[Swprograms] RA Previews #718; 2-6 Aug '04
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RADIO AUSTRALIA PREVIEWS
Edition 718
Aug. 2-6, 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: "Killer Tides". Suddenly, from nowhere, blankets of algae spread over the sea threatening fish and reefs alike. In Townsville such a killer tide followed celebratory fireworks. The phosphate in the ash caused the eruption! Another outbreak, still underway, is like a vast layer of spaghetti suffocating the coral. Research at James Cook University promises to tackle such tides and even use the weed to soak up pollutants. In New Zealand similar studies are looking
into outbreaks of species new to science. [%]
Wed.: THE NATIONAL INTEREST - Terry Lane looks at the major issues of the week. This week: "The End of the Family Farm?" Lane looks at the demise of the family farm as small holdings are consolidated into huge agricultural enterprises. It seems many farmers can only stay on the land by subsidising their income with off-farm jobs. [%]
Thu.: BACKGROUND BRIEFING - Radio National's agenda-setting, current affairs radio documentary program. This week: "Seriously Funny Politics". Young people in the US, bored and disillusioned by mainstream media, get their politics from satire shows and fake news comedy. [T;%]
Fri.: HINDSIGHT - social history with Claudia Taranto. This week: "Anzac Memories".
Featuring oral history recordings with Diggers, historian Alistair Thomson looks at the creation of the official story of Anzac, and the effect it had upon those who lived in its shadow. [%]


0110 -
ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
0130 -
Mon.: HEALTH REPORT - with Norman Swan. This week: "Screening for Bowel Cancer". If detected at an early stage, bowel cancer is highly curable. We look at the results of a demonstration pilot screening for colorectal cancer in the UK and talk to an Australian specialist regarding the situation here. [T;%]
Tue.: LAW REPORT - with Damien Carrick. This week: "An Overhaul of the Family Law System; Children's Rights in Fiji". The government has just announced an overhaul of the Family Law system - designed to help separating couples solve their differences before they call in the lawyers. We ask - What will this mean for divorcing couples? Also we talk to a Judge from Fiji - about the types of practical steps you can take to protect children’s rights – in a cash-strapped developing country. [T;%]
Wed.: RELIGION REPORT - with Stephen Crittendon. This week: "World War One".
Was WWI the beginning of the 20th Century or, in fact, the culmination of a growing sense of doom and anxiety that had characterised the later half of the 19th Century? Historian George Mosse, one of the most respected historians to write on the climate of ideas and the spirit that led to war, is one of the distinguished guests featured in this program. [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. [%]
0356 -
HEYWIRE - the voice of regional youth 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: "Unknown Relations Part Two". This is part two of a two part talk by Adjunct Professor of Public and International Health at Murdoch University in Western Australia, Peter Underwood. He talks about his experiences and impressions during a trip to China. [%]
Tue.: IN CONVERSATION - Robyn Williams talks to scientists and those interested in the subject, about what science has meant to their lives. This week: Dr Chris Smith is both a virologist and a Naked Scientist. He does his research at Trinity College Cambridge and his unclothed scientific cavorting on radio. Naked Scientist is becoming an institution on British radio. Having won a Churchill Scholarship, Dr Smith spent the last few months with the ABC Science Unit and here reflects on his experience and why Australia is far more willing to take risks than the UK. [%]
Wed.: LINGUA FRANCA - about language. This week: "Latin in the Modern World".
Another chance to hear Robert Dessaix talking about teaching Latin with Professor Peter Davis of the School of History and Classics at the University of Tasmania. [%]
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: "General Sir John Monash".
Born to German Jewish parents, his victories in France at the end of WWI broke the four-year stalemate of trench warfare. He was at the time Australia's most famous soldier. [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.: "The Rise Of The Documentary". Documentaries are riding the wave of commercial success. And Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 is the latest to break records around the country. So are we seeing a new style of mass appeal documentary? Or just the latest form of cinematic propaganda?


