Big Ideas - Full program podcast
Big Ideas brings you the best of talks, forums, debates, and festivals held in Australia and around the world, casting light on the major social, cultural, scientific and political issues
- Website
- http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/
- Description
- Big Ideas brings you the best of talks, forums, debates, and festivals held in Australia and around the world, casting light on the major social, cultural, scientific and political issues
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-02-25 05:16
- last episode published
- 2025-02-24 12:33
- publication frequency
- 1.24 days
- Contributors
- ABC Radio National
- Owner Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 2578
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-02-24 |
Animals — Us and them? How does loving animals go together with industrial farming? Humans have a conflicted relationship with animals: We love our pets and admire our wildlife. But we continue the industrial production of dairy, meat and eggs, that often leaves animal suffering in dreadful conditions. We create a division between US ... |
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| 2025-02-24 | Seeing a whale in the wild takes your breath away. But so much of what they do remains mysterious. Join Natasha Mitchell with two world leading whale researchers unearthing the secret world of cetaceans. You'll want to change jobs when you hear what th... |
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| 2025-02-24 | Cherished companions, or cunning predators? Cats kill five million native animals in Australia every day — so how can we better manage our feline friends?Listen to the rest of our special series Animals — Us and Them?SpeakersAlex Patton Invasive specie... |
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| 2025-02-24 |
Animals — Us and them? What is the purpose of zoos in an extinction crisis? Zoos are changing — they are no longer just places for us humans to gawk at animals in cages. In the midst of a global extinction crisis, they are now playing a vital role. So what is their future?This event was recorded at the International Society of... |
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| 2025-02-20 |
Animals — Us and Them? The true and the ugly of wildlife documentaries Satyajit Das presents a provocative examination of the use and abuse of images of wild animals, and how they shape our relationships with the natural world. These pictures can create an impression of abundance and untouched ecosystems, and lull us into... |
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| 2025-02-19 |
Jem Bendell, the fake green fairytale, and how to survive civilisational collapse We’re past the brink of civilisational collapse. And many environmentalists are pushing a “fake green fairytale”. Jem Bendell’s arguments have inspired the Extinction Rebellion movement’s civil disobedience pushing for climate change action. But Jem do... |
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| 2025-02-18 |
A death in Malta — Paul Caruana Galizia on the power of investigative journalism For 30 years, Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia exposed corruption and wrong doing in her country, until she was assassinated in a car bomb explosion in 2017. Her youngest son, Paul Caruana Galizia, details the impact of his mothe... |
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| 2025-02-18 | The British Empire was once the biggest in the world. But now, some countries are cutting ties, and some want reparations. So just what is the legacy of British imperialism? |
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| 2025-02-17 |
Living out your mental illness in public paves the way to lasting change Being who we are in pubic (with our mental illness) is the only way to create lasting change. Amanda Tattersall is speaking about how her experience of living with bipolar has not only informed why she makes change, but how she is using her skills in c... |
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| 2025-02-13 |
Uncancelled culture — forgiveness and redemption in the digital age Cancel culture has ruined careers and lives — but did they deserve it? What consequences should people face for what they say and do? And what does redemption look like in the digital age? |
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