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Our presenters Douglas Kerr, Vanessa Collingridge and guests explore the history, meaning and significance of ideas in contemporary society.
The Big Idea
English, History, 1 season, 85 episodes, 1 day, 15 hours, 10 minutes
The Big Idea
English, History, 1 season, 85 episodes, 1 day, 15 hours, 10 minutes
Programme 86: Bollywood
10/30/2016 • 28 minutes, 21 seconds
Programme 85: Conservation
10/23/2016 • 28 minutes, 18 seconds
Programme 84: Fish
10/16/2016 • 28 minutes, 8 seconds
Programme 83: Chinese Opera
10/9/2016 • 28 minutes, 5 seconds
Programme 82: Reporting
10/2/2016 • 28 minutes, 30 seconds
Programme 81: Moby Dick
9/25/2016 • 28 minutes, 23 seconds
Programme 80: The Art Image
9/18/2016 • 28 minutes, 10 seconds
Programme 79: Eileen Chang
9/11/2016 • 28 minutes, 28 seconds
Programme 78: Artificial Intelligence
9/4/2016 • 28 minutes, 15 seconds
Programme 77: The Maclehose Years
8/28/2016 • 28 minutes, 18 seconds
Programme 76: Creativity
8/21/2016 • 28 minutes, 14 seconds
Programme 75: The Rule of Law
8/14/2016 • 28 minutes, 12 seconds
Programme 74: The Bird World
2/21/2016 • 28 minutes, 11 seconds
Programme 73: T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
2/14/2016 • 28 minutes, 9 seconds
Programme 72: Chamber music
2/7/2016 • 28 minutes, 12 seconds
Programme 71: Wittgenstein
1/31/2016 • 28 minutes, 5 seconds
Programme 70: Notes on Ghost Stories of the Qing
1/24/2016 • 28 minutes, 23 seconds
Programme 69: The Future of Africa
1/17/2016 • 28 minutes, 10 seconds
Programme 68: Transgender
1/10/2016 • 28 minutes, 4 seconds
Programme 67: The Dunhuang Caves
1/3/2016 • 28 minutes, 2 seconds
Programme 66: Remembering the Holocaust
12/27/2015 • 28 minutes, 4 seconds
Programme 65: Cosmology
12/20/2015 • 27 minutes, 40 seconds
Programme 64: Bilingualism
12/13/2015 • 28 minutes, 16 seconds
Programme 63: The Jesuits
12/6/2015 • 27 minutes, 58 seconds
Programme 62: Evidence
2/28/2015 • 27 minutes, 59 seconds
Programme 61: Music
2/21/2015 • 28 minutes, 20 seconds
Programme 60: The Trials of Oscar Wilde
2/14/2015 • 27 minutes, 47 seconds
Programme 59: Lu Xun
2/7/2015 • 28 minutes, 25 seconds
Programme 58: Genomics
1/31/2015 • 27 minutes, 51 seconds
Programme 57: Free Speech
1/24/2015 • 28 minutes
Programme 56: Hennessy's Hong Kong
1/17/2015 • 28 minutes, 22 seconds
Programme 55: Nanotechnology
1/10/2015 • 28 minutes, 29 seconds
Programme 54: Wagner
1/3/2015 • 28 minutes, 6 seconds
Programme 53: Slavery
12/27/2014 • 28 minutes, 5 seconds
Programme 52: Postcolonialism
12/20/2014 • 27 minutes, 4 seconds
Programme 51: The Synagogue
12/13/2014 • 27 minutes, 13 seconds
Programme 50: Cancer
11/25/2013 • 25 minutes, 10 seconds
Programme 49: Life Writing
11/18/2013 • 27 minutes, 38 seconds
Programme 48: The US Constitution
11/11/2013 • 28 minutes, 28 seconds
