[Swprograms] RA Previews #743; 18-22 Oct '04
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RADIO AUSTRALIA PREVIEWS
Edition 741
Oct. 18-22, 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: “Mordechai Vanunu Speaks". He served 18 years in jail for revealing the presence of a real WMD: the nuclear bombs being produced by Israel. What effect did this incarceration have on Mordechai Vanunu? Sharon Carleton recorded this revealing interview in Jerusalem. [%]
Wed.: THE NATIONAL INTEREST - Terry Lane looks at the major issues of the week. This week: "Diary of an Injecting Room". Lane talks with Dr Ingrid van Beek, Director of Australia's first legal injecting clinic in Sydney's Kings Cross. [%]
Thu.: BACKGROUND BRIEFING - Radio National's agenda-setting, current affairs radio documentary program. This week: "Hong Kong". In Hong Kong democracy may be dented, but not out. In a strange twist, pressure from Beijing has strengthened citizens groups and activists as politicians try to quell democratic tendencies with central Party
control. Yuen Chan reports. [T;%]
Fri.: HINDSIGHT - social history. This week: "Island Footprints". A story about survival, family, faith, and a long struggle for recognition. Nearly 60,000 men were bought to Australia during the mid 19th century from the islands in the Western Pacific. Their labour helped establish Queensland’s sugar industry. [%]


0110 -
ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
0130 -
Mon.: HEALTH REPORT - with Norman Swan. This week: "Talking About Death with Terminally Ill Children". Parents of children with terminal illness often ask themselves if
they should talk about death with their child. We hear about some research into this from Karolinska Institute in Sweden. [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: "The Age of Weeds". This week is Weedbuster Week and science communicator Professor Julian Cribb tells us that our greatest environmental threat is weeds and not enough attention is paid to this threat. He urges us to wage war on this 'Green Death'. [%]
Tue.: IN CONVERSATION - Robyn Williams talks to scientists and those interested in the subject, about what science has meant to their lives. This week: "Keith Beven". One of Britain’s leading hydrologists, Professor Keith Beven of Lancaster University, has won the Horton Award of the American Geophysical Union for his visionary work on water. [%]
Wed.: LINGUA FRANCA - about language. This week: "When Telling The Truth Is Not Enough". Historian David Philips on the chasm between truth and reconciliation at South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. [%]
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: "Wizards". Harry Potter is the latest and sweetest version of the dark art of sorcery. Alan Baker tells us the history of Wizardry. [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: "Sara Storer". A concert presented by ABC Radio last week in the Broken Hill Entertainment Centre. Music from local band The Lees, Merri-May Gill, and young Australian country music star Sara Storer who won a record seven Golden Guitars in 2004. [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. [%]
Tue.: "Desalination" is being touted as an answer to Australia’s water crisis. WA is building a desalination plant. NSW is likely to be next. But not everyone is keen on the technology. So is desalination a viable solution to our water problem? Or is the environmental cost too high?


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. This week, the no-sweat exercise to be found in the so-called fat pill; light glasses to reduce jet lag and a device to tap the potential of grey water. [T;%]
Tue.: EARTHBEAT - environmental issues raised by economic development with Jackie May. This week: "You’re the Voice". Earthbeat travels to Nairobi, Kenya, for the first Global Women’s Assembly on Environment held by the United Nations Environment
Programme, featuring the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Professor Wangari Maathai. [T]
Wed.: RURAL REPORTER - the people and places that make up country Australia.
Thu.: AUSTRALIA NOW* - a 13-part series looking at the jobs Australians do, the homes they live in and the way they spend their leisure. The series also examines the environment that supports Australians, the political structures that govern them and the way they get along with each other and their regional neighbours. "Program #3: Unfinished Business." Aboriginal Australians, whose ancestors arrived around 50,000 years ago, and the more recent immigrants of the last two centuries have different perceptions of the land. How are these differences reflected in the laws that govern ownership of land? [%;T]
Fri.: THE CHAT ROOM* - presented by Heather Jarvis. The place to meet people from the region living lives a little out of the ordinary.


