[Swprograms] RA Previews #766; 13-17 Dec '04

[John Figliozzi <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RADIO AUSTRALIA PREVIEWS
Edition 763
Dec. 13-17, 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 -
	Tue.: THE SCIENCE SHOW - with Robyn Williams. This week: "Desktop 
Nuclear Fusion!" They use power equivalent to the entire electricity 
power supply of the USA – but for infinitely minute times. Now lasers 
can zap clusters of molecules and produce nuclear
fusion, the kind that takes place on the sun.  Now they’ve done it, 
what will the physicists from Imperial College do with their new 
trick?. [%]
	Wed.: THE NATIONAL INTEREST - Terry Lane looks at the major issues of 
the week. This week: "The Celtic Tiger". Listeners with long memories 
will recall that The National Interest went to Ireland in 1999 to 
marvel at the economic success of "the Celtic Tiger". Once an exporter 
of migrants and jobs, in just a few years Ireland had become a magnet 
for investment and labour. This week Terry Lane seeks an update on the 
Irish economic miracle from economist Roy Green, who has worked in both 
Ireland and Australia. [%]
	Thu.: BACKGROUND BRIEFING - Radio National's agenda-setting, current 
affairs radio documentary program. This week: "The Wall". Israel has 
built a barrier to prevent Palestinian suicide bombings. It has also 
had profound practical and political consequences on both sides of the 
conflict. Eric Beauchemin investigates. [T;%]
	Fri.: HINDSIGHT - social history with Claudia Taranto. This week: 
"Christmas Island-- Only a Bus Stop". Christmas Island was only a 
temporary home for poorly paid Asian workers. Mined for phosphate since 
the 1880s, it became part of Australia after 1958. This is the story of 
the struggle to form the Union of Christmas Island Workers in 1975. [%]

0110 -
	ASIA PACIFIC* (refer to 2310) [T;%]
0130 -
	Mon.: HEALTH REPORT - with Norman Swan. This week: "The Effect 
Strength Training can have on Depression in the Elderly". An Australian 
study has found that strength training can cut depression by 50% in 
older community dwelling adults with clinical depression. They also 
found that high intensity resistance training is superior to low 
intensity resistance training. [T;%]
	Tue.: LAW REPORT - with Damien Carrick. 
[abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/lawrpt/] for details. [T;%]
	Wed.: RELIGION REPORT - with Stephen Crittendon. This week: "A Man of 
the Vanguard--Hans Küng". Swiss-born Catholic theologian Hans Küng 
recently published the first volume of his memoirs under the title "My 
Struggle for Freedom". He speaks to Stephen Crittenden about his life, 
key figures such as Pius XII, theologians Karl Barth and Yves Congar, 
and about his former colleague turned foe, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. 
And he takes the blowtorch to the pontificate of John Paul II which he 
describes as "a medieval papacy" and "a church of the façade". [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 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 -
	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: 
Recordings made at the recent Queenscliff Music Festival of 
performances from Cosmo Cosmolino; Frany Yamma and Pirinpa, and blues 
band Collard, Greens & Gravy. [T;%]
	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 -
	Mon.-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. [%]
		Mon.: "Can Criminal Offenders Be Rehabilitates?" Can criminal 
offenders be rehabilitated? Long serving prisoner, Russell ‘Mad Dog’ 
Cox was released from jail last week and is deemed to no longer pose a 
risk to society. While many are calling for longer jail sentences, are 
we doing enough to help those who’ve served their time?

