[Swprograms] RA Previews #724; 23-27 Aug '04
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[Swprograms] RA Previews #724; 23-27 Aug '04



RADIO AUSTRALIA PREVIEWS
Edition 724
Aug. 23-27, 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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SPECIAL ATHENS OLYMPICS COVERAGE:
0500-0800 15240 kHz
0800-2000 9590 kHz
2000-2100 11650 kHz which will only be use for the Opening & Closing Ceremonies
Coverage schedule: (directed to the Pacific region)
Monday 23 to Friday 27 August 0500 to 2000 UT
Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 August 0800 to 2100 UT - including Games in Review &
the Closing Ceremony.


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(RA or ABC News every hour on the hour)

Weekdays

0010 -
Mon.: AWAYE! - Aboriginal arts, culture and politics with Rhoda Roberts. This week: "Art Award/Tin Hotel". Awaye! speaks with the judges and winners of this year's National Aboriginal Art Award. And ... old Darwin town comes to life in a theatre production celebrating the mix of Aboriginal, Asian and European cultures that happenend at the famous watering hole and cultural melting pot, the Darwin Hotel. [%]
Tue.: THE SCIENCE SHOW - with Robyn Williams. This week: "2024 Dreaming, Part 1 of 4: Beyond Gridlock, An Impossible Dream?". This new four-part series explores what life might be like in 2024, using the latest research and information to project how technology and innovation will shape our future. In the first program, Robyn Williams looks at the future of transport. How will you travel in 2024? How much longer can we afford to continue using up resources and going to war over oil? [%]
Wed.: THE NATIONAL INTEREST - Terry Lane looks at the major issues of the week. This week: "Electricity Reform". Australia’s state owned monopoly of electricity supply has been transformed into a part-privatised national market. Graeme Hodge, editor of the new book “Power Progress”, talks to Terry Lane about the winners and losers in this process. [%]
Thu.: BACKGROUND BRIEFING - Radio National's agenda-setting, current affairs radio documentary program. This week: "National Heritage Trust". What have the millions of dollars spent on the National Heritage Trust really achieved? Have short-term policies rather than good science led to a deterioration of our environmental problems? David Shankey reports. [T;%]
Fri.: HINDSIGHT - social history with Claudia Taranto. This week: Eminent Australian historian Graeme Davison talks about his interest in heritage, urban history, and the car. [%]


0110 -
ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
0130 -
Mon.: HEALTH REPORT - with Norman Swan. This week: "Painful Breastfeeding".
Researchers in San Francisco investigated one of the causes of painful breastfeeding: Raynaud's Phenomenon of the nipple. [T;%]
Tue.: LAW REPORT - with Damien Carrick. This week's topics: Treating sex offenders; Litigation and doctor/patient confidentiality; and Indonesian courts overturn East Timor convictions. [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: "Emotions Week". Jealousy, shame, vengefulness, fury and love…from the history of emotions, to emotions as they are strutted upon the stage. How comfortable are we with emotions? When are we allowed to express fury? Where does vengeance sit in our legal system, or even foreign policy? All these questions and more are explored. [%]

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: "John Passmore - Semi-detached Philosopher". The Australian philosopher John Passmore died last month. Broadcaster Allan Saunders, who presents the Comfort Zone on Radio National every Saturday, pays tribute to one of Australia's most eminent philosophers. [%]
Tue.: IN CONVERSATION - Robyn Williams talks to scientists and those interested in the subject, about what science has meant to their lives. This week: "Australia Goes to The Moon". Hamish Lindsay worked on our biggest dishes during the Apollo missions. They were a vital link to the astronauts. On this, the 35th anniversary of man's first steps on another celestial body, he recalls Australia's role in that adventure. [%]
Wed.: LINGUA FRANCA - about language. "Lost City at Ebla". More than a 1000 years before Abraham, a civilization in Northern Syria flourished, with its inhabitants speaking the first known Semitic language. Today its remains include palaces, temples,
city walls, and cuneiform tablets, which are being deciphered by Professor Gary Rendsburg of Rutgers University, New Jersey. [%]
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: "Spiritual Side of Impressionism". Impressionism at the turn of the 20th Century included artists who were concerned with the religious and spiritual meaning of life. The Symbolist Movement influenced Henri Matisse and Gustave Moreau. The Nabis ("prophets" in Hebrew) included artists like Pierre Bonnard. They are part of The Impressionists exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. [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: Melbourne band Klezmania provide us with a set of energetic and poignant yiddish songs tonight - recorded last Sunday at the first concert of the Gandel Jewish Music Festival in the St.Kilda Town Hall. In Tales from the Track, Greg Hildebrand talks with Rob Willis about his early experiences of folk music in Greenwich Village, and we hear a few songs from Greg. [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.: "Ageism" is becoming the new sexism in the workplace. That’s the message from a new report by a leading recruitment and consulting firm. So as the Australian population continues to grow older, is ageism still the major form of work discrimination?
Tue. & Wed.: tba
Thu.: The week's topics in review.
Fri.: AUSTRALIA TALKS BOOKS - "Under a Tin-Grey Sari", by Wayne Ashton.
This is a love story set in 1967 in East Pakistan, in the city of Chittagong. Khalid is an ambitious young cook who invents a tandoor oven that he hopes will bring him fame and fortune. His dreams come to nothing when his invention is stolen. While all his efforts are devoted to reclaiming this invention, he doesn't notice the growing love of a beautiful young servant girl. Published by Fremantle Arts Centre Press.


