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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?'

Great Ideas - Part 12: '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, ... Read more

31 Oct 2017

33mins

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Great Ideas - Part 11: 'The quarter acre dream is over'

Great Ideas - Part 11: 'The quarter acre dream is over'

Great Ideas looks at the future of Tamaki Makaurau - its housing, its transport, its population and its health.

24 Oct 2017

32mins

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Great Ideas - Part 10: 'As if born to'

Great Ideas - Part 10: 'As if born to'

Great Ideas looks at the future of families - with more single people, more multi-generational families, and a more mult... Read more

17 Oct 2017

33mins

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Great Ideas - Part 9: 'The really big leap'

Great Ideas - Part 9: '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... Read more

10 Oct 2017

32mins

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Great Ideas - Part 8: 'Find your niche'

Great Ideas - Part 8: '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... Read more

3 Oct 2017

34mins

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Great Ideas - Part 7: 'You have to actually climb trees'

Great Ideas - Part 7: '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. ... Read more

27 Sep 2017

34mins

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Great Ideas - Part 6 'Darwin's Origin of the Species'

Great Ideas - Part 6 '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 theor... Read more

4 Feb 2017

49mins

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Great Ideas - Part 5: 'Democracy and its Discontents'

Great Ideas - Part 5: 'Democracy and its Discontents'

"Government of of the people, by the people, and for the people” – so goes Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. But doe... Read more

28 Jan 2017

52mins

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Great Ideas - Part 4 'The Reformation'

Great Ideas - Part 4 'The Reformation'

The Reformation has had a major influence on thought and ideas far and above its religious beginnings. Megan Whelan talk... Read more

21 Jan 2017

48mins

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Great Ideas - Part 3: 'Art Fashion and Literature'

Great Ideas - Part 3: 'Art Fashion and Literature'

Megan Whelan look at how revolutions shape – and are shaped by – fashion, literature and the visual arts, with Dr David ... Read more

14 Jan 2017

50mins

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