[Swprograms] RA Previews #667; 24-26 Mar '04
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[Swprograms] RA Previews #667; 24-26 Mar '04



RADIO AUSTRALIA PREVIEWS
Edition 667
Mar. 24-26, 2004

Days and times are in UTC. An * indicates that a program is produced by Radio Australia. All others are produced by Radio National or by other ABC Radio networks as indicated. Further information about these programs, as well as transcripts and on-demand audio files of particular programs, and a wealth of supporting information can be obtained from
<http://www.abc.net.au>. Additional information and a key to abbreviations and symbols used appear at the bottom of the page.


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Weekdays (Midweek Update)
(RA or ABC News every hour on the hour)

0010 -
Thu.: BACKGROUND BRIEFING - Radio National's agenda-setting, current affairs radio documentary program. This week: "China on the Move". One of the greatest social shifts in modern history will be undertaken in China over the next decades as 500 million rural people head for the towns and cities. Yuen Chan reports from Shanghai. [T;%]
Fri.: HINDSIGHT - social history with Jennifer Bowen. This week: "The Parallel Worlds of TGH Strehlow". Between 1932 and 1968, linguist Ted Strehlow collected the songs, myths, and legends of the Aranda people from Central Australia. His translations of their songs and stories into English, was published in his major work, the "Songs of Central Australia". This Hindsight explores the interior life and the public world of Ted Strehlow. [%]


0110 -
ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
0130 -
Wed.: RELIGION REPORT - with Stephen Crittendon. This week, the first in what we hope will be an occasional series on Religion and Education. And we’ll be looking at the recent announcement of $362-million in extra Commonwealth funding for Catholic schools. Finally, last weekend’s election results in Malaysia and the rather surprising setback for the Islamic party, PAS. [T;%]
Thu.: MEDIA REPORT - with Mick O'Regan. This week: "Digital Radio". We look at what changes are ahead for radio. With digital trials currently under way, what's the future for digital radio in Australia? [T;%]
Fri.: THE SPORTS FACTOR - with Warwick Hadfield. This week: "Life in the Fast Lane". The Federal Government has announced a review of Athletics Australia. The review comes just 12 months after the Australian Sports Commission gave AA an award for being one of the best run sporting bodies in Australia. So what's gone wrong? And is now, as athletes are getting ready for the Athens Olympics, a good time for an inquiry? [T;%]


0210 -
THE WORLD TODAY - the ABC's comprehensive lunchtime current affairs program. [T]


0310 -
SPORT*
0320 -
LIFE MATTERS - a daily interview program about social change and day-to-day life in Australia. [%]


0410 -
MARGARET THROSBY - in conversation with a special guest, playing their favourite music and telling their own stories. <http://www.abc.net.au/classic/throsby/#promo> for details. (from ABC Classic FM) [%]
Wed.: tba
Thu.: Associate Professor Jane Goodall
Fri.: tba


0510 -
PACIFIC BEAT* - daily afternoon magazine for the Pacific with Sport at 0530. [T;%]


0610 -
SPORT* - reports and scores.
0620 -
Wed.: LINGUA FRANCA - about language. This week: "What Language Did Jesus Speak?" In Mel Gibson's film, "The Passion of the Christ", the Romans speak Latin and the Jews speak Aramaic. Ian Young, who teaches Aramaic at Sydney University, discusses whether this was in fact the language of Jesus. [%]
Thu.: THE ARK - Rachael Kohn talks to some of the world's leading religious historians and authors about curious moments in religious history that shatter the usual perception of the past and illuminate the present. This week: "W.B. Yeats--Poet and Magus". The occult involvement of W.B. Yeats was a sustaining element of his life and poetry, yet scholars have largely downplayed it. We examine the ideas and practices that gave his poetry a layer of meaning often hidden to the reader. [T;%]
Fri.: THE MAKERS - Julie Copeland interviews artists, composers and craftspeople. <http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/sunmorn/makers.htm> for details. [%]
0635 -
Wed.: JAZZ NOTES* - presented by Ivqn Lloyd.
Thu.: OZ COUNTRY STYLE - from ABC Local Radio.
Fri. - THE CHAT ROOM* - presented by Heather Jarvis. The place to meet people from the region living lives a little out of the ordinary. From business, to sport, science and the arts. Community leaders and quiet achievers. They drop in, share their stories and play a bit of music in Radio Australia’s Lounge.


