Big Ideas (Australia)

Big Ideas is a weekly radio program on ABC Radio National which presents lectures or panels on ideas or issues of particular importance. It is broadcast on Sundays at 5:00 p.m. and repeated on Saturdays at 7:00 p.m.; in addition, it is available as a podcast from ABC Radio National.^[1]

There is no fixed host for the program; various ABC broadcasters have introduced the lecture or panel.

ABC TV also airs a television edition of Big Ideas at 11am Tuesdays & Wednesdays (after ABC Schools TV or children's programs in school holidays), hosted by Waleed Aly.^[2]

Programs

2008

• Sunday 24 February

Does Secularism Provoke Religious Extremism?
The Annual Acton Lecture on Religion and Freedom, given by Tom Frame, an Anglican bishop.

• Sunday 17 February

The Reith Global Debate - Free To Speak?
What do Onora O'Neill, Wole Soyinka and Jeffrey Sachs, recent Reith Lecturers for the BBC, discuss freedom of the press.

• Sunday 10 February

Relations on a finite planet
Lord Robert May, a former head of the UK Office of Science and Technology, spoke on the effects of overpopulation and global warming.

• Sunday 3 February

Global finance: big, bloated and dangerous?
Dr. Paul Wooley spoke about the challenge of global finance.

References