[Swprograms] RA Previews #690; 24-28 May '04

[John Figliozzi <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RADIO AUSTRALIA PREVIEWS
Edition 690
May 24-28, 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:  It seems I got a little ahead of myself in describing three 
programs last week--one week ahead to be exact.  Consequently, the 
details for Ockham's Razor, Verbatim and The National Interest look the 
same.  Rest assured, I've got it right this week.]

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

0010 -
	Tue.: THE SCIENCE SHOW - with Robyn Williams. This week: "Paper vs 
Electronic Elections". India has just completed a successful electronic 
election. They saved eight million tonnes of paper in the process. But 
are machines reliable? How do you know your vote has been registered? 
What is the scientific future of elections? [%]
	Wed.: THE NATIONAL INTEREST - Terry Lane looks at the major issues of 
the week. This week: "Political Donations and Muck-raking". Lane looks 
at the issue of political donations and asks whether current disclosure 
laws are adequate. Also new research on public attitudes towards 
parliament: the institution itself is held in high regard despite our 
low opinion of politicians. And writer Margaret Simons discusses the 
meaning of compost. [%]
	Thu.: BACKGROUND BRIEFING - Radio National's agenda-setting, current 
affairs radio documentary program. This week: "Renovators Fright". 
Asbestos is not something bad that happened a long time ago. In high 
places, insiders are concerned about how much of the stuff is still out 
there in old homes and workplaces, as Stephen Skinner
reports. [T;%]
	Fri.: HINDSIGHT - social history with Jennifer Bowen. This week: "A 
Short History of a River" - Part Two. This is the second and final part 
of our history of the culture of water, using the path of Coopers Creek 
from the headwaters of the Thomson to its end at Lake Eyre, as our 
route through a watery obsession. Last week we looked at the mythology 
of the inland sea, the predilections of the explorers and we took a 
trip down the Cooper itself, meeting some of the pastoralists there. We 
finished with the birth of a new industry – hydro engineering, and the 
enthusiasm of 19th century artists and writers for altering river flow.
 The deserts, however, remained deserts. In today’s program we’ll see 
how Australians attempted to use water to transform them into 
productive environments, for food and for settlement, and how we 
employed moral arguments to make water a political tool. Alfred Deakin, 
the Chaffey Brothers, Ion Idriess and JC Bradfield all had grand 
schemes for making the deserts bloom – and in its own way, the cotton 
industry that’s burgeoned since the 1960s has tried to do the same 
thing. So join us for another trip down Coopers Creek, following the 
combined history of rivers and irrigation. (Ed. Note: There are many 
illustrative pictures to accompany this series from 
[abc.net.au/rn/history/hindsight/].) [%]

