Big Ideas
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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
Could the 21st century be the greatest age of exploration in the history of humankind? Ocean explorer Terry Garcia thinks so
Jul 27, 202649 min
On how fear destroys your relationships — and why love can heal fear
Jul 23, 202654 min
Angertainment — is it too late to escape the rage bait machine, and why are its roots ancient and evolutionary? With Ed Coper
Jul 22, 20261h 1m
Globalisation and geopolitics – the forces that will make or break Asia
Jul 21, 202654 min
Calling out wrongdoing can come at a cost — here's how Australia can strengthen its whistleblowing laws
Jul 20, 202653 min
Ex-chief scientist Alan Finkel's three laws of Artificial Intelligence
Jul 16, 202654 min
Could you be a hope punk? Jack Toohey on rebellious hope and why better things are possible
Jul 15, 202653 min
Fear, healing and finding calm – how the ocean can change you
Jul 14, 202654 min
Is education policy damaging our democracy?
Jul 13, 202653 min
These Palestinians and Israelis are talking to each other − determined to make peace real in Gaza
Jul 9, 202654 min
8 Million Ways to Happiness with Hiroko Yoda — what we can all learn about life, love, and loss from Japan’s flexible spirituality
Jul 8, 202654 min
What is the role of the writer in troubled times? Tony Birch with Michael Williams on the ethical imagination
Jul 7, 20261h 9m
If a river is declared a legal “person” — can it talk, remember, feel?
Jul 6, 202654 min
Is the cosmos unravelling? With theoretical physicist Tony Padilla
Jul 2, 202654 min
A song for every feeling? Pub Choir founder Astrid Jorgensen has a big story to tell (REPEAT)
Jul 1, 20261h 4m
The gambling industry is targeting your children - how, why and what can be done?
Jun 30, 202655 min
David Marr on preaching to the converted
Jun 29, 202655 min
The God we made — safeguarding humanity in the age of AI
Jun 25, 202658 min
The art of forgiveness and why it's not what you think it is — with Rachael Coopes and Natasha Mitchell
Jun 24, 202656 min
Whose recipe is it anyway? A nourishing conversation about food and culture
Jun 23, 202654 min
Errol Flynn — discover the dark secrets of the Australian Hollywood star
Jun 22, 202654 min
The future of democracy? With Jon Sopel, Nick Bryant and Rosalind Dixon
Jun 18, 202658 min
The future of TRUTH — Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, philosopher A.C Grayling, journalist Barbara Demick, AI scientist Toby Walsh
Jun 17, 202654 min
Can Art, artists and activists save Australia’s famous multicultural experiment?
Jun 16, 202654 min
Pride or shame? Searching for the story of Australia — with Tony Abbott, Mark McKenna and Sally Warhaft
Jun 15, 202654 min
Zoe Daniel with Thom Woodroofe on winning middle Australia in the climate wars
Jun 11, 202653 min
Duty to warn — when challenging power becomes personal, and why journalists Cheng Lei and Charlotte Grieve didn't give up
Jun 10, 202654 min
Trump, Xi, Putin and what's next for the world? Former White House insider Thomas Wright with the Lowy Institute's Sam Roggeveen
Jun 9, 202657 min
Sperm shortages, shady Facebook groups, and other intimate stories of modern donor conception
Jun 8, 202655 min
How can we design our way out of Australia's housing crisis? With Anthony Burke and Tim Ross
Jun 4, 202658 min