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Big Ideas

ABC Australia

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] line for ABC Radio National: 0418 226 576Airs Monday to Thursday 8pm, repeated Tuesday to Friday 12pm, on ABC Radio National.

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Episodi

248 episodi

  1. The Odyssey — a nearly 3,000-year-old myth we can’t stop retelling 54:41
  2. The meaning of loss — whether it devastates you or saves you 53:53
  3. Get neurospicy with The Bachelorette's Osher Günsberg and Kill Your Boomers author Fiona Wright 53:27
  4. Rupture — Niki Savva and Waleed Aly on how our politics is being transformed 58:59
  5. The end of neoliberalism? A guide to Trumpian world-making 55:48
  6. Does fuel reduction burning make us safer? 54:53
  7. In 2046 women run the world — what's changed? 53:44
  8. The stigma of obesity and what it means for your healthcare 54:10
  9. Gut health: Is the food on your plate quietly rewriting your brain chemistry? 54:36
  10. Wrapped? Or Warped? How the internet changed music criticism 57:35
  11. What stops you from becoming homeless? 2026 Australian Homelessness Conference with Natasha Mitchell and guests 52:59
  12. Clive Myrie on what Africa taught a foreign correspondent about our common humanity 54:02
  13. Bringing Brett Whiteley's studio back to life — with Wendy Whiteley 53:45
  14. The ethics of transhumanism 58:03
  15. AI, art, and staying human - is creativity at a crossroad? Evelyn Araluen, Steve Tolz, Kirra Pendergast 58:56
  16. China's one-child policy and a true tale of abduction, adoption and separated twins 54:39
  17. Amitav Ghosh and Luke Kemp on learning from collapsed empires 54:35
  18. Eddie Woo asks — should AI be in the classroom? With Leslie Loble 54:35
  19. You Must Take Part in Revolution — journalist Melissa Chan and artist-in-exile Badiucao 54:35
  20. Bones, CSI, X-Files step aside — here come the real forensic scientists 54:36
  21. George Megalogenis on the three shocks reshaping Australian politics 54:34
  22. The legacy of Jane Goodall —from chimp whisperer to changing how science understands primates 53:42
  23. The future of ageing — what will growing old be like in 2076? 53:48
  24. Can we change the future by reimagining it? 53:38
  25. Lyse Doucet —The history of Kabul’s finest hotel tells the history of a nation 54:13
  26. It's an ancient Hindu poem, so why does The Ramayana still resonate? 54:36
  27. Why literary giants like Margaret Atwood, Nobel laureate Han Kang and Amitav Ghosh wrote books that will never be read in their lifetime 54:35
  28. When you trust social media influencers more than your GP — what can only go wrong? 54:35
  29. Alice Pung's Unpolished Gem and her conversations with the teenagers who've studied it 54:40
  30. ABC National Forum — migration and the kind of country Australia wants to be 55:16
  31. Buying and Selling the Poor at The Festival of Dangerous Ideas — Rick Morton, Mark Considine, Emily Roy with Natasha Mitchell 57:22
  32. Helen Garner reflects on five decades of writing — an ABC Radio National Top 100 Books countdown special 1:15:07
  33. Why Diego Bonetto wants you to eat weeds 54:36
  34. Feminist trailblazer Gloria Steinem with Natasha Mitchell and guests on travels that transformed them 54:54
  35. Are kid's books too moralistic, worthy, or 'woke'? Andy Griffiths, Hilary Rogers, Tamuz Ellazam for Radio National's Top 100 Books 55:46
  36. Inside the life of Elizabeth II with royal biographer Robert Hardman 54:35
  37. Tech activist Cory Doctorow says the internet's been enshittified. So is it too late to save it? 1:00:30
  38. John Brack once painted his children. Now his adult daughter tells her story of life with the famous artist 54:36
  39. Roman Krznaric on why the history of human solidarity offers us radical hope, even now 59:16
  40. Bob Spitz on the Rolling Stones and why all great music is a threat 54:05
  41. Stephanie Alexander with Adam Liaw on 30 years of The Cook's Companion 53:42
  42. Mick Herron, Suzie Miller and Benjamin Law on great adaptations — from the page to the stage to the screen, and back again 58:27
  43. Should social media be banned for over-16s too!? The 2026 Beaker Street Festival Great Debate 54:17
  44. Kerry O'Brien on the perfect storm destroying our politics — with Richard Flanagan 54:45
  45. Why Oz Harvest's Ronni Kahn wants you to join the "Order of the Teaspoon" to end food insecurity and waste 54:35
  46. Protecting Australia’s native plants 54:34
  47. Indigenous speculative fiction takes on the apocalypse — with Canadian sci-fi Indiginerd Chelsea Vowel 54:36
  48. Blast off! Exploring our solar system and beyond 54:36
  49. Too Dumb for Democracy? Why your brain struggles with good political decision-making 54:35
  50. What makes television? 100 years of tumultuous change 55:46