[Swprograms] RA Previews #739; 6-8 Oct '04

[John Figliozzi <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RADIO AUSTRALIA PREVIEWS
Edition 739
Oct. 6-8, 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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SPECIAL NOTE: Coverage of the Australian elections will start at 0805 
UT on Saturday, broadcast live from the tally room in Canberra, keeping 
listeners up-to-date as the results come in. Hosted by Mark Colvin, 
with special guest commentators from the main political parties and 
joined by veteran political analyst, Dean Jeansch. There'll also be 
regular reports from foreign affairs corespondent Graeme Dobell. There 
also will be RA news on the hour and half hour. Coverage is due to end 
at 1300 UT. On 2200 UT Saturday, there will be a special edition of 
'AM' with analysis and comment until 2230. This will replace 
'Correspondent's Report', normally heard at 2205.

(RA or ABC News every hour on the hour)

Weekdays

0010 -
	Thu.: BACKGROUND BRIEFING - Radio National's agenda-setting, current 
affairs radio documentary program. This week: "Child-Care Profits". 
Business empires are being built on child-care services, yet the job 
security is poor for the carers who look after little ones and the pay 
is low. Does the stress and insecurity of this work affect the 
children? Gerald Tooth reports. [T;%]
	Fri.: HINDSIGHT - social history. This week: "Forests History 
Society". Bill Bunbury reports from a Forests History Society 
Conference in WA that explores our attitudes towards our unique 
forests. [%]

0110 -
	ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
0130 -
	Wed.: RELIGION REPORT - with Toni Hassan. This week: "Government 
Funding and Religious Schools; Roger Herft on Anglican General Synod". 
[T;%]
	Thu.: MEDIA REPORT - with Mick O'Regan. This week: "TV Ruined My 
Life". We head to the Brisbane Writers' Festival where the alleged 
perils of TV are the subject of a lively panel debate. [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. [%]		
0356 -
	HEYWIRE - the voice of regional youth in Australia.

0410 -
	BUSH TELEGRAPH - rural and regional issues around Australia with 
Michael Mackenzie. [%]
		Thu.: “Cow Bank” is a charitable initiative involving cycling to the 
top of Mt Kosciuszko to raise funds to help impoverished families in 
India, Indonesia and the Philippines buy livestock. So far they have 27 
cows - with a target of 100 cows - in the bank.

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: "Avoid the Serial 
Comma". At the Melbourne Writers' Festival, Lynne Truss, author of the 
bestselling Eats, Shoots and Leaves: the Zero Tolerance Approach to 
Punctuation, draws on her own career to dispense some good advice to 
authors and editors. [%]
	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 Habit". We look at the nun’s habit. 
Critics blame it for oppressing the individual, but its supporters laud 
it for erasing class distinctions. Feminists see it as a symbol of male 
domination, while traditionalists believe it empowers them. [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 -
	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. [%]
		Wed.: "Australian Gardens And Native Wildlife". You can solve the 
world’s problems but what’s in your own backyard? Plenty of wildlife, 
according to ABC viewers who’ve been mapping for an ABC TV series. But 
can the urban gardener save our native species?

1005 -
	ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
	
1105 -
	SPORT - reports and scores.
1110 -
	ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
1130 -
	Wed.: RURAL REPORTER - the people and places that make up country 
Australia.
	--returning series--Thu.: AUSTRALIA NOW* - a 13-part series looking at 
the jobs Australians do, the homes they live in and the way they spend 
their leisure. The series also examines the environment that supports 
Australians, the political structures that govern them and the way they 
get along with each other and their regional neighbours. "Program #1: 
Postcard from Down Under". Tourist images tend to perpetuate 
stereotypes that connect in particular with rural Australia in 
particular, the bush and the beach lifestyle of ‘Sunny Australia’. As a 
result, overseas tourists often don’t get much further than Australia’s 
largest city, Sydney, the Gold Coast beaches of Queensland, ‘The 
Sunshine State’ and the red heart of Central Australia.  When visitors 
do travel to other parts of the country they’re quite surprised at what 
they find. Similarly, tourist images of Indigenous Australia are 
largely derived from Central Australia so that visitors to other 
Aboriginal cultural sites around the country are frequently 
disappointed if they don’t hear the ‘didjeridoo’, a musical instrument 
made from a hollowed out tree branch or see ‘dot paintings’ that are 
actually quite specific to Central Australia." [%;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.