Programme 46: The Chinese written character 26-10-2013
10/28/2013 • 28 minutes, 6 seconds
Programme 45: Drugs and Addiction
10/21/2013 • 28 minutes, 14 seconds
Big Data 12-10-2013
10/15/2013 • 28 minutes, 39 seconds
Confucius
10/7/2013 • 28 minutes, 19 seconds
Programme 42: Demography 28-9-2013
9/30/2013 • 28 minutes, 39 seconds
Programme 41: Who Owns Ideas? 11-5-2013
5/13/2013 • 29 minutes, 16 seconds
Programme 40: Sexuality and Society 4-5-2013
5/6/2013 • 28 minutes, 19 seconds
Programme 39: The language of Chinese painting 27-4-2013
4/29/2013 • 28 minutes, 47 seconds
Programme 38: Monks and Nuns
4/22/2013 • 28 minutes, 42 seconds
Programme 37: Virginia Woolf 13-4-2013
4/15/2013 • 27 minutes, 57 seconds
The Basic Law 6-4-2013
4/8/2013 • 28 minutes, 34 seconds
Programme 35: Conducting 30-3-2013
4/2/2013 • 28 minutes, 58 seconds
Programme 34: Capitalism Today 23-3-2013
3/25/2013 • 29 minutes, 1 second
The American Declaration of Independence 16-3-2013
3/18/2013 • 28 minutes, 49 seconds
The future of books 9-3-2013
3/11/2013 • 28 minutes, 33 seconds
Zhou Enlai 2-3-2013
3/4/2013 • 29 minutes, 1 second
History of Chinese Food 24-2-2013
2/25/2013 • 28 minutes, 57 seconds
Compass 9-6-2012
6/11/2012 • 27 minutes, 30 seconds
Giftedness 2-6-2012
6/4/2012 • 27 minutes, 49 seconds
Body Clocks 27-5-2012
5/28/2012 • 27 minutes, 1 second
Feminism 20-5-2012
5/21/2012 • 29 minutes, 2 seconds
5 Senses 13-5-2012
5/14/2012 • 28 minutes, 51 seconds
Crime Fiction Part.2 28-4-2012
4/30/2012 • 28 minutes, 18 seconds
Programme 22 - Zheng He & the Ming Voyages 14-4-2012
4/25/2012 • 25 minutes, 9 seconds
Crime Fiction Part.1 21-4-2012
4/23/2012 • 14 minutes, 17 seconds
Managerialism 7-4-2012
4/10/2012 • 28 minutes, 42 seconds
Psychotherapy 31-3-2012
4/2/2012 • 25 minutes, 16 seconds
Charles Dickens 24-3-2012
3/26/2012 • 29 minutes, 10 seconds
George Orwell 17-3-2012
3/19/2012 • 28 minutes, 27 seconds
Alan Turing 10-3-2012
3/12/2012 • 26 minutes, 32 seconds
Theory of evolution Part II 3-3-2012
3/5/2012 • 26 minutes, 2 seconds
Theory of evolution 25-2-2012
2/27/2012 • 26 minutes, 47 seconds
The History and Development of Theatre, part II 18-2-2012
2/21/2012 • 25 minutes, 31 seconds
The History and Development of Theatre, part I 11-2-2012
2/13/2012 • 27 minutes, 23 seconds
Globalisation 4-2-2011
2/6/2012 • 28 minutes, 45 seconds
Ageing 28-1-2012
1/30/2012 • 28 minutes, 12 seconds
Daoism 21-1-2012
1/30/2012 • 26 minutes, 1 second
Natural disasters
1/16/2012 • 24 minutes, 43 seconds
Algorithms 7-1-2012
1/9/2012 • 26 minutes, 17 seconds
Sleep
1/3/2012 • 25 minutes, 6 seconds
Confucianism
12/29/2011 • 25 minutes, 51 seconds
Intelligence 17-12-2011
12/19/2011 • 27 minutes, 32 seconds
Calculus 10-12-2011
12/12/2011 • 24 minutes, 46 seconds
The Novel 3-12-2011
12/5/2011 • 28 minutes, 15 seconds
Happiness
11/28/2011 • 27 minutes, 14 seconds
The Sea
11/21/2011 • 25 minutes, 39 seconds