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Big Ideas

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Feed your mind. Be provoked. One big idea at a time. Your brain will love you for it. Grab your front row seat to the best live forums and festivals with Natasha Mitchell.
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Download This Show

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Download This Show is your weekly guide to the world of media, culture, and technology. From social media to gadgets, streaming services to privacy issues. Each week Marc Fennell and a team of people far smarter than him (his words, not ours) take a fun deep dive into how technology is reshaping our lives.
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Science Friction

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Artificial Intelligence has suddenly gone from the fringes of science to being everywhere. So how did we get here? And where's this all heading? In this new series of Science Friction, we're finding out.
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Between the Lines

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This program is no longer in production. Making sense of Australia’s place in the world, Between the Lines puts contemporary international issues and events into a broader historical context, seeking out original perspectives and challenging accepted wisdom.
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Off Track

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Off Track, with Ann Jones, is an Australian radio show and podcast which combines the relaxing sounds of nature with awesome stories of wildlife and environmental science, all recorded in the outdoors.
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Cosmic Vertigo

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Do you ever feel dizzy when you think about the incomprehensible scale of space? We call that feeling Cosmic Vertigo. Welcome to a head-spinning conversation between two friends about the sparkly -- and not so sparkly -- stuff in the sky.
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God Forbid

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Religion: it’s at the centre of world affairs, but profound questions still remain. Why are you here? What happens when you die? Does God matter? God Forbid seeks the answers.
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Stop Everything!

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Benjamin Law and Beverley Wang host your end-of-week blitz on what everyone's watching and listening to right now. Featuring big-name interviews that go deep, and big thoughts on pop culture with your two smart friends — this is the show about how everything in your feed reflects – and affects – the world. Culture moves fast — so Stop Everything! and listen in.
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Word Up

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Word Up shares the diverse languages of black Australia from Anmatyerre to Arrernte, from Bidjara to Bundjalung, from Nyungar to Ngaanyatjarra, from Yankunytjatjara to Yorta Yorta—one word at a time.
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Bev Francis - strongest woman in the world 28:38

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Bev Francis found out by accident she was the strongest woman in the world. It was the late 1970s, and the sport of women’s weightlifting was still new. When international records were compared, no one was as strong as Bev: she could defy gravity, lifting more than three times her bodyweight. Meet this forgotten champion of women’s muscle sports, w…
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Why do athletes choke under pressure? 29:09

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The siren has sounded. The scores are even. A footy player has one final chance to kick an easy goal to get his team into the finals. He’s right in front of the goals. He lines up. Kicks. Misses. The pressure of such a moment was phenomenal, and the player choked under it. So what happens in the brain during such intense periods? Why can some peopl…
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PRESENTS — I Was Actually There | The Boxing Day tsunami 2004 41:00

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I Was Actually There is a new ABC podcast featuring gripping stories told by people who witnessed history first-hand. Hear what it was like to be a police sniper tasked with handling the gunman at the Port Arthur massacre; how it felt to be a teenager seeing The Beatles during their record-breaking 1964 Adelaide visit; and how one man survived bein…
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Looking back with Dr Shellie Morris, and Elfie Shiosaki's 'Refugia' 54:04

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Dr Shellie Morris is returning to the National Indigenous Music Awards, this time, to perform with strong cultural women from Borroloola. Then, Noongar and Yawuru writer and academic Elfie Shiosaki has created a poetry collection that draws on the long memory of her Country. Plus, for Word Up, community broadcaster Henry Augustine takes you to Nyul…
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The Great Australian Camel Race (part 1) 26:11

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It’s April 1988, somewhere near Uluru, and the starter gun fires off one of the strangest, most audacious events to mark Australia's bicentennial year, the Great Australian Camel Race. People came from all around the world to take part in a feat which spanned over 3000km, as camels and humans endured scorching heat, flooding rains and serious sickn…
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Stanford University: the great university with a dark side 54:04

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The University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia are to be combined as one in 2026. So how do you start a new university? You could look at the most successful universities and see what makes them great. Stanford University, just south of San Francisco amid Silicon Valley in one of the great universities. Its graduates have created …
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Dylin Hardcastle's A Language of Limbs: emotionally true, structurally complex 54:06

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Kate Evans and Jonathan Green with guests Pip Williams and Sarah Bailey read Dylin Hardcastle's A Language of Limbs, Lev Grossman's The Bright Sword, Valeria Usala's A Woman in Sardinia and Jean-Baptiste del Amo's The Son of Man. Australian fiction, novels in translation, secrets and violence, cities and regions, queer love and emotional truths, an…
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Geoffrey Bawa, Elizabeth David, 15 minute cities, and glass art 54:04