0110 -
	ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
0130 -
	Mon.: HEALTH REPORT - with Norman Swan. This week: "Educating Young 
People about the Use of Alcohol". Researchers in Western Australia 
looked at ways of minimising alcohol-related harm in high school 
students. The School Health and Alcohol Harm Reduction Project (SHAHRP) 
is a longitudinal intervention research study that uses evidence-based, 
classroom alcohol education lessons to reduce alcohol-related harm in 
young people. [T;%]
	Tue.: LAW REPORT - with Damien Carrick. 
[abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/relrpt/] [T;%]
	Wed.: RELIGION REPORT - with Stephen Crittendon. 
[abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/relrpt/] for details. [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.: Emma Jane Murphy, Principal Cellist with the Australian Chamber 
Orchestra. The ACO perform their GLORIOUS BEETHOVEN series of concerts 
in Sydney and Melbourne 23rd - 26th May.
		Tue.: Jeanette Winterson, Author. Her latest book is 
"Lighthousekeeping" (published in Australia by Fourth Estate).
		Wed.: Professor Larissa Behrendt, Professor of Law and Indigenous 
Studies Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney. Her novel 
"Home" is published by University of Queensland Press.
		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: 
"Food--What's Smell Got To Do With It?" Brisbane dietician Joan Breakey 
on the role of flavour as a warning via smell. She discovered that 
strong flavoured foods remain high risk for some. Others are able to 
tolerate stronger flavours providing the foods are very fresh. [%]
	Tue.: IN CONVERSATION - Robyn Williams talks to scientists and those 
interested in the subject, about what science has meant to their lives. 
This week: "Queensland’s Chief Scientist". Meet Dr Peter Andrews, 
Queensland’s Chief Scientist. Dr Andrews has spent an illustrious 
career extracting useful substances from sea creatures. Now he’s trying 
to extract a feeling for the future from boffins and bureaucrats. [%]
	Wed.: LINGUA FRANCA - about language. This week: "Linguistics: Soviet 
Style". In his 1968 novel 'The First Circle', Alexander Solzhenitsyn 
conjures up a darkly comic image of Joseph Stalin. He's dreaming not of 
the Gulag or of purges, but of linguistics. Indeed, the Soviet leader 
had actually written on this subject, and a 50-page pamphlet of his 
collected thoughts was published posthumously by the Soviet government. 
Humphrey McQueen takes a look at Stalin's ideas on the subject, as 
elaborated in his pamphlet 'Marxism and Problems of Linguistics'; and 
considers why linguistics, of all things, became the focal point of an 
ideological contest in the Soviet Union. [%]
	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 Religion of 'The Lord of the Rings'”. 
J.R.R. Tolkien wrote that "The Lord of the Rings is of course a 
fundamentally religious and Catholic work...for the religious element 
is absorbed into the story and the symbolism." Stratford Caldecott 
reveals the religion behind the tale. [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.

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.: "Children's TV On Your ABC". ABC Kids wants to sell you more 
soft toys. The corporation’s marketing department has been handed a 
bucket of cash to develop new children’s programs. Apparently they will 
be designed to create a market for merchandise.  Is this what we want 
from the ABC?

********** WED.--SPECIAL on 9590 kHz. only: RUGBY LEAGUE STATE OF 
ORIGIN MATCH 1 - Commentators David Morrow, Warren Ryan, Craig Hamilton 
& Richard Svensen will bring you all the action from Sydney's Olympic 
Stadium.  [nrl.com.au/season2004/events.cfm?MonthYear=5_2004] for 
background info. ***********

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* - 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.

