Original version

BBC Radio 4 LW

Start the Week

Discussion & Talk

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday

BBC Radio 4 FM

Tom Sutcliffe

Michael Hayden

Philippe Sands

Janine di Giovanni

Harry Parker

Katy Hickman

Start the Week: Hay Festival: Spooks, war and genocide

Start the week 300516 e rebecca stratford

30/05/2016

Hay Festival: Spooks, war and genocide

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Hay Festival: Spooks, war and genocide

Tom Sutcliffe with Michael Hayden, Philippe Sands, Janine di Giovanni and Harry Parker.

Tom Sutcliffe at Hay Festival with Michael Hayden, Philippe Sands, Janine di Giovanni and Harry Parker.

Start the Week is at Hay Literary Festival this week discussing war and intelligence. Michael Hayden is a former Air Force four-star general who became director of the US National Security Agency and then the CIA. He talks to Tom Sutcliffe about the decisions made during America's war on terror: from rendition and interrogation to widespread surveillance. Harry Parker was in his twenties when he signed up to join the British Army - he uses the paraphernalia and weaponry of war to tell the story of conflict; while the journalist Janine di Giovanni reports on ordinary people caught up in the fighting in Syria. The human rights lawyer Philippe Sands looks back at his own family's history to make sense of crimes against humanity. 
Producer: Katy Hickman.

BBC Radio 4

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

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Start the Week

Hay Festival: Spooks, war and genocide

Contributors

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC Radio 4 LW

About BBC Radio 4