This week, Douglas Kerr's guides to the world of conducting are the award-winning composer and musical educator Chew Hee Chiat, who is resident conductor with the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, and Oliver Chou, a senior writer for the South China Morning...

This week on the Big Idea, Professor Douglas Kerr and guests talk about Capitalism. What exactly is it? How does it work, and what happens when it doesn't work? Is Capitalism inherently unfair and irresponsible? If it’s now broken, can it and should it...

This week on the Big Idea, Douglas Kerr will be talking about the American Declaration of Independence with guests Wing-kai To, Visiting Professor of History at Hong Kong University this year, and Dr Kendall Johnson, Director of American Studies at the...

On this week's The Big Idea, our host Douglas Kerr is joined by Christopher Mattison from City University of Hong Kong, and Michael Duckworth, formerly a journalist, and currently the Publisher of the Hong Kong University Press to discuss the future of...

On The Big Idea, host Professor Douglas Kerr from the School of English at the University of Hong Kong and guests talk about Zhou Enlai, one of the most charismatic and important political leaders of modern times. 2-3-2013

On Saturdays, Radio 3 welcomes back a new season of The Big Idea. Each week, host Professor Douglas Kerr from the School of English at the University of Hong Kong will be joined by a distinguished panel of guests as they explore the history, meaning an...

This morning at 8.30, Vanessa Collingridge and guests on the last edition of The Big Idea explore the invention of the Compass. (Saturday 8.30am-9am) 9-6-2012

Vanessa Collingridge and guests explore the idea of "giftedness". 2-6-2012

Vanessa Collingridge and guests explore the science behind our body clocks – and what happens when our "clocks" go wrong…

27-5-2012

Feminism 20-5-2012