The Start Podcast
1) Innermost: another episode of our new series
We wanted to bring you another episode from our Innermost series. In the last episode of our first season, two callers tell Leah Green how their relationships sent them down unexpected paths, one with...Show More
2) Mark Guiliana on the album that sounds like innocence – The Start podcast
The drummer and composer talks about Locked in a Basement, the album he recorded with his band Heernt, before facing the pressures of adulthood
3) Shirin Neshat on the video art that reconnected her with Iran - The Start podcast
The visual artist reveals how her installation Turbulent built a community among the Iranian diaspora in New York, and expressed her feelings for her homeland
Shirin Neshat on the video art that reconnected her with Iran - The Start podcast
18:57 | Mar 22nd, 2018
4) Will Self on the cartoon strip that set him on the road to writing – The Start podcast
The novelist and journalist shares how living a life of austerity inspired his first professional work, Slump
5) Peaches on the song that defined her new sound – The Start podcast
The electronic musician relates how a breakup, a new keyboard and a hunger for feminist rock’n’roll led to her signature track Lovertits and album The Teaches of Peaches
6) Lemn Sissay on the 'radical' poem born of heartbreak – The Start podcast
The poet shares the story behind Invisible Kisses, a poem that impressed on him the true value of family
7) Abi Morgan on the play fuelled by fury - The Start podcast
The playwright and screenwriter reveals how a fascination with tyrants and their wives compelled her to write Splendour
8) Ai Weiwei on the project that awoke his political voice – The Start podcast
The artist and activist tells how investigating schoolchildren’s deaths in the Sichuan earthquake of 2008 spawned his mammoth installation, Remembering
Ai Weiwei on the project that awoke his political voice – The Start podcast
17:50 | Feb 15th, 2018
9) Ann Hirsch on the art project that invaded her private life – The Start podcast
The internet artist recalls how her groundbreaking YouTube project Scandalishious allowed for self-reflection, but also invited the scrutiny of a watchful audience
Ann Hirsch on the art project that invaded her private life – The Start podcast
20:14 | Feb 8th, 2018
10) Damien Hirst on the break-in that changed his art – The Start podcast
In the second episode of our new culture podcast about artistic beginnings, Damien Hirst reveals how his neighbour – a compulsive hoarder – triggered a creative explosion that set him on the road to s...Show More