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Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday

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Andrew Marr

Alec Ross

Steve Furber

Paul Mason

Hsiao-Hung Pai

Katy Hickman

Start the Week: Future Economies

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Future Economies

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Future Economies

Andrew Marr with Alec Ross, Steve Furber, Paul Mason and Hsiao-Hung Pai.

Cultural discussion programme. Andrew Marr discusses the future with Alec Ross, Steve Furber, Paul Mason and Hsiao-Hung Pai.

On Start the Week Andrew Marr looks ahead to a future dominated by automation, cyber security, the 'sharing economy' and advanced life sciences with the innovation expert Alec Ross, computer scientist Steve Furber and the journalist Paul Mason who predicts such changes heralding a post-capitalist world. But cutting-edge advances in robotics and computers will have a huge but uneven impact on working lives: while previous industrial revolutions affected blue collar workers, in the future traditionally middle class jobs will be under threat. The journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai focuses on the most marginalised sector of the white working class - the British far right.
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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