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
- 2024-12-19 10:05
- last episode published
- 2024-12-19 17:00
- publication frequency
- 1.24 days
- Contributors
- ABC Radio National
- Owner Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 2536
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-12-19 | Folk legend Eric Bogle is opening up and talks about his life, his thoughts about death, friendship and love and why having a deeper message for writing songs is so much more important than money and fame. It's a rare opportunity to share a conversatio... |
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| 2024-12-18 | They use of shark nets to protect us from sharks is highly controversial. Do they work, what do they do to marine life, are there alternatives, and why are sharks so political? This is an issue that ignites passions.Join Big Ideas' host Natasha Mitchel... |
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| 2024-12-17 | At a time when family violence wasn't even recognised by the law, a group of women broke into two vacant houses in Sydney and claimed squatters' rights, changing lives and attitudes to family violence forever.This event was recorded at the Elsie Confer... |
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| 2024-12-16 |
Is Australia overrun by feral animals? ... with Costa Georgiadis Australia's unique biodiversity, a product of almost 50 million years of glorious evolutionary isolation, is in freefall. The threats are not just the rabbits, the cane toads, the cats and foxes – the common culprits. Let's not forget the small but imp... |
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| 2024-12-12 |
Benjamin Law’s butt, and the power and politics of portraiture From Vincent Namatjira's painting of Gina Rinehart, to Jonathan Yeo's take on King Charles, what do portraits say about those they represent, those who create them, and the broader context of the time?The Andrew Sayers Memorial Lecture was recorded at ... |
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| 2024-12-11 | A freckle-faced kid from Bondi, Pauline Menczer fought the entrenched sexism of the pro-surfing scene to became women's world surfing champion and pave the way...er, waves..for girl grommets today. But all the while she was also fighting another battle... |
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| 2024-12-10 |
President Petr Pavel – on why the war in Ukraine is a fight for geopolitical stability worldwide Do you want to live in Putin’s vision of a world in which ‘the big boys’ dominate …. or in one in which smaller nations have a voice? If it’s the latter, so the President of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel, you need to support Ukraine. This war isn’t jus... |
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| 2024-12-09 |
Memory, refugees and the Vietnam War — with Pulitzer Prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen At age four, American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen fled his birth country with his parents as refugees of the Vietnam War. Now a Pulitzer Prize winning author, he unpacks the refugee experience, and the politics and the personal weight of remembering, and ... |
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| 2024-12-05 | There's been a move by Australian newsrooms to foster and champion the diversity of their staff. But when it comes to covering the conflict between Israelis & Palestinians, and the war in Gaza, does this push for diversity only run skin deep? Who g... |
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| 2024-12-04 |
50 years after Cyclone Tracy — powerful memories of horror and hope Don't miss these previously unheard and powerful stories of ordinary people surviving extraordinary circumstances. Cyclone Tracy destroyed 80 percent of Darwin and killed 66 people. It's impact was harrowing. Beyond the despair are also memories of s... |
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