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Big Ideas

Feed your mind. Be provoked. One big idea at a time. Your brain will love you for it. Grab your front row seat to the best live forums and festivals with Natasha Mitchell.

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50 episodes

Sep 18, 2025•—

Fleeced — unravelling the history of wool and war

Sep 22, 2025•—

The power of essays — with David Marr, Esther Anatolitis, Brooke Boland and Ashleigh Wilson

Sep 23, 2025•—

Helen Vatsikopoulos — when the stories of migrants in Australia are silenced it's bad for all of us

Sep 24, 2025•—

Nobel scientist Jennifer Doudna with Natasha Mitchell — the gene editing revolution, radical ethics, and what's next? [Archive episode]

Sep 25, 2025•—

Yolngu power — art, culture, country, law — with Marcia Langton and Clare Wright

Sep 29, 2025•—

The rise of Spotify and the costs of the perfect playlist — with music journalist Liz Pelly

Sep 30, 2025•—

Condoleezza Rice on how to fix the break-up of global cooperation

Oct 1, 2025•—

Is AI the new coloniser? How to create more life-centred AI before it's too late

Oct 1, 2025•—

Vale Dr Jane Goodall — why the renowned primatologist and environmentalist held onto hope

Oct 2, 2025•—

Genocides are everyone's business, not no-one's business — Gareth Evans, Yassmin Khadra, Daniel Abot's urgent plea for peace

Oct 6, 2025•—

'Militarism gone mad' — Labor firebrand hits out at party’s support of AUKUS

Oct 7, 2025•—

John Lennon and Paul McCartney — a partnership that changed cultural history

Oct 8, 2025•—

Prove It! Elizabeth Finkel's Scientific Guide for the Post-Truth Era

Oct 9, 2025•—

Maria Ressa on what Donald Trump learnt from Rodrigo Duterte and other strongman rulers

Oct 13, 2025•—

Can the Democrats save democracy in the US?

Oct 14, 2025•—

Who killed the liberal international order (and what comes next)?

Oct 15, 2025•—

We’re F**ed! It’s too late to avoid civilisational collapse. 2025 Beaker Street Festival Great Debate

Oct 16, 2025•—

Is Jane Austen the greatest English novelist of all time?

Oct 20, 2025•—

How to build a stock exchange — the past, present and future of finance

Oct 21, 2025•—

New legislation to protect you against invasion of your privacy

Oct 22, 2025•—

Ziggy Ramo’s latest project asks what makes us human?

Oct 23, 2025•—

Nobel laureate Donna Strickland on her life in lasers

Oct 27, 2025•—

Alexander the Great — A genius? A tyrant? A visionary? A killer? A maniac?

Oct 28, 2025•—

Matrescence — on the metamorphosis of motherhood

Oct 29, 2025•—

What Artists See? Critic Quentin Sprague helps you get to the messy human heart of art

Oct 30, 2025•—

Out of this world — with Booker Prize winning author Samantha Harvey

Nov 3, 2025•—

Why we need to cancel cancel culture — with defamation barrister Sue Chrysanthou

Nov 4, 2025•—

Anne Summers — 50 Years of Damned Whores and God’s Police

Nov 4, 2025•—

ABC's CITIZEN JURY — Fixing salmon farming's environmental harms in Tasmania

Nov 6, 2025•—

Empire of AI — Karen Hao goes inside the reckless race for total world domination

Nov 10, 2025•—

An intriguing story of art and espionage — how a classical scholar turned codebreaker during World War 2

Nov 11, 2025•—

Gough Whitlam's dismissal — why is it still relevant today?

Nov 12, 2025•—

Fixing Australia's housing crisis — is increasing supply really a silver bullet?

Nov 13, 2025•—

One day, everyone will have always been against this — Omar El Akkad and Peter Greste reckon with Western hypocrisy over Israel's war on Gaza

Nov 17, 2025•—

Universities and other antidotes to authoritarianism

Nov 18, 2025•—

Understanding China's history is crucial for Australia

Nov 19, 2025•—

The Sophia Club live philosophy — what are friends for?

Nov 20, 2025•—

Searching for convivencia — philosopher AC Grayling makes peace in the culture wars

Nov 24, 2025•—

Coming Out and Inviting In — with Zoe Terakes, Nina Oyama, Mon Schafter, Atari Metcalf, Ji Wallace

Nov 25, 2025•—

Jane Caro — why Australia is failing our school system

Nov 26, 2025•—

What are universities for today? The usefulness of "useless" knowledge

Nov 27, 2025•—

Musician Holly Rankin on why young Australians feel that politics isn't delivering for them

Dec 1, 2025•—

Judge Navi Pillay on the fight for human rights, justice and accountability

Dec 2, 2025•—

The stories we tell about cricket — with Paul Giles and Gideon Haigh

$Acclaimed author Christos Tsiolkas on fence-sitting in a time of fracture$

Dec 3, 2025•—

Acclaimed author Christos Tsiolkas on fence-sitting in a time of fracture

Dec 4, 2025•—

Can science keep dementia at bay and keep your brain sharper − for longer?

Dec 8, 2025•—

Pay attention — writer Emily Maguire finds promiscuous curiosity and cultural receptivity in the creative process

Dec 9, 2025•—

Victoria's new treaty with First Peoples — a turning point for Australia?

Dec 10, 2025•—

A song for every feeling? Pub Choir's Astrid Jorgensen with Natasha Mitchell

Dec 11, 2025•—

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