[Swprograms] RA Previews #682; 3-7 May '04
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RADIO AUSTRALIA PREVIEWS
Edition 682
May 3-7, 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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ED NOTE: There will be no midweek update this week. Next edition online by Fri. 0500

Weekdays
(RA or ABC News every hour on the hour)

0010 -
Tue.: THE SCIENCE SHOW - with Robyn Williams. This week: "Who Killed the Ice Man?" He's the world's oldest natural mummy. In the years since UTzi was found in the Italian Alps he has been investigated inside and out. Tom Loy from the University of Queensland had first go at Utzi's 5000-year-old DNA. Now he's reassessing the implications. Does the hole in the mummy's skull mean he was murdered? [%]
Wed.: THE NATIONAL INTEREST - Terry Lane looks at the major issues of the week. This week: The latest chapter in the Mitsubishi saga. Once again there's a shadow over the future of the Adelaide car plant. Should government come up with another rescue package or does Australia simply have too many car makers? Lane is joined by economist Nicholas Gruen, who worked on the Button car plan and by veteran motoring writer Bill Tuckey. [%]
Thu.: BACKGROUND BRIEFING - Radio National's agenda-setting, current affairs radio documentary program. This week: "The Mind of the Paedophile". It's a shocking crime and impossible for society to understand, so what is in the mind of the paedophile? How could they do it? Helen Thomas reports that there's a new understanding of what drives this sinister compulsion. [T;%]
Fri.: HINDSIGHT - social history with Jennifer Bowen. This week: "Can We Change the Past?" While the so-called history wars continue to rage over interpretations of Australia's past, a panel of three historians discuss this thorny and controversial question. [%]


0110 -
ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
0130 -
Mon.: HEALTH REPORT - with Norman Swan. This week: "Liquid Calories". Increasing rates of obesity and being overweight have been blamed on the consumption of liquid calories found in soft drinks and the like. We hear about some research into this issue that reveals some interesting and surprising findings. [T;%]
Tue.: LAW REPORT - with Damien Carrick. [abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/relrpt/] [T;%]
Wed.: RELIGION REPORT - with Stephen Crittendon. This week: "Ada Cambridge". [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. This week: "Fatherhood Week". Fatherhood is being mobilised as a political tool, but not all questions of fathering are about dissent, the family court and divisive debates. The majority of fathers operate in intact families and a generation is emerging whose practices are changing. This week Life Matters brings together a range of voices, experiences and new research on fatherhood. [%]


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.: tba
Tue.: Dr. Rae Francis, Associate Professor of History at University of NSW.
Wed.: Ken Woodward, Occupational Health & Safety Advocate.
Thu.: Tom Zubrycki, Filmmaker.
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: "The Anthropology of Water". Dr Sandy Toussaint, senior lecturer in anthropology at the University of WA, looks at our relationship with a range of water sources. She raises a number of questions in need of investigation. [%]
Tue.: IN CONVERSATION - Robyn Williams talks to scientists and those interested in the subject, about what science has meant to their lives. This week: How do they plan innovation in one of the most competitive industries in the world? Kevin Scofield, General Manager of Strategy at Microsoft HQ in Seattle gives a few secrets away. [%]
Wed.: LINGUA FRANCA - about language. This week: "Te Reo Maori". There's a new free-to-air TV channel in New Zealand. It has news and sport, lifestyle programs and chat shows, but it's all in the Maori language - Te Reo. It's part of the drive to maintain and promote Maori as a living language and culture. Joe Te Rito, the General Manager for Language at Maori Television talks about the difficulties and joys of getting this network to air, and the sorts of ways a dedicated TV channel can serve to preserve and promote the language. [%]
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: "God's Wife". The belief in only one God was a long time coming among the ancient Israelites. Originally God had a wife and her name was Asherah. Biblical archaeologist, Diana Edelman tells the story of "Mrs God" and why she was banished from the Temple. [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.: "Australian Intelligence Services". How good a job are they doing? Or has it become a case of hear no evil, see no evil - and most importantly speak no evil - to the government of the day. Do we need a Royal Commission to investigate our intelligence agencies?


