Great Ideas
A series about the ideas that shape the world we live in, recorded in collaboration with New Zealand universities.
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Great Ideas - Part 1: 'Rebellion and Revolution'
22 Dec 2016Would the founding fathers have approved of Donald Trump? Probably not, says the panel in episode one of Great Ideas, a new RNZ podcast series in collaboration with Victoria University. Read more Audio
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Great Ideas - Part 2: 'Every Language is a World'
8 Jan 2017Megan Whelan looks at how language shapes – and is shaped by – our understanding of the world, with Dr Sasha Calhoun, Professor Paul Warren and Associate Professor Stephen Epstein. Read more Audio
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Great Ideas - Part 3: 'Art Fashion and Literature'
15 Jan 2017Megan Whelan look at how revolutions shape – and are shaped by – fashion, literature and the visual arts, with Dr David Maskill, Dr Margaret Medlyn and Dr James Meffan. Read more Audio
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Great Ideas - Part 4 'The Reformation'
22 Jan 2017The Reformation has had a major influence on thought and ideas far and above its religious beginnings. Megan Whelan talks with Dr Geoff Troughton, Professor Kathryn Walls and Dr Derek Woodard-Lehman.
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Great Ideas - Part 5: 'Democracy and its Discontents'
29 Jan 2017"Government of of the people, by the people, and for the people” – so goes Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. But does that describe 21st century democracy?
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Great Ideas - Part 6 'Darwin's Origin of the Species'
5 Feb 2017Charles Darwin's theories did not really 'come out of the blue'- there were others working with the same ideas and theories. Megan Whelan leads a discussion with Dr Rebecca Priestly, Associate… Read more Audio
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Great Ideas - Part 7: 'You have to actually climb trees'
27 Sep 2017In the first episode of Great Ideas season 2, Megan Whelan discusses the future of leisure with three experts from AUT. Once the robots have taken all of our jobs, what will we do with all that time?
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Great Ideas - Part 8: 'Find your niche'
4 Oct 2017This week, Great Ideas looks at how technology might impact the work that we do, where we do it, and how we survive when we can't work. Read more Audio
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Great Ideas - Part 9: 'The really big leap'
11 Oct 2017This week, Great Ideas looks at the future of communication - how we'll be chatting, and what language we'll be doing it in. And could your fridge teach you te reo? Read more Audio
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Great Ideas - Part 10: 'As if born to'
18 Oct 2017Great Ideas looks at the future of families - with more single people, more multi-generational families, and a more multi-cultural New Zealand, what happens to our family law? Read more Audio
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Great Ideas - Part 11: 'The quarter acre dream is over'
25 Oct 2017Great Ideas looks at the future of Tamaki Makaurau - its housing, its transport, its population and its health. Read more Audio
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Great Ideas - Part 12: 'We have eggs don't we?'
1 Nov 2017In the final episode of this series, three experts discuss the future of food - whether we will all be eating crickets, what is a balanced meal anyway, and will turmeric save us all? Read more Audio
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