Fora Radio Podcast
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Join Paul Barclay each week as he presents a range of talks and events sure to have you thinking and talking. Across the globe interest is growing in talks, forums, debates and festivals of ideas. The wired era has given access to a huge range of speakers and events from all corners of the world. Through a dedicated website and two TV slots on ABC 2, ABC Fora has gathered the most interesting and challenging talks events; now, with Fora Radio, ABC Radio National joins in the fray.
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Fora Radio 2009-11-18
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Nov 18, 2009
Lyndon Terracini, the newly appointed artistic director of Opera Australia, voices his concerns about the state of the arts and outlines why he believes many of our cultural institutions must change.
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Fora Radio 2009-11-11
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Nov 11, 2009
The development of a national curriculum is now underway, with trials in some schools expected to start next year. Getting it right, say those involved, is a once-in-a-generation opportunity. So what should a national curriculum look like and how it might incorporate and address issues relating to Indigenous education?
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Fora Radio 2009-11-04
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Nov 04, 2009
The final in the 2009 series of Intelligence Squared (IQ2) debates.
We end the season on a light-hearted and irreverent note.
The motion before the house: 'That intelligence squared should shove off to Melbourne where it belongs.'
An amusing debate that rekindles old Sydney v Melbourne rivalries
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Fora Radio 2009-10-28
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Oct 28, 2009
Once conventional wisdom told us that the human brain was machine like, fixed, hard wired and unchanging. But new research tells another quite different story. Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and popular author Norman Doidge outlines the idea of brain plasticity. It seems that the brain is much more able to adapt, change and grow than has been previously thought, even for mature aged people.
Highlights from the Sydney Writers Festival
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