Around the World Travel Radio Australia

John Crook chats with renowned Australian winemaker Bruce Tyrrell at a recent product launch in Queensland. Frances Beasley visits one of her favourite places in South Africa, namely Fairlawns. US host Arthur von Wiesenberger and co-host Martha Bull discuss Santa Fe followed by a telephone chat with Diane Covington about Monterey (California). John Crook, still in Queensland, visits the citrus growing town of Gayndah and interviews local identity Peter Huth.

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John Crook reviews wines from the orange district (NSW, Australia). Arthur von Wiesenberger and Martha Bull chat with Ray Bartlett about visiting South Korea. Ren Zwiers has details of the popular National Railway Museum (York, England). Frances Beasley visits Kruger Park (Africa) and comes face to face with angry elephants. John Crook travels to Queenstown (New Zealand) and meets the builder of the Queenstown Park Hotel, John Mulholland.

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John Crook tells us about the pet peevs of air travellers…especially the armchair ‘wrestling match’. From the US studio, Arthur von Wiesenberger and Martha Bull chat with regular contributor David Gordon about his trip to London (to see the Queen, quite accidentally). Frances Beasley travels to South Africa from Madrid Airport and gives us her impressions of that Spanish airport and its main airline, Iberia. John Crook visits the Dandenong region of Melbourne and learns about Afghan culture and food from local restaurateur Rahini.

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John Crook’s Australian wine segment focuses on de Bortolli. US-based journalists Sally and Ivor Davis, who recently visited Sydney and Port Macquarie, give us their impressions of Australia. Frances Beasley has a licking good topic for this week’s report from France - namely stamps. John Crook visits a Canada trade show and interviews tourism officers from Calgary (home of the Stampede), British Columbia and Quebec.

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Aussie correspondent John Crook chats with Robert Ronzio about the forthcoming heavy horse festival at Werribee (Victoria). From the US studio, Arthur von Wiesenberger and Martha Bull chat with Sally and Ivor Davis in Las Vegas who have all the latest on ‘what’s new’ in ‘Sin City’. France-based Frances Beasley then focuses on logging horses in her report. The final segment features John Crook visiting Bleak House Garden in Victoria and interviews its owner, Dutch expatriate Maarten Reinalda.

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John Crook starts the show with a wine report on Kirrihill. From the US studio, Arthur von Wiesenberger and Martha Bull chat with Irish broadcaster David Gordon about his impressions of Strasbourg (near the German border in France). Frances Beasley follows to describe the annual Haute Savoie Sled Race in France. John Crook samples some African music in Werribee Zoo near Melbourne. To finish the program Ren Zwiers takes a couple of minutes to describe his recent visit to the historic city of York (England).

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John Crook tells the story of Jim Wolfensohn, a former World Bank chief who now runs a a successful winery in Australia. We then feature part two of the interview by Arthur von Wiesenberger and Martha Bull with world traveller Michael Jones (continued from last week’s show). Frances Beasley has some harsh words for airlines and their lack of commonsense in transporting passengers in adverse conditions (like iced-up runways and heavy snowfalls). John Crook promotes a newly published book by Australian garden guru Colin Campbell.

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Our intrepid Aussie reporter John Crook travels across the Tasman Sea to wine and dine at Waipara (New Zealand). US hosts Arthur von Wiesenberger and Martha Bull chat with adventurous world traveller Michael Jones from England. Michael has been travelleing the globe mostly as a passenger on cargo ships. He is currently in the US and aims to continue his epic trek in a few months. Part two of this interview will be featured next week. Euro correspondent Frances Beasley visits the Hanging Gardens of Marqueyssac in France. John Crook meets and interviews Ron Peacock of Fiordland Lodge (NZ).

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Welcome to the first all new show for the new year! This week John Crook spotlights Australia’s capital city, Canberra. Ren Zwiers has some kudos for Etihad Airways on which he flew Brisbane-London-Brisbane over the Christmas holidays. US show hosts Arthur von Wiesenberger and Martha Bull chat with journalist Jean Spoljaric about her visit to Croatia. French-basecd contributor Frances Beasley visits a dog show in rural France and enjoys some very cheap but delicious oysters - dogs and oysters? An unlikely combination! To wrap up the show John Crook tells us about Hunter Valley wines.

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Ren Zwiers presents another special ‘best of 2009′ edition featuring our favourite segments from last year’s shows. Segments hosted by John Crook (Australia), Frances Beasley (France) and Arthur von Wiesenberger (California, US) take us to diverse destinations like India, France, Scotland, East Africa, Switzerland and Finland. The first all new editon for 2010 will be broadcast (and podcast) next week.

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