Start the Week
Hosted by Tom Sutcliffe and Adam Rutherford and Naomi Alderman · BBC Radio 4
4.7from 188 ratings
- 657
- Episodes
- 113
- Transcribed
- 188
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2010
- First episode
About Start the Week
Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
- Publisher
- BBC Radio 4
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 20 Sept 2010
- Latest episode
- 21 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
113 of 657 episodes have a transcript.
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Carlo Rovelli: complexity and value
Published 21 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So, is this a sort of anti-Platonic version? You're extracting the essential, what we might think of the essential qualities of water in order to, well, dispel a sort of hierarchy of views? Yes, there are many hierarchies one can order these various perspectives. The point is that there isn't a single hierarchy. There is a hierarchy of value for us, a hierarchy of generality of the value of the description. Physics is more general than chemistry. There is a hierarchy of understanding of simplicity of description and so on. It's anti-platonic, yes, especially because I don't believe, and that's the reason of the title on the equality of all things, that we can separate levels of reality, some apparent and some ultimate, some fundamental and some derivative. […]
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- Carlo Rovelli
- Lavinia Greenlaw
- James Graham
- Dr Xand van Tulleken
- Lani Watson
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 157 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 31 ratings
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- Quality
- 89
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 67
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Tom Sutcliffe and Adam Rutherford and Naomi Alderman host the show. Published by BBC Radio 4.
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