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
- 2025-01-23 12:11
- last episode published
- 2025-01-23 17:00
- publication frequency
- 1.24 days
- Contributors
- ABC Radio National
- Owner Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 2556
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-01-23 | Three of Australia's best music writers share their craft, and reveal what it's like to sit down with some of music's biggest names.This event was recorded on 2 November 2024 at the Art Gallery of Ballarat.SpeakersStuart Coupe Author, journalist, radio... |
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| 2025-01-22 |
How surfing writer Tim Baker and doctor Peter Goldsworthy learnt to live well and laugh with cancer Meet two men who will change the way you think about an experience most of us fear but will be touched by in some way. In Patting the Shark, surfing writer Tim Baker describes his wild ride to reclaim a sense of control and agency after a cancer diagn... |
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| 2025-01-21 |
The fight to protect abortion in the United States — with Dr Angel Foster What does Donald Trump's return to the White House mean for reproductive health in America? |
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| 2025-01-20 |
The Knowledge Gene — the incredible story of the supergene that gives us human creativity Prepare to have your mind blown with a sweeping saga that connects human evolution, brains, genes, art, music, creativity, knowledge, dyslexia, autism, Indigenous memory systems, and more. A big, beautiful and biological saga about how to learn like a ... |
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| 2025-01-16 | It's a question that has focused the minds of astronauts, scientists, space entrepreneurs and enthusiasts alike — is there, could there be, life on Mars? The race is on to find out, with NASA hoping to land astronauts there by the late 2030s. Because o... |
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| 2025-01-15 | New York writer Jonathan Rosen’s memoir The Best Minds: a story of friendship, madness, and the tragedy of good intentions is a story of tenderness, heartache, and horror as he explores the vexed tensions between civil rights, medical power, and the co... |
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| 2025-01-14 | For decades, Mary Beard has forged her own path through the male dominated field of academia, from the ruins of Rome to the trenches of Twitter, to become "the world's most famous classicist". From the wise Augustus to the hypocritical Tiberius and the... |
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| 2025-01-13 | We are living in an "age of crises," says former New Zealand prime minister, Helen Clark. With her leadership experience and expertise in governance, politics, and policy, Helen Clark and a panel of health and international relation experts explore the... |
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| 2025-01-09 | Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world's foremost experts on trauma, discusses his pioneering research into traumatic stress and its impact on our brains and bodies. Traumatised people experience incomprehensible anxiety, numbing and intolerable rage. T... |
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| 2025-01-08 | When governments say they can't afford to fix climate change or lift kids out of poverty are they speaking the truth? American economist Stephanie Kelton challenges economic orthodoxy in her book The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth o... |
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