[Swprograms] RA Previews #780; 29-31 Jan '05

[John Figliozzi <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RADIO AUSTRALIA PREVIEWS
Edition 780
Jan. 29-31, 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 or ABC News every hour on the hour.)

Saturday

0005 -
	BACKGROUND BRIEFING - Radio National's agenda-setting, current affairs
radio documentary program. This week: "The Importance of 
Beatrice--Endangered Livestock". Six breeds of domestic livestock 
become extinct every month around the world. Breeds of pigs, cattle and 
sheep are dying out, as farmers selectively ‘grow’ to type. [T;%]

0055 -
	PERSPECTIVE - informed commentary.

0105 -
	GRANDSTAND - Live sports from around Australia.

0705 -
	GRANDSTAND WRAP - Summarizing the day's sporting activities in 
Australia and around the world.
0730 -
	LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION! - a music/talk program, which focuses on 
popular movies, movie music and conversations with people and 
personalities from the movies. [%] (from ABC Local Radio)

1105 -
	SATURDAY NIGHT COUNTRY with John Nutting - This week Johnno checks out 
the best in Country Music from around Australia. We revisit Tamworth 
and ask Jay of JONAHS ROAD about his musical experiences there. Stacey 
Morris also remembers Tamworth 2005. Both artists are on the Saturday 
Night Country Hottest Hits album and James Blundell chats about his new 
single and album. [T;%]

1505 -
	ALL IN THE MIND - the mind, brain and behaviour with Natasha Mitchell. 
This week: "The Power of Music (Part 2)--In Medicine".  The power of 
music to heal. Guest BBC broadcaster Jane Hanson takes you to some of 
the cutting edge clinics throughout the world where mainstream is 
medicine is recognising the therapeutic potential of music. From a 
sports hospital in Germany to clinics in Mysore, India, and finally to 
the famous Beth Abraham hospital in New York, where patients with motor 
impaired and degenerative illnesses have access to their own 
state-of-the-art recording studio as part of their treatment. [T;%]
1530 -
	AUSTRALIAN EXPRESS - with Roger Broadbent. Stories from and about
Australia that are always informative, entertaining and sometimes 
surprising. We travel the length and breadth of the country in a effort 
to reveal the real Australia.

1605 -
	HINDSIGHT - social history with Claudia Taranto. This week: "TGH 
Strehlow".  A biographical portrait of a remarkable man, TGH Strehlow. 
Ted Strehlow collected Aranda songs, myths, legends and their sacred 
tjurunga for over 30 years between 1932 and 1968. [%]
1655 -
	PERSPECTIVE - informed commentary.

1705 -
	THE SPIRIT OF THINGS - an exploration contemporary values and beliefs 
as expressed through ritual, art, music, and sacred texts with Rachael 
Kohn. This week: "The Myth of Joseph Campbell". Joseph Campbell remains 
one of the most powerful influences on popular spirituality and on 
Hollywood movies. Campbell's books like The Hero With a Thousand Faces 
and the TV series, The Power of Myth, mined world mythology to find 
universal truths that abide across cultures and religions. John Lonie, 
Co-Head of Screenwriting at the AFTRS, reflects on Campbell's influence 
in film. Psychiatrist Stanislav Grof is convenor of an international 
conference on Joseph Campbell, and Christina Grof was Campbell’s 
student at Sarah Lawrence College. [T;%]
1755 -
	THE PULSE - Music from Australia and the Pacific.

1805 -
	BEST OF 'LATE NIGHT LIVE'

1905 -
	AUSTRALIA ALL OVER - Ian "Macca" MacNamara speaks with Australians 
from all walks of life and relishes the chance to travel the country 
with Australia All Over. Every Sunday morning, some 2 million listeners 
from every corner of Australia tune in for their weekly dose of Macca's 
Australia. Wherever you are, whatever the time, why not join them 
on-line or on-air. [%]

2005 -
	PERSPECTIVE - informed commentary.
2010 -
	AUSTRALIA ALL OVER (continues)
2045 -
	RA NEWS
2050 -
	SOUND CHECK - exploring the Australian alternative band scene.

