[Swprograms] RA Previews #733; 20-24 Sep '04
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[Swprograms] RA Previews #733; 20-24 Sep '04



RADIO AUSTRALIA PREVIEWS
Edition 733
Sept. 20-24, 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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(RA or ABC News every hour on the hour)

Weekdays

0010 -
Tue.: THE SCIENCE SHOW - with Robyn Williams. This week: "The Original Americans Were Australian!" Two waves of human invasion populated America, one from Siberia and one, the first, from Australia! Dr Sylvia Gonzales offers evidence for this
extraordinary claim in this program from the British Association Festival of Science in Exeter. [%]
Wed.: THE NATIONAL INTEREST - Terry Lane looks at the major issues of the week. This week: "American Justice for Hicks and Habib". The Law Council of Australia has released a report that is highly critical of the US military commission process being used to try Australians David Hicks and Mamdouh Habib at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. "Winning and Losing in the West". Both John Howard and Mark Latham have been campaiging in Western Australia during the past week, emphasising that results in the West could crucial to the election outcome. "Manufacturing the Future?" Half-way through the election campaign there has been almost no discussion of industry policy or Australia's record trade deficit. So what does it take to make a successful export-oriented Australian manufacturing business? [%]
Thu.: BACKGROUND BRIEFING - Radio National's agenda-setting, current affairs radio documentary program. This week: "Sperm, Mysteries and Sick Sperm Syndrome".
Mounting evidence of increased damage to sperm raises questions about the effects on future generations. Women's fertility is well understood, but evolution - genetic variability - depends on the male, so this research has important implications. [T;%]
Fri.: HINDSIGHT - social history with Claudia Taranto. This week: "Sebel Townhouse". We look at the history of Sydney's great rock and roll hotel, the Sebel
Townhouse. Built in the early sixties as a small European-style family hotel, the Sebel later became the favourite haunt of rock stars, celebrities and their fans. [%]


0110 -
ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
0130 -
Mon.: HEALTH REPORT - with Norman Swan. This week: "Invasive Meningococcal Disease - Risk Factors". Invasive meningococcal disease is an important cause of death and disability in children and young adults in Australia. [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. [%]
Tue.: "Roddy Doyle". A special feature interview with Irish novelist Roddy Doyle. Doyle takes the language of the street and the kitchen, political struggle and everyday lives, and intertwines them in extraordinary ways.
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: "40 Years of Science in Australian Media". The ABC pioneered science broadcasting in the Australian media four decades ago in this very timeslot. Today, Dr Peter Pockley, himself an original
member of the ABC’s Science Unit, recalls a few highlights of the last 40 years. [%]
Tue.: IN CONVERSATION - Robyn Williams talks to scientists and those interested in the subject, about what science has meant to their lives. Today, Jonathan Nally is In Conversation with Professor Richard Ellis from Caltech in California. He's in Australia to gauge the interest from the Australian Astronomy community in a project to construct the world’s largest telescope, with a dish measuring 30 metres in diameter. It will be costly but, if completed, the super dish would be used to search for planets circling nearby stars [%]
Wed.: LINGUA FRANCA - about language. This week: "The War Of Words In America". The war of words in America or why Bushisms aren't hurting George W Bush but speaking French like a native isn't helping John Kerry. [%]
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: "Celestial Silks". The story behind religious textiles from China and Tibet. They’ve been used for centuries in places of worship as decorative hangings and for creating and mounting tangkas (devotional icons). [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. [abc.net.au/rn/music/deli/] for details. [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.: "Who Will Hold The Balance Of Power In The Senate?" The Senate race is heating up for the minor parties. As the polls predict that the Greens are on the rise, and the Democrats are in decline. So what will the outcome be in the Senate? Will the Greens hold the balance of power? Or will the Government increase its numbers?
Tue.: tba
Wed.: "Griffith Review Talkback Essay". Once again Australia Talks Back links up with quarterly ABC publication "Griffith Review" for another ‘talkback essay’. Journalist Margaret Simons is one of Sandy McCutcheon’s guests discussing a proposed new
national defamation law.


