[Swprograms] RA Previews #777; 17-21 Jan '05
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[Swprograms] RA Previews #777; 17-21 Jan '05

RADIO AUSTRALIA PREVIEWS
Edition 777
Jan. 17-21, 2005

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 <abc.net.au/radio> and <abc.net.au/ra/guide/programs_az.htm> . Additional information and a key to abbreviations and symbols used appear at the bottom of the page.

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Since it is summer in Australia, many regular programs are on hiatus until mid or late January. But several have already returned and then there is the Australian (tennis) Open which RA will carry live daily.

(RA or ABC News every hour on the hour)

Weekdays

0005 -
Mon.: AWAYE! - produced and presented by Aboriginal broadcasters and is Australia's only national Indigenous arts and culture program. This week: "What Is It About Us That You Don't Like?" Distinguished Cherokee writer and scholar, Thomas King presents the last in his series of lectures, "What Is It About Us That You Don't Like?". This time the award-winning author looks at the breadth and depth of Native experience and imagination. King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, in an effort to make sense of North America’s relationship with its Aboriginal peoples. [%]
Tue.: THE SCIENCE SHOW - with Robyn Williams. This week: "2024 Dreaming
Beyond the Gridlock--An Impossible Dream?" How will we travel in 2024? The cost of car crashes in this country alone amounts to $17 billion. It is estimated that the humble traffic jam costs America US$100 billion. And then there's the cost of wars to keep the oil flowing. How much longer can we afford to continue along these lines in future? [%]
Wed.: THE NATIONAL INTEREST - Terry Lane looks at the major issues of the week. This week: "Corporate Greenery" - When leading environmentalists jump the fence to join the timber industry do they achieve reform from within or just lend a green tinge to the corporate spin? "The end of cheap oil?" - Recent sharp rises in the price of petrol are a sign of things to come as global demand for oil increases but global supplies do not. "Don't stone the crows" - Crows are the least liked Australian bird but they are really very clever and deserve to have a much better reputation. [%]
Thu.: BACKGROUND BRIEFING - Radio National's agenda-setting, current affairs radio documentary program. This week: "Psychopaths in Suits". You need to be a little mad to go in to management, and you need to be a bit mad to do it well. But, there's a thin grey line. Find out what happens when the psychopath goes to work! [T;%]
Fri.: HINDSIGHT - social history with Claudia Taranto. This week: "Return to Jackson's Track--A Meeting With Ghosts". In 1999 Daryl Tonkin released his memoir of love and loss among the blackfellas of Jackson’s Track. It was a tragic story of a rare place where Aboriginal people were left in peace to decide how they wanted to live their lives. This went on for twenty years, until almost 1960, when suddenly the outside world intruded and change came to the forest. [%]
0055 -
HIT MIX HIGHLIGHTS - chart successes from 2004.

0105 -
ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2305)
0130 -
Mon.: HEALTH REPORT - with Dr. Norman Swan. This week: "The End Of Stress As We Know It". Stress is a term that is often over-used and misunderstood. Professor Bruce McEwen of Rockefeller University in New York City, an expert on the topic, has written a book called The End of Stress As We Know It. He claims that once people have read it, they will not think of stress in the same way as before. The book, whose co-author is Elizabeth Norton Lasley, deals with the biology and psychology of stress. In this program Professor McEwen talks about his work and ideas on stress. [T; %]
Tue.: LAW REPORT - with Damien Carrick. [abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/lawrpt/] for details. [T;%]
Wed.: RELIGION REPORT - with Stephen Crittendon. This week: "A Conversation with Number 399/57i". Swiss-born Catholic theologian Hans Küng recently published the first volume of his memoirs under the title "My Struggle for Freedom". He speaks to Stephen Crittenden about his life, key figures such as Pius XII, theologians Karl Barth and Yves Congar, and about his former colleague turned foe, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. And he takes the blowtorch to the pontificate of John Paul II which he describes as "a medieval papacy" and "a church of the façade". [T;%]
Thu.: MEDIA REPORT - with Mick O'Regan. This week: "Channel 4,Australia". Advertising boss John Singleton wants a fourth free-to-air TV channel with only Australian content, and he'll back it with his money. Pie-in-the-sky or a serious attempt to add to Australia's cultural landscape? [T;%]
Fri.: SPORTS FACTOR - debating and celebrating the cultural significance of sport. This week: "Golden Oldies". In the last of the Sports Factor favourites we talk to some grumpy old men about their love for rowing and grans in netball skirts who outplay their much younger competitors. [T;%]

0210 -
THE WORLD TODAY - a comprehensive current affairs program which backgrounds, analyses, interprets and encourages debate on events and issues of interest and importance to all Australians. [T;%]

0310 -
SPORT
0320 -
LIFE MATTERS - interview program about social change and day-to-day life in Australia with Julie McCrossin. This week: "Emotions". All week, Life Matters explores the emotions - their history, power and performance. We’ll also hear from Irish writer Roddy Doyle on the power of storytelling and what it means to be mired in the complex history of Ireland. [%]

0410 -
MARGARET THROSBY INTERVIEW - Margaret Throsby takes an extended break until late January, so here are some of her past conversations 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) [%]

0505 -
PACIFIC BEAT: second edition - 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.

