Big Ideas

By ABC Radio

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... more

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The podcast currently has 1,429 episodes available.

Big Ideas episodes:

January 29, 2018 CBC Massey Lecture 2: The pursuit of global justice
Payam Akhavan asks: Is it ever possible to do justice for genocide? Or is its enormity such that no punishment is enough?
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January 25, 2018 Future of tourism
Travel and tourism is changing and apps are driving the change
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54min
January 24, 2018 Songlines: the foundational Australian story
How do you define, and understand, Aboriginal songlines?
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54min
January 23, 2018 From bolshevism to populism
Why would people have been attracted to the communist movement in times past?
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54min
January 22, 2018 CBC Massey Lecture 1: The knowledge of suffering
Payam Akhavan tells of how his family was forced to flee the Iran of Ayatollah Khomeini. It’s a story of an awakening to human rights.
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January 18, 2018 Superheroes and the real world
Comics have a close relationship with our contemporary political and real world.
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54min
January 17, 2018 The 70s Ocker and the challenge of change
How the Ocker character navigated the social changes of 1970s Australia and a revised history of the indigenous way of life prior to colonial contact.
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55min
January 16, 2018 Consuming our future
Only lowering our living standards will achieve sustainable growth. That’s the message from Satyajit Das.
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54min
January 15, 2018 'Making a Murderer' lawyer, Dean Strang, on justice US-style
What does the case of Steven Avery, from 'Making a Murderer', tell us about the US justice system?
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54min
January 11, 2018 Susan Faludi on gender, identity and her father’s sex change
Susan Faludi reflects on the notion of 'identity', in the wake of her father's late in life gender reassignment surgery.
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55min

FAQs about Big Ideas:

How many episodes does Big Ideas have?

The podcast currently has 1,429 episodes available.