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Why Stuff Matters: Objects, Power and the Past

Start the Week by BBC

Apr 20, 202641:48Society & Culture

What can the things we create, keep and bury tell us about who we are? On Radio 4's weekly discussion programme, Adam Rutherford explores material culture – the power of objects you can touch – and how they connect us to...

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Why Stuff Matters: Objects, Power and the Past is an episode from Start the Week by BBC. What can the things we create, keep and bury tell us about who we are? On Radio 4's weekly discussion programme, Adam Rutherford explores material cult...

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Published Apr 20, 2026, 41:48 long, audio available.