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Big Ideas
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... more

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Episodes

Eric Bogle tells it all — his songs and his life

Folk legend Eric Bogle is opening up and talks about his life, his thoughts about death, friendship and love and... more

19 Dec 2024 · 54 minutes
Shark nets: a necessary protection or animal cruelty — tackling a difficult question with Natasha Mitchell

They use of shark nets to protect us from sharks is highly controversial.  Do they work, what do they do to... more

18 Dec 2024 · 54 minutes
Meet the mothers of Australia's women's refuge movement

At a time when family violence wasn't even recognised by the law, a group of women broke into two vacant... more

17 Dec 2024 · 53 minutes
Is Australia overrun by feral animals? ... with Costa Georgiadis

Australia's unique biodiversity, a product of almost 50 million years of glorious evolutionary isolation, is in freefall. The threats are... more

16 Dec 2024 · 53 minutes
Benjamin Law’s butt, and the power and politics of portraiture

From Vincent Namatjira's painting of Gina Rinehart, to Jonathan Yeo's take on King Charles, what do portraits say about those... more

12 Dec 2024 · 54 minutes
The surfer and circumnavigator — the gobsmacking feats of Pauline Menczer and Bonnie Hancock

A freckle-faced kid from Bondi, Pauline Menczer fought the entrenched sexism of the pro-surfing scene to became women's world surfing... more

11 Dec 2024 · 54 minutes
President Petr Pavel – on why the war in Ukraine is a fight for geopolitical stability worldwide

Do you want to live in Putin’s vision of a world in which ‘the big boys’ dominate …. or in... more

10 Dec 2024 · 53 minutes
Memory, refugees and the Vietnam War — with Pulitzer Prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen

Born a refugee of the Vietnam War, and now a Pulitzer Prize winning American author, Viet Thanh Nguyen unpacks the... more

09 Dec 2024 · 56 minutes
Who gets to shape the story? Reporting on the conflict in the Middle East — with The Guardian’s Nour Haydar

There's been a move by Australian newsrooms to foster and champion the diversity of their staff. But when it comes... more

05 Dec 2024 · 59 minutes
50 years after Cyclone Tracy — powerful memories of horror and hope

Don't miss these previously unheard and powerful stories of ordinary people surviving extraordinary circumstances.  Cyclone Tracy destroyed 80 percent of... more

04 Dec 2024 · 52 minutes
Big Ideas
Eric Bogle tells it all — his songs and his life
Big Ideas
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