Radio National

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ABC Radio National is an Australia-wide radio network broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation with many various programs, involving news and current affairs, arts, music, society, science, drama and comedy. Some programs are mirrored on Radio Australia, Australia's shortwave service.

The radio programs from many of the stations are available for real-time streaming over the Internet, or for downloading as MP3 podcast files. Some programs also have transcripts available on the [Radio National website].

Radio National as it is known today has had a long history. RN's Sydney station 2FC first broadcast in 1927, the ABC taking over the frequency in 1937. The Melbourne station 3AR began soon after.

From an unknown point in time until mid 1980's, "Radio 2" was broadcast to the major metropolitan centres with additional reception in adjacent areas. It contained most of the ABC's national programming. It began to take on a more serious tone in the 1970's.

In 1985 ABC renamed Radio 2 to Radio National. Since 1990, all RN stations have had the same callsign format - *RN, where * is the appropriate number for the state or territory.

Contents

1 Typical programs

1.1 News

1.1.1 News and analysis
1.1.2 Talkback

1.2 Arts and music
1.3 Society
1.4 Science

2 See also
3 External links

Typical programs

The times shown relate to Radio National's schedules in the eastern states of Australia

News

AM, The World Today, PM: in-depth news and analysis (Mondays - Fridays at, respectively, 7.10, 12.00, and 17.00)
Asia Pacific: current regional affairs in the Asia Pacific region, mirrored on Radio Australia (Tuesdays - Saturdays at 1.00 and 5.00)

News and analysis

Late Night Live, hosted by Phillip Adams and broadcast on Mondays to Thursdays at 22.00
Breakfast: news, current affairs and popular culture discussions, interviews and reports hosted by Fran Kelly (Mondays - Fridays, 6.00 to 8.30)
Bush Telegraph is an hour of country news and interviews from 11-12am.
Background Briefing is an agenda-setting current affairs radio documentary program (Tuesdays 19.10, Wednesdays 4.00, Sundays 9.10)
The National Interest has regional analysis (Mondays 2.00, Sundays 12.00)
The Reports (broadcast on Mondays to Fridays at 8.30 and 20.00, and the following morning at 1.30): The Health Report (Monday), The Law Report (Tuesday), The Religion Report (Wednesday), The Media Report (Thursday), and The Sports Factor (Friday, 8.30 and 19.00)
Counterpoint has views from the right of the political spectrum (Mondays 16.00, Tuesdays 21.00, Wednesdays 2.00)
Life Matters, hosted by Richard Aedy and including the Talkback Classroom segment, talks with the main people behind Australia's social policies – from workplace reform to education, health, family relationships, and social change (Mondays to Fridays at 9.00 and Tuesdays to Fridays at 0.00)

Talkback

Australia Talks Back: Mondays to Fridays 18.00 – 19.00, Tuesdays to Fridays at 3.00)

Arts and music

The Deep End: What's happening now in new music, art and culture in Australia and around the world (Mondays to Fridays 15.00 – 16.00)
Airplay: radio plays (Fridays 21.00, Sundays 15.00)
Poetica: poetry featured and produced for radio (Thursdays 21.00, Saturdays 15.00)
Music Deli: live music performances (Tuesdays 2.00, Fridays 20.00, Sundays 16.00)
The Music Show: latest developments in music, featured music and interviews with performers/composers (Saturdays 10.00 and 20.00)
Sound Quality: latest new music in the genre of electronica and others (Fridays 23.20 to Saturdays 1.00)
The Daily Planet / The Weekend Planet: music from all around the world (Mondays to Fridays 14.20 and 16.00, Mondays to Thursdays 2320, Saturdays and Sundays 22.00)
Radio Eye: Radio National's flagship documentary programme (Wednesdays 13.00, Saturdays 14.00)
The Night Air: a new kind of radio program – a kaleidoscopic composition of music, sounds, audio cut-ups, ideas and stories (Fridays 21.35, Sundays 0.00 and 20.30)

Society

The Spirit Of Things: an adventure into religion and spirituality, exploring contemporary values and beliefs (Mondays 21.00, Fridays 4.00, Sundays 18.00)
All In The Mind investigates the mental universe, the mind, brain and behaviour (Wednesdays 21.00, Saturdays 13.00)

Science

The Science Show: recent developments in the field of science, presented by Robyn Williams (Mondays 19.10, Tuesdays 4.00, Saturdays 12.10)
All in the Mind: lateral explorations of the mind, brain and human behaviour presented by Natasha Mitchell (Wednesdays 21.00, Saturdays 13.00)
In Conversation: Personal interviews with scientific thinkers presented by Robyn Williams (Thursdays 19.40)
Ockham's Razor: a weekly opinion piece presented by Robyn Williams (Sundays 8.45)