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Debbie - Sport:

Must admit to doing a double take this morning when the word “denouement”* rolled languidly off the tongue of Jim Maxwell in his report from the seventh one day cricket international in England.

It could’ve been just the Norman influence in the Chester-Le-Street location playing a role. But I couldn’t help suspecting he’d won some sort of bet by dropping the word into a report. I will follow up this theory on Monsieur Maxwell’s return to Australia, and advise you of the “denouement” at some future date on this page.

*(The Macquarie Dictionary defines denouement as “the final disentangling of the intricacies of a plot, as of a drama or novel”)

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Mark - Breakfast EP:

A special welcome today to the people of the Tamworth area of New South Wales.

That’s the latest region of this wide brown land to get its own ABC NewsRadio frequency - 91.7 on the FM band.

The new service will be launched today by our Drive Presenter John Barron and the Federal Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy.

ABC NewsRadio is Australia’s only 24-hour continuous news station. We’re also the fastest growing radio network station, with frequencies being turned on each month.

By the end of 2010 there will be over 80 frequencies to choose from, and it means ABC NewsRadio will be able to be heard by 95 percent of the Australian population.

So, good folk of Tamworth, if you want a break from all that Yodeling, Yeee-hah! and twangy guitars, you know what frequency to tune that radio dial to.

We’re able to draw on lots of different sources — within the ABC and from our external partner networks — to bring you the most informative and fast-paced Breakfast program on radio.

With news bulletins every 15 minutes and breaking news as it happens - including news, politics, sport, finance, weather and traffic - ABC NewsRadio Breakfast guarantees you’ll be a step ahead throughout the day.

Here’s what you missed if you weren’t listening this morning from 5:30am:

* 2 Russian Presidents — Dimitry Medvedev speaking to CNN about Iran and one of his predecessors, Mikhail Gorbachev, telling the BBC, on the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down, that Margaret Thatcher and France’s Francois Mitterand were initially against German unification — extraordinary stuff!
* 2 US Presidents - Barack Obama talking to CNN about the economy, his domestic battles over healthcare and electoral fraud in Afghanistan, and one of his predecessors, Bill Clinton, shooting the breeze over brekkie with one K. Rudd.
* Speaking of which….Glen got all the latest on the PM’s US sojourn from the ABC’s North America correspondent Lisa Millar in New York
* We also heard from Climate Change Minister Penny Wong and Shadow Minister Greg Hunt on the government’s latest proposals to take to the Copenhagen meeting, while Marius Benson pulled the day’s politics apart with SKY News Political correspondent Kieran Gilbert and previewed some of today’s evidence to the Senate inquiry into the government’s fiscal stimulus spending with Economist Dr. Andrew Leigh of the Australian National University.
* Glen also discussed the latest controversial research about links between cancer and HRT with Dr. Elizabeth Farrell from the Australasian Menopause Society
* We previewed tonight’s Four Corners program on homelessness with reporter Sarah Ferguson….
* Deb had all the latest finals wash-up from the AFL and NRL and the goal-fest that was Manchester v Manchester (United vs. City) plus Jim Maxwell’s cricket pronouncements (see above!)
* Plus all the latest weather, financial news with Dave de Garis from NAB, and the situation on the roads around the nation with Paul Latter from the Australian Traffic Network.

Better tune in tomorrow…..

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