R. Australia Programs #308. 3-7 Sept 2001
John A. Figliozzi
Edition 308
Sept. 3-7, 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! - "The Last Voice of an Ancient Tongue" part 2.
Visit the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park - a popular international
tourist attraction which is now the subject of a land claim by the local
Khoisan community. Under apartheid, the Khoisan, or bushmen as they’re
also known, were stripped of their identity, labelled “coloured” and
forced off the small pieces of land they claimed as their own -
including the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park. Now, under a new
government, the Khoisan community is revisiting the past to reclaim
their identity, and mapping their future. [%]
Tue.: The Science Show - "Strange Fish, Killer Duck and
Other Exotic Animals". The fish looks beautiful: like a silver-neon
rainbow. But the spike above its eyes is most unusual, especially when
you find it's used by the male to carry eggs around. Professor Tim Berra
tries to explain how they get there. We also hear about The Killer Duck
from hell (also found at The Top End) and Tim Flannery explains why he
sees North America as a kind of Hotel California for exotic animals. [%]
Wed.: The National Interest - Informed analysis on the news
of the week with Terry Lane. Australia's Chief Censor, Des Clark, talks
about a new discussion paper on the contentious subject of film and
computer game classifications. Also joining Terry is author John
Nethercote to discuss the new book, "Liberalism and Australian
Federation", which has created an unexpected controversy of its own. [%]
Thu.: Background Briefing - "Taxing Times". Some people pay
a lot, others pay comparatively little. "We're talking here about the
tax base, We're talking here about over the years a quite significant
shifting of the tax burden from high-wealth and corporates to PAYE
taxpayers. This is serious, it's systematic, and it's on the increase."
Especially when the tax officials are overworked, underpaid, and doing
their own photocopying. [T;%]
Fri. - Hindsight (refer to 1605 Thu.)
0110 Asia Pacific* - regional news and business reports. [T;%]
0130 Mon.: Health Report - "Oxygen Deprivation". Dr. John West, from
the University of California, talks about his expedition to Mount
Everest, where he attempted to understand the effects of oxygen
deprivation at high altitudes. [%]
Tue.: The Law Report - "Law of the Sea; Slander in
Cyberspace". As the refugee crisis off Christmas Island continues to
unfold, we float through Australia's legal rights and responsibilities
under the Law of the Sea and try to answer the question - are
Australia's actions consistant with its international law obligations?
Also, slander in cyberspace - a landmark defamation ruling has found
that a Victorian court can hear a case against an American publisher
because the article was available in Victoria via the internet. Will
this decision have "a chilling effect on freedom of speech" or is the
law just moving with the times? [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.: Professor Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics at
University College, London. His latest book is called "Almost like a
Whale" (Doubleday).
Tue.: Mitch Albom, Sports journalist and Author of
"Tuesdays with Morrie".
[%]
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.: Landcare Levy. Where's the 65 billion dollars
coming from? That's the estimated cost of repairing our degraded land.
As we begin Landcare Week, we're all being asked to do our bit but does
the size of the problem demand a more permanent solution? Beyond
Landcare and the Natural Heritage Trust, should there be an
environmental levy?
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. This week:
Mon.: Trouble in the Desert: Western Sahara's struggle
for independence
Tue.: Arguing About Racism: The UN Conference Against
Racism is under way in Durban, but will the participants stop bickering
and do something?
Wed.: Fallout: the truth about the British atomic bomb
tests in South Asutralia, 1956
Thu.: Film and Destiny: Phillip talks to acclaimed
Polish film director, Krzysztof Zanussi.
[%]
Fri.: Sound Quality - innovative music.
1310 Sport
1315 The Planet - diverse music from around the world. This week:
Mon.: It's "First Monday" when we look fondly back at
the best new releases of the month that just was. It's not just a
nostalgia trip: we always save some of the finest cuts for a debut
airing on this day or night and if we do revisit a track, it will
invariably have only been heard before on "The Planet".
Tue.: Sublime..saxophonist.. Scotland..Spartacus. Tommy
Smith is the link, a onetime child prodigy from Edinburgh who has
matured into one of the greatest living players of the tenor saxophone.
His ballad mastery is especially spine-tingling, as you'll hear on his
new CD, named for the Smith original that's one of its more fiery cuts.
Wed.: "Painting Signs" is the new CD by Paul Robeson's
Godson Eric Bibb, who's a strikingly warm and natural, guitar-toting
blues/soul/gospel singer and songwriter. He prefers to live in Sweden,
but Eric's grip of the African-American musical verities is strong and
sure. Anyone who likes Taj Mahal is almost certain to love Eric Bibb. We
explore some of Eric's rich personal and musical connections and his
back-catalog.
