Big Ideas
ABC Australia
Your front row seat to big thinkers at the best live events, forums, and festivals. Feed your mind. Be provoked. One big idea at a time. Your brain will love you for it.
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Airs Monday to Thursday 8pm, repeated Tuesday to Friday 12pm, on ABC Radio National.
We love hearing from you about the show or events you are planning. Get in touch!
Email: Bigideas@abc.net.au
SMS line for ABC Radio National: 0418 226 576
Airs Monday to Thursday 8pm, repeated Tuesday to Friday 12pm, on ABC Radio National.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Big Ideas podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 4 episodes
The Shortest History of AI
Six ideas to understand artificial intelligence today
Toby Walsh
#2 Mentioned in 4 episodes
1984
George Orwell
#3 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Universal AI
Shane Legg
#4 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia
A Political History of Australia
Frank Bongiorno
#5 Mentioned in 3 episodes
I Am That
Nisargadatta Maharaj
#6 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Picnic
A dream of freedom and the collapse of the Iron Curtain
Matthew Longo
#7 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Wifedom
Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
Anna Funder
#8 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Passing of the Great Race
Madison Grant
#9 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Existentialism Is a Humanism
Jean-Paul Sartre
#10 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
#11 Mentioned in 2 episodes
One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad
#12 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The AI Con
How to fight big tech's hype and create the future we want
Emily M. Bender
#13 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Chinaman
Shehan Karunatilaka
#14 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
#15 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Limits to Growth
Donella Meadows
Jorgan Randers
#16 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Always Was, Always Will Be
Thomas Mayo
#17 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Selection Day
Aravind Adiga
#18 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Conspiracy Nation
Cam Wilson
Ariel Bogle
#19 Mentioned in 2 episodes
New War Technologies and International Law
Kobi Leins
#20 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Girl on Girl
How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
Sophie Gilbert
