RA Previews #457. 23-27 Sep '02
John A. Figliozzi
Edition 457
Sept. 23-27, 2002
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
(RA or ABC News every hour on the hour)
0010 -
Tue.: THE SCIENCE SHOW - "At the British Association Meeting". At
the British Association Meeting in Leicester, Robyn Williams talked to
Sir Alec Jeffreys about the invention of genetic fingerprinting and to
Sir David Attenborough who revealed the link between Leicester and his
introduction to a life in science. [%]
Wed.: THE NATIONAL INTEREST - Informed analysis on the news of the
week with Terry Lane. This week, Lane is joined by Paul Fraser from the
CSIRO, the scientist whose team announced this week that the hole in the
ozone layer has begun to get smaller. Terry also talks to solar energy
researcher Rob Largent about Australia's solar power research effort.
And Vicki Sara from the Australian Research Council discusses a new
report which suggests Australia is relatively successful in capitalising
on its research discoveries. [T;%]
Thu.: BACKGROUND BRIEFING - Radio National's agenda-setting,
current affairs radio documentary program. This week: "Defend Australia
Fair". Australia's place in world affairs is uncomfortable. The
immediate region is unstable. Top defence advisers
and strategists met in Canberra to discuss policy and the way forward.
Wendy Carlisle reports. [T;%]
Fri. - HINDSIGHT - (refer to 1605 Thu.)
0110 -
ASIA PACIFIC* - regional news and business reports. [T;%]
0130 -
Mon.: HEALTH REPORT - "Bowel Related Problems". Dr Michael Levitt,
WA Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, talks about a large variety of
complaints associated with the bowel. [%]
Tue.: LAW REPORT - "Australia's Racial Vilification Laws". Last
week, the Federal Court ordered The Adelaide Institute remove material
from its web-site - which denies the Nazi holocaust took place. The
court found the material likely to "offend, insult, humiliate or
intimidate" the Jewish community. A victory for Freedom from Racial
Slander? Or a Defeat for Free Speech? [T;%]
Wed.: RELIGION REPORT - Human rights for India's Dalits; Archbishop
of Canterbury on Sydney Anglicans; a witch visits Australia; Cardinal
Nguyen van Thuan remembered. [T;%]
Thu.: 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 - a comprehensive midday current affairs program
presented by Monica Attard and John Highfield. [%;T]
0310 -
SPORT*
0320 -
PACIFIC FOCUS* - Daily topics are Business (Mon.); Health (Tue.);
Environment (Wed.); Sport (Thu.); Culture (Fri.).
0340 -
Mon. - AUSTRALIAN MUSIC SHOW - current hits (from ABC Triple J)
Tue. - MUSIC DELI - international music.
Wed. - BLACKTRACKER* - contemporary Aboriginal music.
Thu. - OZ COUNTRY STYLE - from ABC Local Radio.
Fri. - JAZZ NOTES*
0410 -
MARGARET THROSBY - in conversation with a special guest, playing
their favourite music and telling their own stories. (from ABC Classic
FM) [%] <http://www.abc.net.au/classic/throsby/#promo> for details.
Mon.: Paul Kildea, Benjamin Britten specialist and Head of
Music for Aldeburgh Productions. He's in Australia to conduct 'The Turn
of the Screw' for Opera Australia.
0510 -
PACIFIC BEAT* - daily afternoon magazine for the Pacific with Sport
at 0530. [T;%]
0610 -
SPORT*
0620 -
PACIFIC FOCUS* - (refer to 0320)
0640 -
"Music" programs (refer to 0340)
0710 -
PACIFIC BEAT* - daily afternoon magazine for the Pacific with Sport
at 0730. [T;%]
0755 -
PERSPECTIVE - expert commentary by opinion-makers from Australia
and
overseas.
0810 -
PM - comprehensive afternoon current affairs program presented by
Mark Colvin. [T;%]
0910 -
AUSTRALIA TALKS BACK - a daily national talkback program.
<http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/austback/> for daily topics. [%]
Mon.: Sexual Abuse Charges & The Accused. Charges against swimming
coach, Scott Volkers, have been dropped after evidence submitted to the
public prosecutors by his legal team. Now his lawyers say only those
convicted of sexual abuse should have their names published. So should
the law be changed?
Fri.: AUSTRALIA TALKS BOOKS. This month: "Thinks..." by David Lodge.
Ralph Messenger is an academic star. Helen Reed is a novelist and
teacher. They begin a secret affair with complicated consequences.
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 -
BUSH TELEGRAPH (a digest version for RA of this program broadcast
in
full at 1705)
1205 -
Mon.-Thu.: LATE NIGHT LIVE - Phillip Adams hosts a discussion of
current events in politics, science, philosophy and culture. This week's
topics: [%]
Mon.: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Not Theodore Dalrymple!
