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ABC Radio National

BUSH TELEGRAPH with Michael Mackenzie - Cloned Meat
11am 
Would you eat cloned meat? The US Food and Drug Administration has approved
products from cloned animals as safe to eat. We look at cloned meat in
Australia and whether this decision will have any impact locally. Share your
thoughts in our talkback: 1800 880 244

BY DESIGN with Alan Saunders - Town Squares
9am, repeat Wednesday 3pm
Beijing has Tiananmen Square, London has Trafalgar Square and New York has
Times Square - which isn't really a square at all. But is there still room
and need for city squares in contemporary Australian urban planning?

THE SCIENCE SHOW with Robyn Williams - Balancing Nature : Part 2 Vietnam
Midday, repeat Monday 7pm
Lynne Malcolm visits the remote mountainous jungles of the Annamites in the
heart of Vietnam. We hear how threatened species are at risk from illegal
logging, hunting and development as the country pushes to become a civilised
society by 2020.

THE PHILOSOPHER¹S ZONE with Alan Saunders - The Emergence of Science
1.30pm, repeat Monday 1.35pm
How did science acquire such dominance over our way of thinking? In the
first part of a two-part special, we examine the rise of science in the
western mind.

RADIO EYE with Brent Clough - A Short History of the Car Bomb
2pm, repeat Wednesday 1pm
With the help of author Mike Davis, we investigate a century of car bombing.
The program traces the story of how various individuals and groups have used
this 'informal' weapon of war over the past century

INTO THE MUSIC with Robyn Johnston - If It Be Your Will: a Documentary
Featuring Leonard Cohen
5pm, repeat Friday 3pm
Canadian musician Leonard Cohen insists he hardly remembers anything from
his past, and that he lives mostly in the present. But over the course of
this intimate documentary, he looks back over his remarkable life and shares
some thoughts about earlier days.

Sunday 3 February...

ENCOUNTER - Diversity and Harmony : Stories from Shepparton
7am, repeat Wednesday 7pm
Shepparton and its Goulburn Valley region in Victoria have a rich history of
immigration. Their experience of diversity and social harmony was the basis
for a unique conference in 2007; we hear some of the stories that emerged
from this gathering.

OCKHAM¹S RAZOR with Robyn Williams - Is the Book Dead?
8.45am 
Many people have predicted the death of the book as we know it as text will
be stored in digital form for us to carry around and download at whim.
Sydney textbook and general science writer Peter Macinnis strongly
disagrees.

REAR VISION - Polar Politics: Territorial Claims in Antarctica
1pm, repeat Tuesday 8.35pm
Australia is one of many countries with a stake in the frozen continent of
Antarctica. This month, being the seventy-fifth anniversary of the
declaration of the Australian Antarctic Territory, we look at the history of
territorial claims in Antarctica.

BIG IDEAS - Global Finance: Big, Bloated and Dangerous?
5pm, repeat Saturday 7pm
Is it possible that global finance rivals climate change as the biggest
challenge facing humanity? Dr Paul Woolley, a veteran of merchant banking
and global finance, is very worried; so much so he has set up three global
centres studying capital market dysfunction, including one in Australia