2100 -
	AUSTRALIA ALL OVER (continues)

2205 -
	CORRESPONDENTS' REPORT - The ABC's overseas reporters analyze and 
interpret the week's major events. [T;%]
2230 -
	MUSIC DELI - folk, tradional, acoustic and world music with Paul 
Petran. This week: two performances - one from last year's Queenscliff 
Music Festival featuring Telek and his band; the other recorded in 
Melbourne featuring the Super Rail Band de Bamako from Mali. [T;%]

2305 -
	THE EUROPEANS - broader historical and cultural perspectives on 
European societies with Keri Phillips. This week: "Sixtieth Anniversary 
of the Liberation of Auschwitz". Over 40 world leaders have joined 
survivors of the infamous Nazi death camp at Auschwitz for a ceremony 
commemorating the 60th anniversary of the camp's liberation by Soviet 
troops on 27th January, 1945. On the Europeans, meet two survivors of 
the inhumanity of Auschwitz. [T;%]
2330 -
	INNOVATIONS - A showcase of Australian design, discoveries, invention,
engineering and research skills with Desley Blanch. This week: "The 
Nature of Innovation". We begin a fascinating series on the Nature of 
Innovation. You'll hear of a
surfboard that wards off shark attacks and an electronic flight bag to 
improve aircraft landings. [T;%]

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Sunday

0005 -
	KEYS TO MUSIC - Graham Abbott break down the barriers to enjoying 
classical music for non-musicians, revealing basic concepts, discussing 
composers and exploring pieces of music inside-out. This week: "The 
Beginner's Guide to Fugues". A fugue is the musical equivalent of 
chess: easy to define, nearly impossible to master, capable of almost 
infinite possibilities. In this program Graham pulls apart some fugues 
to try to discover how they work. [T;%] (from ABC Classic FM)

0105 -
	GRANDSTAND - Live sports from around Australia. Australian Open Tennis 
and Cricket.

1330 -
	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. (From ABC Local Radio.)

1505 -
	THE NATIONAL INTEREST - Terry Lane looks at the major issues of the 
week. This week: "WA Election; Water from the Kimberleys". Lane looks 
at the state election campaign underway in WA. Will the elevation of 
favourite son Kim Beazley to federal opposition leader help Labor 
Permier Geoff Gallop win a second term in office. Also, the long held 
dream of supplying Perth with water from Kimberleys, 2000km to the 
north. Is it any more feasible than towing an iceberg from the 
antartic? And an expatatraite Iraqi reflects on Sunday's election in 
Iraq. [T;%]

1605 -
	BOOKS AND WRITING - in-depth discussions focusing on books, ideas and
writing with Ramona Koval. This week: Books & Writing marks the passing 
of one of the great writers and intellectuals of the past 50 years, 
Susan Sontag, who died 4 weeks ago at the age of 71. [T;%]
1630 -
	BOOK TALK - a mix of reviews, critical discussion and the latest 
developments in publishing with Jill Kitson. This week: "The White 
Australia Policy, and Getting Away with Genocide?" The White Australia 
Policy: Humphrey McQueen reviews Keith Windschuttle's revisionist 
history of Australia's immigration policy...and Getting Away with 
Genocide: Tony Kevin, former Australian Ambassador to Cambodia, reviews 
Tom Fawthrop and Helen Jarvis's account of the long struggle to bring 
the Khmer Rouge to justice. [%]

1705 -
	SOUND QUALITY - For 25 years, Tim Ritchie has been seeking out music: 
the interesting, the evolutionary, the inaccessible and the wonderful. 
About this week's show, Tim writes, "This week, sound quality sets out 
to broaden the boundaries even further. We have a new sub genre in the 
world of hip hop, new music from the axis of evil that shows we are all 
pretty much the same, fantastic glitch from germany, new death in vegas 
[with an obvious kraut rock feel], a bunch of australian funkters with 
a point to prove, darwin electronica, german chick rock attack, and to 
finish.... archival jazz from 1966 [that sounds super fresh today]." 
[T;%]


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.

2210 -
	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: "Cosmic Conversations". Last 
year Maggie Iaquinto found she was a character in an opera called 
'Cosmonaut'. It told the story of Soviet citizen Sergei Krikalev, who 
was orbiting the earth in MIR when his country fell apart. [%]


Monday

0000 -
	AWAYE! - produced and presented by Aboriginal broadcasters and is 
Australia's only national Indigenous arts and culture program. This 
week: "Return to Manga Manda". It's a journey that took 60 years. In 
1946, about sixteen children were forcibly taken from Manga Manda in 
the Northern Territory. The eleven survivors of that group - now old 
people - take us on their emotional trip home, to put to rest the past 
and reaffirm their connection to their Aboriginal families and country. 
[%]

0105 -
	ASIA PACIFIC* (refer to Sun. 2305)
0130
	HEALTH REPORT - with Dr. Norman Swan.  This week: "Mental Illness and 
Pregnancy". Researchers in Western Australia followed women with mental 
illnesses through pregnancy and compared them to pregnant women without 
mental illness to see what happens during pregnancy and how that may 
influence the chances of their children developing schizophrenia. [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----
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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>.)

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Via World Radio Network:
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Via CBC Overnight:
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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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