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The work of Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa is celebrated in a new documentary, Annie Smithers explores the veggie chapter in Elizabeth David's French Provincial Cooking, we ask what benefits 15 minutes cities can bring for women in particular, and visit glass artist Nadine Keegan in her studio.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Our love affair with shopping malls 28:59

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Shopping malls are very big business globally and Australia's no different, with the twelve largest centres earning over $1 billion annually. Initially designed in the 1960s to accommodate hundreds of cars, targeting the suburban housewife, today they come in all sizes - from the big guns, to mini guns - and are much more responsive to diverse cult…
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Andrew O’Hagan's defence of literature and truth in the age of the machines 53:42

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In the shadow of the AI revolution, as the tech giants vie for our data, our attention, and our money, beloved Scottish author Andrew O'Hagan makes an impassioned case for the role of readers and writers as "frontline workers" in the fight for reality. These events were recorded at the Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival on 17 and 19 May 2024…
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Labor under pressure over CFMEU saga 34:00

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Labor's national executive has suspended the CFMEU, following explosive allegations from Nine papers about the alleged corruption and criminal behaviour at the centre of the powerful construction union. But as the Albanese Government looks to distance itself from the embattled union, Opposition leader Peter Dutton has called on the Government to go…
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Are the big US media platforms swallowing our culture? 29:08

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Global media players now dominate the entertainment business and hold the whip-hand when it comes to accessing local news content. In this program we get an update on Meta's ban on Canadian news content, specifically how it's impacted production of serious news and what's been the public reaction. We also get a reality check on just how interested …
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Lee Isaac Chung on disaster film Twisters 54:06

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Director Lee Isaac Chung on Twisters, a disaster film starring Daisy Edgar Jones and Glen Powell, about a pair of storm chasers who risk their lives to test a radical new weather alert system. Beautifully shot on 16mm, Cannes Un Certain Regard contender Việt And Nam tells the love story of two gay mineworkers in Vietnam. Filmmaker Quý Minh Trương j…
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Vanuatu tourism industry suffers from aviation failures 6:09

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Things are going from bad to worse for Vanuatu's tourism industry which is supposed to be enjoying its busiest period of the year. First Air Vanuatu was placed into liquidation in May, now one of the three domestic charter operators, Air Taxi, has had its operator’s licence suspended following a crash of one of its planes.…
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Marape meets Indonesia leader during stopover to Japan 5:20

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Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape stopped over in Indonesia while on he was on his way to Tokyo for the Pacific Island Leaders Meeting. He met and signed a number of trade agreements with President Joko Widodo. It's the latest of a number of meetings between Marape and the Government of Indonesia over the last three years, reflecting a…
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Political violence — why is it so corrosive to democratic life? 53:49

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The attempted assassination of former US President Donald Trump, while undeniably shocking, was not altogether surprising. It was just the latest blow in a steady drumbeat of political violence that has only grown louder over the last decade. This reflects the fact that political violence is “in the air”, and is increasingly being regarded by many …
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The surprising bonds that make us, break us, move us — Ceridwen Dovey, Anna McGahan, Ahona Guha 54:10

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Join Natasha Mitchell and guests for a conversation full of surprises on the bonds that make us and sometimes break us. Bad dates, spaceships, surviving cults, the creature within, mother love, loss, and more — how do our attachments shape our minds and lives? Thanks to Griffith Review and the Brisbane Writers Festival for organising this event. Sp…
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Iris van Herpen: the Dutch fashion designer who sculpts clothing 54:06

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She’s an artist whose medium is fashion. Dutch designer Iris van Herpen is an innovator, remaking high fashion to be wearable art - fabric is almost plastic in her hands, moulding and shaping it so that it becomes a sculptural form. The first designer to ever 3D print a dress, her atelier in Amsterdam is more like a problem-solving incubator. She t…
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On Trump assassination attempt, Tenacious D's Kyle Gass said the quiet part out loud 30:48

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What happens when you say the quiet part out loud? For Tenacious D's Kyle Gass, it means a tour cancellation and possibly the end of the band, with co-founder Jack Black announcing "all future creative plans are on on hold" after Gass shared his birthday wish on stage: "don't miss Trump next time." It's been a wild week of news from an assassinatio…
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Japan seeks to increase development cooperation at Pacific Leaders Meeting 9:53

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Leaders from 18 Pacific Island countries are in Tokyo for the Pacific Leaders Meeting. The tri-annual event, which acts as a forum between the Japanese Government and its Pacific Island neighbours, is an opportunity for Japan to hold direct discussions with its donor recipients in the region.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The challenge for Keir Starmer and pioneering nurses in the AIDS crisis 54:06

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Will British PM Keir Starmer be able to restore faith in politics in the UK? And who will the Tories choose as their next leader? Plus the little told story of the nurses who cared for, and advocated for, AIDS patients, when most people were afraid of them.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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