[Swprograms] RA Previews #698; 16-18 Jun '04

[John Figliozzi <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RADIO AUSTRALIA PREVIEWS
Edition 698
June 16-18, 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 -
	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 -
	Wed.: RELIGION REPORT - with Stephen Crittendon. This week: "Modern 
Israel and the Vatican". It is ten years ago this week since the Holy 
See established formal diplomatic
relations with the State of Israel. Father David-Maria Jaeger OFM is 
the spokesman for the Franciscan "Custos" who has charge of the 
Christian Holy Places in the Middle East. In recent months he has been 
complaining that the relations between the Vatican and Israel have 
reached a stalemate, and that more than a hundred Catholic nuns and 
priests are being treated like "illegal immigrants" while the Israeli 
government gives no explanation for its failure to renew their visas. 
[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. This week: Ali 
Bacher's life in cricket is a compelling story - from being the hated 
organiser of the rebel tours at the height of the anti-apartheid 
boycotts in the 1980s, the former Test captain is now on first name 
terms with Nelson Mandela. The former president now describes Ali 
Bacher as 'a great South African'. [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 -
	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 -
	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.: "What Books Would You Put On The Classics List?" First it was 
learning to read and now it’s what to read! The federal education 
Minister says it’s time to bring back the classics in literature, 
poetry and philosophy. But do classics turn kids off or inspire them to 
greatness?  And what books would you put on the classics list?

1005 -
	ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
	
1105 -
	SPORT - reports and scores.
1110 -
	ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
1130 -
	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 -
	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. [%]
		Wed.: * USA Update - Bruce Shapiro.
			  * The dark sides of virtue: A discussion with David Kennedy, 
Harvard Law
School about well intentioned humanitarian projects creating  more 
problems
than they solve.
			  * The story of William Cragh - a story of murder, rebellion, 
miracles and
redemption from the Middle Ages.
	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 has another special dj set.... not from europe 
this time, but a local set. The anti-dj crew is in the house. It's a 
set of 80s and 90s dub and reggae - and it's way cool - init!!!" [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.: 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) 
[%]
		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. "Allies: The US and 
the World in the Aftermath of the Iraq War" is published by Allen and 
Unwin.
		Fri.: Professor William Maley, Foundation Director of the 
Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at the Australian National University.

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;%]
1830 -
	Fri.:  COUNTRY BREAKFAST - Australia beyond the urban fringe. [T;%]
1835 -
	Wed.-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 -
	Wed.-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 -
	Wed.-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 -
	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: " [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 -
	Wed.-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 -
	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: 
"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 Fri. 0500 UT.

Good Listening!
John Figliozzi

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