ABC1
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| 11:00am | Amazon Abyss Scientists and filmmakers are on a pioneering journey to the dangerous and beautiful world beneath the surface of the mighty Amazon River and its surrounding jungle. |
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| 8:00pm | Collectors A series on collectables, collecting, and the collectors who passionately seek, find and enjoy. From antiquities to 20th century icons, from quirky to classy and kitch to classic, Collectors celebrates the joy of collecting. |
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| 6:30pm | Best of Gardening Australia Practical and realistic horticultural and gardening advice, inspiring and entertaining, presented by Australia's leading horticultural experts and hosted by Peter Cundall. |
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| 6:30pm | Mountain With Griff Rhys Jones In this stunning 5-part travel series, presenter Griff Rhys Jones embarks on an incredible journey across the natural rooftops of Britain - its highest mountain peaks. |
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| 12.00pm | Best of Landline Australia's national rural program, with reports from around the country on rural and urban issues. Presented by Anne Kruger, the new presenter for Landline in 2008. |
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Best of Gardening Australia rpt Practical and realistic horticultural and gardening advice, inspiring and entertaining, presented by Australia's leading horticultural experts and hosted by Peter Cundall. |
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The Winners' Guide To The Nobel Prize Follows the journey of Barry Marshall and Robin Warren to Stockholm to collect the 2005 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology. |
| 7:30pm | The Mega Falls Of Iguacu Deep in the heart of South America, where Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay collide, lies one of the most spectacular geographical secrets of the natural world - Iguaçu, a place forged from the explosive clashing of the earth's tectonic plates. |
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Best of Landline Australia's national rural program, with reports from around the country on rural and urban issues. Presented by Anne Kruger, the new presenter for Landline in 2008. |
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Incredible Journeys With Steve Leonard In the African wilderness, Steve Leonard is on the trail of three wild dogs about to face the biggest challenge of their lives as they leave the safety of the pack to find a mate and start a new pack of their own. |
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Atlantic Edge - Outer Hebrides Adam Nicolson sails the west coast of the British Isles from the Isles of Scilly through the Hebrides and beyond Orkney. He seeks to understand how people have survived and been drawn to these very inhospitable places. |
| 4:35pm | Escape From Scorpion Island Sixteen adventurers aged between 11 and 13 are marooned on a remote and mysterious Island. Some are being held captive. Individually they have no hope of escape! The only way off is to work together to rescue as many prisoners as possible in order to outsmart the Island and escape from it. Filmed entirely in Australia, this is an adrenalin-fuelled adventure series for children. |
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Landline Extra Australia's national rural program, with reports from around the country on rural and urban issues. Presented by Anne Kruger, the new presenter for Landline in 2008. |
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The Einstein Factor Offbeat quiz show hosted by Peter Berner. |
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The New Inventors Hosted by the ebullient James O'Loghlin, The New Inventors highlights the brightest new inventions in Australia. New Inventors video (mp4) podcast |
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Reef Dreams - Blue Thunder Delve into the lives of Bob and Ina Ricketts. Searching for the quiet life, they moved to Mission Beach over 10 years ago, but their life has been anything but quiet. |
| 6:05pm | Time Team Digs are suggested by a member of the viewing public who knows of an unsolved archaeological mystery. The team then uncovers as much as they can about the archaeology and history of the site in three days. |
| 8:00pm | The Museum - The BM Goes East Billed as one of the greatest shows on earth, where else can you experience stories from every culture ever to inhabit the planet? All under one gigantic roof, its London's history hot spot - The British Museum. |
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| 8:30pm | Wallace And Gromit: A Close Shave A thrilling tale of rustling, romance and robots. Our clay heroes are making ends meet with their window cleaning service when they stumble upon villainous sheep-stealers bent on creating a national wool shortage. |
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Collectors A series on collectables, collecting, and the collectors who passionately seek, find and enjoy. From antiquities to 20th century icons, from quirky to classy and kitch to classic, Collectors celebrates the joy of collecting. |
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| 6:05pm | Planet Earth Combines rare action, unimaginable scale, impossible locations and intimate moments with our planet's best-loved, wildest and most elusive creatures. |
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Two Men In A Tinnie John Doyle and Dr Tim Flannery begin the journey in the tributaries that feed into the Murray and Darling rivers. They attempt to launch the Bismarck on the Maranoa River, only to find their launch spot is bone dry! |
| 8:30pm | Exposed Psychologist Dr John Marsden exposes and analyses a wide variety of human actions and reactions. Using the latest scientific research he examines how our behaviour and actions are often determined by our genetic make-up, hormones and upbringing, and not, as we may like to think, by our own free will. |
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| 8:00pm | Kylie Kwong: My China - Guangzhou Kylie Kwong returns to the land of her ancestors and confronts the vast contrasts of China to take us on a culinary journey. |
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| 6:30pm | Best of Gardening Australia Practical and realistic horticultural and gardening advice, inspiring and entertaining, presented by Australia's leading horticultural experts and hosted by Peter Cundall. |
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| 6:30pm | Mountain With Griff Rhys Jones In this stunning 5-part travel series, presenter Griff Rhys Jones embarks on an incredible journey across the natural rooftops of Britain - its highest mountain peaks. |
ABC2
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Battle Of The Brains Biology boot camp is in full swing as we head into the second week. Having completed the first exam, Dr Nick Hagan begins a series of one-on-one student reviews where they will find out their current rankings. |
