Oxstalls Library Off-Air Recordings 20th - 26th October 2012

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 21st October.

The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife.
BBC 4.  21:00 - 22:10

Duration: 1 hour, 10 minutes

Made in 1991 during a pivotal moment in South African history, Nick Broomfield's critically-acclaimed film chronicles the collapse of the white supremacist AWB party (Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging) in apartheid South Africa through a portrait of its leader, Eugene Terre'Blanche, his driver JP and JP's wife, Anita.
Broomfield follows the leader as he tours the country, attempting to set up an interview with him, while Terre'Blanche attends rallies, whipping up white hostility to the policies of Nelson Mandela's ANC and FW de Klerk's government.
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Monday 22nd October

Panorama: Gambling Nation
BBC 1.  20:30 - 21:00

Duration: 30 minutes

Even in recession-hit Britain, the gambling industry is still making a profit - £5.6 billion last year. With casino-style gambling now available day or night at the touch of a button in our homes and on our phones, Panorama explores its popularity... and reveals a darker side.
Reporter Sophie Raworth hears from those who have found their lives spiralling out of control, and from industry insiders who say that violence and frustration, linked to fast-paced high-stake gambling machines, are increasing in our high street betting shops. Panorama goes undercover in some of Britain's bookies to test those claims.

Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life.  2/3
More 4.  22:00 - 23:10

Richard Dawkins explores what science can tell us about death.
It's a journey that takes him from Hindu funeral pyres in India to genetics labs in New York.
Dawkins brings together the latest neuroscience, evolutionary and genetic theory to examine why we crave life after death, why we evolved to age and how the human genome is something like real immortality - traits inherited from our distant ancestors that we pass on to future generations.
He meets a Christian dying of motor neurone disease, reminisces about the Wall Street Crash with a 105-year-old stockbroker, and interviews James Watson, the geneticist who co-discovered the structure of DNA.
Dawkins admits to sentimentality in imagining his own church funeral, but he argues we must embrace the truth, however hard that is.
In a television first, he has his entire genome sequenced to reveal the genetic indicators of how he himself may die.
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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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Oxstalls Library Off-Air Recordings 13th - 19th October 2012

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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Saturday 13th October.

Fight Club: New Series.  A History of Violence: Georgian Fighting Women.
Yesterday 20:00 - 21:00

Fight Club: A History of Violence, a most alternative history of Britain, begins in the Georgian era with the unsavoury bouts between ruthless Georgian women.  Delving under the surface of this gritty pass-time, Lucy Inglis examines the murky world of women bare-knuckle boxing in 18th century London.
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Sunday 14th October.

Fiddler On The Roof.
BBC 4.  19:00 - 21:50

Duration: 2 hours, 51 minutes

In pre-revolutionary Russia, a poor Jewish peasant must contend with marrying off his three daughters while antisemitic sentiment threatens his home.
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Monday 15th October

London On Film 1/3  The West End
BBC 4.  20:00 - 20:30

Duration: 30 minutes

From bright lights, showbusiness and shops to riots, sleaze and traffic jams, film-makers have long been drawn to London's West End. Using a rich mix of archive material, this film paints a colourful and surprising portrait of the city's beating heart.

Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life 1/3
More 4.  22:00 - 23:10

Ideas about the soul and the afterlife, of sin and God's purpose have shaped human thinking for thousands of years. Religious rituals remain embedded in the major events of our lives.
In this thought-provoking series, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins asks what happens if we leave religion behind. He explores what reason and science might offer to inspire and guide our lives in religion's place.
Can science bring understanding in the face of death, help us tell right from wrong, or reveal the point of life in the first place?
In a journey that takes him through visually stunning locations across the world, Richard Dawkins builds a powerful argument for facing up to the scientific truth about life and death - however hard that might be.
If there is no God watching us, why be good? Richard Dawkins is taking on the big questions of life and, in this opening programme, he examines sin.
He asks whether the old religious rules about what is right and wrong are helpful and explores what reason science can tell us about how to be good.
Dawkins journeys from riot-torn inner city London to America's Bible Belt, building a powerful argument that religion's absolutist moral codes fuel lies and guilt.
He finds the most extreme example in a Paris plastic surgery clinic which specialises in making Muslim brides appear to be virgins once again.
But what can science and reason tell us about morality? Through encounters with lemurs, tango dancers, the gay rights campaigner Matthew Parris and the scientist Steven Pinker, Dawkins investigates the deeper roots of moral behaviour in our evolutionary past.
He explores the rituals that surround mating and the science of disgust and taboo. Drawing on crime data and insights from neuroscience, he argues that our evolved senses of reason and empathy appear to be making us more and more moral, even as religious observance declines.
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Wednesday 17th October.

Fight Club 2/3  A History of Violence: Victorian Prize Fighters

Yesterday.  21:00 - 22:00.

How Victorian Britain embraced violence. Bare-knuckle boxers were the toast of the era, with handsome rewards and celebrity status for skilled fighters.

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 Thursday 18th October.

Tonight:  Is Technology Taking Over Our Lives?
ITV 1.  19:30 - 20:00

As the ownership of smartphones and other internet enabled devices reaches a new high, this programme looks at whether our overdependence on technology could be detrimental. These gadgets can make many activities easier, but some argue that our reliance on technology can be harmful.
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Friday 19th October.

Fight Club 3/3 A History of Violence:  Victorian Bare-Knuckle Fighting.
Yesterday.  22:00 -23:00

How Victorian Britain embraced violence. Bare-knuckle boxers were the toast of the era, with handsome rewards and celebrity status for skilled fighters.

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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.