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[Swprograms] RA Previews #697; 14-18 Jun '04
- Subject: [Swprograms] RA Previews #697; 14-18 Jun '04
- From: John Figliozzi <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 00:10:36 -0400
RADIO AUSTRALIA PREVIEWS
Edition 697
June 14-18, 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.
---------------------------
Weekdays
(RA or ABC News every hour on the hour)
0010 -
Tue.: THE SCIENCE SHOW - with Robyn Williams. This week: "A Short
History of Venus". Why did the transit of Venus become so inspiring an
event to so many? What was its actual role in the British exploration
of our region and the ‘discovery’ of eastern Australia? What have we
learned from it? [%]
Wed.: THE NATIONAL INTEREST - Terry Lane looks at the major issues of
the week. This week: "Modern Management Techniques". Lane casts a
critical eye over modern management techniques with consultant Jenny
Stewart, author of the new book ”The
Decline of the Tea Lady: Management for Dissidents”. [%]
Thu.: BACKGROUND BRIEFING - Radio National's agenda-setting, current
affairs radio documentary program. This week: "Murder Capital". Why is
Melbourne Australia’s murder capital? Feuds, drugs, ego, big money, and
twenty-five killings. Helen Thomas reports. [T;%]
Fri.: HINDSIGHT - social history with Jennifer Bowen. This week:
"Love, Death, Music and Plants". A musical celebration of Baron
Ferdinand von Mueller, the first director of Melbourne’s Royal Botanic
Gardens and the founder of the National Herbarium of Victoria. [%]
0110 -
ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
0130 -
Mon.: HEALTH REPORT - with Norman Swan. This week: "Hospital-Acquired
Infections". We hear of UK research into how to deal with
antibiotic-resistant hospital superbugs. They have discovered a
bacterial ‘Achilles heel’ which may help to combat the growing problem
of hospital-acquired infections. [T;%]
Tue.: LAW REPORT - with Damien Carrick. This week: "Tasmanian
Environmental Law Tangles". Finding the right balance between
Protecting the Environment and Promoting Development is never easy.
Currently in Tasmania two issues: Tourist Developments in National
Parks and Logging Private Timber Reserves are proving it's very tricky
to draw the line in the right place. [T;%]
Wed.: RELIGION REPORT - with Stephen Crittendon.
[abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/relrpt/] for details. [T;%]
Thu.: MEDIA REPORT - with Mick O'Regan.
[abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/mediarpt/] for details. [T;%]
Fri.: THE SPORTS FACTOR - with Warwick Hadfield.
[abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/sportsf/] for details. [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 with Rebecca Gorman. This week: "Welfare
and the Working Poor in America". This special series looks at life at
the bottom of the ladder in the USA during one of the worst recessions
in decades. We hear from America’s workers and welfare recipients. [%]
0410 -
BUSH TELEGRAPH - rural and regional issues around Australia with
Michael Mackenzie. This week: "On The Road in North West WA". Bush
Telegraph journeys from Karratha to Broome, broadcasting from
Mundabullangana, Pardoo and Anna Plains stations along the way. Michael
Mackenzie examines the mining industry, visits a remote
cattle station, and ends up in the multicultural tourist mecca of
Broome where a block of land now costs $300,000! [%]
0510 -
PACIFIC BEAT* - daily afternoon magazine for the Pacific with Sport at
0530. [T;%]
0610 -
SPORT* - reports and scores.
0620 -
Mon.: OCKHAM'S RAZOR - sharp talk about science. This week:
"Reflections on Regulations". Dr Nancy Millis, Professor of
Microbiology at the University of Melbourne and Chancellor of La Trobe
University, vents her frustration about excessive bureaucracy in
institutions. [%]
Tue.: IN CONVERSATION - Robyn Williams talks to scientists and those
interested in the subject, about what science has meant to their lives.
