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[Swprograms] RA Previews #695; 7-11 Jun '04
- Subject: [Swprograms] RA Previews #695; 7-11 Jun '04
- From: John Figliozzi <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 23:01:52 -0400
RADIO AUSTRALIA PREVIEWS
Edition 695
June 7-11, 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.
---------------------------
Weekdays
(RA or ABC News every hour on the hour)
0010 -
Tue.: THE SCIENCE SHOW - with Robyn Williams. This week: "In Transit".
Duncan Steele from Adelaide helps us prepare for the transit of Venus.
Also, a chemist in New Zealand and a biotechnologist in Canada tell us
how they are developing great wines for our palates. [%]
Wed.: THE NATIONAL INTEREST - Terry Lane looks at the major issues of
the week. This week: (1) "Investigating Police Corruption". Is a Royal
Commission is the best way to deal with police corruption? If not, what
are the alternatives? (2) "Australian wheat sales to Iraq". The
Australian government has decided to forgive a debt of $600 million
owed by Iraq for wheat shipped to the country prior to the first Gulf
War. (3) "Crime and Illiteracy". New research challenges the widely
held view that low literacy levels are linked to crime and
imprisonment. [%]
Thu.: BACKGROUND BRIEFING - Radio National's agenda-setting, current
affairs radio documentary program. This week: "Too Much Choice?" As
consumers now know, competition doesn't always deliver the cheapest or
the best. Now the big end of town is saying the same thing. Too much
choice can be confusing and costly, and informed choice is impossible.
Stephen Long reports. [T;%]
Fri.: HINDSIGHT - social history with Jennifer Bowen. This week:
"Northern Identities". Bill Bunbury talks with Geraldine Byrne - author
of ‘Tom & Jack’*; the Kilfoyles, Kimberley pastoralists who treated the
local Aboriginal people somewhat differently from some of their
neighbours; and we explore the life of ‘Tiger’ Brennan, the highly
individual mayor of Darwin and activist for Northern Territory
self-government in the 1960s. [%]
0110 -
ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
0130 -
Mon.: HEALTH REPORT - with Norman Swan. Today a special feature on
brain tumours. Researchers in Scotland have made a promising discovery.
They think that it might be possible to use a version of the cold sore
virus herpes simplex to treat a particularly nasty form of brain cancer
called glioma. And the chair of Brain Tumour Australia thinks that
brain cancer is a neglected disease and the health care system does not
give people the best possible services. He also shares some personal
experiences with us. [T;%]
Tue.: LAW REPORT - with Damien Carrick. This week: "Police Corruption;
Temporary Protection Visas". In Victoria, police corruption is the
state's number one political issue. In response the Ombudsman's powers
and budget have been upped. But will these measures uncover the bad
apples? Or is it time for a Royal Commission or a Crime Commission?
Also, renewing Temporary Protection Visas: Why do the Immigration
Department and the Refugee Review Tribunal have such diametrically
opposing positions? [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 -
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: "The
Science of the
Self ". Youth suicide, which has risen in Australia and most other
developed nations over the past 50 years, has been a specific interest
of social analyst and author Richard Eckersley from the Australian
National University in Canberra. In this talk he presents us with some
surprising research evidence regarding youth suicide. [%]
Tue.: 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. [%]
Wed.: LINGUA FRANCA - about language. This week: "French in the New
Europe".
When the European Union was formed, it had six countries, and three of
them were French-speaking. Now, the EU is made up of twenty-five
countries, and still only three of them are French-speaking. France is
worried about the diminishing importance of its language in the new
Europe. With the ever-increasing use of English as the lingua franca of
Europe, the French Government has put in place a range of strategies to
try to turn this around. Abraham Bengio, from the Delegation for the
French Language, discusses the linguistic battle he's waging to
reinstate French as a major European 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: "I Was a Teenage Catholic in Belfast". Malachi
O'Doherty reflects on the religious upbringing of Catholics and
Protestants in Belfast during the 1950s. [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 Car Chases". They’re on the evening news all the time
and often end in tragedy. Now police unions are telling officers to
avoid them. We want to know if you think they should be banned
altogether?
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: "Responsible Building Design". Join
a tour of Australia's first five-star rated, eco-sustainable office
building. And we'll hear from a leading UK advocate of "responsible
design", who claims developers can help save the planet and still make
a buck. [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: "Privacy". We live in a time of two powerful,
contradictory forces: the drive for private freedom versus the pull of
communal restraint. The need for private, individual expression remains
strong. But governments devise ever-more intricate laws to ban and
proscribe public behaviour. Where did the balance lie in antiquity?