0610 -
SPORT
0620
Mon.: HIT MIX* - the Australian music scene.
Tue.: MUSIC DELI - folk, traditional, acoustic music and world music with Paul Petran. This week: "Highlights from the 2004 Music Deli year". In this program Ria Soemardjo singing Sundanese and Javanese songs; then from the Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow - Banditaliana. [T;%]
Wed.: JAZZ NOTES* - presented by Ivan Lloyd.
Thu.: OZ COUNTRY STYLE - from ABC Local Radio.
Fri.: INSIDE OUT* - A weekly programme that brings out personal views from the Pacific region and stories gathered in Australia, within Pacific communities. [%]
0645 -
TALKING POINT - interviews conducted by Peter Thompson, the presenter of RN's "Breakfast" program over the past season. <abc.net.au/rn/talks/brkfast/default.htm> for details.

0705 -
PACIFIC BEAT: second edition (refer to 0505)
0730 -
Tue.-Fri.: TENNIS: THE AUSTRALIAN OPEN - Expect another action-packed fortnight - both on and off the court - as the top names of world tennis gather at Melbourne Park from 17-30 January 2005 for the first Grand Slam of the new season. The sport's top players will vie for a record prize pool of AUD$19.1million - one of the biggest in world sport - with the men's and women's winners picking up a cool AUD$1,206,620 each.

0805 -
	Mon.: PM - a comprehensive daily current affairs program.
0830 -
	Mon.: TENNIS: THE AUSTRALIAN OPEN (refer to 0730 Tue.-Fri.)

1030 -
	Mon.: ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2305)

1105 -
	Mon.-Fri.: TENNIS: THE AUSTRALIAN OPEN (refer to 0730 Tue.-Fri.)
1130 -
	Tue.-Fri.: ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2305)

1205 -
LATE NIGHT LIVE - talk radio with a difference, from razor-sharp analysis of current events to the hottest debates in politics, science, philosophy and culture. [abc.net.au/rn/talks/lnl/] for details.

1305 -
THE PLANET - jazz, blues, folk styles, art music and more in a show artfully arranged for radio.
Mon.: An almost-all Brazilian show, but always connected to another place. “One of the seminal solo guitar albums – in any genre” is a big claim, but anyone who’s heard “Ocean” by Bola Sete is likely to agree. Beautiful, sometimes dark & very dramatic, it was way too far from “bossa-nova” for his record company’s liking, so John Fahey issued it on his Takoma label in 1975. Issued for the first time in 2004 is “Bola Sete Live at Grace Cathedral”, from a 1976 concert in San Francisco. The best, new true “bossa nova” album comes from Melbourne! Mostly, “..three shadows of blue..” is a set of Brazilian classics, performed very intimately & in a refreshingly adult way by singer Diana Clark & guitarist Doug De Vries. We’ll also hear what happens when a great Brazilian songster – Caetano Veloso – salutes the music of the USA.
Tue.: The South Indian lute, known as the Veena or Saraswati Veena is older than its North Indian cousin, the Sitar. It is an equally eloquent instrument. Two of its finest players (acclaimed as such by cognoscenti in India) live in Melbourne: the brothers Ramnath & Gopinath Iyer. “Soulful Strings” is the beautiful new album by the Iyer Brothers & Sridhar Chari, who plays the double-headed Carnatic hand drum, the Mridangam. Although entirely instrumental the music's lyrical, “vocal” quality is inescapable.
Wed.: “Moon Water” is not your average “jazz trio” date. Danish pianist Carsten Dahl, Norwegian double bassist Arild Anderson & French drummer/percussionist Patrice Heral are great players in “jazz” terms. But “jazz” terms are not their only terms. Their musical sensibility is definitely “European”, not “wannabe American”. Their original music is conversational, often very “open”, sometimes highly improvisatory. Yet it’s always well-proportioned; even the more “free” moments are neither muscle-bound nor cacophonous. You could literally sing along with some of this music, whilst some is rather more mysterious & surprising. A deal is exquisitely beautiful. Each player has a very sensitive touch on his particular instrument.
Thu.: Alan Stivell is the best-known individual in the ongoing revival of Breton “roots” music. Arguably, however, Skolvan is the key band. For two decades a byword for instrumental excellence, Skolvan has avoided gimmickry, yet remained inventive, acutely aware that a living tradition looks forward as well as back. Their signature instrument – the “piston” - was literally invented by one of its founders, as a “milder”, “ensemble” version of the bombarde {the characteristic Breton shawm/”oboe”}. The quintet also has a superb guitarist, a saxophonist, an accordionist & a percussionist who makes the tabla feel absolutely “at home” in Brittany. Skolvan ranges from driving dances through to very haunting airs, both traditional & self-penned. “Live in Italia” is a 2-CD delight which even has a little surprise for admirers or John Coltrane and/or Julie Andrews.
Fri.: The Del McCoury Band has been playing quite a few rock festivals lately. Del’s carefully coiffed helmet of puffy grey hair and the band’s hard bluegrass sound might seem out of place, but crowds embrace them due to their associations with jam bands Phish, Leftover Salmon and the String Cheese Incident. Their latest album, “It’s Just The Night” features guest appearances by Gospel group The Fairfield Four and two songs written by Richard Thompson. And there are the usual great features of the band – Ronnie McCoury’s brilliant mandolin, Jason Carter’s violin and Del’s high and lonesome vocals.