This week: "Science in Victorian Schools". There are classrooms in
Victoria where science is supreme. A primary teacher and her high
school colleague give the secrets of their success to an educational
expert from Deakin University. What will they be teaching in 2010? [%]
Wed.: LINGUA FRANCA - about language. This week: "A Women Only
Language".
'Nushu' is a script used exclusively by women in remote villages of
southern China. It's a rare example in world languages of a
gender-specific script, and it's thousands of years old. But why did
Chinese peasant women devise their own script? [%]
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: "The Snake Goddess of Crete". A relic of the
ancient Minoan civilisation, she was one of the 20th century's most
coveted discoveries. But is she the genuine article? [T;%]
Fri.: INSIDE OUT - presented by Isabelle Genoux. A weekly programme
that brings out personal views from the Pacific region and stories
gathered in Australia, within Pacific communities. [%]
0633 -
Mon.: 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.
Tue.: MUSIC DELI - international music with Paul Petran. [T]
Wed.: JAZZ NOTES* - presented by Ivan Lloyd.
Thu.: OZ COUNTRY STYLE - from ABC Local Radio.
0710 -
PACIFIC BEAT* - daily afternoon magazine for the Pacific with Sport at
0730. [T;%]
0810 -
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]
0910 -
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.
[abc.net.au/rn/talks/austback/] for details. [%]
Mon.: "What Does The Future Hold For Iraq?" The UN is now backing the
new Interim Iraqi Government. But as the plans for the handover of
power roll on, the security situation, far from improving, is showing
signs of getting worse. As June 30 approaches, what does the future
hold for Iraq?
1005 -
ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
1105 -
SPORT - reports and scores.
1110 -
ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
1130 -
Mon.: INNOVATIONS* - Showcasing Australian invention, enterprise and
ingenuity. <http://www.abc.net.au/ra/innovations/default.htm> for
details, audio and further info on the products highlighted. [T;%]
Tue.: EARTHBEAT - environmental issues raised by economic development
with Alexandra de Blas. This week: "Water, Water Everywhere".
Australia’s water crisis is ironic when you consider how much water
surrounds the continent. What if that salty water could be put to
better use, along with the increasing saline output of our inland river
systems? [T]
Wed.: RURAL REPORTER - the people and places that make up country
Australia.
Thu.: DISTANT MIRRORS DIMLY LIT - a six-part radio series developed
and presented by Australian born classicist Peter Toohey. It examines
how the lives of the ancients relate to ours, through the exploration
of six contemporary themes: Anger, Privacy, Leisure, Depression, Family
and Memory. This week: "Leisure". Our pursuit of leisure has fuelled a
multi-billion dollar industry. How did the Greeks and Romans understand
leisure? Were eating and drinking, sport, or the theatre means for
killing time, or did they have more profound significance for Greeks
and Romans? It has become expected that all of us in time off will seek
a leisure activity to soak up the spare hours. Travel tourism, sport,
arts and gastronomy, are all part of the ever-growing sphere of
homogenizing fun that has encircled the Western World. Our ability to
invent a series of ingenious anodynes is impressive. But in the end the
age-old question remains: why do we do it? Is it to make time’s passing
more tolerable? [T;%]
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.
1205 -
Mon.-Thu.: LATE NIGHT LIVE - Phillip Adams hosts a discussion of
current events in politics, science, philosophy and culture.
[abc.net.au/rn/talks/lnl/] for details. [%]
Tue.: "Love in the 21st Century". Phillip Adams talks to Laura Kipnis
and Kath Albury about the case against love. Is romantic love
compatible with modern domestic life?
Fri.: SOUND QUALITY - For 25 years, Tim Ritchie has been seeking out
music: the interesting, the evolutionary, the inaccessible and the
wonderful. [abc.net.au/rn/music/soundqlt/] for details and playlists.
[T;%]
1305 -
THE PLANET - Lucky Oceans with jazz, blues, folk styles, art music and
more in a show artfully arranged for radio.
