Posted in Radio shows, Travel on Jun 30th, 2009 No Comments »
CRN (Australia) broadcast date: 1 July 2009
Ren Zwiers introduces the following segments: John Crook presents a wine report on Mt Pleasant Wines. US-show host Arthur von Wiesenberger teams up with Herman’s Hermits lead-singer Peter Noone to chat with ‘Mr Tahoe’, Darin Talbot about Lake Tahoe. Euro correspondent Frances Beasley visits the farmers’ markets in provincial France. John Crook interviews Bruce Tyrrell, the boss of the renowned long-established Australian winery Tyrrells.
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Posted in Radio shows, Travel on Jun 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
CRN (Australia) broadcast date: 24 June 2009
Ren Zwiers introduces John Crook who reviews Lucatinna’s Italian Restaurant, Melbourne (Victoria). European-based reporter Frances Beasley visits Cardiff and Llandaff in Wales (UK). US-based host Arthur von Wiesenberger chats about the delights of visiting London (England) with studio guest, Herman’s Hermits lead-singer Peter Noone. The final segment features John Crook heading for the Murray River in Swan Hill (Victoria) and chatting with an expert of this waterway’s history, Bill Hogg.
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Posted in Radio shows, Travel on Jun 16th, 2009 No Comments »
CRN (Australia) broadcast date: 17 June 2009
Ren Zwiers introduces the following segments: John Crook has news of an icebergs tour from New Zealand; Frances Beasley introduces two ‘hot’ destinations in Kenya (East Africa); Arthur von Wiesenberger chats with Sue Frause about Buenos Aires; John Crook meets Tony John, the man behind the popular Emporium Precinct in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley.
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Posted in Radio shows, Travel on Jun 9th, 2009 No Comments »
CRN (Australia) broadcast date: 10 June, 2009
After host Ren Zwiers welcomes listeners, Frances Beasley takes us on a tour of La Rochelle in western France. We then move on to Paris and learn all about renting apartments in the ‘city of love’, thanks to US-host Arthur von Wiesenberger and Paris-based reporter Madelyn Williams. Our Aussie ‘man on the scene’ John Crook takes us on an extended visit to ‘Little Vietnam’ region of Springvale Victoria with his trusty guide/interpreter Daniel Chen always by his side.
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Posted in Radio shows, Travel on Jun 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
CRN (Australia) broadcast date: 3 June, 2009
John Crook visits Lindenderry Resort on Mornington Peninsula (south of Melbourne, Victoria). We then travel to Europe where correspondent Frances Beasley has a tale (and an ale) or two about that great institution, the British Pub. Arthur von Wiesenberger (in the ATW US-studio) chats with Cat Pollon who calls in from a super-luxury hotel in Dubai (lucky girl!). The last segment on the program features John Crook meeting and greeting a Samoan high chief who has the unlikely name of Lorenzo.
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