Breakfast

6:19: SPACE COWS: Chandra Wiskramasinghe, Professor of Applied Mathematics and Astronomy at Cardiff University, talks about the belief amongst scientists in the UK that cows may have become infected with Mad Cow Disease, or BSE, due to fine extra-terrestrial dust from comets in the grass.

6:37: LAMBS WIN: Neil Taylor, Chief Executive of Meat New Zealand, joins us to talk about the US appeal of this week's WTO decision to rule against staggered US tarifs on Australian and New Zealand lamb. They range from six per cent on the first 15,000 tonnes to 32 per cent over and above that.

MUSIC STING: "Dazed and Heavy" by Moonrock from the self-titled album.

6:44: OUEENSLAND WRAP: Cathy Van Extel updates the latest in the Queensland electoral rorts crisis and the future for Peter Beattie's Labor Government.

6:48: MAWSON'S HUT: Rob East from Australia's Antarctic Division talks about an expedition he is leading to restore the camp established by Sir Douglas Mawson in the early 1900s at Commonwealth Bay in Antarctica.

7:34: RECO TRUST: Fred Chaney, Deputy President of the Native Title Tribunal in Perth, talks about the release of the Reconciliation Council's 'blue-print' for Reconcilication into the New Millenium, that Evelyn Scott, the council's chair, handed to Prime Minister, John Howard yesterday and what it all means for the future.

MUSIC STING: "Winter Solstice" by the Tea Party from the album 'Splendor Solis'.

7:43: CRICKET WARS: Gideon Haigh talks about taking another look into the murky waters of cricket corruption with his new book 'The Cricket Wars'.

7:48: GOLD GONG: We speak with Mark Davis, journalist on SBS's Dateline program, who last night won the Gold Walkley Award for his investigative documentary on the Indonesian Government's covert funding of the militia's terror camapaign in East Timor.

MUSIC STING: Compilation from Tina Turner's album "Twenty Four Seven".

7:55: LONGEST PICNIC TABLE: Mark Reyment talks about the what is believed to be the world's longest picnic table that he designed for the Victorian town of Tarwin Lower. It is 36 metres long and made from reclaimed timber.

8:06: THIS WEEK IN CANBERRA: Michelle Grattan, chief political correspondent with the Sydney Morning Herald, and Phil Coorey, political correspondent with the Adelaide Advertiser, talk about the week that was in Australian politics.

8:17: FULL MONTY CALENDER: Bev Baker, President of the Parents and Citizens Association of NSW, talks about Sawtell Public School, on the North Coast of NSW, and their calender of nude businessmen from the town they're selling to raise money for shelter in the playground.

8:26: FILMS: Alan Saunders reviews the film "Chicken Run".