[abc.net.au/rn/music/planet/] for playlists and further details. [T;%]
Mon.: "Los Lobos (& famous friends)". An ageing, nostalgic fan-base
can be a very nice little earner for rock & pop veterans: HUGE for
some. Stones keep rolling all the way to the bank, many years after
they last added any notable, new artistic “moss”. How nice that certain
Wolves have not lost their creative bite! Los Lobos formed in East L.A.
in 1974. No-one has ever left. Its one non-Chicano & latecomer was
friend & sideman for years before he became a full member around twenty
years ago. The bi-lingual band is eloquently loud, soft & creative in
many different musical languages. Richard Thompson, Elvis Costello,
Ruben Blades, Mavis Staples & Tom Waits are among notable friends &
admirers. They’re just some of the guests on the new Los Lobos CD, “The
Ride”.
Tue.: “Storyteller” is the debut CD by a prodigiously talented, young
Egyptian-Australian. Joseph Tawadros was born in Cairo in 1983. His
family came to Australia in 1986. He’s been a concert lutenist since he
was 12. A serious (& seriously good) “classical”/“erudite”/”art”
musician in the Arabic sense, he’s an open-eared, musical adventurer,
too. Joseph Tawadros has already played his oud {the fretless, Arabic
lute which is the ancestor of the European kind} with classical
guitarist Slava Grigoryan, the world’s most prominent tabla virtuoso
Zakir Hussain, the Australian Chamber Orchestra & with jazz pianist &
composer Mark Isaacs. He’s likely the only oud soloist to have
performed at both the Sydney Opera House & the Cairo Opera House.
Absolutely solo, “Storyteller” is a set of keenly focused, yet highly
improvisatory music - much of it composed by Tawadros.
Wed.: Kasey Chambers has one of Australia’s most distinctive and
communicative singing voices and it’s sounding even better on her new,
third album, “Wayward Angel”. She became pregnant while her second
album was succeeding internationally and nationally, going 7 times
platinum, ironically on the strength of her anti-radio single ‘Not
Pretty Enough’. After 18 months off looking after her infant son Talon,
the new album is out, with 14 strong songs written by Kasey (two with
her partner Cori Hopper) in no-nonsense musical feels ranging from
bluegrass through country to stripped back rock.
Thu.: There's nothing cold about this Brass Monkey! The band was a
sensation in English folk circles (& beyond) during its brief,
quasi-continuous existence in the mid 1980s. A decade later, Brass
Monkey re-formed on an occasional basis. In the words of its
singer/guitarist/mandolinist Martin Carthy - likely England’s most
significant living folk-person - “The whole band felt that, when we
stopped playing in 1987, we still had plenty of life left in us.”
Trumpeter Howard Evans is a former member of The Welsh Guards, but this
quintet is unlike any other “brass band” or “folk group”. “Flame of
Fire” - their fifth album - is probably their best, yet: equally
satisfying in its jolly & its haunting moments.
Fri.: Milton Nascimento has one of the world’s most recognisable
voices. One critic even said, "If God could sing, he’d do it in the
voice of Milton Nascimento". Raised by adoptive white parents in a
rural town in the Brazilian state of Minas Girais, Milton’s music is
influenced by crooners and the angelic choruses of the Catholic Church.
His new double album ‘Maria Maria & Ultimo Trem’ is over 20 years old
but has been unreleased until now due to contractual problems. Milton
and his journalist/songwriter friend Fernando Brant co-wrote with
contemporary dance company Grupo Corpo for Maria Maria (1976 - a ballet
about the daughter of a black slave) & Ultimo Trem (1980 - the story of
the last train to come to a small town).
1405 -
SPORT
1410 -
PM (refer to 0810)
1505 -
SPORT - reports and scores.
1510 -
ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
1530 -
REPORT programs (refer to 0130)
1605 -
MARGARET THROSBY - in conversation with a special guest, playing their
favourite music and telling their own stories.