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| 7:00pm | Zoo Days An entertaining wildlife series following the engaging characters, both animal and human, at two of Britain's largest zoos. Narrated by Jane Horrocks. |
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Red Dwarf On the mining ship Red Dwarf, professional slob Dave Lister works as a technician with his immediate superior and bunkmate, the officious Arnold Rimmer. |
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ABC Radio
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| 12.05pm | The Science Show with Robyn Williams What Is Autism? Of all the mental states being reassessed in 2008 autism and Asperger's must come near the top. Wendy Barnaby visits the Royal Society in London to hear from international experts - and she also meets a brilliant young pianist with Asperger's who explains how he performs so well but needs help for everyday living. Science Show audio podcast |
| 1.00pm | All In the Mind with Natasha Mitchell Extraordinary cases in psychology: Part 4 – Little Hans and the Oedipus Complex The Oedipus Complex – Dr Sigmund Freud’s unusual theory that children desire their parent of opposite sex, and want harm to come to the other – has provoked much controversy. Head back to 1904, and it was a little Viennese boy’s phobia of horses who became the unlikely evidence for Freud’s thinking. A curious tale of castration anxiety, penis envy and the plight of poor Little Hans. (NB: The podcast will be different from the broadcast edition this week for copyright reasons.) All In the Mind audio podcast |
| 1:35pm | The Philosopher's Zone with Alan Saunders Teaching children to be philosophers How young is too young to think philosophically? Philosophers like Philip Cam from the University of New South Wales say there's no developmental reason why primary school age children can’t be taught to think and to reason and that developing these skills has a significant effect on their lives both in and out of the classroom. So this week we spend time with a Grade 6 class at Stanmore Public School in Sydney as it grapples with what constitutes a meaningful life. The Philosopher's Zone audio podcast |
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The 2008 Boyer Lectures presented by Rupert Murdoch Lecture 4: Fortune favours the smart An important theme of the lectures is the pressing need for Australia to develop human capital. But to do this successfully our schools need serious reform, otherwise the global bar will seem set far beyond our reach. The Boyer Lectures audio podcast |
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| 4.30pm | BBC One Planet Environmental, development and agriculture stories, dealing with the impact of humankind on the natural world. One Planet audio podcast |
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| 8.45am | Ockham's Razor with Robyn Williams Anniversaries are what we make of them! Hon. Associate Professor and President of the Medical Alumni Association at the University of Sydney Paul Lancaster tells us about the achievements of some of the past medical graduates from Sydney University. We have much to celebrate in recalling with pride the notable achievements of these pioneering doctors who contributed so much, not only to medicine but to many other facets of public life. Ockham's Razor audio podcast |
| 5:00pm | The 2008 Boyer Lectures presented by Rupert Murdoch Lecture 5: The global middle class roars Rupert Murdoch's recent trips to China and India have convinced him of one thing: there is no alternative to economic growth as a remedy for poverty. Caste and communism have condemned hundreds of millions to wretched lives. The Boyer Lectures audio podcast |
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| 1:30pm | Earthbeat A Radio Netherlands Worldwide program that examines what we grow, build, consume and destroy and how it affects our impact on the planet. Earthbeat audio podcast |
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Health Report with Norman Swan White coat hypertension Many people get so stressed when having their blood pressure taken in a doctor's office that it actually goes up due to anxiety and not because they have high blood pressure regularly. A recent study has examined this and found that people who have this so-called 'white coat hypertension' have substantially less risk of death than people whose blood pressure it elevated in all situations. Health Report audio podcast |
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All In the Mind with Natasha Mitchell Extraordinary cases in psychology: Part 4 – Little Hans and the Oedipus Complex The Oedipus Complex – Dr Sigmund Freud’s unusual theory that children desire their parent of opposite sex, and want harm to come to the other – has provoked much controversy. Head back to 1904, and it was a little Viennese boy’s phobia of horses who became the unlikely evidence for Freud’s thinking. A curious tale of castration anxiety, penis envy and the plight of poor Little Hans. (NB: The podcast will be different from the broadcast edition this week for copyright reasons.) All In the Mind audio podcast |
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The Philosopher's Zone with Alan Saunders Teaching children to be philosophers How young is too young to think philosophically? Philosophers like Philip Cam from the University of New South Wales say there's no developmental reason why primary school age children can’t be taught to think and to reason and that developing these skills has a significant effect on their lives both in and out of the classroom. So this week we spend time with a Grade 6 class at Stanmore Public School in Sydney as it grapples with what constitutes a meaningful life. The Philosopher's Zone audio podcast |
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The Science Show with Robyn Williams What Is Autism? Of all the mental states being reassessed in 2008 autism and Asperger's must come near the top. Wendy Barnaby visits the Royal Society in London to hear from international experts - and she also meets a brilliant young pianist with Asperger's who explains how he performs so well but needs help for everyday living. Science Show audio podcast |
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| 9.00am | Science on Mornings with Zan Rowe Science Talkback, featuring Dr Karl LIVE! An hour devoted to the collective exploration of some of the great mysteries of life, such as 'why does the water in the shower slow down just when it gets hot?' Science on Mornings audio podcast |
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| 7:35pm | In Conversation with Robyn Williams Recycled water - On or off in Queensland? What, finally, does science offer in this continuing saga? As Queensland alternates like a berserk pendulum between accepting or rejecting recycling, Dr Stuart Khan from the Centre for Water and Waste Technology Research at the University of NSW tells Nicky Phillips what works and what doesn't. In Conversation audio podcast |
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