R. Australia Programs #311. 10-15 Sep 2001
John A. Figliozzi
Edition 311
Sept. 10-15, 2001
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.
Weekdays (First Edition)
(RA or ABC News every hour on the hour)
0010 Mon.: Awaye! - travels to the heart of Australia to highlight
the Yeperenye Federation Festival, the largest corroborree of Indigenous
performers ever. In this program we'll talk to traditional owner,
Rosalie Riley who tells us the story of the Yeperenye or caterpillar
ancestors who created the Arrente landscape around Alice Springs. Plus,
Artistic Director of the festival, Rachel Perkins tells us about all the
other activities taking place. [%]
Tue.: The Science Show - "Did People Really Wipe Out the
Megafauna?". A special from the National Museum in Canberra, this is a
lively debate bringing together the three museum directors, Tim
Flannery, Dawn Casey and Mike Archer. [%]
Wed.: The National Interest - Informed analysis on the news
of the week with Terry Lane. This week: "Economics and the Environment".
Can you make money out of conservation? Earth Sanctuaries Ltd thinks so
- and the Productivity Commission has been studying the results.
Commissioner Neil Byron joins Terry Lane to discuss a new report on the
company and its wildlife sanctuaries. [%]
Thu.: Background Briefing - "Forgive the Debt? Father Brian
Gore and UK economist Michael Rowbotham discuss Third World debt. No
Third World country has ever repaid it's debt, and - it's argued - they
will never be able to. [T;%]
Fri. - Hindsight (refer to 1605 Thu.)
0110 Asia Pacific* - regional news and business reports. [T;%]
0130 Mon.: Health Report - "Alternative Medicine" - Repeat of a three
part series. Due to popular demand the Health Report is repeating a
three part series on Alternative Medicine which was originally broadcast
about a year ago. Over the next three programmes Rae Fry and Norman Swan
will investigate the phenomenon of alternative or complimentary medicine
- treatments that aren't mainstream and not usually taught to western
health professionals such as doctors, nurses and physiotherapists. [%]
Tue.: The Law Report - "Gangs and the Law". As police in
W.A. continue to explore possible links between the murder of a retired
policeman and a local outlaw motorcycle gang, authorities are also
comtemplating a legislative crackdown on gangs and gang members. But are
tough New Zealand and Canadian style anti-gang laws a legitimate crime
fighting tool? Or are they a dangerous breach of civil rights? [T;%]
Wed.: The Religion Report -
<http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/relrpt/> for details. [T;%]
Thu.: The Media Report -
<http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/mediarpt/promo.htm> for details.
[T';%]
Fri. - The Sports Factor -
<http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/sportsf/promo.htm> for details.
[T;%]
0210 The World Today - ABC Radio's noontime news magazine. [T;%]
0310 Sport*
0320 Pacific Focus*
Mon.: Business
Tue.: Health
Wed.: Environment
Thu.: Sport
Fri.: Culture
0340 Mon. - Australian Music Show - modern rock from ABC JJJ.
Tue. - Music Deli - international music.
Wed. - Blacktracker* - contemporary Aboriginal music.
Thu. - Oz Country Style - from ABC Local Radio.
Fri.: Jazz Notes
0410 Margaret Throsby - A guest is interviewed and presents favorite
music. This week's guests are:
Mon.: Andrew Sayers, Director of the National Portrait
Gallery of Australia
Tue.: Dr. Graham Harris, Chief of CSIRO Land and Water
Wed.: Dr. Ian Gawler, Director of the Gawler Foundation
Thu.: Helen Garner, Novelist and essayist
Fri.: Professor Peter Bondanella, Professor of
Comparative Literature, Film Studies, Italian and Western European
Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.
[%]
0510 Pacific Beat* - daily afternoon magazine for the Pacific. [T;%]
0530 Sport*
0540 Pacific Beat* - continued.
0610 Sport*
0620 Pacific Focus* (refer to 0320)
0640 "Music" programs (refer to 0340)
0710 Pacific Beat* - daily afternoon magazine for the Pacific. [T;%]
0730 Sport*
0740 Pacific Beat* - continued.
0810 PM - ABC's late afternoon news magazine. [T;%]
0910 Australia Talks Back - live, daily national phone-in. Daily
details from <http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/austback/>.
