[Swprograms] RA Previews #679; 26-30 Apr '04
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[Swprograms] RA Previews #679; 26-30 Apr '04



RADIO AUSTRALIA PREVIEWS
Edition 679
Apr. 26-30, 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 -
Tue.: THE SCIENCE SHOW - with Robyn Williams. This week: "Seas Collapse--Global Warming?" We hear about a team from San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, which has been testing the seas off California for 50 years. It recorded that plankton has diminished by 70%, fish by 50% and bird life by 30%. Is it due to global warming? [%]
Wed.: THE NATIONAL INTEREST - Terry Lane looks at the major issues of the week. This week: "Dr Tom Frame". On this Anzac Day edition of The National Interest, Lane
talks with Dr Tom Frame, Anglican Bishop to the Australian Defence Force, about his new book "Living by the Sword? The Ethics of Armed Intervention". [%]
Thu.: BACKGROUND BRIEFING - Radio National's agenda-setting, current affairs radio documentary program. This week: "Mutating Mobiles". Your mobile phone will bring you share prices, the internet, and moving pictures. It may change language, the way we relate to each other, and even bring down governments. The phone will also keep an eye on where you are. Tom Morton reports. [T;%]
Fri.: HINDSIGHT - social history with Jennifer Bowen. This week: "The Tichborne Claimant". The story of a butcher from Wagga Wagga who tried to claim the estate of an English aristocrat who'd been lost at sea. And baronet or butcher, either way, the claimant was a celebrity. In 1871, throughout Great Britain and Australia, he was the subject of songs, plays, cartoons, endless newspaper articles, a waxwork at Madame Tussaud’s and, one of the longest-running court cases in British judicial history. [%]


0110 -
ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
0130 -
Mon.: HEALTH REPORT - with Norman Swan. This week: "Oxygen". We hear the personal story of a woman suffering from the life-threatening lung disease, fibrosis alveolitis. Without a lung transplant she will die shortly as the disease rapidly progresses. And she has to pay about $900 a month for oxygen. [T;%]
Tue.: LAW REPORT - with Damien Carrick. This week: "Ruling by Privacy Commissioner; Asylum Seekers and Persecution by Individuals". Last week the Federal Privacy Commissioner found that a tenancy database in breach of The Privacy Act. It's the first time the Coimmissioner has made a ruling with respect to the private sector. Also Asylum Seekers. The case of the Ukrainian Jehovah's Witnesses - who claimed they were being persecuted - not by their government but by other citizens. The High Court found against them, but Australia does in some circumstances grant protection to those persecuted by non state agents. [T;%]
Wed.: RELIGION REPORT - with Stephen Crittendon. [abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/relrpt/] [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. [%]


0410 -
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.: General Peter Cosgrove, Chief of the Defence Force. A program first heard on Remembrance Day last year.
Tue.: Dr. Mbulelo Mzamane, former Vice Chancellor of the University of Fort Hare, South Africa.
Wed.: William Shawcross, writer and broadcaster.
Thu. & Fri.: tba


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: "On the Brink of Extinction". The black-eared miner bird (not to be confused with the common pest myna, introduced from Asia) is an Australian native. We have four species of miners, they are native honey-eaters and with the exception of the black-eared miner are aggressive and drive other birds away from their territories. But the black-eared one is wary and shy and when intruders are present, it simply vanishes. Aivd bird twitcher and writer Sue Taylor from Melbourne tells the extraordinary and little known story of oen of Australia's best conservation tales yet. [%]
Tue.: IN CONVERSATION - Robyn Williams talks to scientists and those interested in the subject, about what science has meant to their lives. This week: "A Clone of Your Own?" (part 2 of 2). Arlene Klotzko asks why we're so incensed by the prospect of human clones. Is it the waste of resources, the extra-terrestrial con tricks, the vanities or simply an abhorrence of production-line people? [%]
Wed.: LINGUA FRANCA - about language. This week: "Talking About Sex". Julian Burnside QC looks at the euphemisms and circumlocutions used to speak politely about sex. He considers a legal case about obscene language, by way of making his own case for liberating a certain four-letter word from giving offence. [%]
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: "Heavenly Grottoes". Those grotesque rocks found in Chinese gardens are imitations of the legendary heavenly grottoes of China’s five sacred mountains. Heavenly grottoes are the realm of the immortals, and Dr. Liu Yang of the Art Gallery of NSW explains their importance in the literature and art of China. [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.
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 - 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.: "Why Do People Hate Journalists?" They're the scum of the earth. No one's got a good word to say about them. Why do people hate journalists, yet love their stores? Everyone's happy to talk about Posh and Beck's while pouring scorn on the gutter press. Ethics, who cares?


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

1105 -
SPORT - reports and scores.
1110 -
ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
1130 -
Mon.-Thu.: BUSH TELEGRAPH - rural and regional issues around Australia. (Digest version of the full program broadcast daily at 1605.)
Fri.: THE CHAT ROOM* (refer to 0633 Fri.)


