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Saturday 2 July
Arts and culture
Imagine 8:10pm - 9:00pm BBC4
Save the Last Dance for Me 1/6
Alan Yentob follows over-60s dance ensemble Company of Elders. The presenter meets members as they learn and rehearse their latest contemporary choreography, which is to be performed at the world-famous Sadler's Wells. The film also explores the stories behind some of the dancers, including 61-year-old Alison, who fell into a coma for eight years at the age of 27, and Geoff who, at 85, confesses that dancing has taken over his life.
Arts and culture
The Most Incredible Thing 12:55am - 2:35am BBC4
Javier de Frutos choreographs and directs a three-act contemporary dance piece based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, featuring a score by Pet Shop Boys. Former Royal Ballet principal dancer Ivan Putrov heads the cast, which also includes Aaron Sillis and Clemmie Sveaas.
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Sunday 3 July
Documentary
Kids Behind Bars
It's Just My Life - Trouble 3/3, series 1. 11:30pm - 12:30am BBC3
Three boys prepare to leave Vinney Green Secure Unit on the outskirts of Bristol, and face the prospect of beginning their adult life behind bars if they are unable to change their ways. One of the trio started getting into trouble at the age of nine and struggles to control his anger, another feels unable to say no to his friends, and the third knows he must break his cycle of bad behaviour before it is too late.
Documentary
A Lifetime of Dance - Merce Cunningham
7:30pm - 9:00pm BBC4
Profile of American choreographer Merce Cunningham, whose work Beach Birds for Camera has won awards around the world.
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Monday 4 July
Health
Embarrassing Bodies: Teen Special
9:00pm - 10:00pm Channel 4 Bother Down Below 1/4, series 1.
New series. Doctors Christian Jessen, Dawn Harper and Pixie McKenna travel around the UK giving advice to teenagers with health concerns. Their first stop is the Freshers' Fair at Sheffield Hallam University, where they give out contraception advice and meet an 18-year-old with lumps on his scrotum and a girl embarrassed by her vaginal discharge. Dr Harper also helps a 19-year-old struggling with painful periods, and Dr McKenna meets a 15-year-old boy suffering from rectal prolapse.
Documentary
Timeshift: Hotel Deluxe
11:00pm - 12:00am BBC4
Exploring how some of the world's most famous hotels, including the Savoy, the Ritz and the Dorchester, became internationally renowned as the epitome of luxurious living, and the ways in which they have adapted to the needs of new generations of wealthy clients. The film examines the origins of the prestigious establishments, and offers an insight into the methods they employ to live up to the standards of the most exacting customers. Narrated by Fenella Fielding.
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Tuesday 5 July
Documentary
Should I Test My Genes? The Price of Life
9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC2
Can the secrets of our blood foretell our destiny and indicate our life expectancy? When the mother of documentary-maker Adam Wishart lost her battle with cancer, he embarked on a quest to find out if there was a family cancer gene and to explore the pros and cons of knowing about our genetic predispositions. He also asks whether the NHS is keeping up with the brave new world opened up by advances in genetics.
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Wednesday 6 July
Documentary
Jo Frost: Extreme Parental Guidance
8:00pm - 9:00pm Channel 4 1/8, series 2.
The artist formerly known as Supernanny returns to our screens with more solid parenting advice. The deal with a Frost series is firm but fair: if we're prepared to sit through the scenes of aggressive, out-of-control children running riot, our reward will be to pick up some shrewd tips. The programme is packed with them: I defy any parent to watch the programme without at some point thinking, "Hmm, I might try that ", whether it's Frost's advice for helping young teens cope with peer pressure or ways to help over-competitive kids cope with losing. In this new format she tackles multiple issues at once: as well as mentoring two troubled families she takes her roadshow to shopping centres to dish out on-the-spot lectures - and highlights the decline in kids who can master a simple skill: eating with a knife and fork. But don't expect a beacon of calmness: this guru gets quite cross.
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Thursday 7 July
Documentary
High Flyers: How Britain Took to the Air
9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC4
An insight into the golden age of air travel in Britain during the 1920s and 30s, a time when dashing pilots and daring socialites took to the air looking for adventure, opening up new links for commercial flying around the world.
