Big Ideas
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Episodes (333)
Hard new world — our post-American future, with Hugh White and Allan Behm
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Baby boycott — the fertility crisis and the big decision
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Love your gut — understanding the microbiome
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Adapt or collapse — can we meet the moment of environmental peril
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Jun 24, 202553:41pending
Kate McClymont on the complete insanity of investigative journalism
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The second coming of quantum — the next scientific revolution is here
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The past is a foreign country — Santilla Chingaipe, Sita Sargeant, Steve Vizard...
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Jun 18, 202557:51pending
Will American democracy survive the Dark Enlightenment? Sarah Churchwell on Gone...
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We are the evidence — empowering change in Indigenous Australia
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From Bangalore to Balmain – Padma Raman’s lifelong advocacy for women and girls
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Jun 12, 202554:39pending
Fashion's fails — we can fix its toxic legacy! Kit Willow, Natasha Mitchell, and...
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Warren Ellis on why he bought a Sumatran wildlife sanctuary — with Justin Kurzel...
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Jun 10, 202554:06pending
To infinity – who's in charge of outer space?
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Being Jewish after the destruction of Gaza — with Peter Beinart and Sarah Schwar...
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Jun 5, 202555:06pending
We asked for workers and got people — inside the temporary visa scheme putting f...
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The unbearable intimacy of voicing someone’s words — with Forced Entertainment
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Gina Chick on what dark nights of the soul can teach us about life and living
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Jun 2, 202555:06pending
Safe at home – who profits when you’re afraid of your neighbours?
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May 29, 202554:04pending
The ghosts are here — Tasma Walton, Darren Rix, Craig Cormick, Anthony Sharwood...
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May 28, 202556:43pending
Words to sing the world alive — waking up First Nations languages
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May 27, 202554:05pending
From vulture bone flutes to ‘organised sound’— Andrew Ford's short history of m...
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May 26, 202552:45pending
If it bleeds it leads – Bruce Shapiro on documenting the violence of modern life
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May 22, 202554:39pending
Live to 150? David Sinclair on why we age — and why he thinks we don't have to
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Australia and the spectre of war — from Vietnam to today
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May 20, 20251:00:04pending
Australia votes — what message should we take from this election result?
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May 19, 202554:57pending
What are you wearing? Why we aren’t buying Australian made fashion
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May 15, 202554:11pending
Mark Zuckerberg claims corporations are culturally neutered — are they? Men, wom...
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May 14, 202554:03pending
History lessons — historians Orlando Figes, Bettany Hughes, Matthew Longo and D...
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May 13, 202555:53pending
Chatting with 2025 Grammy winner Ruthie Foster
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May 12, 202553:49pending
Vladimir Putin’s Russia — with exiled journalist and author Mikhail Zygar
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May 8, 202552:17pending
Rituals, rats, and reeded vertebrae! The mysteries of Machu Picchu and Ancient P...
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May 7, 202553:24pending
Mental ill-health and the power of words
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May 6, 202553:28pending
Worried about the future? A mosquito could help you to live in the present
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May 5, 202554:05pending
Australia votes— are our political parties on the nose?
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May 1, 202554:05pending
Has the world lost the plot? John Lyons, Greg Sheridan, Emma Shortis, Josh Taylo...
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Apr 30, 202556:11pending
The painting that changed Australia — the story of Blue Poles
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Apr 29, 202556:03pending
Are Donald Trump and US politics bringing global health to its knees?
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Apr 28, 202554:04pending
Sir Simon Schama — On antisemitism
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Apr 24, 202549:51pending
How do we make cancer treatment worth it, work better, and less harmful?
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Apr 23, 202557:41pending
Pankaj Mishra — the world after Gaza
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Apr 22, 202553:35pending
Uncovering Pompeii — 300 years of archaeology
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Apr 21, 202554:05pending
When women resist authoritarianism — what's happening in Iran, Afghanistan, Myan...
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Apr 17, 202554:06pending
A season of death — with Raimond Gaita and Michelle Lesh
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Where is the soul in science? Natasha Mitchell and guests on a humanity defining...
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Apr 16, 202554:03pending
When the Tech Bros come to town — with Kara Swisher and Marc Fennell
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Apr 15, 202554:05pending
The biggest threat to the planet is a story — an eye-opening insider account of...
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Apr 14, 202554:05pending
Supporting teenagers to thrive online
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Apr 3, 202554:14pending
Can storytellers change the world? Tim Winton and Rachel Perkins join Natasha Mi...
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Apr 2, 202553:31pending
Populist rage in America — history, causes and impacts
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Apr 1, 202554:07pending
Australians – the ‘aristocrats’ of Asia? The Lucky Country 60 years on
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