Listen Now - 04012009 | Download Audio - 04012009
Has food been replaced by nutrients; and common sense by confusion? Once upon a time we ate food. Now we eat nutrients, embedded in food-like substances, like yoghurt fortified with omega-3 or bread rolls infused with anti-oxidants.
Listen Now - 28122008 | Download Audio - 28122008
US/Canadian guest speaker Norman Doidge is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher, author, essayist and poet. When he set out to investigate neuroplasticity he met the brilliant scientists championing it and the people whose lives they've transformed, resulting in his book, The Brain That Changes Itself.
Listen Now - 21122008 | Download Audio - 21122008
Enough of the earnest ramblings from the rich and powerful about what's wrong with the place and how we all could be doing better. This week Big Ideas presents the Wharf Revue's 2008 production, Waiting for Garnaut. See what was really going through Malcolm Turnbull's mind as he waited for leadership. Sisters Kevin and Julia are counselled in the convent by Mother Paul. And brace yourself for the expatriate cultural super-heroes.
Listen Now - 14122008 | Download Audio - 14122008
Royal Commissions, research papers and government reports have told us for over twenty years what we need to do to improve the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal Australians. Yet by any measure we have failed miserably. Former Australian of the Year Professor Fiona Stanley presents her manifesto to defeat what she sees as our greatest injustice.
Sunday 5pm
repeated Saturday 7pm
Sunday 11 January 2009
The future of bush tucker: should Australians cultivate our native bush food -- kangaroo steaks, crocodile kebabs, emu prosciutto, Kakadu plum jam -- will they ever hit the big time or will they remain a kind of novelty act?
The 2008 lecture series, A Golden Age of Freedom is presented by Mr Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, News Corporation.Find out more...
Audio, transcripts and program information is available for an array of past Big Ideas features including The Boyer Lectures, The Wisdom Interviews, The Alfred Deakin Innovation Lectures and much more. [find out more...]
9am AEDT
Life Matters
with Richard Aedy
Informed debate on real life issues, with contributions, opinions and ideas from listeners
