[Swprograms] RA Previews #721; 9-13 Aug '04

[John Figliozzi <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RADIO AUSTRALIA PREVIEWS
Edition 721
Aug. 9-13, 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: "Brain Tumour 
Bank". This week saw the launch of the Australasian Brain Tumour Bank 
by one of Australia's leading scientific achievers, Professor Peter 
Farrell. A special guest at the launch was Mrs Gayle Rivkin who talked 
about her experiences of living with someone who is diagnosed with a 
brain tumour. [%]
	Wed.: THE NATIONAL INTEREST - Terry Lane looks at the major issues of 
the week. This week: "The FTA and the Media; Water from the Sea". Lane 
is joined by media researcher Jock Given to discuss the impact that a 
trade agreement with the United States might have on film and 
television in Australia. The program also looks at the recent decision 
the state government of Western Australia to spend $350 million on a 
desalination plant to supply Perth with water from the Indian Ocean. [%]
	Thu.: BACKGROUND BRIEFING - Radio National's agenda-setting, current 
affairs radio documentary program. This week: "The Children's 
Election". From crib, to sand pit, to soccer field - Labor and Liberal 
politicians want your love for your children to be translated
into votes for them. There's cash for kiddies too, as Gerald Tooth 
reports. [T;%]
	Fri.: HINDSIGHT - social history with Claudia Taranto. This week: 
"Tarting Up Paddington". The story of the Sydney suburb of Paddington, 
and how it was transformed from city slum to city chic. What has been 
lost and what gained? Has the suburb's rich history been erased under 
the weight of gentrification? [%]

0110 -
	ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
0130 -
	Mon.: HEALTH REPORT - with Norman Swan. This week: "Bipolar Disorder". 
Professor Philip Mitchell from the School of Psychiatry at the 
University of NSW talks to Norman Swan about the findings of a study 
looking at the prevalence of bipolar disorder in Australia, and 
disability it causes. [T;%]
	Tue.: LAW REPORT - with Damien Carrick. 
[abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/lawrpt/] for details. [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. [%]
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: "Science v 
Advertising - Smoking".  A chemistry teacher from Melbourne, Phil 
Ponder, gets angry when he sees multi-national tobacco companies trying 
to get young people to smoke. Whenever he can, he tries to educate 
young people about the dangers of smoking and at times he sings his 
message to his pupils. [%]
	Tue.: IN CONVERSATION - Robyn Williams talks to scientists and those 
interested in the subject, about what science has meant to their lives. 
This week: "Baroness Brains".
Professor Susan Greenfield is in a good position to discuss the 
disjunctions between science and politics - she's a brain researcher 
and she sits in Britain's House of Lords. [%]
	Wed.: LINGUA FRANCA - about language. This week: "She's Apples...". 
Andrew Pawley, Professor of Linguistics at the Australian National 
University, on the use of 'he' and 'she' for inanimate nouns in 
Australian Vernacular English - or why trees and turnips are 'he', axes 
and trucks are 'she' but cross-saws and hay are 'it'. [%]
	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 Delphic Oracle". We look at the Oracle of 
Delphi, which dates back more than 3000 years and was the most 
important shrine in ancient Greece. Built around a sacred spring, it 
was considered the centre of the world. [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. This week: 
Singer Ileana Posas originally from El Salvador now performing her own 
songs in Australia; some live flamenco later in the program; and in 
Tales from the Track Rob Willis talks about the early days of 
Australian Bluegrass music with Mike Hayes from Kempsey. A few songs 
from the Rank Strangers recorded in 1988. [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 US Election". With the US election just three months away, 
the campaigning is now in full swing. The Democrats have just finished 
their convention, and now the Republicans are gearing up for theirs. So 
despite all the hype, what will the election of John Kerry or George W 
Bush mean for Australia?

