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[Swprograms] RA Previews #693; 31 May-4 Jun '04
- Subject: [Swprograms] RA Previews #693; 31 May-4 Jun '04
- From: John Figliozzi <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 22:39:26 -0400
RADIO AUSTRALIA PREVIEWS
Edition 693
May 31-June 4, 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 are some changes to the weekday schedule. New and
retimed programs are marked with ****. Also, there will be no midweek
update of this newsletter this week. The next e-mailing will be the
weekend edition.]
Weekdays
(RA or ABC News every hour on the hour)
0010 -
Tue.: THE SCIENCE SHOW - with Robyn Williams. This week: "Two Missed
Anniversaries". David Rand from CSIRO helps us celebrate the
anniversary of the first steam engine journey in 1804. And one hundred
years later the strange man who oversaw the science in the Manhattan
Project, Robert Oppenheimer, was born. [%]
Wed.: THE NATIONAL INTEREST - Terry Lane looks at the major issues of
the week. This week: "Fostering Sustainable Behaviour". Lane talks to
Canadian environmental psychologist Doug McKenzie-Mohr about getting
people to behave in more environmentally friendly ways. He offers an
alternative approach to the public awareness campaigns that often fail.
[%]
Thu.: BACKGROUND BRIEFING - Radio National's agenda-setting, current
affairs radio documentary program. This week: "Indonesia". Were
successive Australian governments too keen to be friends with Indonesia
and to see things "the Asian way"? Did we turn a blind eye to the ugly
side of their military abuses in "our national interest"? What was the
Lance Collins affair all about? [T;%]
Fri.: HINDSIGHT - social history with Jennifer Bowen. This week:
"Remembering Jackson's Track". Until the mid-20th century, Jackson's
Track was a rare place where
Aborigines lived as they chose. Then came the evangelists and the local
council, who put a road through their bark huts. Did they destroy the
families of Jackson's Track? [%]
0110 -
ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
0130 -
Mon.: HEALTH REPORT - with Norman Swan. This week: "Intensive Care".
When faced with a critically ill patient, what is the safest way to
give them the best chance of survival? We hear about a large study by a
group of Australian and New Zealand researchers that attempts to answer
this vital question. [T;%]
Tue.: LAW REPORT - with Damien Carrick. This week: "The Naomi Campbell
House of Lords Decision; Reality TV Legal Traps". Controlling image in
the 21st century: What rights do those who seek "the public spotlight"
have to privacy? When supermodel Naomi Campbell's attendance as at a
Narcotics Anonymous meeting was exposed by a British tabloid, she went
to court and won! Where does this decision leave other UK public
figures like politicians? Also, we look at legal traps in reality TV
land. What happens when participants aren't happy with the way programs
turn out? [T;%]
Wed.: RELIGION REPORT - with Stephen Crittendon. This week: "Blasphemy
and Multiculturalism". An exclusive interview with UK Race Relations
Commissioner Trevor Phillips. Phillips dropped a bombshell recently
when he announced that multiculturalism in Britain is dead. We also
hear from a conference on blasphemy and multiculturalism. [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 -
****BUSH TELEGRAPH - rural and regional issues around Australia with
Michael Mackenzie. [%]
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: "Megacity
Future?" David Singleton, Global Director of a Melbourne engineering
consultancy, gives us a glimpse into the life of “David”, living in
2050 as he goes about his daily life in a sustainable Megacity of the
future. [%]
Tue.: 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. [%]
Wed.: LINGUA FRANCA - about language. This week: "Diseased
English--Can It Be Cured?". Highlights from a forum held as part of
last week's Sydney Writers' Festival. One of the speakers is Neil
James, the executive director of the Plain English Foundation. He takes
a historical view on why government, legal and corporate English can be
unnecessarily imprecise and hard to read. The other speaker is the
novelist Amanda Lohrey. Amanda also teaches creative writing at the
University of Queensland, and she discusses the teaching of written
English. [%]
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: "Church and Crown". The future of the Church of
England as the Established Church is untenable, argues Theo Hobson,
author of The Rhetorical Word and a regular contributor to the Guardian
and the Spectator. He has a Doctorate in Theology from Cambridge
University, and describes himself as a 'post-Anglican'. [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.: "Police Corruption". The Victorian Police Service is mired in a
growing list of serious allegations. Yet the State Government is
steadfastly refusing calls for an independent investigation. Should
there be a Royal Commission?
