Around the World Travel Radio Australia

CRN Broadcast date: 26 August 2009

In this edition, Ren Zwiers introduces the following segments: John Crook offers some tips on buying travel insurance, Frances Beasley talks about Limoges Cathedral (France) and its music, US host Arthur von Wiesenberger visits Boston (Massachusetts) and John Crook interviews Ian Shankley at Garden of St Erth (Victoria, Australia).

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CRN (Australia) broadcast date: 19 August, 2009

In this edition, John Crook chats with Emily Howard of Novotel Barossa Valley Resort. Euro correspondent Frances Beasley visits an interesting shop called Le Bleu Lavande in the Dordogne region of France. US host Arthur von Wiesenberger chats with Kent St John of gonomad.com about the Moselle region of Germany. Host Ren Zwiers reviews some of the Queensland Gold Coast’s attractions. To wrap up the show, John Crook reviews the latest wine offerings from Windowrie at Cowra.

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CRN (Australia) broadcast date: 12 August, 2009

Host Ren Zwiers introduces the following segments: John Crook joins a master class at Wynn’s Wines with Sue Hodder; Euro correspondent Frances Beasley tells listeners about her love of French bread; US host Arthur von Wiesenberger meets author Kevin Bruce whose latest book is on Californian mural towns; John Crook interviews French winemaker Jean Claude Mas.

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CRN (Australia) broadcast date: 5 August, 2009

John Crook chats with Richard Skewer about the tiny Pacific island nation, Niue. Frances Beasley visits Auberge de Layotte, a restaurant in a forest of the Dordogne region of France and chats with its owner/chef. US host Arthur von Wiesenberger interviews Maja Gartman about her hometown, Zurich, Switzerland. John Crook reviews the latest outings from New Zealand’s Montana Wines. Program host: Ren Zwiers.

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CRN Australia broadcast date: 29 July, 2009

Host Ren Zwiers introduces the following segments: John Crook chats with John Sutcliffe of Theatre Organ Society Australia; Arthur von Wiesenberger and studio guest Phil Hodges ‘rap’ about Beverly Hills; European correspondent Frances Beasley takes listeners to Hestercomber Gardens in Somerset, England; John Crook visits the Clarion Soho boutique hotel in central Adelaide and interviews its GM, Stephanie Horlin-Smith.

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CRN (Australia) broadcast date: 22 July 2009

John Crook has news of an Aria Competition being staged in Melbourne (Victoria). Ren Zwiers chats with hotelier/chef/publisher Fritz Gubler about his series of coffee table books on the world’s great hotels, chefs and more. Frances Beasley visits an elephant sanctuary in Kenya (East Africa). US host Arthur von Wiesenberger chats with newspaper columnist Scott McCartney about some insider travel tips. John Crook presents a wine report on Tyrrel’s Wines.

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CRN (Australia) broadcast date: 15 July, 2009

Host Ren Zwiers introduces John Crook who has a report on Wick’s Wines (Australia). We then head to our US sister program in the US where host Arthur von Wiesenberger chats to author J Maarten-Troost about his new book on China. Then it’s off to Europe to go walking with Frances Beasley. Finally we return to Australia, to the small Victorian town of Maldon where John Crook meets a local, Wendy Elsey to provide details on this pretty part of the world.

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CRN (Australia) broadcast date: 8 July, 2009

Ren Zwiers introduces the following segments: John Crook has news of a forthcoming tour to Hollywood and Las Vegas, featuring the inimitable John Michael Howson as guide. Arthur von Wiesenberger and Peter Noone (Herman’s Hermits lead singer) talk with Irish-based reporter David Gordon who has recently returned from a trip to Prague. Frances Beasley chats about an enjoyable stay at Hartnoot Hotel, Devon (UK). John Crook interviews Randall Power, president of the Rocky Mointaineer rail service in Canada.

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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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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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