history of the Crusades with Jonathan Phillips, and finding the next Damien Hirst with Kate Bush.
DetailsAndrew Marr and the philosopher John Gray, the science fiction writer Paul McAuley, the robot anthropologist Kathleen Richardson and the Welsh historian Dai Smith.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. Guests include Andrew Graham-Dixon discussing Michelangelo and John Barrow on cosmic imagery.
DetailsAndrew Marr is joined by psychologist Dorothy Rowe, the neuroscientist David Eagleman, Ian Buruma and Simon Baker.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. His guests include Malcolm Gladwell on his new book Outliers, and neurobiologist Semir Zeki on love and the brain.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to Montaigne biographer Sarah Bakewell, essayist Will Self, geneticist Steve Jones and music director Charles Hazlewood.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. Guests include economist Joseph Stiglitz and Jacob Weisberg, biographer of George W Bush.
DetailsAndrew Marr's guests include Harvard politics professor Michael Sandel, novelist Giles Foden, developmental psychologist Bruce Hood and the astronomer Carolin Crawford.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to the Scottish writer and artist Alasdair Gray, the historian David Starkey, the director Josie Rourke and the architect Alan Berman.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. His guests include actor Pete Postlethwaite, who discusses playing Lear, and Jonah Goldberg on his new book Liberal Fascism.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to actress Fiona Shaw, poet Simon Armitage, judge Lord Bingham and music journalist Paul Morley.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. Guests include Robert Kagan, foreign policy adviser to John McCain, novelist Andrew O'Hagan and historical writer Helen Rappaport.
DetailsAndrew Marr in conversation with former British Ambassador to the United States, Sir Christopher Meyer, religious historian Diarmaid MacCulloch and writer Sara Wheeler.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. Guests include art critic Matthew Collings and tenor Ian Bostridge.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to Gillian Tett about bankers and to Tristram Hunt about Engels. Plus Stephen Frears on his new film and Sandra Schulberg on the lost films of the Marshall Plan.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to the economist Will Hutton, the hedge fund manager Lars Kroijer, Billy Ivory who wrote the screenplay of Made In Dagenham, and the film-maker Ronit Avni.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. His guests include the historian Richard Evans, philosopher Raymond Geuss and critic AA Gill.
DetailsAndrew Marr celebrates 40 years of Start the Week with Richard Baker and Melvyn Bragg.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. Guests include author Martin Amis, human rights activist Asma Jahangir and historian Quentin Skinner.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. Guests include international lawyer Philippe Sands, who discusses the use of torture.
DetailsAndrew Marr is joined by film maker John Akomfrah, writer Robert McCrum, art critic and philosopher Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, and professor of composition Emily Doolittle.
DetailsIn a special edition, Andrew Marr talks to four leading scientists about the issues that dominated 2009, and those that will be vitally important in 2010.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to Lionel Shriver about marriage and money, Jonathan Balcombe about the inner lives of animals, Victoria Clark about Yemen and Heather Brooke about MPs' expenses.
DetailsAndrew Marr's guests include Edward Gardner, English National Opera's musical director, philosopher Susan Neiman, Stephen Green of HSBC and novelist Justin Cartwright.
DetailsAndrew Marr and guests including Michael Billington, Carola Hicks, James Stourton and Jonathan Carr set the cultural agenda for the week.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to the Egyptian journalist Tarek Osman, the cosmologist Vicky Kaspi and the writers Francis Spufford and Elif Shafak.
DetailsAndrew Marr talks to Peter Singer on fighting world poverty, Nicholas Stern on managing climate change, Alan Yentob on oratory and Susan J Smith on rescuing the housing market.
DetailsAndrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week with writer Fareed Zakaria, historian Martin Pugh and journalist Stephen Armstrong.
DetailsAndrew Marr explores how terrorist campaigns always come to an end with Audrey Kurth Cronin and Sir Hugh Orde. Also the importance of history with Eugene Rogan and Sarah Wood.
DetailsAndrew Marr's guests include Misha Glenny on organised crime, Jonathan Powell on the Good Friday Agreement, Maggie Gee on literature and Mark Ravenhill on new plays.
DetailsLively discussion with Andrew Marr and President of the Royal Society Martin Rees, Iranian film maker Shirin Neshat, historian Sheila Rowbotham and philosopher Matthew Crawford.
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