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BBC Radio 4 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced BBC Home Service.

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Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday

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Start the Week: 31/05/2010

31/05/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, 31/05/2010

Andrew Marr with Martin Rees, Shirin Neshat, Sheila Rowbotham and Matthew Crawford.

Lively discussion with Andrew Marr and President of the Royal Society Martin Rees, Iranian film maker Shirin Neshat, historian Sheila Rowbotham and philosopher Matthew Crawford.

On Start the Week this Bank Holiday Monday, Andrew Marr gets his hands dirty with the philosopher and mechanic Matthew Crawford, who argues that satisfaction comes from skilled manual labour. Iranian artist Shirin Neshat discusses her new film, Women Without Men, Sheila Rowbotham muses on the role of women in transforming ideas about work at the turn of the 20th century and the President of the Royal Society, Martin Rees, explores scientific horizons and discovers the limits of our understanding.

Producer: Olivia Skinner.

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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