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
- 2024-11-21 08:01
- last episode published
- 2024-11-21 17:00
- publication frequency
- 1.23 days
- Contributors
- ABC Radio National
- Owner Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 2519
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-11-21 |
Together? Or together alone? Debating the harms and benefits of social media The federal government wants to restrict social media to Australians aged over 16. But will it work? Hear from the adults and kids in the know as they debate the arguments for and against.The Great Debate was presented by the Academy of the Social Scie... |
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| 2024-11-20 | Is social media a contagious force harming young minds, a life saver helping people find their neurodiverse tribes and support, or for better or worse, a bit of both? From the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, join Natasha Mitchell with renowned social psyc... |
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| 2024-11-19 | Mediation in armed conflicts means sitting down with brutal war lords, hiding your true values and in an open dialogue trying to really understand all sides of the parties involved. In the most pressurised environments, there are nearly always possibl... |
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| 2024-11-18 |
The 4-Day-Week − creating a better work life balance or just more stress? Pressing a full-time workload into four days sounds like simply adding more stress to your job – even if you keep your pay. But many people who have tried this model say that one would need to pay them double their salary to make them go back to a sta... |
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| 2024-11-14 |
From Mumbai to Studio 54 — how Asha Puthli became India's first disco star She was Andy Warhol's muse, she's been sampled by Notorious BIG, and her music was once voted on the ten best songs to dry-hump to. This is the amazing true story of how Indian-born singer Asha Puthli became a music legend.This event was recorded at Ri... |
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| 2024-11-13 |
Joanna Murray-Smith — You’re Right, I’m Wrong: The Artist's Role in a Shifting World The leading playwright Joanna Murray-Smith makes a powerful case for the role of the arts in Australian public life, arguing that moral righteousness is stifling artistic expression.The last ever Stephen Murray-Smith Memorial Lecture was recorded at th... |
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| 2024-11-11 |
The future of remembering wars past — school students speak frankly How should we reflect on wars, past and present? Do the rituals of Remembrance Day and Anzac Day hold meaning for young people?Natasha Mitchell is joined by a crowd of high school students and special guests with opinions on the future of commemoration... |
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| 2024-11-07 | It needs strong leadership and good coordination. But most of all, it needs public opinion to rise up and push policy makers to tackle this crisis. Canada can teach us a lesson in how to do that. Homelessness is a systemic housing problem – not caused ... |
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| 2024-11-06 |
What's wrong with death? Sophia Club live philosophy with Natasha Mitchell and guests When you're alive, the idea of dying feels weird, remote, alien. Yet it's the one experience we will all have. Can philosophy help us make sense of that weirdness? What can talking about death and dying teach us about living? Natasha Mitchell is joine... |
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| 2024-11-04 |
From Gatsby to Huck Finn — American literature in an age of polarisation From To Kill a Mockingbird to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, there are no shortage of options to include on those lists of "The Great American Novel". But which is the real plot in the story of America?This event was recorded at the University of ... |
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