[Swprograms] RA Previews #697; 14-18 Jun '04
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[Swprograms] RA Previews #697; 14-18 Jun '04



RADIO AUSTRALIA PREVIEWS
Edition 697
June 14-18, 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 -
Tue.: THE SCIENCE SHOW - with Robyn Williams. This week: "A Short History of Venus". Why did the transit of Venus become so inspiring an event to so many? What was its actual role in the British exploration of our region and the ‘discovery’ of eastern Australia? What have we learned from it? [%]
Wed.: THE NATIONAL INTEREST - Terry Lane looks at the major issues of the week. This week: "Modern Management Techniques". Lane casts a critical eye over modern management techniques with consultant Jenny Stewart, author of the new book ”The
Decline of the Tea Lady: Management for Dissidents”. [%]
Thu.: BACKGROUND BRIEFING - Radio National's agenda-setting, current affairs radio documentary program. This week: "Murder Capital". Why is Melbourne Australia’s murder capital? Feuds, drugs, ego, big money, and twenty-five killings. Helen Thomas reports. [T;%]
Fri.: HINDSIGHT - social history with Jennifer Bowen. This week: "Love, Death, Music and Plants". A musical celebration of Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, the first director of Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens and the founder of the National Herbarium of Victoria. [%]


0110 -
ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
0130 -
Mon.: HEALTH REPORT - with Norman Swan. This week: "Hospital-Acquired Infections". We hear of UK research into how to deal with antibiotic-resistant hospital superbugs. They have discovered a bacterial ‘Achilles heel’ which may help to combat the growing problem of hospital-acquired infections. [T;%]
Tue.: LAW REPORT - with Damien Carrick. This week: "Tasmanian Environmental Law Tangles". Finding the right balance between Protecting the Environment and Promoting Development is never easy. Currently in Tasmania two issues: Tourist Developments in National Parks and Logging Private Timber Reserves are proving it's very tricky to draw the line in the right place. [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 with Rebecca Gorman. This week: "Welfare and the Working Poor in America". This special series looks at life at the bottom of the ladder in the USA during one of the worst recessions in decades. We hear from America’s workers and welfare recipients. [%]


0410 -
BUSH TELEGRAPH - rural and regional issues around Australia with Michael Mackenzie. This week: "On The Road in North West WA". Bush Telegraph journeys from Karratha to Broome, broadcasting from Mundabullangana, Pardoo and Anna Plains stations along the way. Michael Mackenzie examines the mining industry, visits a remote
cattle station, and ends up in the multicultural tourist mecca of Broome where a block of land now costs $300,000! [%]



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: "Reflections on Regulations". Dr Nancy Millis, Professor of Microbiology at the University of Melbourne and Chancellor of La Trobe University, vents her frustration about excessive bureaucracy in institutions. [%]
Tue.: IN CONVERSATION - Robyn Williams talks to scientists and those interested in the subject, about what science has meant to their lives. This week: "Science in Victorian Schools". There are classrooms in Victoria where science is supreme. A primary teacher and her high school colleague give the secrets of their success to an educational expert from Deakin University. What will they be teaching in 2010? [%]
Wed.: LINGUA FRANCA - about language. This week: "A Women Only Language".
'Nushu' is a script used exclusively by women in remote villages of southern China. It's a rare example in world languages of a gender-specific script, and it's thousands of years old. But why did Chinese peasant women devise their own script? [%]
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 Snake Goddess of Crete". A relic of the ancient Minoan civilisation, she was one of the 20th century's most coveted discoveries. But is she the genuine article? [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.: "What Does The Future Hold For Iraq?" The UN is now backing the new Interim Iraqi Government. But as the plans for the handover of power roll on, the security situation, far from improving, is showing signs of getting worse. As June 30 approaches, what does the future hold for Iraq?


