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The Big Ideas Podcast: The Medium is the Message is the first in a podcast series by the Guardian.
Each installment looks at one “big idea” and ask what it originally meant, how it has been used, abused and misappropriated, and whether it can still help us to understand the world today.
I spent some time studying McLuhan and I still found this a helpful and short re-introduction to his most famous aphorism and what it meant.