1205 -
	Wed.-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. [%]
		Wed.: Wannabe Foreign Minister, Kevin Rudd.
		Thu.: Funny, quirky, nasty bits from the Campaign.
	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. 
About this week's show, Tim writes, "This week we are starting with 4 
tracks from a fabulous album that takes the post punk era [late 70s 
early 80s and applies a bossa feel to the covers]... it's a gem - come 
and train spot a time from  a couple of decades ago. From there we go 
with very modern skip hop, nyc new electro from a woman with japanese 
and spanish parents... and from there it even gets more cosmo..." [T;%]

1305 -
	THE PLANET - Lucky Oceans (Doug Spencer on Mondays) 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;%]
		Wed.: Munir Bashir was born in Mosul, Iraq in 1930, the son of an 
Assyrian father and a Kurdish mother. Munir, who began playing the oud 
at the age of 5, revolutionised Arabic Classical Music by playing it 
without vocals. He became a cultural ambassador for his instrument and 
his music, playing in over 50 countries. Munir died in Budapest in 1997 
and our feature album, “Mesopotamia” was recorded in his home studio in 
Baghdad in 1987. The double CD records Munir doing what he loved best, 
improvising quietly, with great depth and heart.
		Thu.: 'Easy listening' it’s definitely not! 'Compelling' it certainly 
is. How to describe Real Gone - the (mostly) dark & (always) curious 
new album from Tom Waits? It’s impossible to top the man himself: "Real 
Gone is an electric pill box, a homogenous concoction of mood 
elevators, mind liberators, and downers, an alchemical universe of 
rattling chains, oscillating rhythms and nine-pound hammers. So check 
it out."
		Fri.: Venezuela and Colombia are South America’s northernmost 
countries.  Our co-featured CDs are focussed on these music-rich 
countries, where the blend of Spanish, African and Indigenous cultures 
created a wealth of musical styles. “The Rough Guide to Salsa Colombia” 
concentrates on the trombone driven salsa style of Colombia, while “The 
Rough Guide to the Music of Venezuela” takes in salsa and much more – 
folkloric and Andean influences styles included.

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) 
[%]
		Wed.: Betty Churcher, Art critic, historian, broadcaster and gallery 
director.
		Thu.: John Haddock, composer.
		Fri.: Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton.

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;%]
1830 -
	Fri.:  COUNTRY BREAKFAST - Australia beyond the urban fringe. [T;%]
1835 -
	Wed.-Thu.: ON THE MAT* - Where the Pacific comes together to chat and 
discuss issues of regional interest. This week: A recent U.S. report 
has singled out the Fiji Methodist Church for criticism in relation to 
Tithing - when a church or a religious organisation obliges the 
faithful to donate 10% of their earnings. But many believe the practice 
transcends religious denominations. To tithe or not to tithe.	
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 1930.
1930 -
	Fri.: AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY STYLE - Aussie country music with John 
Nutting.
1935 -
	Wed.-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 -
	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. This week: "Mike Danzey". As a young 
boy in country NSW, Mike Danzey grew up in the world of men, but he 
went on to become a passionate campaigner for the rights of women and 
an advocate of resident action. [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.-Thu.: RNZI PACIFIC DATELINE - Pacific news and current affairs 
from Radio New Zealand International.
	Fri.: IN CONVERSATION - Scientists and those interested in the subject 
talk about what science has meant to their lives. This week: "Stephen 
Oppenheimer" is a paediatrician who traces human origins. Using 
genetics he has tried to follow our ancestors’ tracks across the world. 
His detective work is fascinating – especially when compared to 
versions using bones and language. Do they match? Dr Oppenheimer is 
talking to Paul Willis. [%]

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 with Richard 
Aedy. This week: "Robertson" in Southern NSW is famous as the home of 
the film “Babe”, but it’s also one of the places starting a Community 
Technology Centre aimed at drawing local people together.  We take a 
look at thiscommunity venture. [%]
	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 as noted in eastern North America -
2100 - 2200 UTC:  15515 (usually reliable)
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>  [Note: Suspended 
for the duration of the Olympics due to copyright restrictions.]

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 0500 UT Fri. 6 Oct.

Good Listening!
John Figliozzi

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