1405 -
	SPORT
1410 -
	PM (refer to 0805)

1505 -
	ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2305)

1530 -
	Mon.: HEALTH REPORT (refer to 0130)
	Tue.: LAW REPORT (refer to 0130)
	Wed.: RELIGION REPORT (refer to 0130)
	Thu.: MEDIA REPORT (refer to 0130)
	Fri. SPORTS FACTOR (refer to 0130)

1605 -
	MARGARET THROSBY (refer to 0410)

1705 -
	Mon.: AWAYE (refer to 0005)
	Tue.: THE SCIENCE SHOW (refer to 0005)
	Wed.: THE NATIONAL INTEREST (refer to 0005)
	Thu.: BACKGROUND BRIEFING (refer to 0005)
	Fri.: HINDSIGHT (refer to 0005)

1805 -
PACIFIC BEAT: First Edition - 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.

2110 -
Mon.-Thu.: AM - ABC Radio's morning news magazine. [%; T]
Fri.: VERBATIM - oral histories. This week: "The Evangelist". Alwyn Jensen says the Lord called him to work with the Aborigines in his local area of Gippsland, in Victoria. He'd never noticed any Aborigines around his little town of Neerum South but began searching and found the families living in the forest along Jackson's Track. He set out to convert them. This is an exploration of the thinking and beliefs of an evangelist and how he views the changes he wrought in other people's lives. [%]
2130 -
Mon.-Thu.: DATELINE PACIFIC - Pacific news and current affairs from Radio New Zealand International.
Fri.: TALKING POINT SPECIAL (refer to 0645 Fri.)

2210 -
Mon.-Thu.: AM (refer to 2110)
Fri.: ASIA PACIFIC* - regional current affairs.
2240 -
TALKING POINT - interviews conducted by Peter Thompson, the presenter of RN's "Breakfast" program over the past season. <abc.net.au/rn/talks/brkfast/default.htm> for details.
2255 -
PERSPECTIVE - expert commentary.

2305 -
Mon-Thu.: ASIA PACIFIC* - interviews and reports from the region. [T;%]
Fri.: AUSTRALIAN EXPRESS (refer to 0532 Fri.)
2330 -
Mon.: THE EUROPEANS - political, cultural, economic and social developments across eastern and western Europe with Keri Philips. This week: "A Traveller in Germany". Why is it so hard to write a travel book about Germany? Why is there no German equivalent of “Under the Tuscan Sun” or “A Year in Provence”? American writer Michael Gorra addresses these questions, exploring both the nature of the travel narrative and the way outsiders see Germany, in his new book. [T;%]
Tue.: RURAL REPORTER - the people and places that make up country Australia.
Wed.: EARTHBEAT - environmental science with Alexandra deBlas. This week: "Parched Lands: Inner Mongolia – Holding back the Desert". For the residents of Beijing, the thick dust storms that can envelop their city have become an all too frequent event. Overgrazing and overploughing are driving the expanding dustbowl, as topsoil and livelihoods literally blow away in the north of the country. China’s neighbours, Korea and Japan, have complained about the oppressive billows of dust too. [T;%]
Thu.: MEDIA REPORT (refer to 0130 Thu.)
Fri.: HIT MIX* - the Australian music scene.

How to Listen to Radio Australia----
Via shortwave:
Best as noted in eastern North America -
2200 - 0000 UTC: 21740 [on occasion]
0200 - 0900 UTC: 15515 [not well heard lately]
0800 - 1400 UTC: 9580 [6020, 9590 also noted at times]
1400 - 1600 UTC: 9590 [until fade out; 9475, 11680 also noted at times]
(Reception in western North America is much more reliable. 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/tuning/web.htm
Note: There will be no audio streaming through February 7th due to rights issues with broadcast of cricket matches.

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.

An update will be posted by 0500 UT Thu.

Good Listening!
John Figliozzi

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