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Friday, 1 July 2011
Friday, 17 June 2011
Oxstalls Learning Centre Off-Air Recordings 18 - 24 June 2011
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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.
*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.
_______________________________________________________
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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Friday, 10 June 2011
Oxstalls Off-Air Recordings 11th - 17th June 2011
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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. *
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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.
______________________________________________________
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.
_______________________________________________________
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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Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Oxstalls Off Air Recording 21 - 27 May
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Sunday 22 May
Fifa: Football's Shame? - Panorama
*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 22 May
News and current affairs
Fifa: Football's Shame? - Panorama
8:30pm - 9:00pm BBC1
Andrew Jennings asks whether Fifa presidential candidates Sepp Blatter and Mohamed bin Hammam are up to the job of heading an organisation facing a crisis over corruption allegations. The programme tries to answer questions posed by the World Cup bidding process and an alleged bribery scandal.
Supersize Ambulance
Documentary
Supersize Ambulance
9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC1
Documentary following the work of the Thames Ambulance bariatric service, which uses a larger-than-standard vehicle to transport obese people weighing up to 70st to hospital. The programme offers an insight into patients' experience and the impact of obesity on people's lives. Narrated by Liza Tarbuck.
Dispatches: The Truth About Your Dentist
Sam Lister investigates how some practitioners are allegedly misleading patients about their rights to NHS treatment, and looks at the potential neglect of children's teeth as lab work is outsourced to countries such as China, where there are few or no checks on safety or quality.
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Tuesday 24 May
True Stories: Crack House
Documentary
Dispatches: The Truth About Your Dentist
8:00pm - 9:00pm Channel 4
Sam Lister investigates how some practitioners are allegedly misleading patients about their rights to NHS treatment, and looks at the potential neglect of children's teeth as lab work is outsourced to countries such as China, where there are few or no checks on safety or quality.______________________________________________________
Tuesday 24 May
Documentary
True Stories: Crack House
10:00pm - 12:00am More4
Documentary using surveillance footage obtained as part of a sting conducted by Illinois' Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to reveal the inner workings of a drug den. The film provides an insight into operations under dealer Darrell `Duck' Davis, who took over Rockford's narcotics trade in 2001, and recruited men from the South Side of Chicago to help him sell an average of a kilo of hard drugs each week.
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Thursday 26 May
Breaking a Female Paedophile Ring
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Thursday 26 May
Documentary
Breaking a Female Paedophile Ring
9:00pm - 10:00pm Channel 4
Documentary taking an in-depth look at the members of a criminal gang who made international headlines when their sexual offences against children came to light in 2009. Police interviews and testimonies from the offenders' relatives build a picture of how the web operated and what could have motivated Colin Blanchard, Vanessa George, Angela Allen, Tracy Lyons and Tracy Dawber to commit their crimes. The programme also reveals the painstaking police operations that led to their convictions. Part of the Cutting Edge strand.
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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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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.
Thursday, 5 May 2011
Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Oxstalls Learning Centre Off-Air Recordings 9 - 15 April
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. _____________________________________________
Saturday 9th April
Film
Mamma Mia! 7:00pm - 9:10pm ITV1 London
Not since the invention of fondue has 1970s cheese been this hot. This shiny, happy romantic comedy set to Abba's greatest hits has already proved a winning formula on stage and with this big-screen adaptation it's been taken up another notch. Meryl Streep sings her heart out here as ageing rock chick-turned-hotel owner Donna, whose daughter Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is about to get married on the Greek island where they live. But the wedding is thrown into chaos when three of Donna's ex-lovers (Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgard) turn up. Each has a case for being Sophie's father, but only one stakes a claim on Donna's heart. It's a feather-light story patched together with little elegance or élan, but that's entirely fitting when the film is populated with big, brash disco numbers like Dancing Queen and Voulez-Vouz. The fun is in watching usually straight actors like Streep, Brosnan and company throwing caution to the wind and making up for weak vocals with infectious gusto. ______________________________________________
Sunday 10th April
Film
Atonement 10:15pm - 12:25am ITV1 London
The kind of collaboration that seems designed to produce the perfect British film, this adaptation of Ian McEwan's bestseller from screenwriter Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons) and director Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice) actually pulls it off. Beginning in 1935, the drama pivots on the burgeoning love affair between privileged Cecilia Tallis (Keira Knightley) and servant's son Robbie Turner (James McAvoy). An intercepted love letter, sibling jealousy and an assault combine to tear them apart. Their hopes of reunion are further complicated by the outbreak of war, Robbie's conscription and the 1940 evacuation of Dunkirk - stunningly staged here by Wright. A handsome, heart-thumping, character-based love story, this is impeccably acted - Keira Knightley truly comes of age, blending cut-glass, Celia Johnson-like refinement and something altogether more passionate - and stylishly scored (by Dario Marianelli). Atonement transcends the expectations of its country-house setting, via the privations of war, to deliver a knockout twist that works better on the screen than it did on the page.
