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The Big Idea

English, History, 1 season, 85 episodes, 1 day, 15 hours, 10 minutes
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Our presenters Douglas Kerr, Vanessa Collingridge and guests explore the history, meaning and significance of ideas in contemporary society.
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Programme 86: Bollywood

10/30/201628 minutes, 21 seconds
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Programme 85: Conservation

10/23/201628 minutes, 18 seconds
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Programme 84: Fish

10/16/201628 minutes, 8 seconds
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Programme 83: Chinese Opera

10/9/201628 minutes, 5 seconds
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Programme 82: Reporting

10/2/201628 minutes, 30 seconds
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Programme 81: Moby Dick

9/25/201628 minutes, 23 seconds
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Programme 80: The Art Image

9/18/201628 minutes, 10 seconds
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Programme 79: Eileen Chang

9/11/201628 minutes, 28 seconds
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Programme 78: Artificial Intelligence

9/4/201628 minutes, 15 seconds
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Programme 77: The Maclehose Years

8/28/201628 minutes, 18 seconds
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Programme 76: Creativity

8/21/201628 minutes, 14 seconds
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Programme 75: The Rule of Law

8/14/201628 minutes, 12 seconds
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Programme 74: The Bird World

2/21/201628 minutes, 11 seconds
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Programme 73: T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land

2/14/201628 minutes, 9 seconds
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Programme 72: Chamber music

2/7/201628 minutes, 12 seconds
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Programme 71: Wittgenstein

1/31/201628 minutes, 5 seconds
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Programme 70: Notes on Ghost Stories of the Qing

1/24/201628 minutes, 23 seconds
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Programme 69: The Future of Africa

1/17/201628 minutes, 10 seconds
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Programme 68: Transgender

1/10/201628 minutes, 4 seconds
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Programme 67: The Dunhuang Caves

1/3/201628 minutes, 2 seconds
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Programme 66: Remembering the Holocaust

12/27/201528 minutes, 4 seconds
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Programme 65: Cosmology

12/20/201527 minutes, 40 seconds
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Programme 64: Bilingualism

12/13/201528 minutes, 16 seconds
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Programme 63: The Jesuits

12/6/201527 minutes, 58 seconds
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Programme 62: Evidence

2/28/201527 minutes, 59 seconds
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Programme 61: Music

2/21/201528 minutes, 20 seconds
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Programme 60: The Trials of Oscar Wilde

2/14/201527 minutes, 47 seconds
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Programme 59: Lu Xun

2/7/201528 minutes, 25 seconds
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Programme 58: Genomics

1/31/201527 minutes, 51 seconds
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Programme 57: Free Speech

1/24/201528 minutes
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Programme 56: Hennessy's Hong Kong

1/17/201528 minutes, 22 seconds
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Programme 55: Nanotechnology

1/10/201528 minutes, 29 seconds
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Programme 54: Wagner

1/3/201528 minutes, 6 seconds
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Programme 53: Slavery

12/27/201428 minutes, 5 seconds
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Programme 52: Postcolonialism

12/20/201427 minutes, 4 seconds
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Programme 51: The Synagogue

12/13/201427 minutes, 13 seconds
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Programme 50: Cancer

11/25/201325 minutes, 10 seconds
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Programme 49: Life Writing

11/18/201327 minutes, 38 seconds
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Programme 48: The US Constitution

11/11/201328 minutes, 28 seconds
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Programme 46: The Chinese written character 26-10-2013

10/28/201328 minutes, 6 seconds
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Programme 45: Drugs and Addiction

10/21/201328 minutes, 14 seconds
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Big Data 12-10-2013

10/15/201328 minutes, 39 seconds
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Confucius

10/7/201328 minutes, 19 seconds
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Programme 42: Demography 28-9-2013

9/30/201328 minutes, 39 seconds
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Programme 41: Who Owns Ideas? 11-5-2013

5/13/201329 minutes, 16 seconds
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Programme 40: Sexuality and Society 4-5-2013

5/6/201328 minutes, 19 seconds
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Programme 39: The language of Chinese painting 27-4-2013

4/29/201328 minutes, 47 seconds
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Programme 38: Monks and Nuns

4/22/201328 minutes, 42 seconds
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Programme 37: Virginia Woolf 13-4-2013

4/15/201327 minutes, 57 seconds
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The Basic Law 6-4-2013

4/8/201328 minutes, 34 seconds
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Programme 35: Conducting 30-3-2013

4/2/201328 minutes, 58 seconds
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Programme 34: Capitalism Today 23-3-2013

3/25/201329 minutes, 1 second
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The American Declaration of Independence 16-3-2013

3/18/201328 minutes, 49 seconds
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The future of books 9-3-2013

3/11/201328 minutes, 33 seconds
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Zhou Enlai 2-3-2013

3/4/201329 minutes, 1 second
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History of Chinese Food 24-2-2013

2/25/201328 minutes, 57 seconds
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Compass 9-6-2012

6/11/201227 minutes, 30 seconds
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Giftedness 2-6-2012

6/4/201227 minutes, 49 seconds
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Body Clocks 27-5-2012

5/28/201227 minutes, 1 second
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Feminism 20-5-2012

5/21/201229 minutes, 2 seconds
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5 Senses 13-5-2012

5/14/201228 minutes, 51 seconds
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Crime Fiction Part.2 28-4-2012

4/30/201228 minutes, 18 seconds
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Programme 22 - Zheng He & the Ming Voyages 14-4-2012

4/25/201225 minutes, 9 seconds
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Crime Fiction Part.1 21-4-2012

4/23/201214 minutes, 17 seconds
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Managerialism 7-4-2012

4/10/201228 minutes, 42 seconds
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Psychotherapy 31-3-2012

4/2/201225 minutes, 16 seconds
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Charles Dickens 24-3-2012

3/26/201229 minutes, 10 seconds
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George Orwell 17-3-2012

3/19/201228 minutes, 27 seconds
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Alan Turing 10-3-2012

3/12/201226 minutes, 32 seconds
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Theory of evolution Part II 3-3-2012

3/5/201226 minutes, 2 seconds
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Theory of evolution 25-2-2012

2/27/201226 minutes, 47 seconds
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The History and Development of Theatre, part II 18-2-2012

2/21/201225 minutes, 31 seconds
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The History and Development of Theatre, part I 11-2-2012

2/13/201227 minutes, 23 seconds
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Globalisation 4-2-2011

2/6/201228 minutes, 45 seconds
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Ageing 28-1-2012

1/30/201228 minutes, 12 seconds
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Daoism 21-1-2012

1/30/201226 minutes, 1 second
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Natural disasters

1/16/201224 minutes, 43 seconds
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Algorithms 7-1-2012

1/9/201226 minutes, 17 seconds
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Sleep

1/3/201225 minutes, 6 seconds
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Confucianism

12/29/201125 minutes, 51 seconds
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Intelligence 17-12-2011

12/19/201127 minutes, 32 seconds
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Calculus 10-12-2011

12/12/201124 minutes, 46 seconds
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The Novel 3-12-2011

12/5/201128 minutes, 15 seconds
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Happiness

11/28/201127 minutes, 14 seconds
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The Sea

11/21/201125 minutes, 39 seconds