1005 -
ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
1105 -
SPORT - reports and scores.
1110 -
ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
1130 -
****Mon.: 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;%]
****Tue.: EARTHBEAT - environmental issues raised by economic
development with Alexandra de Blas. This week: "Migratory Birds".
Earthbeat skims across the mudflats of the Hunter Valley estuary in
NSW, where scientists and twitchers alike are considering the
declining number of migratory shorebirds dropping in for the summer. [T]
****Wed.: RURAL REPORTER - the people and places that make up country
Australia.
****Thu.: DISTANT MIRRORS DIMLY LIT - a six-part radio series
developed and presented by Australian born classicist Peter Toohey. It
examines how the lives of the ancients relate to ours, through the
exploration of six contemporary themes: Anger, Privacy, Leisure,
Depression, Family and Memory. This week: "Anger". Have we always felt
the way we do? The West can trace science, democracy, styles of
literature, even the flush toilet to Ancient Rome and Greece. But what
about our interior states? The ancients had much to say about anger, it
was a feature of pre-modern, slave-owning societies. But it’s still a
part of ours, often attached to retaliation and revenge. Are we as
angry as we used to be? [T;%]
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. [%]
Mon.: From feted to raided--Downgrading Chalabi's charm in Iraq.
Tue.: Clare Martin on Darwin's strategic re-emergence.
Wed.: Exploring the life of Charlie Chaplin.
Thu.: Solomons Prisons--Revolving door to 23 hour lockdown.
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.: Why would a Sardinian singer be “huge” in Barcelona? In large
part the answer is that Franca Masu is an exceptional singer –
striking, strong, refined & adventurous. But there is a particular
connection: her historic home-town, “located on a gorgeous sandy bay in
the northwest of Sardinia” is not only on the same latittude as
Barcelona - it’s also largely Catalan-speaking. “Alguimia” is Franca
Masu’s new, second CD. It refers to the town of Alghero which was
colonized in the 14th century by the Catalani family, who called it
"Barceloneta" - “little Barcelona”. Although not a set of “folk” songs
as such, “Alguimia” is very much informed by Alghero's traditional
music. The singer is superbly accompanied by virtuoso players of
guitar, mandola, double bass, accordion & percussion.
Tue.: The sublime new CD by Joe Lovano reminds us - in the nicest way
- that another noted saxophonist (Archie Shepp) once observed, "you can
hear every minute of every hour of every day that somebody put in on
his horn when he plays a ballad." The leader’s relaxed virtuosity
shines on “I’m All For You: Ballad Songbook”. So does the four-way
interplay between Lovano, bassist George Mraz, drummer Paul Motian &
pianist Hank Jones (just shy of his 85th birthday when the CD was
recorded – superbly well – in June 2003. Hank is the surviving, older
brother of the great drummer Elvin Jones, who died on May 18th, 2004,
aged 76). This music is unabashedly lyrical, but very limber. The mood
is generally more celebratory than plaintive, & the rhythms much more
varied than “ballads album” may suggest.
Wed.: Emil Zrihan is the cantor for Synagogue in Ashkelon, one of the
world’s oldest cities, where the primarily Moroccan/Israeli community
continue their North African customs. His soaring and supple tenor
voice is front and centre on his CD “Ashkelon”, a stirring mixture of
Jewish and Arabic musical traditions enhanced by Romanian/Israeli
flamenco guitarist Baldi Olier.