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Monday 10th April
Documentary
A Home for Maisie 9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC2.
Documentary following the progress of a couple who hope to adopt a seven-year-old girl who has been neglected and abused. Jim and Sue, who have successfully adopted eight other children, plan to help Masie confront and come to terms with her traumatic past - but must overcome obstacles in the adoption process before they can act as her parents. Narrated by Sue Johnston.
Documentary
Dispatches: Undercover Hospital 8:00pm - 9:00pm Channel 4.
Tazeen Ahmad investigates planned changes to the NHS in light of the Government's pledge to protect its services. The programme goes inside one of Britain's busiest hospitals, which faces spending cuts and the potential loss of hundreds of jobs in the next 12 months.
Documentary
The Great Estate:The Rise & Fall of the Council House 9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC4.
Journalist and author Michael Collins explores the history of council housing, meeting the people whose lives were affected by the social experiment that began with a bang at the start of the 20th century, but ended with a whimper 80 years later. He visits flats in Liverpool and a high-rise structure in Sheffield that has become the largest listed building in the world, as well as an estate on the banks of the Thames that was billed as the `town of the 21st century'. Part of A History of the Home season.
Film
Chariots of Fire 6:40pm - 9:00pm Film4.
Unfairly dismissed by some as an empty exercise in cheap schmaltz, this has an old-fashioned innocence that celebrates the human spirit with a lot of careful detail. It's a powerful tale about two British athletes - one a contemplative Scottish missionary, the other an anxious Jewish student - aiming for glory in the 1924 Olympics, and it contains a compelling study of their characters and those of their competitors. Their experiences are drawn in thoughtfully by Hugh Hudson's direction and Colin Welland's Oscar-winning script. Indeed, it was Welland who exclaimed at the Oscar ceremony that "the British are coming!". The two British actors on screen here, Ian Charleson (the missionary) and Ben Cross (the student), prove that, at a time when British cinema had such talent to fall back on, Welland should have been right. _______________________________________________
Tuesday 12th April
Documentary
Is Breast Best? Cherry Healey Investigates 9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC3.
TV presenter Cherry Healey explores both sides of the breastfeeding debate. While the World Health Organisation advises all mothers to give their children their own milk for at least the first six months after birth, Cherry found the experience painful and traumatic. She follows a 19-year-old woman's struggle to nourish her baby, hears practical advice from experts and asks why the UK has such a low breastfeeding rate. Part of the Bringing Up Britain season.
Documentary
Britain Goes Camping 11:00pm - 12:00am BBC4.
Archive footage and the memories of enthusiasts detail how sleeping under canvas has evolved, changing from a leisure activity for adventurous Edwardians into a quintessentially British family pastime.
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Wednesday 13th April
Documentary
The Gatwick Baby: Abandoned at Birth 9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC3.
