[Swprograms] RA Previews #691; 26-28 May '04
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[Swprograms] RA Previews #691; 26-28 May '04

RADIO AUSTRALIA PREVIEWS
Edition 691
May 26-28, 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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Weekdays (Updated)
(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: "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 -
Wed.: RELIGION REPORT - with Stephen Crittendon. This week: "New Mass in English, and Unitarians". The new draft translation of the Mass in English isn't going down well. We seek responses from a panel of Australian priests. We also speak to a leading Australian Unitarian, former Labor MP Peter Crawford, about where Unitarianism is heading. [T;%]
Thu.: MEDIA REPORT - with Mick O'Regan. This week: "Media Access & Victims' Rights". The trial in Darwin of the man accused of murdering British tourist Peter Falconio has turned into yet another media circus. As the networks demand access, what's happened to the rights of the victims of crime? [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.: 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.: Oliver James, Psychologist. "They F*** You Up: How to Survive Family Life" is published by Bloomsbury.
Fri.: Professor Gavin McCormack, Research Professor in the Pacific and Asian History Division at the Australian National University. "Target North Korea" is published by Random House.

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: "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 -
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. [%]
Wed.: "Would Fewer Pokies Cure The Gambling Bug?". Poker machines may be the lifeblood of pubs and clubs, but many people end up being bled dry. The gambling reformers want to limit the number of pokies, but wouldn't addicted gamblers just find new fix?

********** 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 -
Wed.-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 -
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. [%]
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. Tim writes, "This week is out of control.... please report to the cockpit for all instructions - or better put, we have had round about access to a solid steel radio show. Because it's via a back door, there is no tracklisting. So we'll need all musical train spotters to don their listening ears and report back." [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.: 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 -
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. 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 -
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: "#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. This week: Richard Fortey has just won the Lewis Thomas Prize for science writing. He’s an expert on trilobites but has moved from fossils to a bigger picture, that of the Earth itself. How can you write an ‘intimate’ history of an entire planet? Michele Field in London finds 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: "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 Fri. 0500 UT.

Good Listening!
John Figliozzi

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