Does our world lack moral ambition? And the Victorian obsession with orchids

from Late Night Live — Full program podcast · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Dutch historian Rutger Bregman is calling on the world's best and brightest to quit their corporate jobs and show some more 'moral ambition', to build a better world. And botanical hysteria in Victorian England. How wealthy orchid fanatics sent hunters around the world in search of the ultimate bloom.*This show originally aired on 08 May 2025.

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