Start the Week

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Start The Week sets the cultural agenda for the week ahead, with high-profile guests discussing the ideas behind their work in the fields of art, literature, film, science, history, society and politics. This series is now off air and will return on Monday 6th October.
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STW: Chris Patten, Xinran, Richard Holmes and Andrew Roberts

Mon, 06/10/2008 - 09:03
Chris Patten on the problems facing us in the next century; Chinese writer Xinran on the lost history of a generation in China; Richard Holmes on science, the Romantics and the age of wonder; and the historian Andrew Roberts on how key personalities shaped the relationship between America and Britain in World War Two.