[Swprograms] RA Previews #761; 1-3 Dec '04

[John Figliozzi <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RADIO AUSTRALIA PREVIEWS
Edition 761
Dec. 1-3, 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> and 
<http://radioaustralia.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 -
	Thu.: BACKGROUND BRIEFING - Radio National's agenda-setting, current 
affairs radio documentary program. This week: "Threatened 
Species--Tradespeople". Can't get a plumber? Neither can industry. 
There's a massive shortage of skilled labour - tradespeople, 
technicians, fixers and maintainers. Wendy Carlisle reports that this 
shortage will affect everything from transport safety to getting a job 
done. [T;%]
	Fri.: HINDSIGHT - social history with Claudia Taranto. This week: 
"Save Our Sons".
The came from all ages, backgrounds and political persuasions, and were 
mocked as rabble-rousers, commies and naive mothers - but SOS proved to 
be a powerful force in the anti-conscription and anti-Vietnam War 
movements. [%]

0110 -
	ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
0130 -
	Wed.: RELIGION REPORT - with Stephen Crittendon. This week: "Victor 
Griffin--Enough Religion to Make Us Hate--Reflections on Religion and 
Politics". [T;%]
	Thu.: MEDIA REPORT - with Mick O'Regan. This week: "Media Manipulation 
in Ukraine". In the Ukraine one of the biggest international news 
stories is unfolding on a daily basis. Journalists at the major 
state-controlled TV station are on strike. While away from the cities 
disinformation is in full swing, as TV channels are being blacked out 
in order to stop independent reporting. [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 Julie McCrossin. [%]
		
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.
0618 -
	Wed.: JAZZ NOTES* - presented by Ivan Lloyd.
	Thu.: OZ COUNTRY STYLE - from ABC Local Radio.
	Fri.: INSIDE OUT - A weekly programme that brings out personal views 
from the Pacific region and stories gathered in Australia, within 
Pacific communities. [%]
0645 -
	Wed.-Thu.: TALKING POINT - daily interviews conducted by Peter 
Thompson, the presenter of RN's "Breakfast" program. 
<abc.net.au/rn/talks/brkfast/default.htm> for details. [%]

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. [%]
		Wed.: "The Art Of Straight-Talking". Say what you mean and mean what 
you say…it’s a good rule to live by but how many of us are actually 
doing it? Too often the meaning of what  we hear or read is obscured by 
jargon and clichés so how can we recover the lost art of 
straight-talking?

1005 -
	ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
	
1105 -
	SPORT - reports and scores.
1110 -
	ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
1130 -
	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 #9: 
"The Australian People". In the 19th century, the small population's 
awareness of its vulnerability  led to the catchcry, "Populate or 
perish!". In contrast,  contemporary Australia relies on a targeted 
migration program to maintain  economic growth and enrich cultural 
diversity. [%;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 -
	Wed.-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. [%]
		Wed.: Rome to Ballarat: Raffaello Carboni's Eureka story.
		Thu: An exploration of Mahatma Ghandi's legacy.
	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. 
About this week's program, Tim writes "This week has a new form of 
rap... australian ethereal beauty made next to the saddleback 
mountain... australian film noir [aural film]... and a tribute to one 
of the best labels in the past half decade..." [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;%]
		Wed.: The (late) bluegrass patriarch Bill Monroe will likely endure 
as the mandolin’s alltime, American hero. But the rather more genial 
(living) virtuosos who’ve just made one of the more long-awaited duo 
albums are likely the mandolin’s most influential figures, post-Monroe. 
“Old Bill” (as he’s humorously saluted on one track) had a rather 
straight-and-narrow outlook, but David Grisman & Sam Bush enjoy taking 
mandolins into many different territories, included the uncharted. In 
1965 a thirteen-year old Sam met David – then twenty, & already a 
leading mandolinist – at a bluegrass festival. Their enduring 
friendship has led to “Hold On, We’re Strummin’ “, a freewheelingly 
eclectic set of tunes new & old, delivered with great zest, sometimes 
alone-together & sometimes with other friends, too .. & one son.
		Thu.: Pianist/composer Fred Simon has been described as having “Keith 
Jarrett sitting on one shoulder & Joni Mitchell on the other”. His new 
CD “Remember the River” was superbly recorded, absolutely “live” with 
two longtime friends - Paul McCandless & Steve Rodby. Multi-reedsman 
Paul is best known as a founder-member of Oregon & Steve as the 
longtime bassist in the Pat Metheny Quartet. Although entirely 
instrumental, Fred’s album is very much a set of deeply lyrical, 
original “songs”. Many are not unlike hymns, including the one with the 
unlikely baseball connection.
		Fri.: In the first half of the 20th century, Argentina’s musical 
invention, tango, took root all over the world. In the 1950s it 
faltered, only to be reinvented as concert music by Astor Piazzolla. 
Tango found itself in crisis again in the early 1990s with Argentina’s 
youth rejecting it as melancholy music for old-fashioned specialists. 
But tango has risen from the ashes yet again, driven by musicians from 
jazz, rock and classical backgrounds, reinventing the music but keeping 
its gritty essence in a post-economic collapse burst of patriotism. Our 
feature CD, ‘The Rough Guide To Tango Nuevo’, tells the story of 
tango’s contemporary blossoming.

