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Archive for July, 2008

Original broadcast date: Wednesday, 30 July, 2008

Produced and hosted by Ren Zwiers

This week’s line-up:

  1. John Crook’s wine and dine guide on Penfolds Bin 389 Shiraz and the North Adelaide Restaurant which serves quality Indian cuisine.
  2. France-based contributor Frances Beasley interviews renowned Australian chef Skye Gyngell who now lives and works in the UK.
  3. Buddy Winston and Richard Mineards chat with US correspondent Kent St John about his impressions of Warsaw, Poland which he visited recently.
  4. Australian contributor John Crook visits the Victorian city of Warnambool at the end of the Great Ocean Road where he meets and chats with the general manager of the Mantra Hotel.
  5. Ren Zwiers replays an archived interview with a London tour guide, Dianne Fitzwater which he recorded some years ago on a UK visit.
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Original broadcast date: Wednesday, 23 July, 2008

Hosted and produced by Ren Zwiers

  1. Australian contributor John Crook presents a wine and dine report on Star of Greece Cafe and Cape Vale Debut Verdelho.
  2. European reporter Frances Beasley visits the popular Chez le Gaulois Restaurant in regional France.
  3. US show co-hosts Arthur von Wiesenberger and Richard Mineards learn about Albania from recent visitor to that country, Laura Powell.
  4. John Crook visits Flagstaff Hill, Warnambool, a historical marine village on the ‘Shipwreck Coast’ of Victoria (Australia). He chats with Peter Abbott.
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Original broadcast date: Wednesday, 16 July 2008

Hosted and produced by Ren Zwiers

  1. John Crook presents a wine report on Australia’s Tumbarumba McWilliams Barwang.
  2. US co-hosts Arthur von Wiesenberger and Richard Mineards chat with Jennifer Merrin who recently visited the wilds of Antarctica.
  3. Back in Australia, John Crook interviews Ray Klavins who operates Penny Lane Wines.
  4. We return to our US sister program where Arthur and Richard learn from guest author Mark McCrum how not to offend the locals in a range of overseas countries.
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Original broadcast date: Wednesday, 9 July, 2008

Hosted and produced by Ren Zwiers

  1. John Crook presents a wine and dine report on the Lakehouse, Daylesford (Victoria, Australia).
  2. US co-hosts Arthur von Wiesenberger and Richard Mineards chat with Diane Covington about her experiences hiking in the Swiss Alps.
  3. John Crook interviews Peter Thornton who runs an innovative website called ‘Vroom Vroom Vroom’ which enables the comparison of rates and booking of car hire on the internet.
  4. Our US co-hosts return to chat with author Liz Dahl about the ‘Boomeropia’ phenomenon.
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Original broadcast date: 2 July, 2008

Hosted and produced by Ren Zwiers

  1. John Crook presents an audio ‘postcard’ from Adelaide, South Australia.
  2. Arthur von Wiesenberger and Richard Mineards chat with Jennifer Merrin about the coastal area of Clearwater, Florida.
  3. Frances Beasley gives an insight on the ‘Venice of Perigore’, Brantome, France.
  4. John Crook visits a walnut farm in Milawa, Victoria (Australia) and chats with its owner, Guillian Gasser.
  5. This week’s wine and dine guide is on one of Australia’s better known brands, Taylor’s Wines.
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