All episodes
Sunday, 28 July 2013
New Zealand spends $15 billion a year on health and the budget just keeps growing - should the public have more say in how the money is spent?
Full episodeSunday, 14 July 2013
Exploring the relationship between humanity and the natural world.
Full episodeSunday, 7 July 2013
Publisher Bridget Williams talks about her life and work and who has influenced her along her journey.
Full episodeSunday, 30 June 2013
Jim Kebbell of Commonsense Organics, Jeremy Howden of Te Manaia Organics and Frank van Steensil of Wairarapa Eco Farms tell Ideas about the organics movement.
Full episodeSunday, 23 June 2013
Ideas speaks to Murdoch Stephens about the Doing Our Bit campaign, which is aimed at doubling New Zealand's refugee quota; and Mary Mowbray, who came to New Zealand after hiding in Budapest through the Holocaust.
Full episodeSunday, 16 June 2013
Ideas speaks to Sensible Sentencing Trust spokesperson Garth McVicar, former Corso spokesperson David Small, former head of the Charities Commission Trevor Garrett and independent charities researcher Michael Gousmett.
Full episodeSunday, 2 June 2013
Ideas takes a look at Myanmar in the latest of their occasional Countries in Focus series
Full episodeSunday, 26 May 2013
Ideas explores the issues around New Zealand's bid for a place on the 2015-16 United Nations Security Council
Full episodeSunday, 19 May 2013
Chris Laidlaw talks to historian and author Ian Hunter about the influence of religion on the history of business and the economy in New Zealand.
Full episodeSunday, 12 May 2013
Mana Party leader Hone Harawira’s The Education (Breakfast and Lunch in Schools) Amendment Bill – or as its better known the Feed the Kids Bill – is due to be debated in Parliament next month.
Full episodeSunday, 5 May 2013
Last year was the 100th anniversary of the passing of the Public Service Act – an Act that defined the public service for the best part of a century. This year it’s the turn of the Public Service Association to celebrate its centenary.
Full episodeSunday, 28 April 2013
Jim Bolger on the individuals, writers and thinkers who have influenced him.
Full episodeSunday, 21 April 2013
The Kurds are the world’s largest ethnic group without a state; with an estimated population of 30 million spread across Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran.
Full episodeSunday, 7 April 2013
Ideas takes a look at imprisonment and rehabilitation, and asks what works and what doesn’t.
Full episodeSunday, 31 March 2013
Esperanto is undoubtedly the best known and most successful invented language but it’s far from the only one.
Full episodeSunday, 24 March 2013
Richard Louv talks about his latest book The Nature Principle; Austrian physicist Ille Gebeshuber tells us about bio-mimicry and the inspiration she takes from rainforests; and we hear about a small rural primary school that is using the Whirinaki forest as an extension of its classrooms.
Full episodeSunday, 3 March 2013
Ideas talks to two architects who advocate higher density housing not just for those reasons but because they believe, if done right, it will result in more livable houses and communities.
Full episodeSunday, 24 February 2013
50 years after New Zealand had its last case of wild polio the world is on the cusp of eradicating the disease for good.
Full episodeSunday, 17 February 2013
Serial entrepreneur Melissa Clark-Reynolds reflects on her life and influences.
Full episode