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Sunday, 14 March 2010
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Sunday, 07 March 2010
Evolution of Evolutionary Ideas.
Sunday, 28 February 2010
A look at the issue of intellectual property and in particular the intellectual property of indigenous communities.
Sunday, 21 February 2010
Water: the contentious issues of water meters and privatisation
Sunday, 14 February 2010
Jeanette Fitzsimons - The people, writers and philosophies that inspire her
Sunday, 07 February 2010
The Forum: Guests and ideas explored from the BBC discussion programme The Forum
Sunday, 31 January 2010
Water Bottles: A look at the industry both in New Zealand and Internationally.
Sunday, 20 December 2009
The Big Ideas of 2009 and 2010.
Sunday, 13 December 2009
Youth Justice: Two Views
Sunday, 06 December 2009
Sandra Coney - the people, writers and thinkers who have influenced her.
Sunday, 29 November 2009
Bold claims have been made for the health benefits of Madiran wine - but do they really stack up?
Sunday, 22 November 2009
Electric Vehicles - Ideas producer Jeremy Rose takes an electric bicycle for a spin and takes a ride on a decades-old electric train, and Chris Laidlaw asks an energy consult just how environmentally friendly electric cars are likely to be.
Sunday, 15 November 2009
Democratic Education
Sunday, 08 November 2009
Britain's 10:10 Movement has seen more than 1500 business and 40,000 individuals - including the Prime Minister, the entire cabinet and a couple of hundred MPs - pledge to cut their carbon footprint by 10 percent. Ideas investigates.
Sunday, 01 November 2009
The Eagles Have Landed – Americans Who Settle In NZ for Political Reasons.
Sunday, 25 October 2009
Roger Kerr - The People, Writers and Thinkers Who Influenced His Ideas
Sunday, 18 October 2009
The Enviroschools movement and the philosophies that inspire it.
Sunday, 11 October 2009
Tonga - the economy: In the final of our series on Tonga we look at the economy and ask whether the transition to a truly democratic system has implications for the economic future of the country.
Sunday, 04 October 2009
Land Reforms in Tonga: Ideas hears that some people fear the changes will see Tongan land falling into the hands of foreigners for the first time in history.
Sunday, 27 September 2009
Tonga the Road to Democracy.
Sunday, 20 September 2009
Moana Jackson - the people, writers and philosophies that have inspired him.
Sunday, 13 September 2009
Ideas looks at Indonesia's troubled Papua region where there is widespread dissatisfaction with Indonesian rule among the indigenous Melanesians.
Sunday, 06 September 2009
Child Trafficking. Ideas talks to four women working with the victims of this most horrific of crimes.
Sunday, 30 August 2009
Lamar Waldron talks about the Kennedy family and his claim that the Mafia was responsible for JFK's assassination.
Sunday, 23 August 2009
Cycle Friendly Cities: Interviews with bicycle culture consultant Mikael Colville-Anderson, Wellington city councillor Celia Wade-Brown, and BikeNZ Kieran Turner.
Sunday, 16 August 2009
Unemployed Workers Movement from the 1930s to the present
Sunday, 09 August 2009
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Sunday, 02 August 2009
Ideas spends the hour with Dan Gardner author of Risk: The Science of Politics and Fear
Sunday, 26 July 2009
Free Data - New Zealand on the Net: A look at some publicly funded web initiatives and a discussion about the advantages of making data freely available.
Sunday, 19 July 2009
This week Ideas talks to Prof Daley and her colleague Dr Felicity Barnes about the changing face of New Zealand History.
Sunday, 12 July 2009
Pacific Leadership: Interviews with Tonga PM Dr Feleti Sevele and former premier of Niue Young Vivian.
Sunday, 05 July 2009
Cuts in funding to Adult and Community Education. We hear from several people who have been involved in adult education from different perspectives, and talk to Doctor Liz Gordon, National Chairperson for the Quality Public Education Coalition.
Sunday, 28 June 2009
Putting Your Life on the Line for Your Beliefs. Mark Derby on the Zealanders who fought in the Spanish Civil War in 1930s, and playwright Sam Fisher on being a humanshield in Sri Lanka.