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. This week, a radical new glue to mend broken bones; food crops that are drought-proof; and a new high-tech concrete that's lighter, stronger and green. [T;%]
Tue.: EARTHBEAT - environmental issues raised by economic development with Jackie May. This week: "Legacy of the Trenches". Earthbeat examines the environmental legacy of the Great War. The trenches on the Western Front in WWI constituted the largest city on Earth in population and area. There were about six million people in all. [T]
Wed.: RURAL REPORTER - the people and places that make up country Australia.
Thu.: SMART SOCIETIES - a new eleven part education series that seeks to explore some of the challenges facing the region. Young professionals share their ideas about what is required to build truly smart and cohesive societies while regional experts discuss a range of issues from international education to creating liveable cities to being good corporate citizens. This week: "3. International Education." The internationalisation of education is a growing business particularly in English-speaking countries. What are the challenges and benefits for international students and the host country?
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.: HIV takes off again in Australia--What's gone wrong?
Tue.: At home, work & play, William Miller says we're 'faking it'.
Wed.: With talent & money, why are the arts in the doldrums?
Thu.: Gertrude Bell--The one time king-maker of Iraq.
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. It's not just a nostalgia trip: we always save some of the finest cuts for a debut airing on this day.
Tue.: Our featured artist's succinct autobiography: “Grew up in Maine. Lives in Texas. Writes songs. Makes records. Travels around. Tries to be good.” Slaid Cleaves writes superbly crafted songs. His keenly-focused vocals do justice to their intriguing stories, oft-drawn from real life. He’s no self-absorbed navel-gazer: Cleaves’ songs adopt various personae & perspectives, drawn from astute observation of real people. In one, he’s a famous former jockey, haunted by a colleague’s awful death sixty years earlier, but still delighting in the memory of “sailing by, eight feet high, on horses quick as dreams”. “Below” paints a vivid picture of a the "ghosts" of a drowned town. “Wishbones” is Cleaves' 3rd CD: more muscular in sound than its predecessors, but no less intimate. It's well-served by producer Gurf Morlix.
Wed.: Bagad Kemper just might be the loudest traditional band in the world! Kemper is the town in Brittany where they are based and a bagad (Buh-GAHD) is a uniquely Breton musical group consisting of bombardes (a double reed woodwind with a piercing sound) and Scottish Highland Pipes and drums (with a no less piercing sound but only adopted by Bretons after WWII). What sets most Bagadou apart is their creativity in choosing repertoire. On Bagad Kemper’s new album, “Sud-Ar Su” (The South), they play Brazilian, Galician and Jazz in addition to Breton tunes, their 52 members augmented by 10 players of other instruments, including young Galician bagpipe wizard Susana Seivane. Tune in to find out why this group won the national championships 18 times!
Thu.: “Moon Water” is not your average “jazz trio” date. Danish pianist Carsten Dahl, Norwegian double bassist Arild Anderson & French drummer/percussionist Patrice Heral are great players in “jazz” terms. But “jazz” terms are not their only terms. Their musical sensibility is definitely “European”, not “wannabe American”. Their original music is conversational, often very “open”, sometimes highly improvisatory. Yet it’s always well-proportioned; even the more “free” moments are neither muscle-bound nor cacophonous. You could literally sing along with some of this music, whilst some is rather more mysterious & surprising. A deal is exquisitely beautiful. Each player has a very sensitive touch on his particular instrument.
Fri.: Waterson:Carthy are a group that is uncommonly strong in the vocal department – Martin Carthy, Norma Waterson and their daughter Eliza Carthy each with a unique voice of their own. Their new CD, “Fishes and Fine Yellow Sand”, is mostly a collection of traditional songs based on hard luck stories sung by these three plus melodeon player Tim Van Eyken. It’s an extraordinarily good record from this group at the height of their powers. And how many quartets have two MBEs and three multi-BBC Folk Awards winners in their ranks?


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.: tba
Tue.: Pramit Pal Chauduri, Foreign Editor of the Hindustan Times.
Wed.: Professor Tim McCormack, Australian Red Cross Professor of International Humanitarian Law, University of Melbourne.
Thu.: Declan Donnellan, Artistic Director of Cheek By Jowl.
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: "Louise Mack--Woman War Correspondent". Australian journalist Louise Mack was one of the few female war
correspondents to report from the front line during World War One. A pioneer of first-person war reportage, Louise Mack covered the early days of the conflict for the British press, including her eyewitness account of the German invasion of Antwerp in October
1914. [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 Cartographic Look at the Great War". WWI transformed the map of Europe. From the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the defeat of Germany came 'new' countries Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Yugoslavia. [%]
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: "Sleuthing with Synchrotrons". In recent weeks Japanese police have claimed a breakthrough in the 1995 shooting of Japan’s police chief. It’s been reported they’ve used a synchrotron to match metals found in a suspect’s coat with those found on the gun. [%]
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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