Ideas at the House

NASA is in the early stages of preparing to send the first astronauts to the red planet. The 2020 Rover mission will be searching for signs of habitable conditions on Mars, as well as past microbial …

These conversations were recorded live on stage as part of Bingefest.

First up we have our favourite moments from Gut Churn with Radiolab co creator and host, Jad Abumrad.

Followed by bingeworthy jou…

Recorded at Bingefest 2016.

Come on an adventure to find out what goes on in a writers' room. Industry veteran Dan Harmon (Rick and Morty, Community), four seasons deep Josh Thomas (Please Like Me), …

Recorded at All About Women Festival on March 5th, 2017.

What if the key to living a happier, healthier life is already inside of us? Inquisitive and talented microbiology student and bestselling au…

Recorded at All About Women Festival on March 5th, 2017. 

In an age of disruption and climate change, how will humans adapt?  Social scientist Karen O’Brien has devoted her career to exploring the m…

Recorded at All About Women Festival on March 5th, 2017.

Why is there still gender inequality and a gender pay gap? If we want to end male dominance in board rooms and parliaments, then maybe we nee…

Recorded at All About Women Festival on March 5th, 2017.

What happens to a loud woman with big opinions in a culture where women are expected to be small, quiet and compliant?

Lindy West’s vibrant hu…

Recorded at All About Women on March 5th, 2017.

What’s wrong with our education system? How can we transform mass education into something that can work for everyone and delivers what we need in a wo…

Recorded at All About Women on March 5th, 2017

Has contemporary feminism grown so tame, cowardly and irrelevant that it barely challenges the status quo? Have feminists traded liberation for acceptan…

Recorded at All About Women on March 5th, 2017. 

What is it about women with opinions, or aspirations to power, that brings out the worst in our culture? Whether we are called ‘nasty women’, ‘frightb…

Recorded at All About Women Festival on March 5th, 2017.

Entering its sixth year and with no resolution in sight, the Syrian Civil War has already killed an estimated 400,000 people.  Foreign corres…

Recorded at All About Women Festival, March 5th 2017.

Queen Victoria wielded enormous power during her 64 year reign. Yet she still had to negotiate with her husband, fit in work around her nine chil…

Is American politics dysfunctional or does it just look that way? What happens when aggressive hyper-partisanship collides with a political system that can only work co-operatively? Is the damage fat…

Is innovation overvalued? It is the dominant ideology of our era. But what if building, maintenance and repair prove much more important to our daily lives than the vast majority of technological inn…

Will we run out of water – and if so, when? Will the Earth suffer? Explore how water drives modern conflict and is not about to stop.

Chaired by Sarah Macdonald

Alok Jha is the science correspondent …

Today the human race faces existential challenges. Our prosperity has been built on unsustainable economic and environmental practices — but our social and political processes seem incapable of fixin…

#BlackLivesMatter has become the call to action for a generation of US human rights activists to denounce the violence and prejudice still experienced by African Americans. In the wake of the violent…