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[Swprograms] RA Previews #791; 14-18 Mar '05
- Subject: [Swprograms] RA Previews #791; 14-18 Mar '05
- From: John Figliozzi <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 21:08:19 -0500
RADIO AUSTRALIA PREVIEWS
Edition 791
Mar. 14-18, 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 <abc.net.au/radio> and
<abc.net.au/ra/guide/programs_az.htm> . Additional information and a
key to abbreviations and symbols used appear at the bottom of the page.
---------------------------
(RA or ABC News every hour on the hour)
Weekdays
0005 -
IN THE LOOP* - Radio Australia's newest show celebrates the cultures
and peoples of the Pacific. Isabelle Genoux and Heather Jarvis present
a lively two hour morning mix of music, interviews and sounds of the
Pacific, highlighting the opportunities and challenges of the 21st
century. (Begins at 2330.)
0130 -
ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2305)
0210 -
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. (includes a
FINANCIAL REPORT) [T;%]
0305 -
SPORT
0315 -
Mon.: IN CONVERSATION - about scientific matters. This week: "Marc
Abrahams". Imagine being pronounced legally dead – and you’re not! Can
you do anything about your savings being purloined or someone moving
into your house? Marc Abrahams of Harvard and the IgNobel Prizes
celebrates some laureates, including the man who formed an Association
of the Dead – to give them their rights back. [%]
Tue.: OCKHAM'S RAZOR - sharp commentary about science. This week:
"The 50th Anniversary of the Death of Alexander Fleming". Alexander
Fleming is forever associated with the discovery of penicillin,
overlooking the tireless researcher, Howard Florey from Adelaide. Perth
medical historian Dr Jim Leavesley tells the tale of one of the
greatest discoveries in medical history. [T;%]
Wed.: LINGUA FRANCA - looking at all aspects of language. This week:
"The Great Oxford English Dictionary in the Electronic Age". Visiting
Oxford lexicographer Sarah Ogilvie on how the Oxford English Dictionary
- and all the other Oxford dictionaries - are kept up-to-date in the
absence of the notorious Surgeon of Crowthorne (memorialised in Simon
Winchester's eponymous bestseller). [T;%]
Thu.: THE ARK - curious moments in religious history that shatter the
usual perception of the past and illuminate the present. This week:
"From Silent Spring to Noisy Environmentalism". In 1962, the book
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson first put issues of environmental
degradation on the map. Today the voices promoting environmentalism are
loud and clear and frequently carry a strong spiritual message.
Californian Joanna Macy, one of its key promoters and a Buddhist, tells
how it happened. [T;%]
Fri.: TALKING POINT - one of the interviews covering a diverse range
of subjects from the domestic "Breakfast" program.
<abc.net.au/rn/talks/brkfast/default.htm> for details. [%]
0331 -
Mon.: HEALTH REPORT - with Dr. Norman Swan. This week: "Report from
the AAAS Conference". Norman Swan reports from the American Association
for the Advancement of Science Congress, which he attended recently in
Washington, DC. Topics include the Gorilla Diet, an update on SARS, and
defining male and female
gender. [T;%]
Tue.: LAW REPORT -with Damien Carrick. This week: "The McCracken
Case-- Getting Rid of Graffiti". The 2005 Rugby League season kicked
off this weekend - but has Rugby League been changed forever by the
Jarrod McCracken court decision? When his career ended after two
opposing players dropped him on his head in a 'spear tackle', McCracken
successfully sued. But should what happens on the sports field ever end
up in court? Also, grafitti - who does it and why? How can we stop it?
And is there any good stuff worth tolerating? [T;%]
Wed.: RELIGION REPORT - with David Rutledge.
[abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/relrpt/] for details.
Thu.: MEDIA REPORT - MEDIA REPORT - with Mick O'Regan.
[abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/mediarpt/] for details. [T;%]
Fri.: SPORTS FACTOR - debating and celebrating the cultural
significance of sport. [abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/sportsf/] for details.
[T;%]
0405 -
Mon.: BIG IDEAS - lectures, conversations, features and special series
from Australia and around the world. This week: "Sperm Wars" (program
two). We hear from those at the frontline of the battles around who
can be a parent. How parenthood is understood in these times when
family values rule is increasingly contentious. People conceived using
donor sperm, donors, father and mothers talk about their families.
Through websites like Sperm Donors Worldwide anyone anywhere in the
world can find a donor or willing recipient of their sperm. It’s an
ethical and legal minefield, and it’s set to change our ideas of
fatherhood forever. [T;%]
Tue.: SCIENCE SHOW - with Robyn Williams. This week: "Why Women Can’t
Do Maths and Physics?" Women Can’t Do Maths? Well, they can, of course.
