[Swprograms] RA Previews #709; 12-16 Jul '04
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RADIO AUSTRALIA PREVIEWS
Edition 709
July 12-16, 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.


+++++  denotes a new or retimed program.

---------------------------

Weekdays
(RA or ABC News every hour on the hour)

0010 -
Tue.: THE SCIENCE SHOW - with Robyn Williams. This week: "Coral Reefs in Crisis". The cover story of the internationally renowned journal “Nature” this week features research on the Great Barrier Reef and threats to its survival. We hear from scientists and policy makers in Townsville attending a forum about reefs. [%]
Wed.: THE NATIONAL INTEREST - Terry Lane looks at the major issues of the week. "Nobody's Home". Terry Lane talks to American author Tom Gass about Gass’s book “Nobody's Home”, which describes the daily reality of providing intimate care to 26 elderly citizens in a nursing home. [%]
Thu.: BACKGROUND BRIEFING - Radio National's agenda-setting, current affairs radio documentary program. This week: "Parts From Pigs". Some countries already transplant from animals to humans, claiming there’s little danger of new viruses crossing species. Other scientists disagree, saying it could lead to new epidemics. Amanda Armstrong reports. [T;%]
Fri.: HINDSIGHT - social history with Jennifer Bowen. This week: "W.E.H. Stanner, A Life". W.E.H. (Bill) Stanner is regarded as one of Australia's most important anthropologists. In this program, Stanner's life, and his contribution to the understanding of Aboriginal life and culture, is recalled by family, colleagues and friends. [%]


0110 -
ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
0130 -
Mon.: HEALTH REPORT - with Maryke Steffens. This week: "The Truth About Soy". A survey in Australia showed that one in five people consume soy products. This billion-dollar industry is riding on the wave of soy’s healthy image, but are you getting the health benefits you thought you were paying for? Is it all just hype? [T;%]
Tue.: LAW REPORT - with Damien Carrick. This week: "Bankruptcy; Juries". If someone goes bankrupt, should creditors be able to recover not only the bankrupt's property but also the family home which is in the spouse's name? Proposed new federal legisation has lots of professionals hot under the collar! Also, Juries--how well do they work? We take a peek inside the jury-room and look at how they arrive at a decision. [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. [%]


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: "Working Till 100?". Since the beginning of 2004 there have been further moves by the Australian government to encourage the prolongation of working life and an end to the cult of 'early retirement'. The Treasurer foreshadowed changes to the national superannuation scheme to provide tax incentives that would enable workers to access their superannuation assets while still employed. Part time work, combined with a part pension would keep people working longer. Sol Encel, Professor Emeritus in Sociology at the University of New South Wales, discusses the issues. [%]
Tue.: IN CONVERSATION - Robyn Williams talks to scientists and those interested in the subject, about what science has meant to their lives. This week: "Griff Morris". An initiative of the Subiaco Council in WA is a demonstration that sustainable living is available to everybody. Today we visit a green townhouse with project co-ordinator Griff Morris to see how this is possible. [%]
Wed.: LINGUA FRANCA - about language. This week: "Word Games". We repeat the first of four programs from Robert Dessaix, first broadcast in October 2003. This week, if you thought that puns, acrostics, charades, et cetera were quaint relics from a bygone era, then think again as Robert brings us up to date on Word Games. [%]
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 Alhambra". The last stronghold of Muslim Spain to fall to the Christians, The Alhambra is the huge fortress and palace that overlooks Granada. From the Alhambra, Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand read the decree to expel the Jews from Spain in 1492. [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.: "Blogs and Blogging". They’re the new terms sweeping the internet. And in an age when there’s so much news available. Could they change the way we access information? Do they offer greater chances for participation? Or are they just the new opinion pages of the internet?