0710 -
PACIFIC BEAT* - daily afternoon magazine for the Pacific with Sport at 0730. [T;%]


0810 -
	PM - the ABC's comprehensive early evening current affairs program. [T]

0905 -
AUSTRALIA TALKS BACK - a daily national talkback program that's a forum for the discussion of a specific topic with the involvement of expert guests, Radio National specialists and listeners. <http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/austback/> for details. [%]
Fri.: AUSTRALIA TALKS BOOKS with Sandy McCutcheon and Ramona Koval -
"The Secret Cure" by Sue Woolfe. "The Secret Cure" is a profoundly moving novel which explores new ways of what it means to be human, to be normal, to be honourable, and above all what it means to love. Visit abc.net.au/rn to join the discussion.


1005 -
ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]

1105 -
SPORT - reports and scores.
1110 -
ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
1130 -
BUSH TELEGRAPH - rural and regional issues around Australia. (Digest version of the full program broadcast daily at 1605.)


1205 -
Wed.-Thu.: LATE NIGHT LIVE - Phillip Adams hosts a discussion of current events in politics, science, philosophy and culture. <http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/lnl/> for details. [%]
Wed.: Taiwan: The President, the bullet & conspiracy theories.
Thu.: 'Fiscal Overstretch': Looming storm over future U.S. debt.
Fri.: SOUND QUALITY - For 25 years, Tim Ritchie has been seeking out music: the interesting, the evolutionary, the inaccessible and the wonderful. <http://www.abc.net.au/rn/music/soundqlt/> for details and playlists. About this weekend's program, Tim writes, "My last treat from the european broadcasting union's eurosonic network for a little while.... nu jazz dj and tasteful selector tom strauch will delight you with a selection of tunes that shows a discerning ear can collect seemingly incompatible sources and blend them together as though they were meant to be...." [T;%]


1305 -
THE PLANET - Lucky Oceans with jazz, blues, folk styles, art music and more in a show artfully arranged for radio. <http://www.abc.net.au/rn/music/planet/> for playlists and further details. [T;%]
Wed.: Today’s featured albums show how very alive in Scotland is so-called “traditional” music. “Glad Company” is the debut CD by Anna Massie, who’s equally fine as guitarist/fiddler, interpreting tunes old & new, including her own. Anna was still a teenager in January 2003 when she won BBC Radio Scotland’s “Young Traditional Musician of the Year” Award. On her album she’s sometimes her own orchestra & sometimes joined by two other talented young Scotswomen. Anna's zest is as striking as her dexterity. “A Thousand Miles Away” is the third CD by the Shetland quartet, Filska, whose three female members are all excellent fiddlers, & cover piano & accordion too. Andrew Tulloch plays very tasteful guitar. Filska plays originals & other tunes old & new, with uncommon elegance & lyricism. It’s a band of gifted arrangers as well as players. These CDs are both the fruit of a love of “traditional” music which is deep, but not exclusive.
Thu.: “I dig everybody who plays with soul” declares guitarist Mike Stern. He’s always “liked that vocal sound on my guitar”. So it makes perfect sense that Stern works so well with vocalists. They – in particular, the silken-toned Richard Bona from Cameroon – are a key presence on Stern’s new CD, “These Times”. Given Stern’s “play from the heart” approach, the vocal quality is always there, even on the purely instrumental numbers. Ever since his big break with Miles Davis in 1981, Stern has been a guitar hero in both “jazz-as-such” and “fusion” circles. Musically, his new album is sometimes “hot”, sometimes “cool”. It’s always warm-hearted.
Fri.: “Tortured-with-a-twist-honky-soul-twang” is one description (Glenn O’Brien’s, in Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine) of Canadian songster Cris Cuddy. He keeps good company: guitarists Albert Lee & Andrew Hardin & multi-instrumentalist Fats Kaplin are among the players on Cuddy’s new CD. “Keep The Change” is the title on the front. “Nowhere Town” says the back: yes, it's a double-album of original songs. Cuddy (alias – in other musical circumstances – “Jeremy Dormouse” & “Max Mouse”) is sardonic but definitely not heartless. Reviewer Jeremy Searle greeted his latest offering as “the kind of wonderful sprawl Ryan Adams might have made if he wasn’t busy pissing his talent away trying to be a rock star.