There is an occasional outbreak of doubt, however, this time from the
Head of Harvard, Larry Summers. His ‘denigration’ of women went around
the world, reaching the cover of TIME magazine. Why? [T;%]
Wed.: SMART SOCIETIES - What will it take to be truly smart in the
21st century? In this education series young people and regional
specialists discuss a range of issues from international education to
creating liveable cities to being good corporate citizens. This week:
"Episode 6 - Gross National Happiness – Bhutan". An insight into a tiny
Buddhist Kingdom in the eastern Himalayas and their quest for Gross
National Happiness, a development philosophy initiated by the King of
Bhutan. [T;%]
Thu.: BACKGROUND BRIEFING - Radio National's agenda-setting, current
affairs radio documentary program. This week: "Transforming Humans".
New "biosocial groups" will spring up as people who share previously
unknown ancestry, or a common genetic disorder, join forces. Some will
become test cases for new values and ethics. Professor Nik Rose of
London School of Economics explains. [T;%]
Fri.: KEYS TO MUSIC - Graham Abbott breaks down the barriers to
enjoying classical music for non-musicians, revealing basic concepts,
discussing composers and exploring pieces of music inside-out. This
week: "An Introduction to Bach's St Matthew Passion--Part 1". The first
in a three-part series in which Graham delves into one of the towering
masterworks of western civilisation: JS Bach’s mighty St Matthew
Passion. In this instalment, he covers nearly all of the work's first
part, up to and including the great double chorus "Sind Blitze, sind
Donner in Wolken verschwunden". [T;%]
0430 -
Wed.: INNOVATIONS* - A showcase of Australian design, discoveries,
invention,
engineering and research skills with Desley Blanch. This week:
"Nanotechnology". What is Nanotechnology, what are its possibilities,
where is it taking us and what are the risks. In today's world,
scientists hope nanotechnology will be the technological saviour of the
century, making things smaller, faster, stronger, cheaper and more
powerful than ever before. [T;%]
0510 -
PACIFIC BEAT - focuses in on the island nations which depend on the
Pacific Ocean for their existence drawing on Australian reporters and
correspondents based throughout the region. [T;%]
0535 -
ON THE MAT - discussion of Pacific issues.
0610 -
SPORT
0615 -
TALKING POINT (refer to 0315 Fri.)
0631 -
DATELINE PACIFIC (refer to 2110 Mon.-Thu.)
0710 -
PACIFIC BEAT (refer to 0510)
0730 -
SPORT
0735 -
ON THE MAT (refer to 0535)
0810 -
PM - a comprehensive daily current affairs program.
0910 -
AUSTRALIA TALKS BACK - a daily national talkback program hosted by
Sandy McCutcheon. [abc.net.au/rn/talks/austback/] for details. [%]
Mon.: "Princess Mary". She may have given up her Australian
citizenship when she married a Danish prince, but it hasn't stopped
Princess Mary from capturing the limelight and upstaging our future
King - Prince Charles. Why are we so fascinated by the girl from
Tasmania who became a Princess?
1005 -
ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2305)
1030 -
"REPORT" programs (refer to 0331)
1105 -
Mon.: THE NATIONAL INTEREST - Terry Lane looks at the major issues of
the week. This week: "Foreign Fruit Pickers": Immigration Minister
Amanda Vanstone is considering a proposal to allow Pacific Islanders to
enter Australia on temporary visas to pick fruit. A similar scheme
brings 20,000 Caribbean and Mexican workers to Canada each summer to
labour in Ontario greenhouses. "Wimmera Mallee Pipeline Project":
Victoria's drought-prone Mallee region relies on water from the
Grampians, delivered by a system of open channels built in the late
19th Century. Plans to replace the channels with pipes could save
enough water to fill Olympic-sized swimming pools stretching from
Melbourne to Darwin and back. "Solar desalination": The CSIRO is
testing a system for purifying or desalinating water that is so energy
efficient that it can be done using solar power. The system was
invented in Queensland but its backers were forced to go offshore for
investment funds. [%]
Tue.: AWAYE! - produced and presented by Aboriginal broadcasters and is
Australia's only national Indigenous arts and culture program. This
week: "Gary Lee". Larrakia man Gary Lee is the Northern Territory's
first-ever Aboriginal curator of Aboriginal art. He talks to Ursula
Raymond about community expectations of taking on the job at the Museum
and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. [%]
Wed.: SMART SOCIETIES (refer to 0405 Wed.)
Thu.: THE EUROPEANS - political, cultural, economic and social
developments across eastern and western Europe with Keri Philips. This
week: "The Hills Are Alive". As Austria continues to come to terms with
its Nazi past, the first full-scale theatrical production of “The Sound
of Music” (which, as a film, was not seen in Austria before 1990) has
just opened in Vienna. [T;%]
Fri.: MOVIE TIME - a comprehensive wrap of movie reviews, interviews
and behind-the-scenes information presented by Julie Rigg. This week:
In “Hotel Rwanda”, American actor Don Cheadle, often seen as a comic
sidekick, plays Paul Roosesabagina, a hotel
manager who saved more than a thousand people from the Rwanda Massacre.
