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RNZ: Great Ideas

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

RNZ: Great Ideas Podcast Guide

Listen to RNZ: Great Ideas, a Technology podcast by RNZ. Stream 12 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Episodes

12 episodes are available for this podcast.

Episodes

12 episodes

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 m...

00:33:21Oct 31, 2017

The Quarter-Acre Dream Is Over

Great Ideas looks at the future of Tamaki Makaurau - its housing, its transport, its population and its health. Go to this episode on rnz.co...

00:32:51Oct 25, 2017

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 Zeala...

00:33:28Oct 17, 2017

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...

00:32:15Oct 10, 2017

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. "If...

00:34:52Oct 3, 2017

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...

00:34:05Sep 27, 2017

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 le...

00:49:17Feb 4, 2017

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...

00:52:32Jan 28, 2017

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 Trou...

00:48:23Jan 21, 2017

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...

00:50:35Jan 14, 2017

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...

00:50:06Jan 7, 2017

Rebellion and Revolution

Would the founding fathers have approved of Donald Trump? Probably not, says the panel in episode one of Great Ideas, a new RNZ podcast seri...

00:45:19Dec 21, 2016

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