[Swprograms] RA Previews #685; 12-14 May '04

[John Figliozzi <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RADIO AUSTRALIA PREVIEWS
Edition 685
May 12-14, 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: "Developing Darwin--Too 
Much, Too Fast?" Thongs and a slab won’t do in Darwin now. It's selling 
itself as an industrial hub, and a CBD with a skyscraper--Australia's 
fast-track gateway to Asia with an expectation of riches from oil, gas 
and investment. [T;%]
	Fri.: HINDSIGHT - social history with Jennifer Bowen. This week: "In 
the Wake of the 'Caledonia'" A real-life pirate adventure story set in 
the South Pacific. Captain George Browning's diary recounts the piracy 
of the schooner 'Caledonia', which was overrun by convicts at Moreton 
Bay in 1831 and eventually wrecked off Samoa. [%]

0110 -
	ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
0130 -
	Wed.: RELIGION REPORT - with Stephen Crittendon. 
[abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/relrpt/] for details. [T;%]
	Thu.: MEDIA REPORT - with Mick O'Regan. This week: "Media Coverage of 
the Abuse of Iraqi Prisoners". O'Regan looks at how the media in the 
Arab world has dealt
with revelations of the abuse of Iraqi prisoners. [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) 
[%]
		Wed: Dr. Jane Roscoe, Head of the Centre for Screen Studies and 
Research at Australian Film, Television and Radio School.
		Thu.: John McPhee, Art Historian
		Fri.: James Curran, Historian. He is cuurently the John Curtin Prime 
Ministerial Library Visiting Scholar for 2004.

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: "Lost For Words". Try 
to imagine a world without language; a world where words, grammar and 
syntax suddenly become meaningless. This is what happens to people with 
aphasia. It's a kind of brain damage that wipes out the ability to 
comprehend and communicate in spoken or written word. Aphasia can be a 
permanent condition. For radio producer and author Mark Wakely it was 
temporary, the result of a head injury. His language slowly came back. 
Here he tells the story of the terrifying weeks he spent in hospital, 
when words failed him. [%]
	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: "A Poet of Substance--Nasir Khusraw". 
Celebrating the 1000th anniversary of Ismaili Muslim poet Nasir 
Khusraw, who towers above his romantically inclined contemporaries such 
as Omar Khayyam. [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.
	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. [%]
		Wed.: "East Timor". Five years ago, we played a crucial role in the 
birth of their nation.  Now there are harsh words between us. East 
Timor has accused us of stealing their oil, and threatening their 
future. Australia says Timor is trying to take its territory. Are we 
being fair to our newest neighbour?

1005 -
	ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
	
1105 -
	SPORT - reports and scores.
1110 -
	ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
1130 -
	Wed.-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 -
	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.: Bruce Shapiro's Latvian journey; Olfat Mahmoud; John Howard 
(Repeats)
		Thu.: Warren Mitchell (Repeat)
	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: "Some people think it best to 
ignore the past when trying to envisage the future. I think that's a 
tough ask... the past forms our thoughts and tastes... so this week i'm 
focusing on a few releases that were made in the past and have a new 
live by being re-released now. You may well be surprised just how 
contemporary the sounds are... or at least recognise new sounds in 
these past recordings - but don't worry, they're not old ordinary stuff 
- these records were the of the stuff that made a difference to where 
music went." [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;%]
		Wed.: Said Chraibi was born in Marrakech in 1951. He started his 
studies on the oud at the age of 13 and won first prize for his playing 
in Iraq in 1986. He’s an innovator in the design and playing of the 
instrument, with little regard for rules that others may proscribe 
about ‘proper’ playing. The title of his CD ‘The Key to Granada’ refers 
to those who held the keys to their houses in Spain generations after 
their expulsion and relocation to North Africa. Two pieces on the album 
reflect on the Andalusian strains of Moroccan music, showing that it is 
a relative of flamenco.
		Thu.: Every note he plays tells you that Michel Camilo is an 
exceptional “Latin jazz" pianist. Listen more closely, & you’ll soon 
hear that he’s very capable in many other fields, including classical & 
flamenco. Born in the Dominican Republic in 1954, the child prodigy 
composed his first song as a five year old. At age 16 he was a member 
of the National Symphony Orchestra. In 1979 he moved to New York. “Live 
at the Blue Note” is a superb, highly interactive trio set. His 
colleagues are both from Cuba. The amazing drummer Horacio “El Negro” 
Hernandez, has worked with Camilo for the last 8 years. Newcomer 
Charles Flores is a fine acoustic bassist.  The leader’s delicacy is as 
impressive as his power. It's hard to believe that only six hands are 
involved, & these players obviously have huge ears, too!
		Fri.: In 1972, The Flatlanders recorded what most thought was their 
only album – a weird mix of bluegrass, country and saw playing that 
sank without a trace, but the three main members – Joe Ely, Butch 
Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore went on to have successful and creative 
individual careers. So when they recorded a second album 30 years after 
the first, Joe Ely called it a ‘damn miracle’. On that record, ‘Now 
Again’, they co-wrote 12 of its 14 songs. On their new, third CD 
‘Wheels of Fortune’, they take a different tack – as a rule, if one 
person writes a song, another member will sing it. This method works 
surprisingly well.	

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 -
	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. 
[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. 
[abc.net.au/rn/history/verbatim/] for details. [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: "#11: Digital Democracy". National governments have 
existed to manage the economy, defend national boundaries and foster a 
sense of national identity. Because digital networks operate outside  
of the nation state, questions of nationhood are now being contested. 
Is public interest a part of policy making in the information age? Can 
digital communications  reinforce the value of community? Should we, as 
citizens of a participatory democracy, act locally while thinking 
globally? Or should we attempt to act globally and risk losing any 
sense of national identity? [T;%]
	Thu.: ALL IN THE MIND - a foray into the mental universe, the mind, 
the brain and human behavior with Natasha Mitchell. This week: "Thomas 
Willis--The Soul Made Flesh". The physician Thomas Willis was the guy 
who placed the Soul back into the body. In the 17th Century, his 
extraordinary efforts to document the brain's anatomy and function came 
at a time when the heart was considered the seat of all sensory 
experience, the Soul was an immaterial and immortal beast, and the 
brain was little more than a unimpressive "bowl of curds". But despite 
setting the agenda for 21st Century neuroscience, the world's first 
neurologist remains unknown to most of us today. Award winning science 
journalist Carl Zimmer joins Natasha Mitchell this week to put Willis 
firmly back on his heady pedestal. [T;%]
	Fri.: IN CONVERSATION - Robyn Williams talks to scientists and those 
interested in the subject, about what science has meant to their lives. 
This week: "Exploiting Your Genes". Now that more is known about your 
genes there is room for exploitation. Employers and insurance companies 
may try to gain advantage from any problems your genome reveals. Has 
this already happened? Sandy Taylor from the University of
Queensland has launched a major survey to find out. [%]

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: "Duck 
for Cover". The Buzz explodes at Woomera this week. The Department of 
Defence is detonating five tonnes of high explosive - hundreds of times 
more than a missile warhead - to test the effects on buildings and 
glass. Our reporter is jostling for a front-row seat as we explore the 
science of controlled explosions. [%]
	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:  17715 (usually reliable)
0200 - 0700 UTC:  15515 (usually reliable)
0800 - 1400 UTC:   9580 (reliable) [6020 and 9590 also noted (reliable)]
1400 - 1600 UTC:   9590 (reliable, but fading)
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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