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 device that helps doctors to more accurately diagnose blood clots; the search for new ways to conserve our coral reefs; and a genetic
soil test to fight diseases that attack cereal crops. [T;%]
Tue.: EARTHBEAT - environmental issues raised by economic development with Jackie May. This week: "Keeping An Eye On Business". The Global Reporting Initiative is being touted as a business saviour for companies keen to stay ahead of their competition. Hear the highlights from a recent meeting, which looked at how to keep the corporate sector clean and green. [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: "5. Smart and inclusive Societies". Australia and Canada take pride in their multicultural societies. Representatives of Canada and Australia’s large Chinese and Indian diasporas discuss their experiences of migration and living in multicultural societies.
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.: Entomopter & Friends--The insects behind robots.
Tue.: Joe Cinque is dead! His killer & his family talk.
Wed.: Henning Mankell--One foot in sand the other in snow.
Thu.: The Da Vinci Code: How much of it is true?
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.: His father was a painter: so, in a sense, is our ancestrally-Spanish, featured Frenchman. The original music made by Renaud Garcia-Fons is a very colourful, mostly “pan-Mediterranean” hybrid”. “Unbelievable” really is the only word for his bowing; in the “con arco” department he has few (any?) peers. His plucking is very nimble too, but jaws really drop when Garcia-Fons' custom-made bass almost literally “sings” as his bow dances across its five strings. There's a liberal helping of guests & many instruments on his new CD, “Entremundo”. At its centre is Garcia-Fons' working trio with flamenco guitarist Antonio Ruiz “Kiko” & percussionist Jorge “Negrito” Trasante.
Tue.: Each of our featured albums offers a different, equally rewarding approach to the piano. John Stetch was born in “the shadow of Vegreville, Alberta’s giant Ukrainian Easter Egg”. Alone, playful & very alert, he nimbly & imaginatively tackles a hero’s songbook on “Exponentionally Monk”. Steve Kuhn’s new album, on the other hand, finds a Brooklyn-born veteran exploring his own songbook, with a string orchestra. He describes “Promises Kept” as “a life’s dream”. Kuhn’s is a more measured, deeply lyrical album, but not soggy. Conductor-arranger Carlos Franzetti shares Kuhn’s keen understanding of the piano itself.
Wed.: Carey Bell was born in Macon, Mississippi on November 14, 1936. A fan of Louis Jordan, Bell originally wanted a saxophone, but economic realities forced his grandfather to buy him a harmonica instead. He moved to Chicago in 1956, where he learned directly from the masters - Little and Big Walter - and developed his own style, which can be heard as never before on his new record "Second Nature" which he shares with his son, guitarist/vocalist Lurrie Bell. While Carey and Lurrie were touring in Finland in the winter of 1991, they warmed audiences with an impromptu set of acoustic blues. Their promoter found them a studio to record the extraordinary father/son rapport, now commercially available for the first time.
Thu.: The remarkable voice of Stephen Cummings is perhaps the most uncanny male one in Australian popular music. He’s a fine writer of songs (& novels) with a nice tension between the intensely romantic & the sardonic. Cummings never really intended to pursue a life career in popular music, but his has proved one of the more enduring. The songs on “Close Ups” are old, but the performances brand-new & very intimate. He recorded it over three days with longtime collaborator Shane O’Mara. Stephen thanks him for having “played fantastic guitar & made the recording a thousand times better than it might have been.”
Fri.: Pio Leiva was born in 1917 and started singing professionally in 1932. He's been a popular performer for 8 (!) decades, appealling to people for his ability to improvise, his deep, gruff country voice and his colourful, likeable personality. Before being 'discovered' by Buena Vista Social Club, he was touring West Africa where he has a considerable fan base. He was 84 when he recorded our feature album, "Esta Es Mi Rumba" with guest appearances by pianist Guillermo Rubalcaba, trombonist Generoso Jimenez, the Septeto Nacional de Ignacio Pineiro and other fine Cuban musicians in a set that ranges from country style songs to intricate big band arrangements.


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.: Sandy Evans, Saxophonist and composer.
Tue.: Hugh White, Director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
Wed.: Prunella Scales, Actor.
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: Barry Poole was a professional delinquent in wartime Melbourne, living on the streets. He recalls his years 'straightening out' in the Navy, and then making a living doing everything from rough riding on the carnival circuit, to prospecting for gold. [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. This week: "Genes for Literacy?"
Is it possible to trace the genetics of poor reading? Prof. Brian Byrne is a psychologist at the University of New England who is trying to trace the origins of illiteracy in our genes. As reading has been possible for only a few hundred years how could it be linked to what we once did in the forests and on the plains? And how could such knowledge help treatment? [%]


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: "Denmark’s “Free Town” of Christiania". For over thirty years the self-governing “free town” of Christiania has been a fixture in the heart of the Danish capital Copenhagen. What does the future hold for this social experiment now that the Danish Parliament has passed a bill aimed at “normalising” Christiania once and for all? [%]
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 Richard Aedy. This week: "Ahoy There". In 'The Kraken Wakes', John Wyndham's 1953 sci-fi classic, aliens adapted to very high pressure invade Earth's ocean depths and begin to take over the
planet. More than half a century later we still know more about the surface of the moon than we do about the ocean floor. But Australian researchers are using state of the art technology to map deep oceans. Richard Aedy goes to sea - well, Sydney Harbour - to find out more. [%]
Fri.: ATHENS OLYMPIC REPORT
2342 -
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 as noted in eastern North America -
2100 - 2200 UTC: 15515 (usually reliable)
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> [Note: Suspended for the duration of the Olympics due to copyright restrictions.]


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 0500 UT Fri.  (No Midweek Update this week.)

Good Listening!
John Figliozzi

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