1405 -
SPORT
1410 -
PM - with Mark Colvin. A comprehensive current affairs program which backgrounds, analyses, interprets and encourages debate on events and issues of interest and importance to all Australians. [T;%]


1505 -
	SPORT - reports and scores.
1510 -
	ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
1530 -
	REPORT programs (refer to 0130)

1605 -
BUSH TELEGRAPH - rural and regional issues around Australia with Michael Mackenzie. [%]


1705 -
	AUSTRALIA TALKS BACK (refer to 0905)

1805 -
Fri.: PACIFIC REVIEW - the best of the previous week's PACIFIC BEAT.
1810 -
Wed.-Thu.: PACIFIC BEAT* - focuses in on the island nations which depend on the Pacific Ocean for their existence, drawing on Australian based reporters and correspondents throughout the region. With headlines at 1829 and sport at 1830. [T;%]
1835 -
Wed.-Thu.: ON THE MAT* - Where the Pacific comes together to chat and discuss issues of regional interest.
1830 -
Fri.: COUNTRY BREAKFAST - Australia beyond the urban fringe. [T;%]
1835 -
Wed.-Thu.: THE BEST OF BREAKFAST - A roundup of the best stories from Radio National's Breakfast programme with Peter Thompson. <www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/brkfast/> for details. [%]


1905 -
Fri.: RURAL REPORTER - the people and places that make up country Australia.
1910 -
Wed.-Thu.: PACIFIC BEAT* - continued from 1810 with headlines at 1929 and sport at 2030.
1930 -
Fri.: AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY STYLE - Aussie country music with John Nutting.


2005 -
Fri.: ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310)
2010 -
Wed.-Thu.: PACIFIC BEAT* - continued from 1910 with headlines at 2029 and sport at 2030.
2030 -
Fri.: THE BUZZ (refer to 2330 Thu.) [%]


2105 -
Fri.: VERBATIM - oral histories with David Mark. This week: "Alice Oxley--Spanning the 20th Century". Alice Oxley was born just outside Sydney in 1904, at a time when society was deeply ingrained with Victorian principles. As she talks about her Sydney childhood in the years before the Great War, she portrays an Australia unimaginable to us today. [T;%]
2110 -
Wed.-Thu.: AM - ABC Radio's flagship current affairs program setting the day's news agenda with concise reports and analysis from correspondents around Australia and around the world. [T;%]


2130 -
Wed.: IN THE PIPELINE - This thirteen part radio series goes beyond the current hype surrounding digital technology to examine the challenges and opportunities it creates for Australia and the Asian region. This week: "4--Electronic Empires". Now that the digital pipeline can carry sound, vision and text, there’s been a rush by moguls like Rupert Murdoch to take control of both the content and distribution of the entertainment and information industries. Seven huge global empires including News Corp, Sony and Walt Disney now boast control of broadcasting, film-making and publishing. And it’s not only the traditional media industries which are being consumed by these conglomerates, but new IT industries such as Internet Service Providers (ISP’s). Will this result in a homogenisation of culture on a global scale or might it regenerate local cultures as a response to globalisation? [T;%]
Thu.: ALL IN THE MIND - a foray into the mental universe, the mind, the brain and human behavior with Natasha Mitchell. This week: "The Cruel Power of Silence", Part 1 of 2. Ostracism, rejection, social exclusion, bullying, the silent treatment - their power to undermine our confidence and well-being is enormous but rarely discussed openly. Over
two weeks, Natasha Mitchell speaks to the leading international experts spearheading research into the psychology of these cruel phenomena. [T;%]
Fri.: IN CONVERSATION - Robyn Williams talks to scientists and those interested in the subject, about what science has meant to their lives. This week: "Nick Webb". They were Douglas Adams’s initials. DNA. Which may explain why the arts graduate had such an abiding and even expert knowledge of science. He even gave paid lectures in Silicon Valley. Nick Webb, who’s just written a delightful biography of Adams, tells some yarns about the big bloke, how he lived, and why his death was such a loss. [%]


