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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Sunday 19th June.
Sport
125 Years of Wimbledon: You Cannot Be Serious
8:00pm - 9:00pm BBC2
A history of the annual grass-court tennis tournament, which has become one of the world's most famous sporting events. The programme reflects on memorable moments in the competition's history, including the rivalry between Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe, Jana Novotna's tears on Centre Court in 1993 and John Isner's marathon match against Nicolas Mahut in 2010, as well as exploring the atmosphere of Wimbledon fortnight. With contributions by former champions Martina Navratilova, Andre Agassi, Steffi Graf, Roger Federer, Boris Becker, Billie Jean King, Venus and Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal, as well as famous fans Cliff Richard and Stephen Fry.
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Monday 20 June
News and current affairs
Made In Britain
9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC2 1/3
Ever since he used to pop up to do his mini-lectures on the 10 o'clock news, Evan Davis has been on a one-man mission to make us economically literate. Now he takes on the idea that we Brits, though we invented mass production, can't make things any more - that everything must be manufactured in China now. So he visits high-end specialists like Brompton (bicycles) and McLaren (cars) to find out where things went right for them. There's a big dose of cheerleading: "When we put our minds to it, we can engineer as well as anyone," he chirps as he steps up for a flight in a Typhoon jet f ghter, but overall, this is a welcome blast of optimism.
Documentary
Conservation's Dirty Secrets: Dispatches
8:00pm - 9:00pm Channel 4
Oliver Steeds travels the world to investigate the conservation movement. He examines how a number of major organisations are run, questioning why some choose to work with some of the world's biggest polluting businesses, and speaks to critics who argue that conservation charities need to reassess their priorities in order to save the wildlife they claim to protect.
Health
Embarrassing Fat Bodies
9:00pm - 10:00pm Channel 4 3/4, series 1
The doctors dispense more advice to those needing help with weight-related problems, including a patient with three huge hernias and the woman who in 2008 became the first teenager to have a gastric band operation.
Documentary
Kill It, Cut It, Use It
9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC3 Sheep 2/5, series 1
Julia Bradbury continues her transition from pin-up girl for the welly brigade to shock-doc presenter by showing young consumers how many everyday products contain parts of sheep. You may think telling people that wool blankets come from sheep is stating the bleatin' obvious, but there are more unexpected revelations. Bradbury gleefully surprises students with a tray of sheep's heads as they do their weekly laundry, but turns more wary when she meets cosmetic surgeon Dr Roberto Viel, who performs a facial using a serum derived from lamb's placenta. Could it have something to do with the creepy portrait of Viel, his twin brother and a pneumatic topless woman?
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Tuesday 21 June
Factual
Abused: Breaking the Silence
10:35pm - 11:25pm BBC1
When, in 2009, over a hundred former pupils of two Catholic prep schools in England and Tanzania were reunited via the internet, they were soon sharing stories of mental, physical and, in some cases, sexual abuse. Frightened into silence as children, these men in their 50s and 60s now want the truth to come out and 22 of them have started legal proceedings against the Rosminian Order. But with their alleged abusers now elderly, what reparation can the victims expect?
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Wednesday 22 June
Documentary
The Kids Are Alright
10:35pm - 11:35pm ITV1 London
One-off documentary telling the stories of six inspirational British youngsters. Eleven-year-old Daniel explains how he copes while his father serves in Afghanistan, 15-year-old Sarah describes caring for her mother, who has cerebral palsy, and a disabled boy talks about his ambitions of becoming a Paralympian. Also featured are an aspiring ballet dancer from Dagenham, an African refugee who is now a champion ice-skater, and a girl whose life was turned around by the charity Dance United.
Documentary
The Beauty of Maps
7:30pm - 8:00pm BBC4 Medieval Maps - Mapping the Medieval Mind 1/4, series 1
Cartography through the ages, beginning with the Hereford Mappa Mundi, the largest intact medieval wall map in the world, which was intended to picture all of human knowledge in a single image. The programme traces its history, and features interviews with people who have been affected by it, including Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry.
Documentary
Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession
8:00pm - 9:00pm BBC4 Windows on the World 1/3, series 1
Professor Jerry Brotton explains the creation and importance of maps, discovering the latest technology that is improving the cartographer's art and revolutionising man's knowledge of the world. On a visit to the oldest known map, etched into a hillside 3,000 years ago, he considers how different cultures have approached map-making over millennia, often as a tool for expansionism and political control.
Documentary
The Wonder of Weeds
9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC4
Horticulturist Chris Collins reassesses the reputations of some of the UK's least-loved plants. He explores the scientific origins of species such as Japanese knotweed and rhododendron ponticum, and analyses the important roles they can play in gardens of all sizes and scales - as well as determining whether attempts to eliminate them can ever succeed.
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Thursday 23 June
Documentary
Kids Behind Bars
9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC3 Crying Cos I Can't Hit No-One 2/3, series 1
Following the lives of three girls at the Vinney Green Secure Unit in Gloucestershire. One of the youngsters harms herself so badly she has been locked up for her own protection, while the other two display violent behaviour and present a challenge for the staff
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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.
Friday 17 June 2011
Friday 10 June 2011
Oxstalls Off-Air Recordings 11th - 17th June 2011
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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Monday 13 June
DocumentaryTerry Pratchett: Choosing to Die
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?
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.
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.
"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.
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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*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.
_______________________________________________________
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.
________________________________________________________
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.
_______________________________________________________
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.
________________________________________________________
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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