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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 335 episodes in the time since. That works out to roughly 300 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 earlier today, with 138 episodes already out so far this year. Published by ABC Australia.

Episodes
335
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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Mick Herron, Suzie Miller and Benjamin Law on great adaptations — from the page to the stage to the screen, and back again

Aug 27, 202658 min

Should social media be banned for over-16s too!? The 2026 Beaker Street Festival Great Debate

Aug 26, 202654 min

Kerry O'Brien on the perfect storm destroying our politics — with Richard Flanagan

Aug 25, 202654 min

Why Oz Harvest's Ronni Kahn wants you to join the "Order of the Teaspoon" to end food insecurity and waste

Aug 24, 202654 min

Protecting Australia’s native plants

Aug 20, 202654 min

Indigenous speculative fiction takes on the apocalypse — with Canadian sci-fi Indiginerd Chelsea Vowel

Aug 19, 202654 min

Blast off! Exploring our solar system and beyond

Aug 18, 202654 min

Too Dumb for Democracy? Why your brain struggles with good political decision-making

Aug 17, 202654 min

What makes television? 100 years of tumultuous change

Aug 13, 202655 min

CENSORED! CANCELLED! BOYCOTT! The future of artistic freedom and democracy in Australia

Aug 12, 20261h 0m

Forget The Odyssey. Yann Martel, Nikita Gill, Zoe Terakes have their own mythical retellings

Aug 11, 202657 min

Forget The Odyssey. These authors have their own mythical retellings — with Yann Martel, Nikita Gill and Zoe Terakes

Aug 11, 202657 min

Africa in a shifting world order — can digital technology achieve what aid never could?

Aug 10, 202654 min

How policy decisions today can hurt your kids in the future — are we even trying to get it right?

Aug 6, 202654 min

The PNG environmental defenders taking on Australian mining giants — what is extractive justice and its toll?

Aug 5, 202657 min

Australian war history — the past, present and future of remembrance. With Professor Peter Stanley

Aug 4, 202653 min

What Pacific peoples know about climate justice — and Australia still needs to learn

Aug 3, 202644 min

Gay rights pioneer Dennis Altman on five decades of activism, writing and social change

Jul 30, 202654 min

Why didn't anyone tell me Australian history was ACTUALLY interesting!? Sita Sargeant, Santilla Chingaipe, Jacinta Mackay, Harini Rangarajan

Jul 29, 202654 min

What does 'being a man' look like — today?

Jul 28, 202655 min
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