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.  [abc.net.au/ra/innovations/default.htm] for details. This 
week - clever cars that can read road signs, a boost for a low cost 
method of generating solar electricity, and the Australian bush gives 
up its smoky secret. [T;%]
	Tue.: EARTHBEAT - environmental issues raised by economic development 
with Alexandra de Blas. This week: "Land and Sea Parks in the Bahamas". 
Biodiversity around the Caribbean is being damaged by over fishing, 
development and tourism. But we hear how the Bahamas are providing a 
model for the world by breeding fish and
migratory birds that are populating nearby countries. [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 #11 - 
"The Changing Face of Australian  Politics". A political profile of 
contemporary Australia, which outlines the  structure and operation of 
political parties, the new volatility in the electorate and the vexed 
question of moving from constitutional monarchy to republic. [%;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. This week: "Late Night Live in 
the Solomon Islands". In May Late Night Live visited the Solomon 
Islands broadcasting a series of programs that won the 2004 Walkley 
Award for Best
Radio Feature, Documentary or Broadcast Special. It was the first 
Australian media effort to examine up-close and in detail the impact of 
the Australian-led intervention in the Solomons. From Monday hear three 
of these programs again as well as a new program on Thursday called 
“Solomons Snapshots”. [%]
	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. 
Tim writes, "This week, I'm flipping the model... and going to explore 
vocals.... some sampled, but most sung specifically for the works were 
are going to hear. There's a song in christ's language, folktronica and 
I'm playing an
unprecedented 4 tracks from a local artist who brings together 
electronics, female vocal and cello. New lemon jelly, new lisa gerrard, 
animal collective [who are sort of
folktronica], great new act out of brisvegas, four tet doing hendrix, 
lastly - new from the king of drum and bass - roni size." [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.: Gilad Atzmon is serious, playful, seriously playful & playfully 
serious. He’s provocative: as composer, as a very fine player (of 
soprano sax & clarinet, in particular), bandleader, novelist, essayist 
& London-resident self-exile from Israel. With his Orient House 
Ensemble, Atzmon’s “Re-arranging the 20th Century” is a CD of “musik”, 
by which he means “music when it is stripped of its market value”. The 
“musik” is informed by his political beliefs, but stands alone, 
wonderfully – his music is deliciously diverse, poignant & fun. He even 
purports to explain "how the devil got all the best tunes."
		Tue.: Danilo Perez is a Panamanian-born, US-based pianist who 
stretches himself to the limit, whether he is playing classical, jazz 
or latin music (usually combining elements of each). His new CD, 
'...Till Then' was recorded with two different rhythm sections, his 
compadres in Wayne Shorter's quartet - John Pattituci and Brian Blade 
and Danilo's touring group, Ben Street and Adam Cruz. The repertoire is 
mostly drawn from Latin America, with compositions by Violeta Parra, 
Chico Buarque, Ruben Blades, Silvio Rodriguez and Milton Nascimento, 
but Perez' crystalline, abstracted interpretations take these songs a 
long way from their origins.
		Wed.: Jacob do Bandolim made his living as a pharmacy owner, a 
travelling salesman, an insurance agent and as a court reporter, but 
his great passion was music – he worked these other jobs so he wouldn’t 
have to compromise his art. Born Jacob Pick Bettencourt in 1918, he was 
a leading light of Brazil’s choro music from the 1940s until his death 
in 1969, writing many choro classics and making a permanent place for 
his instrument, the mandolin, in the music. A new CD, ‘Great Jewish 
Music: Jacob do Bandolim’ takes a New York Radical Jewish look at 
Jacob’s music with performances by Tim Sparks, Cyro Baptista and others 
innovatively interpreting Jacob’s music at various points along the 
Brazilian-Jewish continuum.
		Thu.: “I don’t think this is just a gospel record or just a political 
record” says songster-guitarist Buddy Miller of his new CD. “Universal 
United House of Prayer” was literally home-made. Whilst unmistakably 
the work of a committed Christian, it directly engages with the world 
“here below" & its impact does not depend on whether a listener happens 
to share Miller’s Faith. Described by frequent employer Emmylou Harris 
(who sings on one cut) as “my hero”, he’s equally potent as singer, 
guitarist, writer & record producer. What Miller believes is his best 
CD has stirring new songs both dark & jubilant, & an epic version of 
one with words that “don’t seem 40 years old” – Bob Dylan’s “With God 
On Our Side.” Buddy & Julie Miller’s website: www.buddyandjulie.com
		Fri.: The oldest of W. Africa’s pioneering electric bands, Bembeya 
Jazz, re-formed last year and recorded for the first time in 14 years 
with two of their original members including Sekou Diabate, the 
guitarist with the memorable and apt nickname ‘Diamond Fingers’. Barely 
a year later, this modest guitarist has recorded his debut CD. Called 
‘Guitar Fo’, it revisits many of his showpieces with Bembeya Jazz, but 
in a stripped back, Afro-Cuban vein that lets the subtlety and nuance 
of his guitar phrasing and tone shine through.

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. 
[abc.net.au/classic/throsby/] for details. (from ABC Classic FM) [%]

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: "Howard Freeman" is a 
living example of the 1970s 'roadie'. Howard has looked after Billy 
Thorpe, Sherbet, Dragon, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, as well as many 
other bands. His story is the story of Pub Rock’s hey day in Australia. 
[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.: TALKING POINT  (refer to 0645)

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.: TALKING POINT (refer to 0645)

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: "Amsterdam’s Watery 
Ways". Amsterdam’s restored 17th century canal district enchants the 
modern visitor. Wander the canals and discover the watery history – and 
the intriguing technology – behind one of Europe’s great trading 
centres. [%]
	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: "IMAGENation" - There is a lot of data out there - the 
trendy expression is data deluge. Getting all that data from the 
computer into the brain has so far proven difficult.
"Keys that talk to locks" - In the age of card-controlled locks it is 
expensive to connect every door to a central computer. But if only some 
doors are wired up security is compromised. "What's your address?" - We 
know where we live - most of us anyway - but only insofar as we know 
our address. Precise geographical position, in terms of latitude and 
longtitude, is another thing entirely. [%]
	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 Wed.

Good Listening!
John Figliozzi

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