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Sunday, 10 February 2013
Scotland has the 2003 Land Reform Act – an Act that allows the public to roam freely across both public and privately held land. In New Zealand we have the widely known, but little understood, Queen’s Chain and a veritable atlas of paper roads which help Kiwis access the great outdoors.
Full episodeSunday, 3 February 2013
Last Monday thousands of indigenous people from across Canada took to the streets in the latest of a series protests organized the Idle No More Movement.
Full episodeSunday, 27 January 2013
Another World is Possible is the slogan of the World Social Forum – an annual gathering of civil society organisations that began in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2001.
Full episodeSunday, 16 December 2012
Mad Pride is an international movement of mental health consumers who are confronting society’s prejudices against those will mental illnesses
Full episodeSunday, 9 December 2012
Post-independence Timor Leste and the on-going struggle of West Papuans for self-determination.
Full episodeSunday, 2 December 2012
Last month Human Rights Watch issued a report calling for so-called killer robots to be stopped in their tracks.
Full episodeSunday, 18 November 2012
Mai Chen, along with her former partner in law Sir Geoffrey Palmer, is widely credited with setting up the country’s first US-style public law firm – Chen Palmer.
Full episodeSunday, 11 November 2012
Next weekend will see dozens of young innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists descend on Wellington for the Festival for the Future.
Full episodeSunday, 4 November 2012
Wellington-based teacher of Spanish and amateur anthropologist, Jorge Herrera; film-maker Luz Savinon; and environmental scientist Ruy Anaya de la Rosa.
Full episodeSunday, 28 October 2012
The New Zealand banking landscape, Islamic Banking and a self-described sustainable finance company.
Full episodeSunday, 21 October 2012
Kristen Christian the founder of Bank Transfer Day which has seen six million Americans switch from mainstream to community-owned banks; and Peter Blom the CEO of Trodos Bank and the chair of the Global Alliance for Banking on Values talks to Jeremy Rose about the idea of sustainable banking.
Full episodeSunday, 14 October 2012
Trevor Grice, the founder of the Life Education Trust tells Chris Laidlaw about the people, thinkers and events that have shaped his life.
Full episodeSunday, 30 September 2012
Different ways people locally and globally are trying to curb that food wastage, and at the same time provide free food to those who need it.
Full episodeSunday, 23 September 2012
Should children be encouraged to play a bigger role in our democracy.
Full episodeSunday, 16 September 2012
A world-wide trend for leading universities to put their entire course work online, and a Wellington start-up that sees classes in everything from long bow making to cooking paella being offered across the city.
Full episodeSunday, 9 September 2012
The history of social welfare in New Zealand and the concept of fairness.
Full episodeSunday, 2 September 2012
Asset based community development and what government could do to encourage communities to reach their full potential.
Full episodeSunday, 26 August 2012
Jeremy Rose looks at the appeal of shooting people on screen and the widely held belief that violent video games have a desensitising effect.
Full episodeSunday, 12 August 2012
Professor Flynn reflects on his life and influences and talks about some of the individuals and thinkers who have shaped his unique outlook on the world.
Full episodeSunday, 5 August 2012
Ideas talks to two thinkers, from two very different disciplines, who take issue with many of the assumptions of conventional economic.
Full episodeSunday, 29 July 2012
Annell Husband travels to Honiara and speaks to locals about efforts to achieve reconciliation following the ethnic conflicts that first broke out in 1998; and Richard Langston talks to Victoria University professor Jon Fraenkel.
Full episode