Big Ideas Podcast
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Big Ideas brings you lectures, conversations, features and special series from Australia and around the world. Prominent people are invited to present the results of their thinking on the major social, cultural, scientific or political issues that affect us all, or simply to talk frankly about their lives. Big Ideas, which includes the popular Boyer Lectures and, via the BBC, the Reith Lectures, is heard on ABC Radio National every Sunday afternoon at 5.
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  Big Ideas Have Big Consequences | This podcast offered by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation features lectures, conversations, and debates about the big ideas that have changed our world in the past and the present. Currently on the feed, veteran Australian broadcaster Terry Lane talks about art works that have changed the world as he discusses these works with biographers of the artists. Past podcasts cover how Charles Dickens'' Oliver Twist helped England raise living standards, how Leni Riefenstahl''s film Triumph of the Will fueled the popularity of Adolf Hitler & the Nazi party, and how Harriet Beecher Stowe''s novel Uncle Tom''s Cabin helped to spark the Civil War. Stay tuned to this one. |
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This podcast needs video, February 04, 2010
Reviewer: mr.steele
It's a good podcast but all too often I am left out what is being said by the lack of video. This should be a video podcast.
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Theology and the Future of Education
Thu, Feb 09, 2012
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Playing With Dickens
Wed, Feb 08, 2012
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Big Ideas 07 February 2012
Tue, Feb 07, 2012
What’s Vladimir Putin’s relationship with the West and where does his descent into authoritarianism lead Russia? Former BBC correspondent Angus Roxburgh explains at the London School of Economics how the West failed to understand the fears and aspirations following the collapse of communism.
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Big Ideas 06 February 2012
Mon, Feb 06, 2012
The United States is in the grip of institutional paralysis, unable to tackle long term economic weaknesses which were obscured by a two-decade long period of hegemony following the cold war. And China's model of state run capitalism may not be sustainable. So believes Lionel Barber, editor of The Financial Times, who delivers the 2011 Lowy lecture. Â Â
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Kevin Hart
Thu, Feb 02, 2012
Many of us don’t really understand ‘forgiveness’—that’s the assessment of Australian poet and philosopher Kevin Hart delivering the Simone Weil Annual Lecture at the Australian Catholic University last year. He takes on some conventional ideas about forgiveness and picks up both on some prevalent versions of Christian forgiveness and on some contemporary philosophical ideas, including those of philosopher Jacques Derrida with the intention to put forgiveness in its place—along with justice. Kevin Hart suggests two ways of understanding forgiveness—there is 'lyrical forgiveness' and 'narrative forgiveness'. Find out more about what he means by that ...
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The Great Partnership: God, Science and the Search for Meaning
Wed, Feb 01, 2012
Are science and religion parallel activities? Can they ever come together? Today's guest The Chief Rabbi of the Commonwealth Lord Jonathan Sacks believes that science is one thing, religion is another and they are like the twin hemispheres of the brain. Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean. Tonight he is in conversation with Dr Norman Swan at the Great Synagogue in Sydney.
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Ray Kurzweil
Tue, Jan 31, 2012
From heavy brick-sized mobile phones to multi-functional smart phones - technology has developed with an astonishing pace and one of the modern drivers of this race is Ray Kurzweil, one of America’s greatest thinkers and entrepreneurs. He is the inventor of optical character recognition, text-to-speech recognition technology and electronic keyboard instruments. At the Creative Innovation Conference in November last year, Ray Kurzweil talked about how creativity and innovation grow at an increasing pace and that in the not so far future medicine, biology, economy and social relationships will be subject to information technology and the law of exponential return.
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Big Ideas 30 January 2012
Mon, Jan 30, 2012
Paul Barclay speaks with Aboriginal writer, Melissa Lukashenko and Indigenous Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda.
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The Rocks and the Riot
Thu, Jan 26, 2012
How does a poet pick his themes? And how does he marry tradition with novelty and creativity?
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Philip Parsons Memorial Lecture: Katharine Brisbane
Wed, Jan 25, 2012
What are the challenges facing the arts and the theatre today? Katharine Brisbane, the co-founder of Currency Press, Australia’s performing arts publisher, and founding chair of the cultural activist association Currency House, is critical of the arts for failing to resonate with their audiences. Just before her 80th birthday, she delivers the 2011 Philip Parsons Memorial Lecture 'In Praise of Nepotism'.
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The 2011 John Bonython Lecture
Tue, Jan 24, 2012
What does it take to be a good leader and what is a good leader?
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Tim Flannery
Mon, Jan 23, 2012
Twenty-five years ago Tim Flannery was a young mammal scientist exploring remote Pacific Islands and discovering numerous new species. It was a hell of an adventure—and a far cry from his current role as federal climate commissioner. He talks about his new book Among The Islands.
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Sunday 22 January 2012
Sun, Jan 22, 2012
How long do you want to live? A century? Or longer? There's a concerted effort underway within science and medicine to push the boundaries of the human lifespan to as long as a thousand years. In the last in this series, we're off to the 2011 Adelaide Festival of Ideas, where our panellists explore how long humans might conceivably be able to live - and at the implications for the planet.
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