[Swprograms] RA Previews #776; 14-17 Jan '05
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[Swprograms] RA Previews #776; 14-17 Jan '05



RADIO AUSTRALIA PREVIEWS
Edition 776
Jan. 15-17, 2005

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, ABC Metro or ABC National News every hour on the hour and sometimes on the half-hour.)

Saturday

0005 -
BACKGROUND BRIEFING - Radio National's agenda-setting, current affairs radio documentary program. This week: "Need for Speed". Ever get the feeling, just like the White Rabbit, that you’re running behind schedule? Don’t have a moment, even for a cup of tea? You’re not alone. Life today is stamped with a mantra of constant movement, dictating that faster is always better. We’re slaves to the clock, and the need for speed has ingrained itself in virtually every aspect of our lives. [T;%]


0055 -
	PERSPECTIVE - informed commentary.

0105 -
	GRANDSTAND - Live sports from around Australia.

0730 -
LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION! - celebrating all things cinematic; movies, the actors, the producers and the music. [abc.net.au/backyard/lightscameraaction/] for details. [%] (from ABC Local Radio)


1005 -
COODABEEN CHAMPIONS - Jeff Richardson, Ian Cover, Billy Baxter and Greg Champion take an irreverent look at popular culture and modern life. [abc.net.au/coodabeens/ for details.] (from ABC Local Radio.)


1105 -
SATURDAY NIGHT COUNTRY with John Nutting. This week: Johnno spends Christmas with some of the stars and finds out how they are spending their Christmas.
Melinda Schneider, Brendon Walmsley, Jim Haynes and Dianna Corcoran join Johnno and also its 30 years ago when Cyclone Tracy struck Darwin in the Northern Territory. Grant Luhrs, singer song writer lived through it and recalls that terrible time in word and song.


1505 -
OVERNIGHTS - with Ashley Hall. Great music and interesting guests from Australia and all parts of the globe. Conversations about food, travel, science, music, books, personal finance, sport, film, astronomy, fashion, gardening, relationships, collectables and much more. Join your host for the Overnights Quiz and for talkback on a variety of issues and topics. The lines are always open!


1830 -
SUMMER ALL OVER with Derek Guille - While Macca and the Australia All Over team take a break, Derek Guille will present Summer All Over on Sunday mornings. Find out what's really happening in Australia - with music, stories and yarns from across the country.


2045 -
	RA NEWS
2050 -
	SOUND CHECK - exploring the Australian alternative band scene.

2100 -
	SUMMER ALL OVER (continues to 2300.)

2305 -
CRICKET - The one day international between Australia and Pakistan, live from Adelaide. (to 0700 Sun.)


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Sunday

0700 -
GRANDSTAND WRAP - a roundup of the day's sports results and news.
0730 -
COODABEEN CHAMPIONS - Jeff Richardson, Ian Cover, Billy Baxter and Greg Champion take an irreverent look at popular culture and modern life. (to 1000)


1005 -
BEST OF SUNDAY PROFILE with Geraldine Doogue - An in-depth analysis of the news from home and abroad that affected Australia during the year. This week: "D-Day 60th Anniversary" from 6 June 2004. Military historian Sir John Keegan on the execution and the significance of the Battle of Normandy. [%]
1030 -
BEST OF SPEAKING OUT - Karen Dorante presents the best moments from her program examining indigenous issues, arts and entertainment from 2004. This week: "Cathy Freeman, Wyomie Robertson and The Sapphires". In this final week of the Best of Speaking Out in 2004 Karen Dorante talks to Olympic champion, Cathy Freeman about life after the track. Lighter Shades of Black concludes with the story of Wyomie Robertson an Aboriginal bureaucrat in the Northern Territory sharing her personal stories of tragedy and triumph in finding her place as a proud Aboriginal and Sri Lankan Australian. Also Aboriginal actors Deb Mailman and Tony Briggs talk about the stage production "The Sapphires" - the story of an Aboriginal sister act performing for Australian troops on the frontline at Vietnam. [%]


1105 -
SUNDAY NIGHT TALK with John Cleary - exploring the issues, events and people driving developments in religion, ethics, spirituality, popular culture, values and beliefs in our country. [abc.net.au/sundaynights/] for details. (to 1500)


1505 -
	OVERNIGHTS with Seamus Haugh  (to 1800; refer to Sat. 1505)

1805 -
PACIFIC BEAT* - focusing on the island nations which depend on the Pacific Ocean for their existence, drawing on Australian based reporters and correspondents throughout the region to bring you the events and issues affecting the region, interviews with political leaders, newsmakers, and the people. [T;%]


2105 -
AM - ABC Radio's morning news magazine. [T;%]
2130 -
DATELINE PACIFIC - a round-up of the very latest news from the Pacific with interviews and features with all the region's news makers, drawing on the work of RNZI staff and 20 Pacific journalists from around the region.


2205 -
	AM (refer to 2110)
2240 -
	TALKING POINT - interviews covering a diverse range of subjects.
2255 -
	PERSPECTIVE - expert commentary.

2305 -
ASIA PACIFIC* - interviews and reports from the region. (T;%]
2330 -
VERBATIM - oral histories. This week: "Eva Marks". At the outset of World War Two, Austrian born Eva Marks was nine years old when she and her family were sent to a Russian Gulag. For the next six years, Eva endured starvation, disease and neglect - her experience, and that of the other Jewish people interned by the Russians, is one of the little known atrocities of the war. [%]



Monday

0000 -
AWAYE! - produced and presented by Aboriginal broadcasters and is Australia's only national Indigenous arts and culture program. [abc.net.au/rn/awaye/] for details. [%]


0105 -
ASIA PACIFIC* (refer to Sun. 2305)
0130
HEALTH REPORT - with Dr. Norman Swan. This week: "Literacy". The Federal Minister for Education has announced a National Inquiry into the teaching of literacy because of major concerns expressed about standards. [T; %]


0205 -
THE WORLD TODAY - a comprehensive current affairs program which backgrounds, analyses, interprets and encourages debate on events and issues of interest and importance to all Australians. [T;%]


0310 -
SPORT
0320 -
LIFE MATTERS - daily interview program about social change and day-to-day life. [abc.net.au/rn/talks/lm/] for details. [%]


0405 -
MARGARET THROSBY - in conversation with a special guest, playing their favourite music and telling their own stories. [abc.net.au/classic/throsby/] for detail. [%]


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How to Listen to Radio Australia----
Via shortwave:
Best as noted in eastern North America -
2100 - 0000 UTC: 21740, 17715
0000 - 0200 UTC: 15240
0200 - 0900 UTC: 15515
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.

To be updated by 0500 UT Mon.

Good Listening!
John Figliozzi

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