Mon.: "Should We Bail Out Ansett?" Australia may once
again have only two airlines if the debt-ridden Ansett isn't thrown a
lifeline. With 15,000 jobs at stake, will the Australian and New Zealand
governments step in, or should Ansett live or die by the laws of the
marketplace?
1005 Asia Pacific* - regional news and business reports. [T;%]
1030 "Report" programs (refer to 0130)
1105 Asia Pacific* - regional news and business reports. [T;%]
1130 Sport*
1135 Life Matters - Australian social issues and family life. Some
details from <http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/lm/>.
1205 Mon.-Thu.: Late Night Live - social, political and cultural
conversations with Phillip Adams.
<http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/lnl/default.htm> for details. [%]
Fri.: Sound Quality - innovative music.
1310 Sport
1315 The Planet - diverse music from around the world. This week:
Mon.: "Thirteen" rules, OK?--a veteran Australian
songster's lucky thirteenth. Broderick Smith's new album, "Too Easy" is
mostly devoted to his own thoughtful, keenly observed, compassionate and
sometimes sardonic songs. Later, "Thirteen Sketches", a very intriguing,
interactive quintet CD led by young Australian pianist Andrea Keller.
Tue.: Our featured artist comes from Afghanistan. He
lives in Melbourne. He's one of the great players of the sitar, by any
standards a true virtuoso. A sublimely lyrical player who draws on
Afghani folk music as well as on the Hindustani classical tradition,
he's Khalil Gudaz.
Wed.: When asked if Bob Dylan had ever influenced him, a
singer songriter replied, "That's like asking whether being born had any
effect on me." Bob Dylan himself is in the unenviable position of being
measured against the amazing catalogue of his own songs and innovations,
but his new CD, 'Love and Theft' is a worthy addition; a beautifully
played trip through 20th Century U.S. music with Bob's extravagant
lyrics alternately dark, self-revelatory, ridiculous and funny or just
plain puzzling.
Thu.: Two very different kinds of twang--the new album
by Kasey Chambers and a sperb new recording of the music for the
Japanese plucked zither, thde koto.
Fri.: Folk Scene III and Doc Watson.
[T]
1505 Asia Pacific* - regional news and business reports. [T;%]
1530 "Report" programs (refer to 0130)
1605 Mon.: Margaret Throsby (refer to 0410.) [%]
Tue.: The Comfort Zone - "Beer and Everyday Life". A look at
everyday Australian life with a journey from Coolgardie to Coopers Creek
to explore the architectural, social and personal stories of dwellings
many Australians call 'home'. Plus a long cool look at why beer is
Australia's favourite drink.
Wed.: Verbatim - oral histories. "A Nice Dress and a Suitcase
Full of Condoms". It took single-mindedness, the organisational
abilities of a General, and a very respectable dress sense for Vimy
Wilhelm to bring the Family Planning message to Australia. Hear her
story this week in Verbatim.
Thu.: Hindsight - "Its and Bits of Blood" (part two of two). The
second of a two-part series on the pearling families of the northwest
and their fascinating multi-racial history. In the early decades of the
twentieth century the lucrative pearling industry in Broome relied on
the courage and skill of divers from Asia and elsewhere. Just how well
did that sit in the days of White Australia? [T;%]
Fri.: Awaye! - We take you to the Yeperenye Festival with
recordings of the events, people, places and the Road Ahead concert
featuring a musical history of Indigenous Australian events, includes
artists Yothu Yindi, the Warumpi Band, Paul Kelly, Slim Dusty, Kev
Carmody, Christine Anu and Troy Cassar Daley. [%]
1630 Wed.: Earshot -
<http://www.abc.net.au/rn/history/earshot/promo.htm> for details. [T;%]
1705 Bush Telegraph - an entertaining look at rural and regional
issues around Australia. Daily details from
<http://www.abc.net.au/rural/telegraph/>. [%]
1805 Pacific Review* (Fri.) [T;%]
1810 Pacific Beat* - daily morning magazine for the Pacific. [T;%]
1830 Fri.: Open Learning (course to be announced) [T;%]
1905 Fri: Pacific Focus-Technology*
1910 Mon.-Thu.: Pacific Beat* - continued.
1929 Mon.-Thu.: Sport*
1930 Fri.: In Conversation - This week, Lynne Malcolm is In
Conversation with technology commentator Bob Buderi. He’s Editor at
Large of MIT’s “Technology Review” magazine and author of the book,
“Engines of Tomorrow”. He believes that the key to the success of the
U.S. economy is technological innovation, and that giants like IBM,
Microsoft and Bell Labs are using their Research Labs to win the future.