2205 -
Fri.: ASIA PACIFIC WEEKEND EDITION [T;%]
2210 -
wed.-Thu.: AM - (repeat of 2110)
2230 -
Fri.: SATURDAY AM - ABC's Saturday morning news magazine. [T;%]
2240 -
Wed.-Thu.: AUSTRALIA WIDE - a roundup of "home" news from ABC Newsradio.


2305 -
Fri.: COUNTRY BREAKFAST (refer to 1830)
2310 -
ASIA PACIFIC - current events in the Asia Pacific region. [T;%]
2330 -
Wed.: THE ARTS ON RA - Julie Copeland interviews artists, composers and craftspeople and Julie Rigg looks at the movies. <http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/sunmorn/> for details concerning possible segments carried in this program, as the program is an
abridged version of the "Sunday Morning" program that is broadcast on ABC Radio National. [%]
Thu.: THE BUZZ - technology understandably explained. This week: "Secret Codes".
Cryptography - the process of making information unintelligible and converting it back again - is not just for spies. It underpins much of our lives. Banking, retailing, data
management and communication are all big users of cryptography. [%]
Fri.: HIT MIX* - presented by Brendon Telfer. Find out what we're listening to in Australia and what we're giving to the world in our brand new look at the Australian music scene. [T;%]


How to Listen to Radio Australia----
Via shortwave:
Best noted in eastern North America - (Please note that reception of RA in eastern NA in local evenings during the current winter has been less reliable than recent years' experience.)
2100 - 0000 UTC: 21740 (irregularly heard)
0000 - 0200 UTC: 15240 [17580 also noted] (occasionally heard)
0200 - 0700 UTC: 15515 (occasionally heard) [17580
and 17750 also noted (heard rarely)]
0700 - 0800 UTC: 15240 (heard rarely) [17580 and 6020 also noted
(occasionally heard)]
0800 - 1400 UTC: 9580 (reliable) [6020 and 9590 also noted (reliable)]
1400 - 1600 UTC: 9590 (reliable)
Best in UK as reported in Shortwave Magazine (further reports from
readers in the UK/Europe welcomed):
0530 - 0800 UTC: 21725, 17750, 15415
0800 - 1100 UTC: 21820, 21725, 17750, 15415
1100 - 1400 UTC: 21820, 11880
1400 - 1700 UTC: 11660, 9475
1700 - 1900 UTC: 9475
1900 - 2130 UTC: 9500
2200 - 0000 UTC: 13620
(Complete worldwide schedule from
<http://www.abc.net.au/ra/schedule/default.htm>.)
Via Internet audio streaming:
from <http://www.abc.net.au/ra/audio/englishlive.htm>
Via World Radio Network:
<http://www.wrn.org/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=50>
Via CBC Overnight:
<http://cbc.ca/overnight/>
Via satellite:
consult <http://www.abc.net.au/ra/hear/america.htm>
Via the Mobile Broadcast Network, which offers WRN
<http://www.myMBN.com>


Symbols Used:
Within brackets by each program listing, % denotes that the listed
program is available as an on-demand audio file via the Internet. T
indicates that a printed transcript of the program is available via the
RA or via an ABC domestic network Internet site. Consult
<http://www.abc.net.au/streaming/audiovideo.htm> or the particular
program's web page.

To be updated by Fri. 0500 UT.

Good Listening!
John Figliozzi

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