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Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday

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Start the Week: 24/05/2010

24/05/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, 24/05/2010

Andrew Marr is joined by Dorothy Rowe, David Eagleman, Ian Buruma and Simon Baker.

Andrew Marr is joined by psychologist Dorothy Rowe, the neuroscientist David Eagleman, Ian Buruma and Simon Baker.

On Start the Week on Monday the psychologist Dorothy Rowe asks why we lie. Andrew Marr confronts death with the neuroscientist David Eagleman, who has written a series of stories about the afterlife. Ian Buruma reflects on democracy and religion around the world, and viewing it all from the sidelines is Simon Baker, co-curator of an exhibition about voyeurism and photography. 

Producer: Katy Hickman.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

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