[Swprograms] RA Previews #807; 9-13 May '05
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RADIO AUSTRALIA PREVIEWS
Edition 807
May 9-13, 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--and live--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: "UK 
Election:
What about Science?". British Liberal Democrat MP Dr Evan Harris tells
Branwen Morgan why scientific research is so important on Election Day. 
. [%]
	Tue.: OCKHAM'S RAZOR - sharp commentary about science.  This week:
"Digging Up Deep Time". Dr Paul Willis, author and reporter on the ABC 
TV's science programme 'Catalyst', takes us on a journey through the 
history of life as he drives through Australia on a fossil treasure 
hunt. [T;%]
	Wed.: LINGUA FRANCA - looking at all aspects of language.  This week:
"Heavy Words Lightly Thrown". Chris Roberts explains the meaning behind 
nursery rhymes. Did you know 'Baa Baa Black Sheep' was about taxation? 
And 'Goosie Goosie Gander' full of sexual misconduct? It's also 
possible that Old King Cole was an Aboriginal cricketer, Humpty Dumpty 
a cannon, and the Mulberry Bush planted in a prison. These innocent 
rhymes will never be the same again. [T;%]
	Thu.: THE ARK - curious moments in religious history that shatter the 
usual perception of the past and illuminate the present. This week: 
"Lost Temples of Uzbekistan". Around 400 BCE Zoroastrianism was a 
thriving religion in Uzbekistan, Central Asia. Today a team of 
Australian and Uzbek archaeologists has uncovered two major new 
religious sites with a monumental Fire Temple, furnished with ornate 
columns and gilded mouldings. Dr Alison Betts of the University of 
Sydney tells us why she thinks it may contain one of the best and 
earliest collections of central Asian wall paintings. [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: "New Research 
into
ADHD". New research into Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder from 
Western
Australia and the United States looks at what brain scans are showing 
in such children. Also an exercise in mind control which will have you 
baffled. [T;%]
	Tue.: LAW REPORT -with Damien Carrick. This week: "Removal of Failed 
Asylum Seekers". As relevations emerge about the deportation of 
Australian citizen - Vivian Alvarez - we look at another aspect of 
removal from Australia: How are failed asylum seekers exited out of the 
country? What happens when these people are returned home?
What happens if they don't have a country to return to? And is the 
Australian government playing according to the rules? [T;%]
	Wed.: RELIGION REPORT - with Stephen Crittenden. This week: "A 
national Catholic women's conference". The Catholic Diocese of Cairns 
recently, hosted the first-ever national Conference for Women Leaders 
of Catholic Church Agencies. [T;%]
	Thu.: MEDIA REPORT - with Richard Aedy.
[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: "Alfred Deakin 
Innovation Lectures". Over the next five weeks we broadcast the best 
from the Alfred Deakin Innovation Lectures, held in Melbourne. The 
series features world-renowned thinkers, creators, entrepreneurs and
researchers involved with innovation in many different fields. [T;%]
	Tue.: SCIENCE SHOW -  with Robyn Williams. This week: "Genes of the 
World
Unite". The Genographic Project was launched in Australia a few days 
ago. The
aim is to trace genetic markers of people all over the world and 
together with other evidence, finally show where the peoples of the 
world came from and how they relate. [T;%]
	Wed.: SUSTAINABLE CITIES - Radio Australia’s new series of seven 
programs, ‘Sustainable Cities – Challenges for the Asia Pacific’ 
explores some of the major issues for cities in becoming more liveable 
and sustainable. These range from urban sprawl to waste management, 
pollution to poverty, to strategies that deal with transport and 
limited resources like water. The series includes four case studies, 
Singapore, Bangkok,
Melbourne and Beijing, and finishes with post-graduate students from 
the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Architecture discussing some 
of the issues addressed in the six programs. [T;%]
	Thu.: BACKGROUND BRIEFING - Radio National's agenda-setting, current
affairs radio documentary program. This week: "Safe At Sea". Cruising 
is a tourism
phenomenon, with enormous ships, huge profits, and about 10 million
people a year using these ‘cultural bubbles’. You can even buy
apartments on board, so you never have to leave.
Amanda Armstrong reports.  [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: "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;%]

0430 -
	Wed.: INNOVATIONS* - A showcase of Australian design, discoveries,
invention, engineering and research skills with Desley Blanch.
[radioaustralia.net.au/innovations/] for details. [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.: "Drought Review". The spectre of drought once again haunts 
Australia. So what have we learnt from past experience? Are we coming 
to terms with this on-going problem? There are calls once again for a 
change in government drought policy. Would that be effective or just 
another band-aid?
		Tue.-Thu.: tba
		Fri.: The week's four topics in review.

