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 pm and repeated on Saturdays at 7 pm; 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.

Until the end of 2014,[2] ABC TV also aired a television edition of Big Ideas at 11 am Tuesdays and Wednesdays (after ABC Schools TV or children's programs in school holidays), hosted by Waleed Aly.[3]

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
  1. "Big Ideas". Radio National. ABC. Archived from the original on 16 February 2008. Retrieved 28 February 2008.
  2. Knox, David (11 November 2014). "Axed: Big Ideas". TV Tonight. TV Tonight. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  3. "Big Ideas". ABC TV. Archived from the original on 25 May 2010. Retrieved 28 February 2008.


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