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Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday

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Start the Week: 22/11/2010

22/11/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, 22/11/2010

Andrew Marr and PJ O'Rourke, Armando Iannucci, Mary Beard and Simon McBurney.

Andrew Marr talks to the satirists PJ O'Rourke and Armando Iannucci, the director Simon McBurney and the classicist Mary Beard.

Andrew Marr takes a satirical look at the world in Start the Week. The satirist PJ O'Rourke makes a plea to the American public, Not To Vote, in his latest angry critique of liberal politics, while the writer and comedian Armando Iannucci explores the latest chapter in the life of his Machiavellian spin doctor, Malcolm Tucker. Mikhail Bulgakov's absurdist tale of how a stray mongrel becomes human is brought to the stage by Simon McBurney. And the classicist Mary Beard delves beneath the volcanic ash to uncover everyday life in the Roman town of Pompeii.

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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