It is broadcast live on Monday mornings between 9.02 and 9.45, and repeated in a shortened, edited version at 21.30 the same evening. Its guests typically come from the worlds of politics, journalism, science and the arts.
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It’s only one ten millionth of a millimetre across, yet it has the power to create the cosmos, or to destroy the world.
In his new series Atom, starting on BBC4 on Thursday 26 July at 9.00pm, Jim Al-Khalili recounts the chequered history of the atom and the lives of those who discovered and explored it.
This is the last programme in the current series. Start The Week returns on 1 October.
Voice of the Listener and Viewer have voted Start the Week Best Radio Programme in their 2005 Awards. Start the Week also won in 1994 and is only the second programme to win the award twice.
An edition of Start The Week on the subject of The Sea with John Banville, Trevor Norton, Jacqueline McGlade and Adam Nicolson.
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