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. [%]
Mon.: 'Lord Bellycloth' and the Battle for Lake Tanganyika.
Tue.: Victoria Hammond--Letters From St Petersburg.
Wed.: Bob Woodward--Plan of Attack.
Thu.: 'All the hallmarks of Al Qaeda'. What are they?
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.: As most Australians enjoy their Anzac Day Public Holiday, we remember how rich - before war so nearly destroyed it all - was musical culture in Afghanistan. "Radio Kaboul" is a new recording. Mahwash is still acknowledged as Afghanistan's finest female voice, even though she’s long lived in California. Her broadcasts on Radio Afghanistan made her enormously popular. She was “Artist of the year” in 1970. In 1977 she received the title of Ustad (Master). This new, high-fidelity recording honours those who made the radio a focal point for life in Afghanistan from 1940 on, when it broadcast a blend of Indian, Persian & Afghan music. In 2003 the BBC granted Mahwash the Asia/Pacific Award of World Music. She remains a very potent vocalist and is beautifully accompanied on an album of passionate yet refined, very haunting music.
Tue.: Today’s show is a cornucopia of reeds, full of rich textures & nice surprises. It is (we trust!) free of flatulence, but is full of wind. “Reeds” is the new CD by West Australian composer & improvising multi-instrumentalist, Mark Cain. He plays an enormous number of instruments – some of his own invention. His CD is adventurous, highly diverse & readily accessible. The one-man wind orchestra has some occasional percussive assistance from Paul Tanner. We’ll also explore the new CD by an unusual English-based, more-or-less Irish trio. “Last Night’s Fun” is two-thirds full of wind & reeds: one member is a phenomenal player of the concertina, another a virtuoso of the uniquely Irish, uillean pipes.
Wed.: Frifot” means footloose in Swedish and the Swedish trio, Frifot have a footloose approach to Swedish folk music. Formed in 1987, they are Ale Moller, Lena Willemark and Per Gudmundson, Sweden’s pioneers of folk music. They are multi-instrumentalists who produce a wide range of sounds, expanding into 3 part a cappella vocals on their new album, ‘Sluring,’ named after a Swedish stew of meat and potatoes. As they’ve given us the recipe to this ancient dish, we’ll make the Daily Planet a festival of recipes.
Thu.: “The Rough Guide to the Music of Argentina” would like to remind you that tango is just one of “the country’s diverse musical outpourings”. That said, there’s some very nice & not over-familiar tango music on the CD. It also takes in Andean-folkloric & other elements, including music from the heart of “Chamamé country" {near the Brazilian border), a harmonica virtuoso & a master guitarist.
Fri.: “Cesaria Evora” is by far the best know Cape Verdean musician today, with sales of over 4 million albums. After being discovered at home at the age of 20, she took time off to raise a family, re-entering performance when she moved to Paris in the 1980s. She’s known as the ‘Barefoot Diva,’ because that’s how she performs on stage to ‘remind me of the dignity of my Cape Verdean identity.’ Her new 10th album, “Voz D’Amor” (Voice of Love) is a return to pure Cape Verdean music, recorded in the few gaps in her busy touring schedule with her tight touring band.


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 -
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 -
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;%]
1835 -
Mon.-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 -
Mon.-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 -
Mon.-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 -
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.: EARTHBEAT - environmental issues raised by economic development with Alexandra de Blas. This week: "Sunrise or Sunset?" Only four countries are net exporters of solar energy systems and Australia is one of them. But we've lost our position as a global leader and we're rapidly slipping behind. Earthbeat explores how Australia could reclaim its place in the sun.[T]
Tue.: 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;%]
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: "#9--Virtual Reality". Computer technology introduced us to simulated experiences - the sense of being in another place at another time. Virtual reality has gone beyond a whole new set of entertainment experiences into value added training for a range of professionals such as pilots, doctors, and town planners. It’s also opening up opportunities for further growth in service industries such as tourism. Outside of these conventional uses of computer-mediated experiences, there exists a whole new world called ‘cyberspace’. What is it? And how do we relate to it? [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 Anatomy of Melancholy". Published in 1621, "The Anatomy of Melancholy" is one of the great classics on the mind and its discontents. Sue Clark travels back in time to contemplate the legacy of the great tome's author, Oxford clergyman and scholar Robert Burton. [T;%]
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: "After the Revolution". It is 30 years since a group of young Portuguese army officers ended one of the longest-lasting dictatorships in Europe. [%]
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: "Connecting". The community and non-profit sector is big business generating almost 45% of Australia's GDP, more than the mining sector. Increasingly community groups are using IT and advanced communications, but how do they do it and what is available? [%]
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 Wed. 0500 UT.

Good Listening!
John Figliozzi

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