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 Jackie May. This week: "Canal Dreaming". Canal estates have been banned in at least one Australian state and are on the nose in a couple more, due to environmental concerns. This hasn't stopped a large corporation proposing a big canal development in Tasmania. [T]
Wed.: RURAL REPORTER - the people and places that make up country Australia.
+++++Thu.: SUSTAINABLE LIVING - A program exploring what some Australians are doing to build awareness of the need to use our natural resources more wisely, even in the home. And Ian Kiernan,the founder of Clean Up Australia, tells how his initiave has been taken up by communities in our region.
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. [%]
Wed.: "William Taubman". Phillip Adams speaks to Pulitzer Prize-winning author, William Taubman, about his new biography of the former Soviet leader, Nikita Khruschev.
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.: Eddie Palmieri has declared, “I'm a frustrated percussionist, so I take it out on the piano." The powerhouse pianist/composer/bandleader turns 67 on the very day we feature his splendid new CD. “Ritmo Caliente” is indeed hot, spicy & rhythmic. It's also lyrical & subtle. Palmieri has long been one of the most consistently creative individuals in what’s variously labelled “latino”, “salsa”, “latin-jazz” & “Afro-Caribbean” music. Palmieri’s “Bach goes Bata” is a particularly nice marriage of Europe & Africa. Throughout, Palmieri & his colleagues (including superb trumpeter, Brian Lynch) play superbly. The featured vocalist - Hermán Flores – is fine, too.
Tue.: Senegal’s Youssou N’Dour has one of the world’s lovelier voices. Arguably - in the words of Mark Hudson of “The Observer” - he’s “Africa’s most famous musician & the single most significant figure to emerge from the whole ‘world music’ phenomenon.” Inarguably, his “Egypt” is unique. His 'secret' album has taken five years to emerge into full public view, in part because of his concern to ensure it not be misunderstood. He & Egyptian arranger-conductor Fathy Salama have crafted a lush yet intimate marriage of Arabic & West African musics. It’s also a celebration of “a distinctive, ‘Senegalese way’ of Islam“: a Sufi-centred way, peaceful, loving & delighting in diversity. Declares the Muslim singer, “The difference between religions & languages is not an obstacle but a wealth.” Islam is fundamental to him. It's this album’s raison d’etre. N'Dour's vision of Islam is diametrically opposed to “fundamentalism”.
Wed.: Sean Tyrrell is a singer from Galway who has been described as ‘the most intensely moving, soulful and talented singer of ballads and traditional songs in Ireland today.’ He lived and performed in Galway and Greenwich Village in the '60s and San Francisco and New Hampshire in the '70s before returning home, but didn’t make a solo record until 1996. His new album’s title: “The Best of Sean Tyrrell: Man For Galway” is a bit of a misnomer because 7 of its tracks are new to disc, recorded intimately in Sean’s home. His warm baritone really gets inside a song so there are no unnecessary frills.
Thu.: “Armenia Anthology” acknowledges “the remarkable historical integrity of Armenian culture flies in the face of a history marked by unflagging political instability.” The first country to have adopted Christianity as its state religion, Armenia has been a crossroads, a battleground & a centre of learning for thousands of years. A thousand years ago its biggest city was larger & more sophisticated than any in Western Europe. Musically the sacred & secular, the “art” & the “folk” aspects are intimately inter-connected. They’re nicely surveyed here by The Shoghaken Ensemble. “Shoghaken” means “source of light”. The music is generally haunting, most especially when the ensemble’s founder Gevorg Dabaghyan exercises his mastery of the duduk - the Armenian “oboe” which sounds like no other oboe. Its fine singers are brother & sister: Hasmik & Aleksan Harutyunyan.
Fri.: Eric Bibb has done the hardest thing in acoustic blues. He has evolved his own style – a smooth and sincere gospel/blues amalgam of traditional songs mixed with his own compositions that speak quietly to the modern heart. His new album features 15 songs, each with a different friend – Taj Mahal, Guy Davis, Martin Simpson, Harry Manx, Charlie Musselwhite and Led Ka’apana among them, but he also collaborates with musical friends who were unknown to us previously. We’re sure you’ll be glad to meet them all on ‘Friends’.


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.: Emma Matthews, Soprano.
Tue.: Ian Cleworth, Percussionist.
Wed.: Philippe Genty, Illusionist and magician.
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: "Barbara Holborow".
Children's advocate and magistrate Barbara Holborow is 73 years old, and has lived with diabetes for the last six decades of her life. To mark National Diabetes Week, we hear Barbara's own story of being diabetic. [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: "A Traveller in Germany". Why is it so hard to write a travel book about Germany? Why is there no German equivalent of “Under the Tuscan Sun” or “A Year in Provence”? American writer Michael Gorra addresses these questions, exploring both the nature of the travel narrative and the way outsiders see Germany, in his new book, "The Bells in Their Silence: Travels in Germany". [%]
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 with Anne Delaney. This week: "Ovacheck and Proteomics". In 2002, “The Lancet” published a paper claiming a breakthrough in the early diagnosis of ovarian cancer. The data has now been shown to be unreliable. Did commercial imperatives and hype push this test on the market before it was ready? [%]
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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