[abc.net.au/classic/throsby/#promo] for details. (from ABC Classic FM)
[%]
Mon.: John W. Dean, Former White House Counsel during the Nixon
Administration. His latest book is "Worse Than Watergate: The Secret
Presidency of George W. Bush" (Hardie Grant Books) His columns appear
at: http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/.
Tue.: Ruth Rendell, Author. "The Rottweiler" is published by Randon
House.
Wed.: Dr. Vicki Mahaffey, Professor of English at the University of
Pennsylvania and a board memeber of the James Joyce Foundation.
"Reauthorising Joyce" was published in hardcover by Cambridge
University Press and in paperback by Florida University Press
Thu.: William Shawcross, writer and broadcaster.
1705 -
AUSTRALIA TALKS BACK (refer to 0905)
1805 -
Fri.: PACIFIC REVIEW - the best of the previous week's PACIFIC BEAT.
1810 -
Mon.-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;%]
1830 -
Fri.: COUNTRY BREAKFAST - Australia beyond the urban fringe. [T;%]
1835 -
Mon.-Thu.: ON THE MAT* - Where the Pacific comes together to chat and
discuss issues of regional interest.
1905 -
Fri.: RURAL REPORTER - the people and places that make up country
Australia.
1910 -
Mon.-Thu.: PACIFIC BEAT* - continued from 1810 with headlines at 1929
and sport at 1930.
1930 -
Fri.: AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY STYLE - Aussie country music with John
Nutting.
1935 -
Mon.-Thu.: THE BEST OF BUSH TELEGRAPH* - Myra Mortensen with a
selection of stories and reports of rural and regional issues. [%]
2005 -
Fri.: ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310)
2010 -
Mon.-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: " [T;%]
2110 -
Mon.-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 -
Mon.-Thu.: RNZI PACIFIC DATELINE - Pacific news and current affairs
from Radio New Zealand International.
Fri.: IN CONVERSATION - Robyn Williams talks to scientists and those
interested in the subject, about what science has meant to their lives.
[abc.net.au/rn/science/incon/ for details.] [%]
2205 -
Fri.: ASIA PACIFIC WEEKEND EDITION [T;%]
2210 -
Mon.-Thu.: AM - (repeat of 2110)
2230 -
Fri.: SATURDAY AM - ABC's Saturday morning news magazine. [T;%]
2240 -
Mon.-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 -
Mon.: THE EUROPEANS - broader historical and cultural perspectives on
European societies with Keri Phillips. This week: "Wild Dance--The
Fight for Press Freedom in Ukraine". It will take more than a winning
Eurovision song to liberate the media in the Ukraine. The brutal murder
of journalist Gyorgy Gongadze three years ago is just one example of
the daily dangers facing reporters in this former Soviet Republic. [%]
Tue.: RURAL REPORTER - the people and places that make up country
Australia.
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:
"Robots with the Right Stuff ". We might think of independent robots as
machines to compete with or fear, but how about the idea of 'cobots'?
Collaborative robotic servants that travel to Mars and make a home for
astronauts long before they arrive. "The Lab Rats of Mechatronics".
Autonomous systems fuse mechanical engineering, computing, sensing, and
software to create intelligent machines that interact with their
surrounding world. At the Australia Centre for Field Robotics, research
is underway to refine robotic technology for self-navigation, to be
used in unmanned airplaces, vehicles, and submersibles. [%]
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 -
2200 - 0000 UTC: 21740 (usually reliable)
0000 - 0200 UTC: 17715 (usually reliable)
0200 - 0700 UTC: 15515 (usually reliable) [15240 also noted at times]
0700 - 0800 UTC: 13630 (usually reliable) [15240 also noted at times]
0800 - 1400 UTC: 9580 (reliable) [6020 and 9590 also noted (reliable)]
1400 - 1600 UTC: 9590 (reliable until fade out)
(European listeners are invited to report reception experience to this
editor.)
(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 Wed. 0500 UT.
Good Listening!
John Figliozzi
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