Tue.: Pieter Dirk Uys: South Africa's "Dame Edna".
Wed.: Fred Chaney on equality and inequality in Australia.
Thu.: A discussion on immigration, refugees, asylum seekers & people
smugglers.
Fri.: SOUND QUALITY - For 25 years, Tim Ritchie has been seeking
out
music: the interesting, the evolutionary, the inaccessible and the
wonderful. <http://www.abc.net.au/rn/music/soundqlt/default.htm> for
details. [T;%]
1310 -
SPORT
1315 -
DUST & DOLLARS - business and markets report.
1320 -
THE PLANET - diverse music from around the world. [T;%] This week:
Mon.: Our featured album is called "ALIGHT". It's the debut by a
singular trio called SAFA, which (in Farsi) means "inner purity,
sincerity, sincere affection". Their embrace is wide, but Persian music
is uppermost. Based in Vancouver, the group is centred on an Iranian
emigré who is a lovely singer & a very fine lutenist. His colleagues are
a superbly skilled, very imaginative Canadian clarinettist & a multiple
percussionist from Puerto Rico.
Tue.: As an admiring reviewer (Cliff Furnald) remarked, the world of
legendary Brazilian songster GILBERTO GIL "is a place where folk music,
classical music & popular music are almost irrelevant phrases, where the
archaic & the contemporary are timelessly intertwined, where the
computer chip & the skin of the drum are the lion & the lamb. He has an
angelic voice & a demonic inspiration." Our featured album finds him in
Norway with a cosmopolitan cast, including compatriots, Scandinavians &
a percussionist from India.
Wed.: Free jazz sax giant SAM RIVERS probably isn't the first name that
springs to mind when you think of Jewish music, but he was an inspired
choice to play on trumpeter STEVEN BERNSTEIN'S 'DIASPORA BLUES'. The
album includes four dynamic and reverential jazz interpretations of the
singing of Holocaust survivor, Cantor Moshe Koussevitsky. We're
co-featuring 'Diaspora Blues' with 'SECRET LIVES' - music for string
trio written by JOHN ZORN for a film about Jewish children and the
non-Jewish rescuers who sheltered them from the Nazis. It's a very light
and swinging string trio, thanks to Zorn's writing and the great playing
of fiddler MARK FELDMAN, bassist GREG COHEN and cellist ERIK
FRIEDLANDER.
Thu.: Our featured artist, JOEY DE FRANCESCO, is quite probably jazz's
most highly-skilled hammond organist. The even better news is that he's
such an engaging, genial musical conversationalist. His new CD is really
fun, very interactive, & the leader is not the only delightfully
enterprising soloist. 'BALLADS AND BLUES" showcases all three members of
his longstanding trio with drummer BYRON LANDHAM & guitarist PAUL
BOLLENBACK. Special guests include saxophonist GARY BARTZ & guitarist
PAT MARTINO.
Fri.: tba
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 - the cultural significance of architecture
and design, landscape and gardens, and food. This week: "Enclosure". We
discuss the design of detention centres and go to a monastery where
ancient methods are used to produce food. [%]
Wed.: VERBATIM - oral histories. This week: A pioneer of Australian
documentary television production, Robert Raymond cut his journalistic
teeth in the British press, and during the Second World War, as 'Our
London Correspondent' for the Australian newspaper The Daily Mirror
(working alongside journalist Eric Baume, who set up their bureau in the
Savoy Hotel!). In this first of two programs, Robert Raymond talks about
his years in Fleet Street, and his eventual return - via West Africa -
to his native Australia in 1957, to take up a job on the fledging ABC
television station. [T;%]
Thu.: HINDSIGHT - social history. This week: ''Rebels on the Line".
The 1973 strike, by the largely migrant workforce, at the Ford car plant
in the outer Melbourne suburb of Broadmeadows is remembered for both
its' high emotion and farce, but also its' enduring legacy. The dispute,
which began over working conditions and pay, escalated into a
battle over the more complicated issues of cultural diversity and trade
union
representation, and the struggle to alter the entrenched nature of
labour relations, in the light of a rapidly changing Australian social
fabric. The dispute highlighted the communication problems that existed
between management, unions and migrant workers at the time. The strike
was also marked by the inter-ethnic solidarity of the migrant workforce,
whose actions helped the cause of those involved in the struggle for a
progressive multicultural Australia. [T;%]
Fri.: AWAYE! - Aboriginal arts, culture, society and politics.
<http://www.abc.net.au/rn/awaye/> for details.
1630 -
Wed.: STREET STORIES - tales from over the back fence, the
footpaths, paddocks, lounge rooms and shopping malls of a diverse
continent. This week: "Stand Up Comics". We hear from Tahir, Akmal
Saleh, Hung Le and Ningali Lawford about the life of a stand-up comic.
