Great Ideas
A series about the ideas that shape the world we live in, recorded in collaboration with New Zealand universities.
Episodes
November 1, 2017 • 33 mins
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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October 25, 2017 • 32 mins
Great Ideas looks at the future of Tamaki Makaurau - its housing, its transport, its population and its health.
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October 18, 2017 • 33 mins
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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October 11, 2017 • 32 mins
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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October 4, 2017 • 34 mins
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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September 27, 2017 • 34 mins
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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February 5, 2017 • 49 mins
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.
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January 29, 2017 • 52 mins
"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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January 22, 2017 • 48 mins
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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January 15, 2017 • 50 mins
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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January 8, 2017 • 50 mins
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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December 22, 2016 • 45 mins
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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