Broadcast schedule
In 2017 RN changes include Conversations with Richard Fidler can be heard mid-afternoon on weekdays, and Earshot's stunning documentaries move to Monday and Tuesday mornings. Sundays sees a new weekly panel program — God Forbid — with James Carleton and guests asking: "Does God matter?" Of course, there's also new podcasts — Cosmic Vertigo and Science Friction — to check out.
You can download the 2017 schedule as a PDF.
On air today [all timezones]
| Program time | Program name | Program description |
|---|---|---|
| 12:00AM | Earshot | Earshot is all about people, places, stories and ideas, in all their diversity. |
| 12:30AM | The Final Cut | Film and screen culture from arthouse to multiplex. |
| 1:00AM | Spark | An ongoing conversation about technology and culture from the CBC. |
| 2:00AM | Download This Show | The latest in social media, consumer electronics, digital politics, hacktivism and more. |
| 2:30AM | Best Of The Drawing Room | Music, musings and unexpected conversations from RN Drive. |
| 3:00AM | The Naked Scientists | Stripping science down to its bare essentials. |
| 4:00AM | Blueprint for Living | Blueprint for Living explores the things that help make for a good life: food, architecture, design, fashion, travel and issues that affect our personal well-being. |
| 5:00AM | Blueprint for Living | Blueprint for Living explores the things that help make for a good life: food, architecture, design, fashion, travel and issues that affect our personal well-being. |
| 5:30AM | Off Track | From suburban backyards to the remote wilderness: RN heads outside. |
| 6:00AM | God Forbid | Religion: it's at the centre of world affairs, but profound questions still remain. Why are you here? What happens when you die? Does God matter? God Forbid seeks the answers. |
| 7:00AM | Sunday Extra: Correspondents Report | From the ABC's correspondents around the world. |
| 7:30AM | Sunday Extra | RN's live Sunday morning broadcast, looking to the week ahead and also incorporating Correspondent's Report, Ockham's Razor and Background Briefing. |
| 7:45AM | Ockham's Razor | A soap box for all things scientific. |
| 8:00AM | Sunday Extra: Background Briefing | Agenda-setting current affairs radio documentary. |
| 8:40AM | Sunday Extra | RNâs live Sunday morning broadcast, looking to the week ahead and also incorporating Correspondentâs Report,Ockhamâs Razor and Background Briefing. |
| 10:00AM | The Minefield | In a world marked by wicked social problems, The Minefield helps you negotiate the ethical dilemmas, contradictory claims and unacknowledged complicities of modern life. |
| 10:30AM | Future Tense | Exploring new ideas, new approaches and new technologies at the edge of change. |
| 11:00AM | The Music Show | A mix of music, interviews and the latest developments in music. |
| 12:00PM | Rear Vision | Rear Vision puts contemporary events in their historical context, answering the question, 'How did it come to this?' |
| 12:30PM | Best Practice | Best Practice is a weekly 30 minute program that looks at how people at work are getting stuff done. |
| 1:00PM | Earshot | Earshot is all about people, places, stories and ideas, in all their diversity. |
| 1:30PM | What Keeps Me Awake | A range of Australians in the public square test their anxieties with guests of their choice. What keeps them awake at night? Do their guests agree, and should we too be restless? |
| 2:00PM | BooksPlus | Selecting for you Radio National's best book interviews. |
| 3:00PM | The Naked Scientists | The Naked Scientists sees science stripped down to its bare essentials, featuring interviews with renowned researchers worldwide and answers to questions from the public. |
| 4:00PM | Talkfest | Talkfest dives into RN and The Wheeler Centre's archive of live recordings, curating the most compelling moments from some of the best public conversations. |
| 5:00PM | All in the Mind | RN's weekly exploration of all things mental, presented by Lynne Malcolm |
| 5:30PM | The Philosopher's Zone | Your guide through the strange thickets of logic, metaphysics and ethics. |
| 6:00PM | The Spirit of Things | Focusing on how we discover, celebrate and comprehend spiritual meaning in our lives. |
| 7:00PM | This American Life | This American Life tells the stories of ordinary Americans, most of them true and most of them by or about everyday people. |
| 8:00PM | Download This Show | The latest in social media, consumer electronics, digital politics, hacktivism and more. |
| 8:30PM | Best Of The Drawing Room | Retire to the eclectic environs of The Drawing Room on RN Drive, for music, musings and unexpected conversations. |
| 9:00PM | The Music Show | A mix of music, interviews and the latest developments in music. |
| 10:00PM | God Forbid | Religion: it's at the centre of world affairs, but profound questions still remain. Why are you here? What happens when you die? Does God matter? God Forbid seeks the answers. |
| 11:00PM | BooksPlus | Selecting for you Radio National's best book interviews. |