Thu.: Today, enjoy an amazing concert in India's largest
city. John McLaughlin is one of the most virtuosic guitarists, ever. His
colleagues are some of the greatest musicians of both of the
subcontinent's "classical" traditions. Today: two short, exuberantly
dancing pieces which are especially amazing in the percussive department
and the concert's exquisite centrepiece, composed by and featuring the
"Maharajah of the santur", Shiv Kumar Sharma (as the booklet bills the
man who singlehandedly turned a "lowly" hammered dulcimer into a
"legitimate" Hindustani classical instrument).
Fri.: tba
[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 - "On the Move". As more Australians opt
for a sea change, we investigate the planning implications of rapid
growth for seaside communities. Plus why storage space is so important
in our lives and the true confessions of a removalist man.
Wed.: Verbatim - oral histories. "Paddy Roe". Nyigina elder
Paddy Roe, who died in July this year, was a respected elder, teacher
and story-teller in the West Kimberley. Some years ago, he spoke to Bill
Bunbury about his life and country. This interview is being rebroadcast
as a tribute to Paddy Roe with the kind permission of his family.
Thu.: Hindsight - "Its and Bits of Blood" (part one of two). The
first 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! <http://www.abc.net.au/rn/awaye/promo.htm> for
details. [%]
1630 Wed.: Earshot - "Sideshow People". This week's Earshot comes
from the ABC's remarkable radio archives - a 25-year-old documentary on
the freakish, disappearing world of the travelling sideshow. [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 - Fred Watson is a guitarist and star
gazer. He claims his career has been a succession of lucky accidents but
to meet this jokey, enthusiastic, friendly man you would see it more as
a progression of great ideas. The man who is so good at designing
instruments is now in charge of one of the world's greatest telescopes,
the Anglo Australian on Siding Spring Mountain near Coonabarabran, NSW.
He tells how he came to be in that situation from a rather unlikely
boyhood in Northern England.
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, a revolutionary reproductive breakthrough that
fertilises eggs from any cell in the body; a mystery on Mars, was it
really flowing water that carved out those enormous canyons? And
Australia’s first Masters course in commercialising science and
technology. [%]
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 - "Watch My Lips...You, Me and Gerry Gee".
The word 'ventriloquism' comes from the Latin meaning 'to speak from the
belly'. Yet the illusion is that the ventriloquist is throwing his or
her voice - in traditional vaudeville acts, to a wooden doll seated on
the ventriloquist's knee. Ron Blaskett has spent a lifetime in
showbusiness as a ventriloquist. He'll be best remembered by those who
grew up watching him and his cheeky wooden partner, Gerry Gee, on the
Tarax Show on GTV9 in the late 50s and early 60s. Ron Blaskett has told
the story of how he acquired his remarkable skills as a ventriloquist in
his autobiography 'You, Me and Gerry Gee', which he explains on this
week's program. [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: "Speed Control for Drivers". It's easy to
go a bit too fast when you're driving. But now there's technology that
can let you know if you're a bit heavy on the accelerator - it’s called
intelligent speed adaptation. It works by knowing where you are and what
the speed limit is. And it can do more than warn you you’re going too
fast. It can slow you down. [%]
Tue.: Arts Talk - "Nazi Art Loot". As galleries round the world
are being asked to scan their collections for stolen art, Julie Copeland
talks to British law professor Norman Palmer, who specialises in
restitution claims by Jewish families whose artworks were looted by the
Nazis. And Viennese journalist Thomas Krenkler outlines the long
ownership dispute between the Austrian government and the daughter of
the original owners of paintings by Austria's most famous artist, Gustav
Klimt. [T]
Wed.: Rural Reporter - Life in regional and rural Australia.
This week's stories:
Bamaga show. Bamaga is one of five indigenous
communities on the tip of the Cape York Peninsula.
Tassie herb farm. Claire Hammond visits
Tasmania's largest herb farm. Owner Adrienne Galloway takes us on a tour
of the operation, which produces 20 different herb varieties.
"Dimboola" the play. The Football Club was
packed with guests for the wedding of the year.
Flying muster. Reporter Fleur Bainger climbs
into the cockpit with local grazier and pilot James Robertson to muster
sheep some 200 metres above the ground.
Cubby house radio. Steve MacDonald twiddles his radio
dial and discovers Cubby House Radio, new to the mid-north coast of NSW.
[%]
Thu.: Media Report (refer to 0030) [T]
Fri.: The Sports Factor (refer to 0030) [T;%]
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program's web page.
This bulletin will be updated by 0400 UTC Wednesday, 5 Sept. Good
listening!
--
John A. Figliozzi
Volunteer Publicist, Radio Australia
Editor, “The Worldwide Shortwave Listening Guide”
Order in US/Canada by calling 1- 800-669-9594.