Oscar-nominated for the part, Cheadle talks with Julie Rigg about his
experiences in Africa and the world's failure to learn the lessons of
the Rwanda genocide. [T;%]
1130 -
Wed.: ALL IN THE MIND - the mind, brain and behaviour with Natasha
Mitchell. This week: "Activism for the Mind--Reclaiming the Cerebral
Commons". Is modern life polluting your brain? Editor of “Adbusters:
The Journal of the Mental Environment”, Kalle Lasn thinks so. And he’s
spearheading a mental ecology movement to do something about it. [%]
Thu.: ARTS ON RA - Julie Copeland presents lively discussions and
interviews with artists, writers and thinkers on some of the big ideas
in art and culture. [abc.net.au/rn/arts/sunmorn/] for details. [%]
Fri.: BOOKS AND WRITING - Ramona Koval with in-depth discussions
focusing on books, ideas and writing. This week: "Dr David Suzuki - The
Tale Of A Tree". This week we look at a book that challenges one of the
fundamental taboos of science - thou shalt not anthropomorphise! It is
a sacred rule, in the pursuit of objective research, that scientists
should not use human analogies in descriptions of the broader
biological world. However, in a new book co-authored by Canadian
environmentalist, geneticist, writer and broadcaster Dr David Suzuki,
we have exactly that, a fictional tale which attempts to imagine the
life-cycle of a tree … a 500-year-old Douglas fir. In the book Tree: A
Biography which Dr Suzuki has penned with another Canadian science
writer, Wayne Grady, the dispassionate scientific tradition is
challenged and, as Dr Suzuki tells Ramona Koval, storytelling does have
a place in our engagement with, and analysis of, the physical world. [%]
1205 -
Mon.-Thu.: LATE NIGHT LIVE - talk radio with a difference, from
razor-sharp analysis of current events to the hottest debates in
politics, science, philosophy and culture. [abc.net.au/rn/talks/lnl/]
for details. [%]
Mon.: Torture papers--The road to Abu Ghraib.
Tue.: Vusi Mahlasela - song bird of Mamelodi.
Wed.: Has the IRA destroyed its credibility?
Thu.: House of Mitford--Home of notoriety & eccentricity.
1305 -
ASIA PACIFIC* (refer to 2305)
1330 -
Mon.: INNOVATIONS* (refer to 0430 Wed.)
Tue.: AUSTRALIAN EXPRESS* - stories from and about Australia with Roger
Broadbent.
Wed.: RURAL REPORTER* - the people and places that make up country
Australia.
Thu.: SMART SOCIETIES* (refer to 0405 Wed.)
Fri.: ARTS ON RA (refer to 1130 Thu.)
1405 -
SPORT*
1410 -
PM (refer to 0810)
1505 -
ASIA PACIFIC* (refer to 2305)
1530 -
"REPORT" programs (refer to 0331)
1605 -
AUSTRALIA TALKS BACK (refer to 0905)
1705 -
DATELINE PACIFIC (refer to 2130 Mon.-Thu.)
1725 -
TALKING POINT (refer to 0315 Fri.)
1740 -
IN THE LOOP* - excerpts from RA's newest daily program. (refer to 2330
Mon.-Thu.)
1805 -
Fri.: PACIFIC REVIEW - highlights from the past 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. Continues to
2100 with SPORT at 1830, 1930 and 2030.
1830 -
Fri.: AUSTRALIAN EXPRESS - stories from and about Australia with Roger
Broadbent.
1905 -
Fri.: ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2305)
1930 -
Fri.: RURAL REPORTER (refer to 1330 Wed.)
2005 -
Fri.: SATURDAY AM - morning news and analysis.
2030 -
Fri.: SATURDAY BREAKFAST - Geraldine Doogue offers a lively array of
stories and features covering a range of topics including world
affairs, business and the environment. [%]
2110 -
Mon.-Thu.: AM - ABC Radio's morning news magazine. [%; T]
2130 -
Mon.-Thu.: DATELINE PACIFIC - Pacific news and current affairs from
Radio New Zealand International.
2210 -
Mon.-Thu.: AM (refer to 2110)
2240 -
Mon.-Thu.: TALKING POINT - interviews.
2255 -
Mon.-Thu.: PERSPECTIVE - expert commentary.
2305 -
Mon.-Thu.: ASIA PACIFIC* - interviews and reports from the region.
[T;%]
Fri.: ASIA PACIFIC REVIEW
2330 -
Mon.-Thu.: IN THE LOOP* - Radio Australia's new two hour morning show
celebrates the cultures and peoples of the Pacific. Isabelle Genoux and
Heather Jarvis present a lively mix of music, interviews and sounds of
the Pacific, highlighting the opportunities and challenges of the 21st
century.
Fri.: AUSTRALIAN EXPRESS (refer to 1830 Fri.)
How to Listen to Radio Australia----
Via shortwave:
Best as noted in eastern North America -
2200 - 0000 UTC: 21740 [on occasion]
0200 - 0900 UTC: 15515 [not well heard lately]
0800 - 1400 UTC: 9580 [6020, 9590 also noted at times]
1400 - 1600 UTC: 9590 [until fade out; 9475, 11680 also noted at
times]
(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.
The next update will be posted by UT 0500 Fri. Mar. 18.
Good Listening!
John Figliozzi
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