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.: Great adventures--Ice sailing in Greenland.
Tue.: Heide art movement--Setting the record straight.
Wed.: Ismail Serageldin on the great Library of Alexandria.
Thu.: Johan Galtung--Controversial professor of peace.
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.: It's "First Monday", when "The Planet" looks fondly back at the best new releases of the month that just was. It's not just a nostalgia trip; we always save some of the finest cuts for a debut airing on this day.
Tue.: Our featured Danish fiddler-composer seeks “a short cut through your ear & straight to your happy heart”. So declares Kristine Heebøll of her “Trio Mio”. Her colleagues are pianist/accordionist Nikølaj Busk & Jens Ulvsand, who plays guitar & bouzouki. A string quartet is also occasionally involved. The leader’s background in Scandinavian traditional music is easy to detect. So too are her wide-ranging interests in what she calls “every other kind of GOOD music!” The result is fresh & quite beautiful.
Wed.: Imagine a musical world where the violinist holds a plastic disc in her mouth so she can alter her sound by changing the shape of her mouth. Imagine a flute designed to be played by three musicians at once. What about an instrument that you don’t touch, but move your hands to manipulate its airflow? Listen to the electric one string instrument similar to a tea chest bass. Are we talking about an avant-garde music ensemble? No – these are the traditional instruments played by the Khac Chi Ensemble a Vietnamese trio now based in Canada. The sounds of their CD – 'Spirit of Vietnam' - might make you wonder if you’re listening to music from an alternate universe.
Thu.: If you like smoocheroso, sensuous tenor saxophone, it’s hard to imagine anything more appetizing than “The Nearness of You”. Bennie Wallace is in unfailingly luscious, romantic mode on his new CD – a superbly recorded, drummer-less trio with pianist Kenny Barron & acoustic bassist Eddie Gomez. It’s a deluxe set of “standards”. On the other hand, “Jacinta’s Song” sees Australia’s Jenny Game-Lopata place her tenor & soprano saxophones in imaginative, non-standard contexts. Her intricately & ingeniously structured compositions leave space for improvisation, & make good use of “unexpected” instruments such as violin, marimba & steel drum.
Fri.: Virginia Rodrigues grew up surrounded by the sounds of samba in the favelas of Salvador but her musical tastes gravitated towards the operatic voices of Jessye Norman and Marian Anderson. Caetano Veloso heard the exceptional clarity and individuality of her voice while she was singing in a church choir and helped produce her first two albums. Once again, he’s the artistic director for her new album, ‘Mares Profundos’, which is a beautifully recorded and arranged take on some of the first Afro-Brazilian songs to reach the mainstream, the compositions of Vinicius de Moraes and Baden Powell.


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. [%]
Tue.: "IT solutions for regional Australia". Live from the National Connecting Up Conference in Adelaide. How can information and communication technology improve the delivery of business, health, education, social, leisure and government services to regional Australia?


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. [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: "Violet Whitfield - Memories Of ‘Group Settlement’". In 1924 Violet Whitfield’s family left Britain to farm a small block in South-Western Australia. They were 'Group Settlers'. Violet recalls that pioneering experience in a conversation with Bill Bunbury. [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: "Falling in Love Again" - The Western world view emerges from only one part of the human brain. Our pursuit of purely rational knowledge blocks out the emotional centres that evolution has given us as guides for survival. As a consequence we’re heading down a path to extinction. "The 4th Bottom Line" - Futurist Sohail Inayatullah argues that spirituality should be adopted as the "4th bottom line" after economic, social and environmental elements. "Enterprise Facilitation" - Earthbeat meets the founder of enterprise facilitation - a system that encourages sustainable economic development. [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: "#10--Clever Communications". Use of the internet as a means of communicating has opened up new definitions of community and has created the basis of the global village. But how different are these virtual communities? How do computer-mediated communications affect the way we relate to one another? By combining aural, visual and text-based media, some argue we are better able to accommodate the different means, through which individuals learn, and work with one another. But is sitting at a screen any substitute for face-to-face interaction? [T;%]
Thu.: ALL IN THE MIND - a foray into the mental universe, the mind, the brain and human behavior with Natasha Mitchell. This week: "Trauma and Transition--Mental Health in Iraq". After three wars, the tyranny of Saddam Hussein, 13 years of UN sanctions and the current volatile transition; Iraq is a country under psychological strain. One report suggests at least 50 per cent of Iraqis probably have post-traumatic stress disorder. But there are less than 100 psychiatrists and no clinical psychologists across the population of 24 million. [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: "Tower of Babel". Tower of Babel – The ten new European Union members bring with them nine more official languages. The Europeans looks at the implications for interpreters at the EU and the broader linguistic landscape. [%]
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: "Executioner's Current". The electric chair is a vile and uncivilised invention, but it was originally sold to the American public as a more 'humane' way of killing. Even more bizarrely, it was an offshoot of a grim commercial competition between two electrical standards: Alternating Current (AC) and Direct Current (DC) and the men behind them, George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison. [%]
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: 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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