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, the world's smallest, cheapest submarine; and the mini-weather station to predict diseases in crops and concentrating sunlight to be more
efficient and more powerful. [T;%]
Tue.: EARTHBEAT - environmental issues raised by economic development with Jackie May. This week: "Turning Back the Tide of Wastewater". Extraordinary volumes of water are pumped out to sea in Sydney's ocean outfalls each year. But competing companies are now jostling for the right to process that effluent and reuse it. Earthbeat this week examines an ambitious new infrastructure plan to close off ocean outfalls and reclaim the water from the smallest room in the house. [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: "9. Good Corporate Citizens". Triple bottom line reporting is now a matter of course for many corporations operating in the region. But what does the term mean? And how does business balance its economic imperatives with its social and environmental responsibilities.
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.: Election undercurrent: Re-thinking egalitarianism.
Tue.: Hero or Villain? The Robert Towns verdict!
Wed.: Interrogators War--Inside the Bagram rooms.
Thu.: 'Joe Cinque is Dead' - Repeated by popular demand.
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 (Doug Spencer on Mondays) 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.: An almost-all Brazilian show, but always connected to another place. “One of the seminal solo guitar albums – in any genre” is a big claim, but anyone who’s heard “Ocean” by Bola Sete is likely to agree. Beautiful, sometimes dark & very dramatic, it was way too far from “bossa-nova” for his record company’s liking, so John Fahey issued it on his Takoma label in 1975. Issued for the first time in 2004 is “Bola Sete Live at Grace Cathedral”, from a 1976 concert in San Francisco. The best, new true “bossa nova” album comes from Melbourne! Mostly, “..three shadows of blue..” is a set of Brazilian classics, performed very intimately & in a refreshingly adult way by singer Diana Clark & guitarist Doug De Vries. We’ll also hear what happens when a great Brazilian songster – Caetano Veloso – salutes the music of the USA.
Tue.: A machismo alert is NOT current: the Finnish makers of “March of the Alpha Males” are in touch with their sensitive sides, too. The Ilmiliekki Quartet is a true co-operative of young men with open musical minds. The name does not readily translate into English, but “ilmiliekki” can be rendered as “open fire” or “full blaze”. On their debut CD the quartet - trumpet, piano, acoustic bass & drums - is often a quintet, with an excellent percussionist. As composers & improvising players they’re jazz-literate, but not jazz-blinkered: one highlight is a tender rendition of Björk’s “Anchor Song” & they’re quite comfortable with Radiohead, thank-you. Their multi-faceted originals are attractive & coherent, but pleasingly unpredictable.
Wed.: James Blood Ulmer was born and raised in South Carolina, the son of a Baptist preacher father and a mother who repeatedly warned him of the evil influence of the blues. When James moved to northern cities, he played guitar and blues in organ trios before meeting Ornette Coleman who inspired Blood to create an abstractly funky, assymetrical guitar style all his own. In recent years, Ulmer has returned to singing - not the gospel music of his father’s group, but blues, in a rich, quivering baritone. His latest album, “No Escape From The Blues”, on which he plays his Gibson Birdland guitar acoustically for the first time on a selection of songs on the theme of moving to the big city. Thu.: Eliza Gilkyson is happy to be someone “with miles on her tires. I’m not a new young fresh face with an innocent perspective. There are plenty of those out there.” “Land of Milk and Honey” is the work of an experienced adult with a wide dynamic range as both singer & writer. Tenderness, love, fragility & ambiguity & are expressed eloquently. So too - with no punches pulled - are her views on the contemporary world. Her song “tender mercies” was directly inspired by the album’s cover photo, which depicts a young boy diving into a smelting plant's waste pool on the border between Kosovo & Albania.
Fri.: The Rumbanella Band were formed in the Congo in 1986 to play Congolese Rumba – music that was already nostalgic then compared to the all electric sounds of soukous. Their two guitarist/singers, Madou Lebon Mulowayi and Joseph ‘Serpent’ Kakonde were both born in the early 1950s and have spent many years playing in leading Congolese bands. They reunited in 2002 to record “El Congo”, a sweet, lilting album in the old style, with vocal harmonies, laid back electric guitar work and smoothly blending percussion on a selection of Congolese favourites.


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.: Barbara Bonney, Soprano. Making her Australian debut in concerts with the Sydney and Melbourne Symphony   [ more... ]
Tue.: Merlin Holland, Grandson of Oscar Wilde. In Australia for a conference marking the 150th anniversary of Wilde's birth   [ more... ]
Wed.: Anna Funder, Author. Her book "Stasiland" won the 2004 Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.
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. This week: "Con Phillips". Bill Bunbury talks with General Practitioner Con Phillips about his boyhood life in wartime Shanghai and his return to that city after 50 years. [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 - Scientists and those interested in the subject talk about what science has meant to their lives. This week: "Get On Your Bike". Sally Campbell of the University of Technology in Sydney is In Conversation about the gridlock in our cities and how to tackle it. Trains, bikes, space age buses - even legs - may be the answer. [%]


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: "Democracy and Crime". The recent shift to democracy in the post-communist countries of central and Eastern Europe was accompanied by an abrupt and extraordinary rise in crime. White-collar crime, corruption, common street crime and organized crime can all threaten emerging democratic institutions. What’s been the effect of crime on these nations in transition? AND, the Dutch are now the tallest people in the world. In the Netherlands, men now average one hundred and eighty three centimetres (six feet one) and women one hundred and seventy centimetres (five feet eight). The tallest Dutch man is probably around 2 metres ten – or almost seven feet tall. Why do the Dutch stand out in a crowd? [%]
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: "Clever Games". Computer gaming is now using Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI makes the characters in games behave more like people, warts and all. "Would Dickens use a Spellchecker?" How does technology affect the creative process of writing? Charles Dickens and Henry James famously dictated their novels, while Mark Twain was an early adopter of that transforming technology, the typewriter. "Light Fantastic". Photonics - the technology to manipulate light at its most fundamental level - holds the promise of revolutionising our communications and computing. Already, most communications are routed through the "light-pipes" of optical fibres, and new research is aimed at solving the bottleneck between fibres and computer. [%]
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 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 Wed. 22 Sept.

Good Listening!
John Figliozzi

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