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Intriguing episode of BBCRadio4 #bbcstw with @tds153.bsky.social & guests, inc Peter Kosminsky, @stephenkb.bsky.social, Lucy Hughes-Hallett drawing important parallels between senior political ‘advisers’, past & present
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00254c6
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November 18, 2024 at 11:13 PM
rokewood.bsky.social
stomping episode of BBCRadio4 #bbcstw. @adamrutherford.bsky.social
& guests on conspiracy, certainty & the perils of satire. With @philtinline.bsky.social; @adamjkucharski.bsky.social @rosieisaholt.bsky.social. See the ancients too on the manifold risks of Pyrrhonism
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BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Untangling fact from fiction
Adam Rutherford with Phil Tinline, Rosie Holt and Adam Kucharski.
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April 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
rokewood.bsky.social
This is splendid edition of BBCRadio4 #bbcstw on the making & remaking of the ancient past. @tds153.bsky.social talks to @holland-tom.bsky.social
@moudhy.bsky.social & Gus Casely-Hayford
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BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Writing and rewriting history
Tom Sutcliffe with Tom Holland, Moudhy Al-Rashid and Gus Casely-Hayford.
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February 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
mikebernerslee.bsky.social
I’m retweeting this X post from CUP onto BlueSky.

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January 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM
rokewood.bsky.social
1st class episode of BBCRadio4 #bbcstw — examining the turbulence of the current era & identifying both the destructive & the dynamic in patterns of global change. @tds153.bsky.social talks to @johnkampfner.bsky.social, Nicolas Niarchos, @natashawalter.bsky.social.
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BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Challenges and solutions
John Kampfner, Natasha Walter and Nicolas Niarchos join Tom Sutcliffe
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April 14, 2026 at 7:08 AM
rokewood.bsky.social
A very stimulating & important episode of BBCRadio4 #bbcstw at the frontiers of the life sciences. @adamrutherford.bsky.social
with @matthewcobb.bsky.social, Alison Bashford & @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social
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BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Genes and hands: mapping character and health
Alison Bashford, Matthew Cobb and Charlotte Houldcroft with Adam Rutherford.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
rokewood.bsky.social
a splendid edition of BBCRadio4 #bbcstw. @tds153.bsky.social introduces 2 of my favourite thinkers in @tiffanyjenkins.bsky.social
& Geoff Dyer, & strengthens my connection with a third, in @lanre-bakare.bsky.social. Where the personal intersects the historical
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BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, History: private, personal and political
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Tiffany Jenkins, Geoff Dyer and Lanre Bakare.
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May 13, 2025 at 7:25 AM
rokewood.bsky.social
Defending the BBC while we still have it. Monday’s stimulating #bbcstw saw @adamrutherford.bsky.social broach some of the big ticket issues of our time with @jonathanslaght.com, Juhea Kim @drjuliashaw.bsky.social
Trumpian climate-deniers will lament its partiality
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BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Saving Tigers, Green Crime and Cli-fi
Jonathan Slaght, Juhea Kim and Julia Shaw in conversation with Adam Rutherford.
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November 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
rokewood.bsky.social
This is a fine & perceptive episode of BBCRadio4 #bbcstw, on 1 of my favourite topics: the dark. At least in part because of its love affair with the light. @adamrutherford.bsky.social talks to Jean Sprackland, Jasper Goodall & Christine Riding
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BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, The Dark
Shadows in art, photography and poetry: Adam Rutherford's guests discuss darkness.
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December 16, 2025 at 9:13 AM
rokewood.bsky.social
In final episode of this season’s BBCRadio4 #bbcstw @tds153.bsky.social
talked to @marinawarner.bsky.social
@olibasciano.bsky.social & Fergus Butler-Gallie about their respective new books on Sactuary, the history of leprosy, & key church buildings. Get all 3!
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BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Sanctuary, refuge and exile
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Marina Warner, Oliver Basciano and Fergus Butler-Gallie.
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July 3, 2025 at 7:06 AM
rokewood.bsky.social

This is an exceptionally good episode of #bbcstw from BBCRadio4 & @adamrutherford.bsky.social. Captures too my divergence from eg @rupertread.bsky.social: not only *complexity*, but (Cf Shetland) the multiple factors in play in determining energy transitions
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0027bn5
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January 28, 2025 at 7:54 AM
rokewood.bsky.social
A wide-ranging episode of BBCRadio4 #bbcstw on a topic that is central to our current historiographical debates & dilemmas: the making of maps. @tds153.bsky.social is joined by James Cheshire, @jerrybrotton.bsky.social, Jenny Uglow. & some first rate new books
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BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Maps – lost, secret and revealing
James Cheshire, Jerry Brotton and Jenny Uglow, with Tom Sutcliffe.
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October 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
rokewood.bsky.social
I’m tying into the opener of the series this very fine latest episode of BBCRadio4 Start the Week #bbcstw. @tds153.bsky.social leads an excellent, refreshing discussion (more balanced on religion too) on British art, with @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social Lucinda Rogers & Susan Owens