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: 
"Waste plastic fuels, hot rock energy, sun baking". Hot and fiery 
stories this week - with a way of putting waste plastic to
good use where it becomes a source of fuel; hot rock energy moves 
closer to
a reality; and a new metal that gets stronger through sunbaking.  [T;%]
	Tue.: EARTHBEAT - environmental issues raised by economic development 
with Jackie May. This week: "Environment Movement Splits on Forests". 
It's not new for different perspectives to emerge in the environment 
movement, but the widening division on Tasmania's Forests is vitriolic. 
In the lead up to an election where forests are one of the iconic 
issues, Earthbeat explores the World Wide Fund For Nature's Forest 
Blueprint and the ruckus it is creating. [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: "4. Going Bush". 
International and local students at one Australian university have the 
opportunity to ‘go bush’ as part of a ‘community engagement program’ 
designed to promote greater cross cultural awareness.
	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.: "Play Morricone" was a 2003 highlight - an intimate, inventive, 
improvisatory trio take on one of cinema's great composers “Play 
Morricone 2” is just as good & is a true sequel – new recordings, not 
“leftovers”. The trio is an Italian-American alliance led by Enrico 
Pieranunzi. As a studio musician in the 1970s & '80s, he played on 
dozens of Ennio Morricone's soundtracks. Now recognized as one of 
jazz's great pianist-arrangers, Pieranunzi has for two decades enjoyed 
a very rewarding occasional alliance with acoustic bassist Marc Johnson 
& drummer Joey Baron. Here, two suitably “cinematic” Pieranunzi 
originals, join eight elaborations on Morricone’s music. The five-times 
nominated Morricone has never won an Oscar. As we observed last year, 
it makes one wonder.. or does it?
		Tue.: Alan Stivell is the best-known individual in the ongoing 
revival of Breton “roots” music. Arguably, however, Skolvan is the key 
band. For two decades a byword for instrumental excellence, Skolvan has 
avoided gimmickry, yet remained inventive, acutely aware that a living 
tradition looks forward as well as back. Their signature instrument – 
the “piston” - was literally invented by one of its founders, as a 
“milder”, “ensemble” version of the bombarde {the characteristic Breton 
shawm/”oboe”}. The quintet also has a superb guitarist, a saxophonist, 
an accordionist & a percussionist who makes the tabla feel absolutely 
“at home” in Brittany. Skolvan ranges from driving dances through to 
very haunting airs, both traditional & self-penned. “Live in Italia”  
is a 2-CD delight which even has a little surprise for admirers or John 
Coltrane and/or Julie Andrews.
		Wed.: A tummler can be a person who makes a lot of noise (tummel) and 
accomplishes little, a real party animal, or, more specifically, an 
entertainment director/entertainer who makes sure holiday makers in the 
Catskills' borscht belt have a great time. "Tummel" are a 
Danish/Swedish group whose use of bouzouki, bass sax, flute and 
distorted electric guitar add to their anarchic take on klezmer music. 
Their motto is 'forward in all directions' and their album is called 
'Oy'.
		Thu.: How to describe the new John Abercrombie album? “Improvised 
chamber music, rooted in the jazz tradition” is the leader’s own 
description. “Class Trip” is mostly quiet, yet intense, spontaneous, 
perfectly proportioned, serious yet playful. With his subtle, probing 
electric guitar are violinist Mark Feldman, acoustic bassist Marc 
Johnson & drummer Joey Baron. Even a casual listen makes it obvious 
that this is an exceptional, empathic quartet. But this is music which 
benefits enormously from listening, deeply.
		Fri.: After touring with Tony Bennett singing jazz standards, 
Alberta, Canada-born k.d. lang was inspired to record an album of songs 
from her own musical heritage. The result is "Hymns of the 49th 
Parallel", a collection of great songs by Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, 
Leonard Cohen, Bruce Cockburn, Ron Sexsmith, Jane Siberry and k.d. 
herself. She found the common thread in these songs to be the 
incorporation of nature and the elements to express emotions. It's a 
quiet, reverent album, with drums on only one track, the backing 
consisting of acoustic guitar and bass and piano, with intimate string 
arrangements written by Eumir Deodato.

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.: Benjamin Zander, Conductor of the Boston Philharmonic 
Orchestra. "The Art of Possibility" by Rosamund Stone Zander and 
Benjamin Zander is published by Harvard Business School Press. The 
Australian Youth Orchestra will be in concert direct at the Sydney 
Opera House tomorrow night.
		Tue.: tba
		Wed.: Marc Abrahams, Editor of Annals of Improbable Research.
		Thu.: tba
		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: "Remote 
Nursing". Moving and amusing tales of nursing in remote places in the 
1960s, working with Aboriginal people in the Kimberley region of WA and 
The Inuit in North America. [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. This week: The late Dr 
Francis Crick who discovered the structure of DNA 50 years ago is here 
in a past In Conversation with Lewis Wolpert. [%]

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: "The True Father of 
the Modern Olympics". French aristocrat Baron de Coubertin gets all the 
glory for reinventing the Olympic Games in 1896. However, a country 
doctor in the small Shropshire town of Much Wenlock had been hosting 
games on a vaguely classical model since 1850. [%]
	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: "Size Counts". A major report in Britain has 
recommended nanoparticles should be regulated as new chemical 
substances. These are the tiny particles manufactured to use in 
nanotechnologies. "China’s Mobile Phone Wars". The Buzz travels to 
Ningbo, a spartan town on China’s east coast, where a local mobile 
phone manufacturer, Ningbo Bird, has risen to challenge its large 
international competitors. The company now sells more phones than Nokia 
or Motorola and the Bird’s founder and president is hell bent on going 
global. "A Giant Leap Forward". Can China really can make another giant 
leap forward to rise from being the ‘factory of the world’ to 
technological innovator? [%]
	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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