1937 Mon.-Thu.: Pacific Beat* - continued.
2005 Fri.: Pacific Review*
2010 Mon.-Thu.: Pacific Beat* - continued.
2029 Mon.-Thu.: Sport*
2030 Fri.: Country Breakfast - Presented by Belinda Varischetti, ABC
Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional
issues around Australia including a unique social commentary in the
Country Viewpoint.
2037 Mon.-Thu.: Pacific Beat* - continued.
2105 Fri.: Feedback* - listener letters and news about RA.
2106 Mon.-Thu.: AM - ABC's morning news magazine. [T;%]
2130 Mon.: The Health Report - (refer to 0130) [%]
Tue.: Innovations* - Showcasing Australian invention, enterprise
and ingenuity. This week, computers that understand natural language no
longer in the realms of science fiction; using physics to bring back the
spectator appeal to tennis; and a new approach to separation technology
that could revolutionise the biotech industry. [%]
Wed.: Religion Report - (refer to 0130) [T]
Thu.: Rural Reporter - (refer to 2330 Wed.) [%]
Fri.: Oz Sounds - Australian new music releases.
2205 Fri.: Asia Pacific Weekend Edition* [T;%]
2210 Mon.-Thu.: AM - (repeat of 2106) [T;%]
2230 Fri.: AM - ABC's Saturday morning news magazine. [T;%]
2240 Mon.: Music Deli - international music.
Tue.: Blacktracker - contemporary Aboriginal music.
Wed.: Oz Country Style - from ABC Local Radio
Thu.: Jazz Notes
2305 Fri.: Lingua Franca - Supremely gifted as a poet, Geoffrey
Chaucer chose to write in the language of native speakers of English,
rather than in French - the language of the 11th century Norman
conquerors and more than three centuries later, still the language of
the court and of courtly literature. Middle English, as the common
tongue of the period is known, had absorbed much of the French
vocabulary, and its pronunciation. So the final -e characteristic of so
many words of french origin was pronounced, though not for much longer.
But for a poet concerned with scansion, as Chaucer was, that weak ending
the final -e offered was a blessing. Fay Zwicky reveals what it was
about The Canterbury Tales that made it so important to the evolution of
English and its poetry. [T]
2320 Fri: Short Story
2310 Asia Pacific* - regional news and business reports. [T;%]
2330 Mon.: The Buzz - Adding context and clarity in analysing
technology issues. This week: "Deadly Smoke". Smoke can be deadly.
People die in fires because they can't find their way out of buildings
in reduced visibility. Others are killed by smoke inhalation. We hear
how smart design and technology can reduce the smoke and the fatalities.
[%]
Tue.: Arts Talk - "Richard Wagner (part one)". In the first of a
two-part look at the highly controversial operas of German composer
Richard Wagner, as devotees prepare to make the pilgrimage to Adelaide
for his last opera, Parsifal. [T]
Wed.: Rural Reporter - Life in regional and rural Australia.
This week's stories:
Puppy farm. Farmers are constantly being told to broaden
their horizons and look to other countries to develop new markets.
Platypus film. German Thomas Behrend heads up a European
film company which hopes to turn the Tasmanian platypus into an
international star.
Fossil field. Reporter Kirsty Baird plays tourist for a
day to visit the World Heritage listed Riversley fossil grounds in
outback Queensland.
Argo barge. Time to go dockside to find out about a
unique Centenary of Federation project.
[%]
Thu.: Media Report (refer to 0030) [T]
Fri.: The Sports Factor (refer to 0030) [T;%]
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This bulletin will be updated by 0400 UTC Wednesday, 12 Sept. Good
listening!
--
John A. Figliozzi
Volunteer Publicist, Radio Australia
Editor, “The Worldwide Shortwave Listening Guide”
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