For these Australians of varying ethnicity, it's a question of calling
on what they know: their own cultural background. [%]
1705 -
BUSH TELEGRAPH - an entertaining look at rural and regional issues
around Australia including Country Viewpoint, which offers a unique
social commentary from people who live outside the major cities, Rural
News and the Farm Diary. [%]
1805 -
Fri: PACIFIC REVIEW* - The best of the past week's PACIFIC BEAT
programs. [T;%]
1810 -
Mon.-Thu.: PACIFIC BEAT* - daily morning magazine for the Pacific.
[T;%]
1830 -
Fri.: SHARING POWER - A joint project between Radio Australia, ABC
New Media and the Australian National University's Research School of
Pacific & Asian Studies that explores whether some of the experiments in
power-sharing in the Asia-Pacific region are strengthening the fabric of
nationhood or threatening to tear it apart. "Program 3: Thinking Beyond
The Capital". At the heart of debates over governance in Indonesia lies
tension between democratic reformers who support devolution and
nationalists who fear less centralised control will lead to the state's
disintegration. [T;%]
1905 -
Fri.: PACIFIC FOCUS: Technology*
1910 -
Mon.-Thu.: PACIFIC BEAT* - continued from1810 with Sport at 1929.
1930 -
Fri.: IN CONVERSATION - Robyn Williams talks not only to
scientists, but also to those interested in the subject, about what it's
meant to their lives. This week: Dr Peter Briggs talks about the
difficulties with Science Festivals. And he should know what he's
talking about; he's spent 20 years in the British Association for the
Advancement of Science, leading it for the last decade. [%]
2005 -
Fri.: PACIFIC REVIEW* - (refer to 1805)
2010 -
Mon.-Thu.: PACIFIC BEAT* - continued from 1910 with sport at 2029.
2030 -
Fri.: COUNTRY BREAKFAST - an entertaining look at rural and
regional
issues around Australia including a unique social commentary in the
'Country Viewpoint'. [%]
2105 -
Fri.: FEEDBACK* - listener letters and news about RA.
2106 -
Mon.-Thu.: AM - ABC's morning news magazine. [T;%]
2130 -
Mon.: HEALTH REPORT - (refer to 0130)
Tue.: INNOVATIONS* - showcasing Australian invention, enterprise
and ingenuity. This week, can scientists predict rogue waves, those
monsters of the sea? Road maintenance made easy with a revolutionary
high speed road grader, and how a visit to the dentist can be pain-free.
[T;%]
Wed.: RELIGION REPORT - (refer to 0130) [T]
Thu.: RURAL REPORTER - the people and places that make up country
Australia. [%]
Fri.: OZ SOUNDS - Australian new music releases.
2205 -
Fri.: ASIA PACIFIC WEEKEND EDITION* - regional current affairs and
business magazine. [T;%]
2210 -
Mon.-Thu.: AM - (repeat of 2106) [T;%]
2230 -
Fri.: AM SATURDAY - 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 - about language. This week: "In Defence of
Punctuation". Robert Nichols, Editor, in the Military history section at
the Australian War Memorial, on the vital marks in the writer's arsenal.
Writing about punctuation in The Australian's Higher Education Supplemen
recently, the American academic Paul Robinson advanced his personal
philosophy of punctuation: to avoid all punctuation marks except commas
and full stops, and to do away with the footnote. Robert Nichols mounts
a spirited defence of the battery of punctuation marks and of the
footnote. [T;%]
2310 -
Mon.-Thu.: ASIA PACIFIC* - regional news and business reports.
[T;%]
2320 -
Fri: SHORT STORY - The best of classic and contemporary short
fiction from Australian and world writers - read by some of Australia's
leading actors.
2330 -
Mon.: THE BUZZ - technology understandably explained. This week:
"Silicon Valley" (part three of four). Today, in the place where the
future arrives slightly earlier than almost anywhere else in the world,
there is trouble in paradise. The new internet economy brought $7
billion to Silicon Valley in the year 2000 and then it all went horribly
wrong. What happens when Dot Com turns into Dot Bomb? [%]
Tue.: RADIO AUSTRALIA ARTS - Interviews with artists, composers and
craftspeople combined with a movie review. This week's Arts Maker is the
acclaimed costume designer Kristian Fredrikson, showing Julie the frocks
he's created for Graeme Murphy's new Swan Lake, with the Australian
Ballet. [%]
Wed.: RURAL REPORTER - (refer to 2130 Thu.)
Thu.: MEDIA REPORT (refer to 0130) [T;%]
Fri.: THE SPORTS FACTOR (refer to 0130) [T;%]
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To be updated by Wed. 0500. Good listening!
--
John A. Figliozzi
Volunteer Publicist, Radio Australia