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RNZ: Great Ideas

A series about the ideas that shape the world we live in, recorded in collaboration with New Zealand universities.

  • 33 minutes 21 seconds
    We Have Eggs, Don't We?
    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?
    31 October 2017, 9:00 pm
  • 32 minutes 51 seconds
    The Quarter-Acre Dream Is Over
    Great Ideas looks at the future of Tamaki Makaurau - its housing, its transport, its population and its health.
    25 October 2017, 1:46 am
  • 33 minutes 28 seconds
    As If Born To
    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?
    17 October 2017, 9:00 pm
  • 32 minutes 15 seconds
    The Really Big Leap
    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?
    10 October 2017, 11:25 pm
  • 34 minutes 52 seconds
    Find Your Niche
    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.
    3 October 2017, 8:00 pm
  • 34 minutes 5 seconds
    You Have to Actually Climb Trees
    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?
    27 September 2017, 12:39 am
  • 49 minutes 17 seconds
    Darwin's Origin of the Species
    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 Professor Joe Zuccarello and Professor Joe Bulbulia.
    4 February 2017, 8:00 pm
  • 52 minutes 32 seconds
    Democracy and Its Discontents
    "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?
    28 January 2017, 8:00 pm
  • 48 minutes 23 seconds
    The Reformation
    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.
    21 January 2017, 8:00 pm
  • 50 minutes 35 seconds
    Art, Fashion, and Literature
    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.
    14 January 2017, 8:00 pm
  • 50 minutes 6 seconds
    Every Language Is a World
    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.
    7 January 2017, 8:00 pm
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