Wednesday 17 October 2012

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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