Boyer Lectures - ABC RN Podcast
1) 04| Soul of the Age - Imaginary Forces with John Bell
In this fourth and final lecture, John Bell discusses how William Shakespeare imagined a different world and encouraged his audience to do the same.
2) 03| Soul of the Age - Shakespeare's Women with John Bell
In this third lecture of the Boyer series, John Bell discusses Shakespeare's Women and how through his female characters he imagined a better world.
3) 02| Soul of the Age - Order vs Chaos with John Bell
In this second lecture of the Boyer series, John Bell discusses what Shakespeare can teach us about governance, about politics and power.
4) 01| Soul of the Age - Life lessons from Shakespeare with John Bell
In the first lecture of the 2021 Boyer series, John Bell opens our eyes and our ears to how relevant William Shakespeare is in today's world and what he can teach us through his own observations from ...Show More
5) 03 | The economics of inequality
In the third Boyer lecture, Dr Andrew Forrest discusses how inequality manifests in our modern capitalist system — through intergenerational dependence on welfare, lack of access to finance, a lack of...Show More
6) 02 | Lighting up our ocean
In the second of his 2020 Boyer Lectures, Andrew Forrest mounts a passionate defence of our oceans. Dr Forrest argues the key issues facing our oceans — deoxygenation, overfishing and plastic pollutio...Show More
7) 01 | Oil vs Water — Confessions of a carbon emitter
In this first Boyer lecture, leading philanthropist and businessman Andrew Forrest calls for an urgent move to green hydrogen "on a global scale". For Dr Forrest, the question is not whether green hyd...Show More
8) 03 |The End of Silence: Makarrata
In Rachel Perkins final Boyer lecture she details the dual proposal for a Makarrata Commission and a process of truth telling about our nation.
9) 02 |The End of Silence: With the consent of the natives
From colonial times to the present, Indigenous people have wanted a say about the laws and policies that affect them. Rachel Perkins discusses what needs to be done to guarantee that the Indigenous vo...Show More
10) 01 | The End of Silence: The genesis of the Uluru statement
Rachel Perkins reminds us of the significance of the Uluru Statement from the Heart and why it's the most important message Indigenous people have sent to their fellow Australians in over four decades...Show More