Podcasts by 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 12: 'We have eggs don't we?' from 2017-11-01T10:00
In 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?
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Great Ideas - Part 11: 'The quarter acre dream is over' from 2017-10-25T10:00
Great Ideas looks at the future of Tamaki Makaurau - its housing, its transport, its population and its health.
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Great Ideas - Part 10: 'As if born to' from 2017-10-18T10:00
Great 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?
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Great Ideas - Part 9: 'The really big leap' from 2017-10-11T10:00
This 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?
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Great Ideas - Part 8: 'Find your niche' from 2017-10-04T09:00
This 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.
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Great Ideas - Part 7: 'You have to actually climb trees' from 2017-09-27T13:00
In 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 6 'Darwin's Origin of the Species' from 2017-02-05T09:00
Charles 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 Prof...
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Great Ideas - Part 5: 'Democracy and its Discontents' from 2017-01-29T09:00
"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 4 'The Reformation' from 2017-01-22T09:00
The 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 3: 'Art Fashion and Literature' from 2017-01-15T09:00
Megan 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.
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Great Ideas - Part 2: 'Every Language is a World' from 2017-01-08T09:00
Megan 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.
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Great Ideas - Part 1: 'Rebellion and Revolution' from 2016-12-22T10:00
Would 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.
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