Canberra, Devonshire, Scandinavia and Townsville

Many thanks to the 14,821 Travelradio Australia listeners during the month of July. The number of downloads and audio streamings of the weekly podcast continues to grow. Here's the line-up and player for the latest edition:

• Geoff Harrison travels to Australia's capital Canberra and interviews the ACT's tourism director Ian Hill.
• Frances Beasley rides a cliffside railway in Devonshire, England.
• Host of our US-based sister show Around The world Radio, Arthur von Wiesenberger chats with studio guest Peter Dills about the latter's recent trip to Scandinavia.
• Geoff Harrison's destination of the week report focuses on Townsville, Far North Queensland.

Travelradio Australia #170

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Canberra; northern Ireland cruising; Krka Valley, Slovenia and Boston.

A new episode of Travelradio Australia is now online.

In this program Geoff Harrison travels to Canberra and chats with Jackie McKewan, general manager of the Capital Hotels group based in that city. Travelbites Radio host David Gordon discovers a different way of discovering Northern Ireland, by going cruising. He interviews Wendy Newell who runs a company renting out boats for this purpose. Frances Beasley visits the Krka Valley in Slovenia. Geoff Harrison discovers the US city of Boston.

Travelradio Australia #166

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Discover Nashville with Peter Noone from Herman's Hermits

From the US studio, Arthur von Wiesenberger and Martha Bull chat with Peter Noone, lead singer of Herman’s Hermits in Nashville, one of his favourite US cities. Aussie contributor John Crook sends an audio postcard from Canberra. Euro correspondent Frances Beasley has tales of weird outings in the UK if it rains.  John Crook visits Ross village, Tasmania and meets Bakery Inn owner Chris Lloyd-Bostock for a chat about the town’s attractions. Click this link to hear the podcast

Culture, Montreal, upgrades, asparagus and Canberra

First up, we're delving into a bit of culture on this week's travel radio show - our Geelong-based Aussie travel guru, John Crook has news of a forthcoming classical concert in Melbourne. From our US-sister program, Around the World, Arthur von Wiesenberger chats with blue whales expert Richard Sears about Montreal (Canada). Yours truly reveals survey results on how Aussies obtain (or, more to the point, most of the time fail to) those elusive ’upgrades’ on airline seats and hotel rooms. French-based contributor Frances Beasley’s topic this week is the humble asparagus. To close the book on this week’s show, John Crook visits the National Library in Canberra. Click this link to listen

Great listening for armchair travellers

On this week's edition of my travel radio show John Crook is back in Canberra this week to visit the National Film & Sound Archive where he chats with Emma Spellman. Frances Beasley visits a lavish and large monastery in Spain. Arthur von Wiesenberger interviews Ireland-based contributor David Gordon on Dublin (and its favourite export, Guinness). Listen to podcast

Canberra, British cabs and equinne trekking

In this edition of ATW Travelradio Australia John Crook continues his exploration of the national capital, Canberra and visits the Australian War Memorial where he chats with Emma Campbell and then heads for the Australian Museum where he interviews Mark Juddery. Frances Beasley has all the details on how to hail a cab in England and Ren Zwiers then compares this with his recent taxi hire experiences in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). US-based Hosts Arthur von Wiesenberger and Martha Bull chat with Darly Newman who hosts a new TV documentary show on equine trekking in various parts of the world. To download or listen to the podcast click here

PODCAST: Around the World #04-09

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CRN (Australia) broadcast date: Wednesday, 28 January, 2009

Program details:

• John Crook sends an ‘audio postcard’ from the Victorian town of Kyneton.
• Frances Beasley reviews a French cookbook entitled ‘Ripielles’.
• Buddy Winston and Richard Mineards discuss travel to Portugal and the Azores with Michael Thiell.
• John Crook sends another audio postcard, this time from the Australian capital, Canberra.
• Frances Beasley reports on her former homeland, South Africa.