[Swprograms] RA Previews #672; 7-9 Apr '04
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[Swprograms] RA Previews #672; 7-9 Apr '04



RADIO AUSTRALIA PREVIEWS
Edition 672
Apr. 7-9, 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
(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: "Energy in the Wind". A Danish company is transforming the northwest Tasmanian economy and landscape with its windpower plant. Australia could get twenty percent of its power from wind farming. But, as Alexandra de Blas reports, we are hooked on coal. [T;%]
Fri.: HINDSIGHT - social history with Jennifer Bowen. This week: "Waifs and Strays-- The Children of the Randwick Destitute Children's Asylum". From 1858 to the time of its closure in 1916, Sydney's Randwick Destitute Children's Asylum had housed 6,000 neglected children. More than two hundred of those children died at the Asylum, and
for over a century lay buried and forgotten in the nearby cemetery. We explore the Asylum's history, and its impact. [%]


0110 -
ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
0130 -
Wed.: RELIGION REPORT - with Stephen Crittendon. This week: " [T;%]
Thu.: MEDIA REPORT - with Mick O'Regan. This week: "Community Television". It's been a big few weeks for community television. In Sydney, controversy has erupted over Channel 31. And decisions are soon expected on permanent licenses in Melbourne and Brisbane. We look at the state of community TV in Australia. [T;%]
Fri.: THE SPORTS FACTOR - with Warwick Hadfield. <http://www.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. [%]


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.: Professor Michael Intriligator, noted econometrician and writer on international security.
Thu.: Professor Anthony Snodgrass, Assistant Professor of History, Cambridge University.
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: "Public Speaking". Does the prospect of having to 'say a few words' at a gathering of people fill you with dread? If so, you're in the majority. Most people equate public speaking with public humiliation. And yet so many of us long to be able to get up in front of a crowded room and be articulate, insightful and witty. Steven Alward takes us on his journey of becoming accustomed to public speaking. [%]
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 Quest for the True Cross". Carsten Pieter Thiede is well known for his "discovery" of the earliest known fragment of the Gospel of Matthew. Now he's found a piece of the true cross in a church in Rome. He tells Rachael Kohn why he's sure it's authentic. [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.


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. [%]
Tue.: "Do We Need More Male Teachers?" The federal government supports the idea of male only teaching scholarships. Teacher unions disagree and say gender isn't the issue...it's quality teaching that counts. So do we need more male teachers and are scholarships the best way to recruit them?


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 -
Mon.-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.: Who is going to fix Aboriginal Health?
Thu.: A Brief History of the Human Race.
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. Tim writes, "This week brings some challenges and some rewards.... listening to music can be a funny thing. Do we want to hear familiar ground or be challenged? I think both and often in between those poles. So the program in question is going to traverse some of the difficult and some of the pleasant... and the middle ground - the premise is to show that a whole can be made from a set of parts that on the surface don't really gel." [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.: One's a mighty, African river; the other a modest, Australian one. What's the audible connection between the Nile & the Condamine? "Song Links" has the answer! "Song Links" is a good idea, executed well: to celebrate the connections/affinities/differences between English traditional songs & their Australian variants. The lavishly-presented double-CD's stellar cast includes many of both countries' greatest folk musicians. All performances were especially recorded for this project.
Thu.: Mané was born in Lisbon and spent part of her youth in Mozambique, which may account for why she sings Fado, Portugal’s national music, a blend of styles from Portugal and its southern colonies that first emerged in the 19th century. Although she has been singing professionally since 1975, ‘Subtil’, recorded in February 2003 in Paris (where she has lived for 10 years) is her debut album. It is a live in the studio affair that highlights the subtleties (for a Fado singer) of her voice and the skills of her accompanists, Nel Garcia (Guitar) and Samuel Cabral (Portuguese Guitar).
Fri.: On Good Friday we explore a fine new album of contemporary string trio music – definitely contemporary, but connected to thousands of years of history in & around what some call “The Holy Land”. John Zorn is its composer & the new CD by the Masada String Trio is the first of a series of “live” recordings made as part of Zorn’s 50th birthday celebrations. Zorn also conducts the Masada String Trio – violinist Mark Feldman, cellist Erik Friedlander & acoustic bassist Greg Cohen - who play his compositions beautifully & very playfully.


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: Italian-born Josephine Cabassi's father emigrated to Australia in 1925. The family rejoined him in 1937. She talks with Bill Bunbury about their reunion and his subsequent internment as an "enemy alien" in World War Two. [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: "6--The Wired Marketplace". During the Asian economic crisis, we witnessed the havoc caused by the rapid movement of vast amounts of capital in and out of some countries. And yet, electronic commerce is being touted as a major growth industry in the 21st. Century and will have significant impact on economic growth. What can Australia do to stake its claim to a share of global commerce as increasingly, corporations, small businesses and individuals alike will buy, sell and invest on-line? [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 Evolution of Depression--Could It Be Beneficial?" In a controversial thesis, we hear from evolutionary biologists who argue that our capacity to be depressed has evolved over millennia to help us respond to and cope with difficult social circumstances.[T;%]
Fri.: IN CONVERSATION - Robyn Williams talks to scientists and those interested in the subject, about what science has meant to their lives. <http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/incon/> for details. [%]


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: "Radar Replacement". Australia's about to roll-out a new aircraft tracking system that could one day replace radar. The Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast, or ADS-B, uses the Global Positioning System to ensure that each aircraft knows where it is. "Training for Ethical Hackers". Hackers are a problem for computer network security teams. To stop a hacker you have to think like a hacker, but how do you do this? "The Artist in the Machine".
New media art is the application of computer technologies to an artistic vision. But increasingly artists are encouraging the technology to take a real role in creativity by working with Artificial Life (AI). [%]
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.)
2200 - 0000 UTC: 21740 (usually reliable)
0000 - 0200 UTC: 15240 [17580 also noted] (heard regularily, but not daily)
0200 - 0700 UTC: 15515 (usually reliable) [17580
and 17750 also noted (heard regularly, but not daily)]
0700 - 0800 UTC: 15240 (heard regularly, but not daily) [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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