What's On Air ?
ARDS broadcasts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

We predominantly play educational programs. We also play a wide selection of indigenous music, as well as news on the hour.

If you would like to find out what's playing today or coming up, please contact us on 08 8987 3910 or email mediaservices@ards.com.au to get an up to date timetable listed here or sent to you.

You can also make requests for programs to be played at certain times.

Below is a sample list of programs we may play on an average day:

12:33:00 AM Nutrition - Part 1 of 2 Traditional Nutrition program
Linda Marathuwarra, Margaret Mambalarra and Naomi Havens talking about lots of traditional foods

01:20:51 AM Nutrition - Part 2 of 2 Traditional Nutrition program
Linda Marathuwarra, Margaret Mambalarra and Naomi Havens about traditional foods for babies

2:36:27 AM Petrol Sniffing - 1of1 Why do Yolngu people sniff petrol?
Djiniyini Gondarra , Dr Alan Clough and Richard Trudgen give reasons such as missing the bright lights seen on in the media, Government taking over Yolngu Land , Law, and mainstream Education.

3:38:47 AM Family Violence - 6of8 Sexual Abuse of Minors
Djiniyini Gondarra and Richard Trudgen discuss how traditional and mainstream law have similarities in dealing with this crime

4:38:58 AM Family Violence - 7of8 Who can look after victims of Sexual abuse?
Djiniyini Gondarra and Richard Trudgen discuss the traditional process of looking after victims

5:34:15 AM Family Violence - 8of8 Legal Sanctions to protect victims of abuse
Djiniyini Gondarra and Richard Trudgen discus legal sanctions, misuse of Sanctions, the Hollywood world view and the mainstream law

6:14:10 AM Gurrangay Matha - Traditional Dyes - Dharruynga
Dharruynga talking about different traditional dyes

7:22:36 AM Strongyloides Series Part 1of 3 Amount of people affected in north-east Arnhem Land - Talks about how Strongyloides is affecting many people in north-east Arnhem Land

8:17:29 AM Strongyloides Series Part 2 of 3 How it enters the body
Talks about small size of Strongyloides worm and how it makes a hole in the skin and gets into the body.

9:30:22 AM Strongyloides Series Part 3 of 3 How it acts in the body
Talks about how it swims with the blood, then goes from the lungs to it's home in the intestines.

10:12:27 AM Dhupuditj's Diabetes story Part 1 of 3 How to Eat Healthy
By eating a little bit of store food, and lots of bush food. Talks about how lots of store food can lead to Diabetes and Renal Failure

11:35:55 AM Dhupuditj's Diabetes story Part 2 of 3 How Diabetes affected my life
Dhupuditj talks about the path he took to diabetes through eating bad store food

12:25:48 PM Dhupuditj's Diabetes story Part 3 of 3 Living on Dialysis
Dhupuditj talks about living on a dialysis machine in Darwin and his sadness in now being away from family

1:22:59 PM Mawunydjil's funny stories - Part 1
Yolngu "funnyman" Mawunydjil shares some of his Yolngu jokes

2:34:34 PM Teeth Health Series Part 1 of 3 Too Ashamed to Smile
Richard Trudgen talks about teeth health with Dr Denise Salvestro and Maratja Dhamarandji

3:36:17 PM Teeth Health Part 2 of 3- Sugar, Bacteria, Acid and Plaque
Richard Trudgen, Dr Denise Salvestro and Maratja Dhamarandji discuss how sugar and food affects teeth

4:17:35 PM Teeth Health Part 3 of 3- Bacteria and Tooth Decay
Richard Trudgen, Dr Denise Salvestro and Maratja Dhamarandji discuss tooth decay

5:16:51 Mawunydjil's funny stories - Part 2
Yolngu "funnyman" Mawunydjil shares some more of his Yolngu jokes

6:12:48 PM Legal terms series part 1 Bail & Protective Custody
Djiniyini Gondarra and Richard Trudgen discuss similarities between traditional and mainstream law in relation to Bail and protective custody

7:18:20 PM Legal terms series part 2 Warrant & protective custody
Djiniyini Gondarra and Richard Trudgen discuss similarities between traditional and mainstream law in relation to issuing warrants and protective custody

8:20:05 PM Medicine Series 41 Part 1 of 3 The First Form of Medicine
Helen Guyula Richard Trudgen and Bhavini Patel discuss why Yolngu people don't take medicine, and the lack of information given

16/11/04 9:23:19 Medicine Series 41 Part 2 of 3 The Second Form of Medicine
Helen Guyula Richard Trudgen and Bhavini Patel discuss how chemicals come in all forms, both good and bad

10:18:40 PM Medicine Series 41 Part 2 of 3 The Second Form of Medicine
Helen Guyula Richard Trudgen and Bhavini Patel discuss how insulin is made outside of the body

16/11/04 11:39:03 Gurrangay Matha Series 21 Discussing the virtues of Gurrangay Dharukpuy
Djiniyini Gondarra and Richard Trudgen discuss the virtues of Gurrangay Matha, which is the intellectual language of the Yolngu people, and can be used to describe many technical concepts in western culture and law.