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: "Snooping in the workplace/The art of leaking/Aid,
shoes and diplomacy". Lane discusses the limits to privacy and
surveillance in the workplace with former NSW Privacy Commissioner
Chris Puplick. Is it acceptable for the boss to monitor your emails?
Also the art of leaking - Stephen Mayne, founder of the Crikey website
on the issues raised by the premature release of the Victorian state
budget. And PNG correspondent Shane McLeod on Sir Michael Somare's
shoes and deteriorating relations between Pt Moresby and Canberra. [%]
	Tue.: AWAYE! - produced and presented by Aboriginal broadcasters and is
Australia's only national Indigenous arts and culture program. This  
week: "The New Kakadu Man". We hear from Jonathon Nadji, son of Big 
Bill Neidjie or “Kakadu Man”. Jonathan Nadji is chairman of the Kakadu 
Board of Management where he is putting his father's wishes into 
practice by leading traditional owners into a new era of tourism. [%]
	Wed.: SUSTAINABLE CITIES (refer to 0405 Wed.)
	Thu.: THE EUROPEANS - political, cultural, economic and social 
developments across eastern and western Europe with Keri Philips. This 
week: "German Jeremiad". The German economy is growing at a woeful 0.7% 
and almost five million people are unemployed. Recent polls suggest 
that Germans, increasingly unsure of their future, blame the expanded 
EU and membership of the euro zone. And almost 15 years after 
unification, one in four western Germans wishes the Wall were still 
standing. [T;%]
	Fri.: MOVIE TIME - a comprehensive wrap of movie reviews, interviews
and behind-the-scenes information presented by Julie Rigg.
[abc.net.au/rn/arts/movietime] for details. [T;%]
1130 -
	Wed.: ALL IN THE MIND - the mind, brain and behaviour with Natasha
Mitchell. This week: "The Marco Polo of Neuroscience: V S Ramachandran".
Acclaimed neuroscientist Professor VS Ramachandran, celebrated as one
of the most creative and colourful communicators about the brain and
its discontents, is in Australia to present one of the Alfred Deakin
Innovation Lectures. [%]
	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: a conversation with 
American author Russell Banks, whose latest book The Darling takes his 
usual examination of class and race in America to the outer reaches of 
the US empire – Liberia. At the recent Blue Metropolis Literary 
Festival in Montreal, Russell Banks spoke to Ramona Koval about this 
tale of white, middle-class, Left, puritan politics set in west Africa. 
[%]

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.: Tony Blair's pyrrhic victory.
		Tue.: 'On Bullshit' - a philosophical discussion.
		Wed.:  Vamik Volkan on 'blind trust'.
		Thu.: Wanjinas--Mythical figures of the Kimberley.
	Fri.: THE BEST OF LATE NIGHT LIVE

1305 -
	ASIA PACIFIC* (refer to 2305)
1330 -
	Mon.: INNOVATIONS* (refer to 0430 Wed.)
	Tue.: AUSTRALIAN EXPRESS* - stories from and about Australia with Roger
Broadbent. This week: The Snowy River is one of Australia's cultural 
icons. Before the
famous Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme it was a raging torrent. 
Today, it and many other rivers dammed at the time, are little more 
than a trickle. It's a sad environmental mess and a new book relates 
the story of the once mighty river. There's also some good 
environmental news from our island state of Tasmania. We examine 
efforts to change the lifestyles of overweight school children as 
obesity reaches alarming levels. And we take time out to talk rubbish 
or to talk about rubbish.
	Wed.: RURAL REPORTER* - the people and places that make up country
Australia.
	Thu.: SUSTAINABLE CITIES* (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--and live--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:  13620 (not hearing 21740 in eNA; reports welcome)
0000 - 0200 UTC:  17715
0200 - 0900 UTC:  15515
0700 - 1400 UTC:   9580 [9590 also noted at times]
1400 - 1600 UTC:   9590 (until fade out)
(Reception in western North America is more reliable. European
listeners are invited to report reception experience to this editor.)
(Complete worldwide schedule from
<http://www.abc.net.au/ra/guide>.)

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. May 13.

Good Listening!
John Figliozzi

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