Big Ideas
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Feed your mind. Be provoked. One big idea at a time. Your brain will love you for it. Grab your front row seat to the best live forums and festivals with Natasha Mitchell.
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Episodes (333)
Helen Vatsikopoulos — when the stories of migrants in Australia are silenced it'...
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The power of essays — with David Marr, Esther Anatolitis, Brooke Boland and Ashl...
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Fleeced — unravelling the history of wool and war
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Sep 18, 202554:35pending
What's up with dieting Doc? Rethinking the obesity obsession in healthcare
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Doing business ethically in turbulent times — with Helen Clark
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Sep 16, 202554:34pending
Jimmy Barnes – tells it all
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Sep 15, 202554:35pending
Hanna Rosin on what’s happened to the end of men in Trump’s America
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Sep 11, 202554:30pending
Nuked or not? The politics and power play over nuclear energy as a climate fix
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Sep 10, 202558:38pending
Heart-to-heart with John Wamsley and David Lindenmayer — why these trailblazing...
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Sep 9, 202554:29pending
Are the reading wars really over?
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Sep 8, 202554:35pending
Is our university system broken?
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Sep 4, 202554:05pending
The radicalisation of boys — Jess Hill, George Megalogenis, Thomas Mayo with Nat...
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Sep 3, 20251:05:15pending
The AI Con — unpacking the artificial intelligence hype machine
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Sep 2, 202555:03pending
Barry Jones and Kerry O'Brien — on complexity, politics and love
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Sep 1, 202554:00pending
Tradwives — cosy cottage core fantasy, or something more sinister? With Megan Ag...
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Aug 28, 202553:44pending
My Sister and Other Lovers — Esther Freud with Natasha Mitchell at Byron Writers...
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Aug 27, 202553:48pending
When dreams speak truth — exploring the relationship between our realities and t...
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Aug 26, 202549:42pending
The US was meant to pivot to Asia — has Donald Trump changed course?
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Aug 25, 202554:34pending
Alison Lester and Jane Godwin on how children’s books change lives
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Aug 21, 202553:54pending
From devil horns to deep listening — Maxine Beneba Clark, Debra Dank, Damon Youn...
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Aug 20, 202553:54pending
How a picnic started the fall of the Iron Curtain
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Aug 19, 202554:36pending
Anna Funder — Bears out there, writing in the age of bots and broligarchs
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Aug 18, 20251:00:46pending
The remarkable life of Marie Curie and the women scientists she inspired — with...
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Aug 14, 202552:55pending
Wellness influencers will outlive us all! The Science Smackdown Debate at World...
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Aug 13, 202553:31pending
How to live an experimental life
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Aug 12, 202549:45pending
Dugongs — up close and personal
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Aug 11, 202554:37pending
Do you know the size of your material footprint?
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Aug 7, 202554:35pending
Sarah Wilson reckons with our civilisational collapse
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Aug 6, 202553:34pending
Mike Burgess — Espionage is a growing and costly threat to Australia
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Plummeting vaccination rates threaten public health
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Aug 4, 202554:35pending
Not drowning waving, a modern media tale — with Geraldine Doogue
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Jul 31, 2025pending
From Con the Fruiterer to East West 101 — the changing face of Australian TV
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Jul 31, 202557:05pending
FAT is not an F-word! The radical practice of fat joy
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Jul 30, 202556:56pending
How animals use natural medicine to heal themselves
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Jul 29, 202544:03pending
The dark side of collaboration — when thinking together goes wrong
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Jul 28, 202558:45pending
Adam Liaw on what spaghetti bolognese tells us about Australian life
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Jul 24, 202554:36pending
Mao and Stalin — did they lead the way for tyrannical leaders like Trump?
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Jul 23, 202554:00pending
One land, two laws, it’s black and white — with Aboriginal and Torres Strait isl...
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Jul 22, 202555:11pending
Doctor Who turns 60 — why the world still loves you
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Jul 21, 202554:29pending
Is AI our modern-day Frankenstein? Jeanette Winterson and Toby Walsh
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Jul 17, 202553:01pending
ABC's CITIZEN JURY — Would you live inside a modern power station? These people...
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Jul 16, 202554:04pending
Radical economics — what can we learn from the life of John Maynard Keynes
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Jul 15, 202553:59pending
Life behind the lens — with photojournalists Lorrie Graham, Rick Stevens and Mik...
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Jul 14, 202554:41pending
Can citizen juries put the people back in democracy?
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Jul 10, 20251:01:11pending
Join Jodi Edwards and her Sea Kin on a journey that flows like salt water — you...
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Jul 9, 202553:11pending
Behrouz Boochani and Arnold Zable on the radical act of friendship
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Jul 8, 202553:22pending
Where to now — transforming anger into action after the Voice referendum
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Jul 7, 202553:44pending
What would a feminist utopia look like?
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Jul 3, 202554:13pending
Dark tourism, death, design, and the macabre — should some places stay untouched...
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Jul 2, 202557:19pending
Is language power? With American linguist John McWhorter
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