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ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Big Ideas offers lectures on a variety of thought-provoking topics which range across politics, culture, economics, art history, science.... By nature of its lecture format, pacing and inquisitive approach, it is the antithesis of the prevailing sound-bite television norm. The simple, bold concept is a victory of substance over style. Big Ideas airs Saturdays and Sundays at 5:00 PM EST on TVO - Canada's largest educational broadcaster.
Update frequency:
every 11 days
Average audio length:
47 minutes
English
Canada
322 episodes
since Oct. 20, 2007
episodic
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~52.48% of listeners are from Canada.
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CA
52.48%
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AU
16.74%
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US
15.83%
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GB
3.16%
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BR
1.80%
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RS
1.35%
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ES
1.35%
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ZA
1.35%
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JP
0.90%
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ID
0.90%
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IE
0.90%
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PL
0.45%
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IN
0.45%
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CL
0.45%
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BE
0.45%
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UG
0.45%
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CH
0.45%
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PH
0.45%
Others
0.09%
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Robert Adams, author of A Love of Reading, discusses the novel Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry.
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Christopher Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great, on The Three New Commandments.
Robert Adams, author of A Love of Reading, discusses the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.
Hazel Carby looks at the historic relationship between England and Jamaica, including the history of the slave trade in Bristol and the complex question of identity for those of mixed British and West Indian heritage.
Robert Adams, author of A Love of Reading, discusses the novel Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie.
Thomas Merritt, Canada Research Chair in Genomics and Bio-informatics at Laurentian University 19s department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, on the extent to which our genetic makeup is responsible for our talents and aptitudes.
The editor of Skeptic Magazine, Michael Shermer, delivers a lecture on his book Why People Believe Weird Things.
Michael Fullan of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education delivers a lecture entitled Schools in Need of Re-Education
Christopher Hitchens voices his opinion on the subject of the Hart House Debating Club debate: Be it resolved: Freedom of speech includes the freedom to hate.
Michael Ruse is professor of the philosophy of biology at Florida State University. In this lecture he addresses the question Is Darwinism Past its Sell-by Date?
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