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Big Ideas

Big Ideas

Your front row seat to big thinkers at the best live events, forums, and festivals. Feed your mind. Be provoked. One big idea at a time. Your brain will love you for it. We love hearing from you about the show or events you are planning. Get in touch! Email: [email protected] SMS line for ABC Radio National: 0418 226 576 Airs Monday to Thursday 8pm, repeated Tuesday to Friday 12pm, on ABC Radio National.

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Show overview

Big Ideas launched in 2025 and has put out 363 episodes in the time since. That works out to roughly 330 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a near-daily cadence.

Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 54 min and 55 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Society & Culture show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 days ago, with 166 episodes already out so far this year. Published by ABC Australia.

Episodes
363
Running
2025–2026 · 1y
Median length
55 min
Cadence
Near-daily

From the publisher

Your front row seat to big thinkers at the best live events, forums, and festivals. Feed your mind. Be provoked. One big idea at a time. Your brain will love you for it. We love hearing from you about the show or events you are planning. Get in touch! Email: [email protected] SMS line for ABC Radio National: 0418 226 576 Airs Monday to Thursday 8pm, repeated Tuesday to Friday 12pm, on ABC Radio National.

Latest Episodes

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The ethics of transhumanism

Oct 15, 202658 min

AI, art, and staying human - is creativity at a crossroad? Evelyn Araluen, Steve Tolz, Kirra Pendergast

Oct 14, 202658 min

China's one-child policy and a true tale of abduction, adoption and separated twins

Oct 13, 202654 min

Amitav Ghosh and Luke Kemp on learning from collapsed empires

Oct 12, 202654 min

Students and teachers are already using it — but should AI be in the classroom? With Eddie Woo and Leslie Loble

Oct 8, 202654 min

You Must Take Part in Revolution — journalist Melissa Chan and artist-in-exile Badiucao

Oct 7, 202654 min

Bones, CSI, X-Files step aside — here come the real forensic scientists

Oct 6, 202654 min

George Megalogenis on the three shocks reshaping Australian politics

Oct 5, 202654 min

The legacy of Jane Goodall —from chimp whisperer to changing how science understands primates

Oct 1, 202653 min

The future of ageing — what will growing old be like in 2076?

Sep 30, 202653 min

Can we change the future by reimagining it?

Sep 29, 202653 min

Lyse Doucet —The history of Kabul’s finest hotel tells the history of a nation

Sep 28, 202654 min

It's an ancient Hindu poem, so why does The Ramayana still resonate?

Sep 24, 202654 min

Why literary giants like Margaret Atwood, Nobel laureate Han Kang and Amitav Ghosh wrote books that will never be read in their lifetime

Sep 23, 202654 min

When you trust social media influencers more than your GP — what can only go wrong?

Sep 22, 202654 min

Alice Pung's Unpolished Gem and her conversations with the teenagers who've studied it

Sep 21, 202654 min

ABC National Forum — migration and the kind of country Australia wants to be

Sep 17, 202655 min

Buying and Selling the Poor at The Festival of Dangerous Ideas — Rick Morton, Mark Considine, Emily Roy with Natasha Mitchell

Sep 16, 202657 min

Helen Garner reflects on five decades of writing — an ABC Radio National Top 100 Books countdown special

Sep 15, 20261h 15m

Why Diego Bonetto wants you to eat weeds

Sep 14, 202654 min
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