Sunday, 21 June 2009
Iran: The Elections and the Nuclear Bomb. An interview with Emmanuele Ottolenghi and Maria Rublee.
Sunday, 14 June 2009
Homelessness. Ideas interviews two of the capital's homeless and talks to John McCarthy of Lifewise in Auckland.
Sunday, 07 June 2009
Witch burning in PNG and NZ's spirit world: Ideas hears from a PNG ethnologist who is convinced witches exist, talks to the president of the New Zealand Psychics Association, and hears from Professor Paul Morris about the history of witchcraft and sorcery in the Western tradition.
Sunday, 31 May 2009
The Holocaust in Popular Culture: Interviews with professor Omer Bartov about the Holocaust in popular culture and political debate, and sociologist Scott Hamilton on those in New Zealand who woudl deny the Holocaust ever took place.
Sunday, 24 May 2009
Multi-award winning journalist and author Christina Lamb on being a foreign correspondent.
Sunday, 17 May 2009
Ideas talks a judge, a criminal and a criminologist about crime, punishment and rehabilitation.
Sunday, 10 May 2009
The Future of Journalism: Ideas talks to US media academic Robert McChesney, Whitireia Journalism head Jim Tucker, and journalist Julie Starr.
Sunday, 03 May 2009
Ideas dedicates the hour to asking Michael Cullen what made him tick – what were the philosophies that drove him for his nearly three decades in Parliament.
Sunday, 26 April 2009
An episode of the BBCs Forum programme, featuring political scientist Ned Lebow; writer and historian Lisa Appignanesi; and Austrian physicist Peter Klimek.
Sunday, 19 April 2009
An episode of the BBC’s Forum programme featuring essayist and thinker Alain de Botton; poet and enthusiastic cyclist Paul Fournel; and Research biologist Brian J Ford.
Sunday, 12 April 2009
Aboriginal lawyer Megan Davis talks about the reaction in Australia to the Australian Government's official endorsement of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and we talk with Maori academic and long-time campaigner for the declaration Aroha Mead and MP and Maori Party foreign affairs spokesperson Hone Harawera.
Sunday, 05 April 2009
An episode of the BBC’s Forum programme which takes a look at the revolutions in sex and science and the transforming power of laughter in the ancient world.
Sunday, 29 March 2009
One Hundred Years of Prohibition: This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the first international meeting on the prohibition of drugs. A century later there are growing calls for a re-think of the policy.
Sunday, 22 March 2009
New Zealanders currently head up four police departments in the Pacific. Ideas talks to two of them, and former premier of Niue, Young Vivian, reflects on the vast difference in style between the current police chief and a New Zealand administrator who was murdered on the island in the 1950s.
Sunday, 15 March 2009
Bill Ballantine, Wade Doak and Victor Anderlini have all dedicated their working lives to protecting New Zealand's unique marine environment. Ideas talks to them about their differing visions of the best way to preserve our sea life.
Sunday, 08 March 2009
We hear about Bolivia's radical new constitution and talk to constitutional law experts Moana Jackson and Matthew Palmer about their different visions of constitutional change in New Zealand.
Sunday, 01 March 2009
A tribute to the life and work of Dr Ian Prior - father of public health in New Zealand, arts patrons, and anti-nuclear crusader.
Sunday, 22 February 2009
What are natural health remedies and do they work? Ideas talks to a natural health practitioner, medical school lecturer in general practice Dr Ben Gray, and Dr Shaun Holt author of 'Natural Health Remedies that Really Work'.
Sunday, 15 February 2009
A look at the extraordinary success of Britain's Cooperative Bank and the wider cooperative movement both in New Zealand and internationally.
Sunday, 08 February 2009
A look at conscientious objection internationally featuring interviews with an American serviceman seeking refugee status in Canada, two Israeli refuseniks, and Kiwi Moana Cole.
Sunday, 01 February 2009
A look at the history of Conscientious Objection in New Zealand featuring interviews with historian David Grant and John Baxter grandson of NZ's best known conchie - Archibald Baxter.

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