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 (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.: As the double-album’s booklet observes, 'in the small state of Israel you can find Jewish immigrants from over a hundred countries.' Behind Israel: A World of Music (subtitled 'Traditional and World Music from Israel') is the notion that 'Israel is the natural home of global fusion'. Happily, its vision of Israel’s music is not in the least blind to non-Jewish elements - Persian, Arabic, Kurdish and Hispanic and even Brazilian, among them.
Tue.: Jez Lowe explicitly sets many of his songs in the north-east of England, but their bittersweet, poignant and shrewd qualities speak eloquently to attentive listeners, anywhere. One tells a true, Australian story. As Richard Thompson has observed, Jez Lowe is one of the finer songsmiths. His new CD Doolally bears the nickname of the youngest (ancestrally, Italian) British soldier to win (posthumously) a Victoria Cross in World War Two. Another of its songs, 'Regina Inside', may not amuse the reigning British monarch. Jez Lowe’s band, The Bad Pennies, currently includes a superb player of the Northumbrian smallpipes, an uncommonly sensitive (fretless) electric bassist, and a fine fiddler/female vocalist.
Wed.: He comes from North Carolina and sings with a country twang, but Jim Lauderdale has always been on the fringes of the country music establishment. He has lived in New York and Los Angeles, where he also worked as an actor. For a long time, Jim has admired Grateful Dead songwriter Robert Hunter - "His lyrics are so literate yet so accessible.." so he contacted Robert about co-writing. Hunter accepted and the two have since written 34 songs together, usually Jim's melodies and Robert's words. Jim's new album, 'Headed For the Hills', includes 13 of that song catalogue. It's a treat to hear Robert's surrealistic words sung to Jim's sweet melodies with subtle, mostly acoustic backing.
Thu.: Mozaik is an occasional quintet whose members come from Ireland, Bulgaria, the United States and the Netherlands. Each is a leading 'roots' musician, and a leader in his own right. Donal Lunny and Andy Irvine (who's in Australia from Oct 2- 17: schedule is here: http://andyirvine.com/calendar.html) are the Irish members, Bruce Molsky the American, Nikola Parov the Bulgarian and Rens van der Zalm the Dutchman. They play many instruments, all are imaginative interpreters of 'traditional' songs and tunes from many different traditions and some write fine songs and tunes, too. Irvine and Molsky are also wonderful singers. Recorded in Brisbane, Australia, Live at the Powerhouse is the group's debut CD.
Fri.: At 71 years of age, Cuban music veteran Manuel 'Guajiro' Mirabal has recorded his first album. The trumpeter who has played on so many of the Buena Vista Social Club albums gets his turn and it's an extraordinary album - a tribute to bandleader Arsenio Rodriguez, the man who changed Cuban Music in the 40s. Guest stars include great young Pianist Roberto Fonseca, fine vocalist Carlos Calunga, and a cameo from Ruben Gonzalez.


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.: Tim Winton, Author
Tue.: Guy Masterson, Director 
Wed.: Martine Letts, Secretary General of the Australian Red Cross 
Thu.: Adrienne Cahalan, Yachtswoman
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. This week:
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: "MD Monk". From the Australian suburbs to Ulaan Baatar, from Managing Director to Mongolian monk, and from a Jewish name to a Buddhist one - Adrian Feldmann, aka Thubtan Gyatso, tells his remarkable story. [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: "Dr Tony Kidman" has written a short history of depression – an ailment suffered by the young people he treats. [%]


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 Years of Lead"-- Part 2." What was it like to be part of the wave of political terror which swept Italy from 1969 to the mid 1980s? Former militants of both left and right speak out about their roles in the violence of the time, and why they did it. [%]
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: “Right at the church, then second left after the school”. Increasingly, new cars offer the option of navigation systems. But the instructions are in very short sentences and can actually be difficult to follow. We hear about a prototype navigation system that can give
instructions in everyday language.[%]
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.

The midweek update will be posted by 0500 UT Wed.

Good Listening!
John Figliozzi

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