*This applies to staff members and students at the University of Gloucestershire. Any recordings made are to be used only for educational and non-commercial purposes under the terms of the ERA Licence.
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Monday 13 June
Documentary
9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC2
Don't let the fog of other people's outrage blind you to the profound questions about self-determination, quality of life and personal choice asked by author Terry Pratchett in what has become a hugely controversial documentary. In one of its periodic paroxysms of moral fury, what used to be known as "Fleet Street" has saddled up the highest horse to protest at the broadcasting of an assisted suicide. But surely television has a contribution to make to the debate about one of life's great questions: should we be allowed to choose the time and manner of our own deaths? In Choosing to Die we witness the final moments of Peter, who suffers from motor neurone disease and travels to Switzerland to end his life. Sir Terry, who has Alzheimer's, explores his own feelings. He wants to die at a time of his choosing, but when the time comes, he wonders, will this be possible?
10:00pm - 10:30pm BBC2
In a follow-up to the documentary shown at 9pm, Jeremy Paxman talks to Sir Terry Pratchett, while a panel of guests debates the controversial issues surrounding assisted death. Can a satisfactory legal framework ever be devised to enable the terminally ill to take their own lives?
Analysis of the day's events, presented by Jeremy Paxman.
8:00pm - 9:00pm Channel 4
One of the lynchpins of our criminal justice system is that offenders should be locked up in order to cut crime. In reality, police repeatedly re-arrest a relatively small number of felons who continue to commit crimes every time they are released from jail. Dispatches follows three persistent criminals on an offender management scheme in Bristol which is designed to reduce the harm they cause to themselves and others and minimise the need for costly recourse to prison.
9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC3 Cow 1/5, series 1
"Looking a bit peaky there," says Julia Bradbury drily, never one to mince her words. In this new series, Bradbury reveals the often surprising uses of inedible animal parts, beginning with the cow. As usual, she takes a herd of blissfully ignorant young folk with her. It's one of these, 22-year-old Jordan, who looks decidedly less cocky than he did while professing his love of leather as he watches tomorrow's car seat being slaughtered in an abattoir. Two tennis players wince when they realise their racquet strings are actually beef guts, and we discover why it takes three cows to kit out one duffel coat with buttons. Next time: the stomach-churning uses of sheep parts.
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Tuesday 14 June
Documentary
The Scheme
11:05pm - 11:55pm BBC11/4, series 1
New series. Documentary following the fortunes of six families living on a large housing scheme in north-west Kilmarnock over the course of 18 months. The first programme introduces the Cunninghams, whose eldest son is about to be sent to prison, and a single mother-of-two who provides shelter to homeless people.
Documentary
Baby Hospital
9:00pm - 10:00pm ITV1 London1/3, series 1
The neonatal unit at Liverpool Women's Hospital c
ares for a thousand sick and premature babies each year, but not all of them survive. This programme follows the stories of three families where the baby has suffered from asphyxia or a lack of oxygen during birth. While 18-year-old Amy makes the most of her time with baby Charlie, the parents of Riley, who has teetered between life and death during his first few days, are desperately hoping he survives following the stillbirth of his sister, Olivia, two years earlier.
Documentary
The Great Estate: The Rise & Fall of the Council House
10:00pm - 11:00pm BBC4
Journalist Michael Collins traces the rise and fall of arguably one of Britain's greatest social revolutions, council housing, which at its height, in the mid-1970s, provided homes for over a third of the British population. From the "homes for heroes" cottages that were built in the wake of the First World War, to the monolithic high-rises of the 1960s and 70s, Collins embarks on a grand tour of Britain's council estates that includes London, Liverpool and Sheffield.
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Wednesday 15 June
Documentary
Wonderland - The Kids Who Play with Fire
9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC2
Documentary following three children who have a history of setting fires. Ten-year-old Liam sleeps on a charred mattress, Ryan is brazenly fascinated by flames, and 14-year-old Hulya has repeatedly set her bedroom alight. Fire service counsellors, determined to put a stop to their behaviour, try to understand the anger and frustration that provokes them.
Documentary
Fisherman's Friends
10:35pm - 11:35pm ITV1 London
The story of the Cornish shanty singers, whose debut album Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends reached the UK top 10 in 2010, tracing their rise from obscurity to national prominence. In addition to following them as they visit London for a series of concerts and TV appearances, the film explores how their close bond has been affected by the pressures of performing and demands of travelling hundreds of miles to venues around the country.
Documentary
Apples: British to the Core
9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC4
Garden designer Chris Beardshaw finds out how Britain has helped shape the apple. He visits the original Bramley apple tree, discovers what drove Victorian horticulturists to create so many varieties and learns about the work of scientists who have unlocked the fruit's deepest secrets and helped make it a mass-market success.
Documentary
In Search of the Perfect Loaf
10:30pm - 11:30pm BBC4
Award-winning artisan baker Tom Herbert wants to bake a loaf that will win him first prize at the National Organic Food Awards. Passionate about handmade bread, he sets out on a quest that takes him to Cornwall and to a medieval water-mill in Gloucestershire to learn about the history of bread. He also visits a Jewish bakery in Salford, before concocting a loaf using his family's 40-year-old sourdough, organic spelt from Somerset, Cornish sea salt and Cotswold water.
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Thursday 16 June
Documentary
Panorama: Breaking into Britain
9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC1
Evan Davis presents a Panorama investigation into economic migrants who illegally enter Britain, asking how difficult it is and why they risk so much to achieve their goals. Reporter Shoaib Sharifi begins in his homeland of Afghanistan, where he meets those prepared to smuggle themselves onto lorries, while Ugandan-born Kassim Kayira examines the trade in fake documents that some Nigerians are using to fly into the UK.
Documentary
Kids Behind Bars
9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC3 I'm Locked Up for a Reason 1/3, series 1
New series. The stories of Britain's youngest criminals, following the lives of inmates at the Vinney Green Secure Unit in Gloucestershire. The first edition features three boys who began offending at the age of nine, one of whom is having a second stay for only a few weeks, while another is so volatile he is struggling to fit in.
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Friday 17 June
Documentary
Festivals Britannia
9:00pm - 10:30pm BBC4
Documentary tracing the history of British music festival culture, from its jazz beginnings at Beaulieu in the late 1950s to the Isle of Wight festivals that began in the 1960s, one-offs including Bickershaw in 1972, and the modern line-up of Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds and numerous others. The film explores the tension between those attending the performances and the forces policing them, and focuses on the relationship between freedom and shifts in the political, musical and cultural landscape. With contributions by Michael Eavis, Richard Thompson, Acker Bilk, Terry Reid, the Levellers, Billy Bragg, John Giddings and more.
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Please email oxstallsmediaservices@glos.ac.uk if you would like any of the following series or programmes recording. *
*This applies to staff members and students at the University of Gloucestershire. Any recordings made are to be used only for educational and non-commercial purposes under the terms of the ERA Licence.
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