Thu.: "Akku" (which means "the white swan") is electrifying &
unearthly. It’s also unamplified, entirely solo, free of studio
trickery & strongly rooted in the earth of Kazakhstan. The kyl-kobiz is
an ancient, upright fiddle with no frets, just two strings & an open
body, into which a mirror is inserted. It is both an
“erudite”/“classical” solo instrument & a “folk” one. Raushan Orazbaeva
is not much older than thirty. She's already recognized as the greatest
living exponent of an instrument that women have only recently been
allowed to play. It has been likened to a cello, but the kyl-kobiz has
its own very “vocal”, overtone-rich sound, well-suited to imitating
Kaskyr (the wolf), or to evoking a vast landscape.
Fri.: Lisbon-based Manecas Costa is an inspiring singer and guitarist
in the ‘Gumbe’ tropical music style of his birthplace, the small West
African country of Guinea-Bissau, still in the process of
reconstruction after a horrendous civil war in 1998 which destroyed
much of the country’s infrastructure and left 1/3 of the population
homeless. As there are no recording studios in the country, he recorded
his new CD in a waterside nightclub. The album is called ‘Paraiso Di
Gumbe’ after a former nightclub where, as teenagers, Manecas and his
friends used to dance.
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 -
****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.: Professor John Hewson, Director of the Graduate School of
Management at Macquarie University.
Tue.: Delia Falconer, author.
Wed.: Emeritus Professor Tony Blackshield, Emeritus Professor at
Macquarie University and Adjunct Professor of Law at ANU and University
of NSW.
Thu. & Fri.: tba
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;%]
1830 -
Fri.: COUNTRY BREAKFAST - Australia beyond the urban fringe. [T;%]
1835 -
Mon.-Thu.: ON THE MAT* - Where the Pacific comes together to chat and
discuss issues of regional interest.
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 1930.
1930 -
Fri.: AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY STYLE - Aussie country music with John
Nutting.
1935 -
****Mon.-Thu.: THE BEST OF BUSH TELEGRAPH* - Myra Mortensen with a
selection of stories and reports of rural and regional issues. [%]
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: "Len
Evans". Wine writer, judge and maker, Len Evans talks about changing
Australia's drinking habits from beer to wine in the 1950s, and about
his early life working on the dingo fence. [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.-Thu.: RNZI PACIFIC DATELINE - Pacific news and current
affairs from Radio New Zealand International.
Fri.: IN CONVERSATION - Robyn Williams talks to scientists and those
interested in the subject, about what science has meant to their lives.
This week: "David Tranter". Buses, according to Flanders and Swan, like
to travel in convoys because ‘they’re most gregarious.” Soon that will
cease. You will be able to tell your bus is on its way by looking at
your screen at home or even your mobile. If it’s running late the
computer will adjust traffic lights to green to speed the bus’s
passage. David Tranter of Saab ITS is leading a team in Brisbane trying
to make your commuting more pleasant and predictable. And no more
convoys. [%]
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: "Iron Lady--Margaret
Thatcher and Her Legacy".
Depending on their ideological persuasion, Britons this month either
celebrated or derided the 25th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher's
election victory. Was she Britain's saviour or a stubborn ideologue? [%]
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:
"Talking Money to Intelligent Ears". Close your eyes and try to tell
the difference between $10, $20 and $50 notes. It's not easy,
especially for blind people, but we'll meet a machine that makes money
talk. We'll also hear about a new digital hearing aid with artificial
intelligence. [%]
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) [15240 also noted at times]
0700 - 0800 UTC: 13630 (usually reliable) [15240 also noted at times]
0800 - 1400 UTC: 9580 (reliable) [6020 and 9590 also noted (reliable)]
1400 - 1600 UTC: 9590 (reliable until fade out)
(European listeners are invited to report reception experience to this
editor.)
(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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