Ideas at the House

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Talks and conversations from the Sydney Opera House featuring the world’s greatest minds and culture creators.

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Update frequency: every 6 days
Average duration: 59 minutes
Episodes: 456
Years Active: 2013 - 2025

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MAD SYD panel: Massimo Bottura, Rene Redzepi, Rebecca Huntley, David Chang, Kylie Kwong and Chido Govera,

René Redzepi is the founder of MAD and the chef-patron of noma, a restaurant in Copenhagen and multiple winner of Restaurant Magazine's 'Best Restaurant in the World' award.

Kylie Kwong has been the o…

00:44:13 | Wed 06 Apr 2016

Massimo Bottura

Massimo Bottura is an Italian-born chef who apprenticed with Georges Cogny and Alain Ducasse in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1995, he opened the multi-award-winning restaurant Osteria Francescana in Moden…

00:20:00 | Wed 06 Apr 2016

Kylie Kwong

Kylie Kwong has been the owner of Sydney’s celebrated Billy Kwong restaurant since 2000 and is a passionate campaigner for sustainable food and ethical eating. She is the author of six books and pres…

00:35:46 | Wed 06 Apr 2016

Chido Govera

Chido Govera is a 29-year-old Zimbabwean farmer and campaigner with her own foundation, The Future of Hope. After being orphaned at the age of seven and left to care for her brother and near-blind gr…

00:20:08 | Wed 06 Apr 2016

Rene Redzepi and David Chang in Conversation

René Redzepi is the founder of MAD and the chef-patron of noma, a restaurant in Copenhagen and multiple winner of Restaurant Magazine's 'Best Restaurant in the World' award.

Momofuku founder David Cha…

00:40:43 | Wed 06 Apr 2016

Masha Gessen: A day in the life

Russia is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist. But as an eloquent and outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin’s regime and a prominent LGBT activist, Russian-American journali…

00:44:11 | Wed 16 Mar 2016

Hyeonseo Lee: How to escape North Korea

Imagine having to flee your home country, leaving your mother and brother behind you. As a child, Hyeonseo Lee thought her country– North Korea- was the best on the planet. It wasn‘t until the devast…

00:23:52 | Wed 16 Mar 2016

Muriel Barbery: Secret lives of women and girls

In the age of social media we think we know each other, but do we really? Muriel Barbery’s second novel, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, became an international sensation through word-of-mouth recomme…

00:56:39 | Wed 16 Mar 2016

Alix Generous: How to think big

Alix Generous has big ideas, but she hasn’t always been able to communicate them to others. Her Asperger’s syndrome was misdiagnosed for many years and it has taken great courage and persistence to o…

00:35:58 | Wed 16 Mar 2016

Margie Orford: How to find your vocation

Go to any networking event and you’ll probably overhear someone talking about how they discovered their ‘true purpose’. But doggedly pursuing the work you love can get in the way of the rest of your …

00:30:52 | Wed 16 Mar 2016

Kerry Carrington: Women & Violence

Every week in Australia at least one woman is killed by a current or former male partner. The rate of violent crime in Australia is declining, with the exception of sexual assault. There are also ris…

00:54:46 | Fri 11 Mar 2016

Crystal Lameman & Amelia Telford: We belong to the land

Indigenous women are now on the frontlines when it comes to defending their land and livelihood. Crystal Lamemen is part of a community of 900 Woodland Cree people who for thousands of years have res…

00:58:17 | Fri 11 Mar 2016

Anne-Marie Slaughter: Unfinished Business

When Anne-Marie Slaughter published an article in The Atlantic, titled "Why Women Still Can't Have It All", it became one of the most-read pieces in the magazine's history. It was inspired by her dec…

00:58:20 | Fri 11 Mar 2016

Jennifer Whelan: Unconscious Bias

If the majority of people believe that it is wrong to discriminate on the basis of gender, why isn’t change happening faster? New research into how our brains work sheds light on this question– and y…

00:55:34 | Fri 11 Mar 2016

True Crime vs Real Crime: Panel

Detective shows, drama series, and movie plots with murderous storylines: our fascination with crime stories knows no bounds, with women on the front lines as both stars and writers. We sit at home b…

00:49:05 | Fri 11 Mar 2016

The Women we love to hate: Panel

We live in a world addicted to scandal and drama, but why do women often come off worse than their male counterparts? In a political sex scandal, an older adulterous male survives whilst a young woma…

00:54:08 | Fri 11 Mar 2016

The Boy's Club: Panel

Like many jobs where leadership is combined with long hours and late nights, not many women list ‘Theatre Director’ as their occupation. Or ‘Artistic Director’ or ‘Director’ for that matter, to the p…

00:53:37 | Fri 11 Mar 2016

Jennifer Clement: Stolen Women

‘She disappeared, she never came back, men came for her; today she would be celebrating her sixteenth birthday’. These were some of the heartbreaking statements that Jennifer Clement heard when resea…

00:56:39 | Fri 11 Mar 2016

Rachel Hills: Sex Myths

How many people have you had sex with? No, don’t tell us! But was your first instinct to tell the truth, to exaggerate or underestimate your ‘magic’ number? We live in a time of unprecedented sexual …

00:52:46 | Fri 11 Mar 2016

Raewyn Connell: Masculinities

Many questions women ask ourselves about how to achieve equality can only be answered if we understand men and masculinity. The Women’s Liberation Movement triggered a worldwide debate about men, and…

00:51:29 | Fri 11 Mar 2016

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