All episodes
Sunday, 1 November 2009
The Eagles Have Landed – Americans Who Settle In NZ for Political Reasons.
Full episodeSunday, 25 October 2009
Roger Kerr - The People, Writers and Thinkers Who Influenced His Ideas
Full episodeSunday, 18 October 2009
The Enviroschools movement and the philosophies that inspire it.
Full episodeSunday, 11 October 2009
Tonga in Focus: The Economy. In the final of our series on Tonga we look at the economy and ask whether the transition to a truly democratic system has implications for the economic future of the country.
Full episodeSunday, 4 October 2009
During Tonga in Focus: Land Reforms, Ideas hears that some people fear the changes will see Tongan land falling into the hands of foreigners for the first time in history.
Full episodeSunday, 20 September 2009
Moana Jackson - the people, writers and philosophies that have inspired him.
Full episodeSunday, 13 September 2009
Ideas looks at Indonesia's troubled Papua region where there is widespread dissatisfaction with Indonesian rule among the indigenous Melanesians.
Full episodeSunday, 6 September 2009
Child Trafficking. Ideas talks to four women working with the victims of this most horrific of crimes.
Full episodeSunday, 30 August 2009
Lamar Waldron talks about the Kennedy family and his claim that the Mafia was responsible for JFK's assassination.
Full episodeSunday, 23 August 2009
Cycle Friendly Cities: Interviews with bicycle culture consultant Mikael Colville-Anderson, Wellington city councillor Celia Wade-Brown, and BikeNZ Kieran Turner.
Full episodeSunday, 2 August 2009
Ideas spends the hour with Dan Gardner author of Risk: The Science of Politics and Fear
Full episodeSunday, 26 July 2009
Free Data - New Zealand on the Net: A look at some publicly funded web initiatives and a discussion about the advantages of making data freely available.
Full episodeSunday, 19 July 2009
This week Ideas talks to Prof Daley and her colleague Dr Felicity Barnes about the changing face of New Zealand History.
Full episodeSunday, 12 July 2009
Pacific Leadership: Interviews with Tonga PM Dr Feleti Sevele and former premier of Niue Young Vivian.
Full episodeSunday, 5 July 2009
Cuts in funding to Adult and Community Education. We hear from several people who have been involved in adult education from different perspectives, and talk to Doctor Liz Gordon, National Chairperson for the Quality Public Education Coalition.
Full episodeSunday, 28 June 2009
Putting Your Life on the Line for Your Beliefs. Mark Derby on the Zealanders who fought in the Spanish Civil War in 1930s, and playwright Sam Fisher on being a humanshield in Sri Lanka.
Full episodeSunday, 21 June 2009
Iran: The Elections and the Nuclear Bomb. An interview with Emmanuele Ottolenghi and Maria Rublee.
Full episodeSunday, 14 June 2009
Homelessness. Ideas interviews two of the capital's homeless and talks to John McCarthy of Lifewise in Auckland.
Full episodeSunday, 7 June 2009
Witch burning in PNG and NZ's spirit world: Ideas hears from a PNG ethnologist who is convinced witches exist, talks to the president of the New Zealand Psychics Association, and hears from Professor Paul Morris about the history of witchcraft and sorcery in the Western tradition.
Full episodeSunday, 31 May 2009
The Holocaust in Popular Culture: Interviews with professor Omer Bartov about the Holocaust in popular culture and political debate, and sociologist Scott Hamilton on those in New Zealand who woudl deny the Holocaust ever took place.
Full episodeSunday, 24 May 2009
Multi-award winning journalist and author Christina Lamb on being a foreign correspondent.
Full episodeSunday, 17 May 2009
Ideas talks a judge, a criminal and a criminologist about crime, punishment and rehabilitation.
Full episode