BBC World Service
12:30am
BBC World Service
BBC World Service is the world’s largest international broadcasting providing impartial news, reports, and analysis.
Monitor World
9:30am | REPEAT
Monitor World
The international edition of the Christian Science Monitor newspaper. Its aim is to embrace the human family, shedding light with the conviction that understanding the world's problems and possibilities moves us towards solutions.
Local Newspapers
10:00am | LIVE
Local Newspapers
A daily composite of news from the Mercury, Examiner and Advocate newspapers
Daily Book Reading 1
12:00pm
Daily Book Reading 1
A daily (Monday through Friday) serialised novel chosen from across a broad range of genre. Some are home read, others taken from other volunteers in the RPH Network.
Daily Book Reading 2
12:30pm
Daily Book Reading 2
A second daily (Monday through Friday) serialised novel chosen from across a broad range of genre. Some are home read, others taken from other volunteers in the RPH Network.
Guardian Australia News
1:00pm
Guardian Australia News
Daily news articles taken from the Guardian Australia, the Australian presence of the global online publication and British print newspaper, The Guardian. Available solely in an online format
Totally Tasmanian
1:30pm | REPEAT
Totally Tasmanian
Feature readings from Tasmanian publications
Asia Times
2:00pm | REPEAT
Asia Times
Asia Times, formerly known as Asia Times Online, is a Hong Kong-based English language news media publishing group, covering politics, economics, business and culture from an Asian perspective.
Afternoon Extra
2:30pm
Afternoon Extra
Readings chosen by volunteer readers for a little something extra
Arts in Focus
3:00pm
Arts in Focus
What’s happening in the Arts scene around Tasmania and beyond.
Seeing Eye Dog Show
3:30pm I NEW
Seeing Eye Dog Show
The Seeing Eye Dogs Show is hosted by Harriet Moffat that explores the work of Vision Australia Seeing Eye Dogs. It covers topics like dog health, caring for and fostering puppies, interviews with experts, and more.
Talking Tech
4:30pm I NEW
Talking Tech
Vision Australia's National Access Technology Manager Damo McMorrow talks talks with Stephen Jolley about the latest developments and gadgets in the tech world from a blindness and low vision perspective.
The Uncertainty Principle
5:30pm
The Uncertainty Principle
“The Uncertainty Principle” is a program which explores all areas of Science. Articles from ‘New Scientist’, ‘Scientific American’, ‘Australasian Science’, ‘Cosmos’ and the daily press (amongst others) are read. The articles range across any and every topic including astronomy, physics, palaeontology, social science, biology and many others. From time to time a scientist is interviewed, and previous topics include peregrine falcons, bio fuel, smoking and its effect on the body and cell death.