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0025kk0
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December 3, 2024 at 8:04 AM
rokewood.bsky.social
An intriguing & informative episode of BBCRadio4 #bbcstw proving again that popular science can communicate complex & original arguments. @adamrutherford.bsky.social
talks to @marcusdusautoy.bsky.social @sophiepavs.bsky.social & Alfred Haft
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BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Mathematics, Symbiosis and Japanese art
Adam Rutherford discusses art, maths and creativity with Marcus du Sautoy.
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May 20, 2025 at 7:26 AM
rokewood.bsky.social
Entertaining episode of BBCRadio4 #bbcstw with @adamrutherford.bsky.social & guests. @andreawulf.bsky.social book looks terrific. As so often with eliminativist accounts of human intentionality (long predating genes & hormones), the want of a philosopher is keenly felt
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BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Scientific discovery and misunderstanding
Adam Rutherford talks discoveries with Andrea Wulf, Saira Hameed and Kathryn Paige Harden.
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June 9, 2026 at 6:14 PM
rokewood.bsky.social
What’s really gripping here on #BBCstw is how a seemingly opportunistic alignment of talent & books combines to produce such insight into our times. @tds153.bsky.social with George Saunders, Ece Temelkuran, @oliverbullough.bsky.social
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BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Breakage and repair
Tom Sutcliffe's guests include Booker Prize-winner George Saunders on his new novel, Vigil
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February 17, 2026 at 8:23 AM
rokewood.bsky.social
An unmissable tour de force return of @tds153.bsky.social & BBCRadio4 #bbcstw with a fabulous lineup of women writers—on the compelling, ambivalent & moving theme of mothers & grandmothers. @authorarundhatiroy.bsky.social, Sarah Howe, @leaypi.bsky.social
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BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Arundhati Roy and maternal inheritance
Arundhati Roy, Lea Ypi and Sarah Howe talk to Tom Sutcliffe.
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September 9, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Very absorbing episode of @BBCRadio4 #bbcstw on historic female agency, with Tom Sutcliffe & guests; inc Stefan Stern, Zinnie Harris, Jade Scott & Katy Hickman
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BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Female ambition and control
Tom Sutcliffe with Jade Scott, Zinnie Harris and Stefan Stern.
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October 29, 2024 at 7:47 AM
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A curiously apt episode of BBCRadio4 #bbcstw for someone in my condition right now. @adamrutherford.bsky.social & guests on the *good* the arts do us. Inc the renowned work of Daisy Fancourt; Rosamund Bartlett on Dr Chekhov; BBCRadio3 Tom Service on Music
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BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, The arts and health
Adam Rutherford and guests explore the connection between body and soul.
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January 13, 2026 at 5:29 PM
rokewood.bsky.social
Absolutely splendid episode of BBCRadio4 #BBCstw on our various entanglements—archaic, historical, technological—with the sea. @adamrutherford.bsky.social by talks to Julian Sancton, @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social
@joanpassey.bsky.social
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BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Under the sea
Adam Rutherford discusses the sea with Julian Sancton, Joan Passey and Samanth Subramanian
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March 10, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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This is a gripping episode of BBCRadio4 #bbcstw on the topic of industrial decline & (possible) renewal in Britain & China. @adamrutherford.bsky.social with @samwetherell.bsky.social Yu Jie, Jack Thorne
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BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Community and industrial decline
Adam Rutherford with Sam Wetherell, Yu Jie and Jack Thorne.
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February 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
rokewood.bsky.social
This is a lively, literate, voluble episode of BBCRadio4 #BBCstw, in some measure owing to the understated challenge & occasional scepticism of @tds153.bsky.social He talks to Margaret Busby, @profsarahdillon.bsky.social, Lottie Moggach
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BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Reading and storytelling
Tom Sutcliffe hears the case for literacy and literature.
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March 3, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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This is a splendid episode of BBCRadio4 #bbcstw that illustrates so effectively how critically reappraising the past equips us for better understanding the present—& ourselves @adamrutherford.bsky.social talks to Mary Beard, Greg Doran & Sophia Adams
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BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Why Stuff Matters: Objects, Power and the Past
Mary Beard, Greg Doran and Sophia Adams talk to Adam Rutherford.
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April 22, 2026 at 7:32 AM
rokewood.bsky.social
not sure that this splendid edition of #bbcstw *quite* assuaged my anxieties (we need to reconnect ‘Biblical’ human exceptionalism with divinely mimetic ‘dominion of *love*’ to understand it properly) @tds153.bsky.social Monica Feria-Tinta
@patrickgalbraith.bsky.social
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BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Advocating for nature
Tom Sutcliffe with Robert Macfarlane, Monica Feria-Tinta and Patrick Galbraith.
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April 29, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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stimulating lineup on BBCRadio4 #bbcstw on *smell*
@adamrutherford.bsky.social introduces @jokriolo.bsky.social, Alan Chalmers & the much piled-on @allylouks.bsky.social. Tbh I’m not sure the evo-neuro & the cultural-particularist quite converged, despite the politesse
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BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Smell – the underrated sense
Adam Rutherford with Jonas Olofsson, Ally Louks and Alan Chalmers.
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May 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM