The programme that explains the present by exploring the past.
World Service,·763 episodes
We challenge assumptions about Australian heroes, history and humanity
55 mins
This week's theme is translation: in poetry, science and in architecture
The strength of Chinese women, the intelligence of dolphins & the power of the comic book
Fire, food and fun in the evolution of life
Eternity, the resilience of corruption and how we know what others are thinking
How to find the world in a grain of sand or a human being
Frank Furedi, Sabrina Maniscalco & Tahmima Anam on education, entanglement and epiphany
Antony Gormley, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Beau Lotto on the body, forgetting & illusion
1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall, both an ending and a beginning
David Kilcullen, Robert Service, Catalin Avramescu
PD James, Cormac O'Grada, Karin Sanders
What triggers earthquakes and why do we know so little? Plus the Arctic and African cities
26 Oct 2009,·49 mins
The Forum goes to New Zealand for a discussion with three eminent Kiwis
A special programme recorded at the Sydney Opera House in Australia
Simon Conway Morris, Eva Hoffman and Nicholas Dunlop
Philosopher Sari Nusseibeh, radio-ecologist Brenda Howard, historian Giusto Traina
25 mins
28 mins
Environmentalist Wangari Maathai, geneticist Jane Peterson and novelist Dubravka Ugresic
Prominent international thinkers debating big ideas.
Biologist Martin Chalfie, music historian Marina Frolova-Walker, novelist Kachi A Ozumba
Novelist Margaret Atwood; Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones; sociology Prof. Diego Gambetta
Novelist Elias Khoury, ethologist Marc Bekoff, ethnographer Stefana Broadbent
China expert Martin Jacques, writer Hanif Kureishi, philosophy professor Arvind Sharma
Biologist Bert Hölldobler, sociologist Richard Sennett, curator Rose Issa
Chemist Harry Kroto, artist Kutlug Ataman and anthropologist Nancy Ries
Physicist Frank Wilczek, writer & activist Arundhati Roy and philosopher Susan Neiman.