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. [%]
	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.: Tomasz Stanko is a brilliant, utterly distinctive, improvising 
trumpeter & his is one of the most interesting musical minds. He’s also 
independent-minded & Polish. Were he North American, he’d likely be 
recognized more generally as one of the greatest jazzmen now living. 
Born in 1942, he had the same heroes & early key influences as most 
other jazz trumpeters (Miles Davis, etc), but Stanko long ago ceased 
imitating them. His sensibility is singular & definitely European. Not 
many albums ought be mentioned in the same breath as Miles Davis’s 
“Kind of Blue”. Stanko’s 2002 CD, “The Soul of Things” is one of them. 
That album introduced his quartet with three much younger colleagues. 
“Suspended Night” is its second outing & is equally uncanny.
		Tue.: Peter Biffin is an Australian multi-instrumentalist who also 
makes/invents unique instruments - unique, in both sound & appearance.  
Zana Clarke is a recorder virtuoso who also sometimes sings – literally 
–through her instrument. Together, they are Nardoo. Nardoo’s new CD, 
“Beyond the Fields” offers beautiful new music which is both unfretted 
& unfettered. The album is a series of intimate, entirely improvised 
dialogues that never descend into chaos or cacophony. The primary 
instruments are Peter’s various fretless members of the lute family & 
Zana’s recorders & voice.
		Wed.: Although the Cracow Klezmer Band (Cracow Pron: "Krak-Of") come 
from Klezmer’s heartland, they have taken the music far from its 
dance-oriented origins. Founded in 1997 by accordionist/composer 
Jaroslaw Bester & actively championed by US admirer John Zorn, the 
quartet uses flavours from Astor Piazzolla’s New Tango to give voice to 
the echo of the thunder of Poland’s now tiny Jewish community. Their 
new CD, ‘Bereshit’, includes a dark, free-form track about the 
beginning of the world, improvised in a Cracow Synagogue.
		Thu.: A surprising musical safari - & the surprises are nice ones. 
“The Rough Guide to the Music of Kenya” is an engaging survey of the 
very diverse delights of Kenyan pop. Taarab music from Mombassa on the 
Indian Ocean tends to the elegantly hypnotic. Benga music (which 
originated among the Luo people of western Kenya, near Lake Victoria) 
is very funky, with pulsating electric bass & dancing electric guitars. 
The luscious Swahili Rumba is not light-years distant from the 
Congolese kind, with warm voices, guitars & sinuous horns. A whole lot 
of other approaches are collectively headlined “Sounds of the new 
‘Hip-Hop’ Generation”, which embraces male & female voices high & low, 
and African & Western instruments, amplified & otherwise.
		Fri.: Martin Scorsese showed his remarkable affinity for music on 
film when he directed one of the greatest concert films of all time – 
The Band’s ‘Last Waltz’. ‘Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues’ is a set 
of 7 films directed by notable filmmakers, including Scorsese himself, 
currently playing in Australian cinemas. This series generated a set of 
four CDs derived from the segments directed by Scorsese, Wim Wenders, 
Clint Eastwood and Charles Burnett.

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. 
[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: "Charmian 
Clift". Australian writer Charmian Clift died in 1969. This program 
features archival interviews that she recorded, in the years when she, 
and her husband George Johnston, were one of the country's most 
celebrated literary couples. Charmian Clift is best known for the books 
that she wrote based around the decade that she and Johnston, alongwith 
their three children, spent living in the Greek Islands. She was also 
highly regarded as an essayist and newspaper columnist. Featuring 
extracts from Clift's books Peel Me A Lotus,and Mermaid Singing, this 
program is being re-broadcast as part of Radio National's 2004 Greek 
Imprints Festival. [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: "Eucalyptus Man". In the Miles 
Franklin Award-winning novel, “Eucalyptus”, the main character is a man 
with a peculiar but beautiful obsession with eucalypts. Today we travel 
to South Australia to meet a real-life eucalypt fanatic.[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: "#13: Scenario Mapping." The big issues we need to 
work through as a society - access and equity, public  interest and 
private gain, the North / South divide, and the relevance of a national 
 culture in a digital world are but a few important issues. What 
choices do we have? And what do we want? We map a range of scenarios  
to try to make sense of the debate which often polarises into 
techno-utopian and  techno-dystopian positions. [T;%]
	Thu.: ALL IN THE MIND - a foray into the mental universe, the mind, 
the brain and human behavior with Natasha Mitchell. This week: "Sick 
Doctors--Report from the College of Psychiatrists Conference". At last 
week’s annual conference of the country’s peak body of psychiatry, the 
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, participants 
were spilling out of the door of one crucial session, “Sick Doctors”. 
This discussion explores the disturbing topic of professional sexual 
misconduct within the psychiatric profession. [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: "An Irishman in 
Paris". Between the world wars, James Joyce lived in Paris, where he 
wrote “Finnegans Wake”, his last and most revolutionary work. What 
inspired a book, which, though considered a masterpiece by some 
critics, was incomprehensible to readers? [%]
	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: "The 
Truth about Lying". Heavy breathing, racing heart, a sweaty brow - a 
lie detector would say you’re lying but you might just be in love. The 
US Academy of Sciences says the traditional polygraph is so flawed it’s 
a danger to national security. Do they work? [%]
	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 Wed. 0500 UT.

Good Listening!
John Figliozzi

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