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  • Big Ideas brings you lectures, conversations, features and special series from Australia and around the world. Every year Big Ideas broadcasts the Boyer Lectures – where the ABC invites a prominent Australian, or group of Australians, to present the results of their thinking on major social, cultural, scientific or political issues in a series of six radio talks – and, via the BBC, the Reith Lectures.
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2008 Boyer Lectures - A Golden Age of Freedom, Lecture 3: The future of new

Sun, Nov 16
Rupert Murdoch at heart is a traditional newspaperman

In Conversation - Richard Holmes

Sun, Nov 16
To complement the Boyer Lectures we present some in depth interviews conducted by Robyn Williams, from his program In Conversation

2008 Boyer Lectures - A Golden Age of Freedom, Lecture 2: Who's afraid of n

Sun, Nov 9
Rupert Murdoch asks the question, who's afraid of new technology?, in the second program of the 2008 Boyer Lectures

In Conversation - Lord John Krebs

Sun, Nov 9
To complement the Boyer Lectures we present some in depth interviews conducted by Robyn Williams, from his program In Conversation

2008 Boyer Lectures - A Golden Age of Freedom, Lecture 1: Aussie rules: bri

Sun, Nov 2
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In Conversation - Simon Winchester

Sun, Nov 2
Also on Big Ideas during the Boyer series, ace science broadcaster Robyn Williams presents some of his best one-on-one interviews, drawn from his weekly program In Conversation

The great divide

Sun, Oct 26
Underneath the economic storm clouds lies a nation deeply riven

Who's afraid of China?

Sun, Oct 19
The Olympics was seen by many as China's 'coming out party' as a global superpower

Change in Queensland

Sun, Oct 12
The federal election of November 2007 gave us a Queenslander as Prime Minister and a Queenslander as Treasurer

Permission to speak: what right do you have to tell me what to say?

Sun, Oct 5

2008 Munster Award forum: the future of investigative journalism

Sun, Sep 28
No business model can keep it afloat

The Republic - are we there yet?

Sun, Sep 21
It has been nearly ten years since the republic was seriously discussed

We'd be better off without religion

Sun, Sep 14
When it comes to religion minds are usually made up

Saving the Enlightenment

Sun, Sep 7
We are children of the Enlightenment, that fruitful period of the 17th and 18th centuries that gave birth to our modern ways

Climate change update - Tim Flannery

Sun, Aug 31
The response to climate change has focused largely on what we can do to reduce the production of emissions

The freedom paradox - Clive Hamilton

Sun, Aug 24
We have never been so rich, healthy and free

Unfinished business - Mick Dodson

Sun, Aug 17
The Prime Minister has put unfinished constitutional business back on the agenda

Alexander Solzhenitsyn revisited

Sun, Aug 10
Alexander Solzhenitsyn has died at the age of 89

By 2020 only the rich will be at home in Australia

Sun, Aug 3
Are you feeling flush with funds after the decade-long commodities boom? Or is the cost of housing, groceries and petrol making you feel like a pauper? Today a flashpoint between those who believe we have never had it so good and those who reckon the dream has become a nightmare

Reith Lectures 2008 - Chinese Vistas : The Body Beautiful

Sun, Jul 27
China has a rich history and tradition of physical activity and prowess

Reith Lectures 2008 - Chinese Vistas : American Dreams

Sun, Jul 20
Once the US stood head and shoulders above China

Reith Lectures 2008 - Chinese Vistas : English Lessons

Sun, Jul 13
In the second lecture, Professor Jonathan Spence examines China's relations with Great Britain through the prism of three centuries of trade, warfare, unequal treaties and missionary endeavours that shaped mutual perceptions

Reith Lectures 2008 - Chinese Vistas

Sun, Jul 6
We hear much analysis about China as an emerging economic entity

Ross Garnaut - Measuring the Immeasurable

Sun, Jun 29
Climate change is a battleground of risk

Tackling that target (part two)

Sun, Jun 22
Forget renewable energy

Tackling that target (part one)

Sun, Jun 15
The federal government has committed us to reducing our greenhouse emissions by 60% over the next 40 years

Anne Manne - Love and Money

Sun, Jun 8
What ever happened to the barbecue stopper? The term has made it into the dictionary

Breakfast with John Gray

Sun, Jun 1
Take your place at the breakfast bar for a perceptive overview of global politics with acclaimed political philosopher John Gray

China is not fit to host the Olympics

Sun, May 25
The second Intelligence Squared debate takes on sport and politics

Muhammad Yunus

Sun, May 18
Australia is witnessing yet another round of bank mergers

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