Where does it lie now? New technologies – from speed cams to ATM magic
eyes - have enabled wide-scale surveillance of behavioural
indiscretion. How is it that societies strike a balance, in some way or
another, between public and private freedom? We tolerate not being
allowed to smoke in public, but an interdiction from smoking in our own
private place would be resisted. It’s possible an excess of private
freedom counterbalanced by an excess of public constraint could create
very neurotic citizens. The Romans knew the experience well. [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. [%]
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.
Tue.: Hailed by Wynton Marsalis as “the foremost authority on that
style of music”, Dr. Michael White is a brilliant clarinettist &
scholar from New Orleans. “That style” is the one variously called
“trad” or “early” or “New Orleans” jazz. As his new CD shows, White
does not treat it as “museum music”. “Dancing in the Sky” expresses a
creative rather than a nostalgic frame of mind. It has a delicious
version of “Amazing Grace” & one other “trad” staple, but is otherwise
a set of the leader’s new compositions. Most were conceived right
beside (& inspired by) the Mississippi, not so far from New Orleans,
but in rural seclusion at “A Studio in the Woods”.
Wed.: Place is fundamental to Celtic music, so North American cellist
Abby Newton went to Scotland to record her album in castles, churches
and even caves. ‘Castles, Kirks, and Caves’ takes us back to the time
in Scottish traditional music when a cello playing the bass line was
the norm. Her sextet’s versions of pieces from the 18th century leaves
us wondering whether Scottish folk and classical musics are separate
entities.
Thu.: Arguably, Italy’s Nino Rota was the greatest composer for
cinema. He scored sixteen of Federico Fellini’s films, but - as today’s
fascinating featured disc reminds us - many others' films (among them
"The Godfather Part II", for which Rota won an Oscar in 1975) benefited
from Rota’s genius. Twenty-five years after Rota's death Italian
pianist & composer Salvatore Bonafede salutes him, very inventively.
“Journey to Donnafugata” interprets anew (and goes beyond) Rota’s music
for “Il Gattopardo” (“The Leopard”), Luchino Visconti’s 1962 film of
Guisseppe di Lampedusa’s immortal novel. Not co-incidentally, Bonafede
is Sicilian. Quietly quirky, playful & sometimes mysterious, this very
beautiful CD features trumpeter Enrico Rava & the electric guitar of
his longtime North American friend, John Abercrombie. Their mutual
friend Ralph Towner plays classical guitar.
Fri.: Kevin Breit isn’t the kind of session guitarist you’d expect to
find playing on Cassandra Wilson and Norah Jones albums, selling more
than 15 million copies. As his duet CD with Harry Manx showed, he’s
more interested in pushing the boundaries than playing it safe and
smooth. His group, The Sisters Euclid, which plays almost every Monday
night to a packed house at the Orbit Room, a tiny club on Toronto's
College Street, is a raucous, genre bending bar band who are adept at
changing volume (usually in an upward direction). Teamed with Toronto
veteran, singer John Dickie, they made an album called John and the
Sisters where anything goes, as long as you can dance and drink to it.
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.: Janet Holmes a Court, businesswoman.
Tue.: Richard Flanagan, author and film-maker. "Gould's Book of Fish"
was published by Picador.
Wed.: Bishop John Shelby Spong, Former Bishop of Newark, New Jersey.
"A New Christianity for a New World" (Harper Collins).
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: "The
Evangelist". Alwyn Jensen says the Lord called him to work among the
Aborigines in Gippsland. He changed scores of lives. A rare look into
the heart and mind of an evangelist. [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.
[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: "Democratic Deficit".
Ever since direct elections for the European Parliament began in 1979,
voter turnout has been sliding. In the UK, 11 million votes were cast
in the 1999 election - 23 million voted in the third series of Big
Brother! Is democracy in the EU in trouble? [%]
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: "Open
Wide, Please”. Does a trip to the dentist fill you with drill dread?
Lasers may replace the dental drill, but they can heat the tooth and
cook your nerve. New research has found that incredibly short pulses of
a sapphire laser may solve the problem. [%]
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. (No midweek update this week.)
Good Listening!
John Figliozzi
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