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 -
	THE CLASSIC FM INTERVIEW - Margaret Throsby takes an extended break 
until late January, so guest presenters will be in conversation with a 
special guest, playing their favourite music and telling their own 
stories. [abc.net.au/classic/throsby/#promo] for details. One of 
Australia's foremost playwrights, David Williamson, takes the chair 
this week. (from ABC Classic FM) [%]
		Wed.: David Throsby, Professor of Economics at Macquarie University. 
Internationally known for his work in the economics of the arts and 
culture. "Economics and Culture" is published by Cambridge University 
Press, 2001. "Don't Give Up Your Day Job" is the fourth in a series of 
surveys over the past 20 years assessing the economic prospects of 
Australia's 45,000 professional artists.
		Thu.: John Pilger, Journalist, film maker.
		Fri.: Tim Bowden, Broadcaster, journalist, author, raconteur and 
all-round amusing bloke.

1705 -
	AUSTRALIA TALKS BACK (refer to 0905)

1805 -
	Fri.: PACIFIC REVIEW - the best of the previous week's PACIFIC BEAT.
1810 -
	Wed.-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 -
	Wed.-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 -
	Wed.-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 -
	Wed.-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 -
	Wed.-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: "Arnold Butcher". 
Ex-wharfie Arnold Butcher was propelled into an unexpected and 
colourful career in music via a  'repatriation scholarship' to the 
Conservatorium. Working in clubs and concert halls, he met the likes of 
Noel Coward and Don Burrows along the way. [T;%]
2110 -
	Wed.-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 -
	Wed.-Thu.: RNZI PACIFIC DATELINE - Pacific news and current affairs 
from Radio New Zealand International.
	Fri.: TALKING POINT  (refer to 0645)

2205 -
	Fri.: ASIA PACIFIC WEEKEND EDITION [T;%]
2210 -
	Wed.-Thu.: AM - (repeat of 2110)
2230 -
	Fri.: SATURDAY AM - ABC's Saturday morning news magazine. [T;%]
2240 -
	Wed.-Thu.: TALKING POINT (refer to 0645)

2305 -
	Fri.: COUNTRY BREAKFAST (refer to 1830)
2310 -
	ASIA PACIFIC - current events in the Asia Pacific region. [T;%]
2330 -
	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: "Top Paddock". New Zealand is heavily dependent on 
dairy products and lamb.
Both of these industries are fuelled by grass, and our Kiwi cousins are 
working on ways of improving their dairy and lamb products by tweaking 
the genes of the grasses they eat. [%]
	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 -
2200 - 0000 UTC:  21740
0200 - 0900 UTC:  15515 [not well heard lately]
0700 - 1400 UTC:   9580 [6020 and 9590 also noted at times]
1400 - 1600 UTC:   9590 (until fade out)
(Reception in western North America is much more reliable. 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/tuning/web.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.

A midweek update will be posted by 0500 UT Fri.

Good Listening!
John Figliozzi

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