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: "Water, Water Everywhere". Australia’s water crisis is ironic when you consider how much water surrounds the continent. What if that salty water could be put to better use, along with the increasing saline output of our inland river systems? [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: "Leisure". Our pursuit of leisure has fuelled a multi-billion dollar industry. How did the Greeks and Romans understand leisure? Were eating and drinking, sport, or the theatre means for killing time, or did they have more profound significance for Greeks and Romans? It has become expected that all of us in time off will seek a leisure activity to soak up the spare hours. Travel tourism, sport, arts and gastronomy, are all part of the ever-growing sphere of homogenizing fun that has encircled the Western World. Our ability to invent a series of ingenious anodynes is impressive. But in the end the age-old question remains: why do we do it? Is it to make time’s passing more tolerable? [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. [%]
Tue.: "Love in the 21st Century". Phillip Adams talks to Laura Kipnis and Kath Albury about the case against love. Is romantic love compatible with modern domestic life?
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.: "Los Lobos (& famous friends)". An ageing, nostalgic fan-base can be a very nice little earner for rock & pop veterans: HUGE for some. Stones keep rolling all the way to the bank, many years after they last added any notable, new artistic “moss”. How nice that certain Wolves have not lost their creative bite! Los Lobos formed in East L.A. in 1974. No-one has ever left. Its one non-Chicano & latecomer was friend & sideman for years before he became a full member around twenty years ago. The bi-lingual band is eloquently loud, soft & creative in many different musical languages. Richard Thompson, Elvis Costello, Ruben Blades, Mavis Staples & Tom Waits are among notable friends & admirers. They’re just some of the guests on the new Los Lobos CD, “The Ride”.
Tue.: “Storyteller” is the debut CD by a prodigiously talented, young Egyptian-Australian. Joseph Tawadros was born in Cairo in 1983. His family came to Australia in 1986. He’s been a concert lutenist since he was 12. A serious (& seriously good) “classical”/“erudite”/”art” musician in the Arabic sense, he’s an open-eared, musical adventurer, too. Joseph Tawadros has already played his oud {the fretless, Arabic lute which is the ancestor of the European kind} with classical guitarist Slava Grigoryan, the world’s most prominent tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, the Australian Chamber Orchestra & with jazz pianist & composer Mark Isaacs. He’s likely the only oud soloist to have performed at both the Sydney Opera House & the Cairo Opera House. Absolutely solo, “Storyteller” is a set of keenly focused, yet highly improvisatory music - much of it composed by Tawadros.
Wed.: Kasey Chambers has one of Australia’s most distinctive and communicative singing voices and it’s sounding even better on her new, third album, “Wayward Angel”. She became pregnant while her second album was succeeding internationally and nationally, going 7 times platinum, ironically on the strength of her anti-radio single ‘Not Pretty Enough’. After 18 months off looking after her infant son Talon, the new album is out, with 14 strong songs written by Kasey (two with her partner Cori Hopper) in no-nonsense musical feels ranging from bluegrass through country to stripped back rock.
Thu.: There's nothing cold about this Brass Monkey! The band was a sensation in English folk circles (& beyond) during its brief, quasi-continuous existence in the mid 1980s. A decade later, Brass Monkey re-formed on an occasional basis. In the words of its singer/guitarist/mandolinist Martin Carthy - likely England’s most significant living folk-person - “The whole band felt that, when we stopped playing in 1987, we still had plenty of life left in us.” Trumpeter Howard Evans is a former member of The Welsh Guards, but this quintet is unlike any other “brass band” or “folk group”. “Flame of Fire” - their fifth album - is probably their best, yet: equally satisfying in its jolly & its haunting moments.
Fri.: Milton Nascimento has one of the world’s most recognisable voices. One critic even said, "If God could sing, he’d do it in the voice of Milton Nascimento". Raised by adoptive white parents in a rural town in the Brazilian state of Minas Girais, Milton’s music is influenced by crooners and the angelic choruses of the Catholic Church. His new double album ‘Maria Maria & Ultimo Trem’ is over 20 years old but has been unreleased until now due to contractual problems. Milton and his journalist/songwriter friend Fernando Brant co-wrote with contemporary dance company Grupo Corpo for Maria Maria (1976 - a ballet about the daughter of a black slave) & Ultimo Trem (1980 - the story of the last train to come to a small town).


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.: John W. Dean, Former White House Counsel during the Nixon Administration. His latest book is "Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush" (Hardie Grant Books) His columns appear at: http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/.
Tue.: Ruth Rendell, Author. "The Rottweiler" is published by Randon House.
Wed.: Dr. Vicki Mahaffey, Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and a board memeber of the James Joyce Foundation. "Reauthorising Joyce" was published in hardcover by Cambridge University Press and in paperback by Florida University Press
Thu.: William Shawcross, writer and broadcaster.


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: " [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: "Wild Dance--The Fight for Press Freedom in Ukraine". It will take more than a winning Eurovision song to liberate the media in the Ukraine. The brutal murder of journalist Gyorgy Gongadze three years ago is just one example of the daily dangers facing reporters in this former Soviet Republic. [%]
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: "Robots with the Right Stuff ". We might think of independent robots as machines to compete with or fear, but how about the idea of 'cobots'? Collaborative robotic servants that travel to Mars and make a home for astronauts long before they arrive. "The Lab Rats of Mechatronics".
Autonomous systems fuse mechanical engineering, computing, sensing, and software to create intelligent machines that interact with their surrounding world. At the Australia Centre for Field Robotics, research is underway to refine robotic technology for self-navigation, to be used in unmanned airplaces, vehicles, and submersibles. [%]
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 Wed. 0500 UT.

Good Listening!
John Figliozzi

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