Documentary following Steven Hydes' worldwide search for his true identity. The 24-year-old was left in a ladies toilet at Gatwick Airport when he was just 10 days old, and was later adopted by a loving family. With the help of DNA testing, he hopes to pinpoint his racial make-up and increase the chances of locating his mother, and along the way he hears the stories of other people's quests to find their birth parents. Part of the Bringing Up Britain season. _______________________________________________
Thursday 14th April
Documentary
Misbehaving Mums to Be 9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC3 1/6, series 1
New series. A team of midwives helps pregnant women give up their bad habits and reverse the dangers posed to their babies' health. Lisa Fendall meets a 22-year-old woman who is struggling to stop smoking, Alison Williams mentors a wine-drinking workaholic, and Carol Hemmings advises an obese mother-to-be who lives on a diet of chips and gravy. Narrated by Jaime Winstone. Part of the Bringing Up Britain season. ______________________________________________
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 9th April
Film
Mamma Mia! 7:00pm - 9:10pm ITV1 London
Not since the invention of fondue has 1970s cheese been this hot. This shiny, happy romantic comedy set to Abba's greatest hits has already proved a winning formula on stage and with this big-screen adaptation it's been taken up another notch. Meryl Streep sings her heart out here as ageing rock chick-turned-hotel owner Donna, whose daughter Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is about to get married on the Greek island where they live. But the wedding is thrown into chaos when three of Donna's ex-lovers (Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgard) turn up. Each has a case for being Sophie's father, but only one stakes a claim on Donna's heart. It's a feather-light story patched together with little elegance or élan, but that's entirely fitting when the film is populated with big, brash disco numbers like Dancing Queen and Voulez-Vouz. The fun is in watching usually straight actors like Streep, Brosnan and company throwing caution to the wind and making up for weak vocals with infectious gusto. ______________________________________________
Sunday 10th April
Film
Atonement 10:15pm - 12:25am ITV1 London
The kind of collaboration that seems designed to produce the perfect British film, this adaptation of Ian McEwan's bestseller from screenwriter Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons) and director Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice) actually pulls it off. Beginning in 1935, the drama pivots on the burgeoning love affair between privileged Cecilia Tallis (Keira Knightley) and servant's son Robbie Turner (James McAvoy). An intercepted love letter, sibling jealousy and an assault combine to tear them apart. Their hopes of reunion are further complicated by the outbreak of war, Robbie's conscription and the 1940 evacuation of Dunkirk - stunningly staged here by Wright. A handsome, heart-thumping, character-based love story, this is impeccably acted - Keira Knightley truly comes of age, blending cut-glass, Celia Johnson-like refinement and something altogether more passionate - and stylishly scored (by Dario Marianelli). Atonement transcends the expectations of its country-house setting, via the privations of war, to deliver a knockout twist that works better on the screen than it did on the page.
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Monday 10th April
Documentary
A Home for Maisie 9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC2.
Documentary following the progress of a couple who hope to adopt a seven-year-old girl who has been neglected and abused. Jim and Sue, who have successfully adopted eight other children, plan to help Masie confront and come to terms with her traumatic past - but must overcome obstacles in the adoption process before they can act as her parents. Narrated by Sue Johnston.
Documentary
Dispatches: Undercover Hospital 8:00pm - 9:00pm Channel 4.
Tazeen Ahmad investigates planned changes to the NHS in light of the Government's pledge to protect its services. The programme goes inside one of Britain's busiest hospitals, which faces spending cuts and the potential loss of hundreds of jobs in the next 12 months.
Documentary
The Great Estate:The Rise & Fall of the Council House 9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC4.
Journalist and author Michael Collins explores the history of council housing, meeting the people whose lives were affected by the social experiment that began with a bang at the start of the 20th century, but ended with a whimper 80 years later. He visits flats in Liverpool and a high-rise structure in Sheffield that has become the largest listed building in the world, as well as an estate on the banks of the Thames that was billed as the `town of the 21st century'. Part of A History of the Home season.
Film
Chariots of Fire 6:40pm - 9:00pm Film4.
Unfairly dismissed by some as an empty exercise in cheap schmaltz, this has an old-fashioned innocence that celebrates the human spirit with a lot of careful detail. It's a powerful tale about two British athletes - one a contemplative Scottish missionary, the other an anxious Jewish student - aiming for glory in the 1924 Olympics, and it contains a compelling study of their characters and those of their competitors. Their experiences are drawn in thoughtfully by Hugh Hudson's direction and Colin Welland's Oscar-winning script. Indeed, it was Welland who exclaimed at the Oscar ceremony that "the British are coming!". The two British actors on screen here, Ian Charleson (the missionary) and Ben Cross (the student), prove that, at a time when British cinema had such talent to fall back on, Welland should have been right. _______________________________________________
Tuesday 12th April
Documentary
Is Breast Best? Cherry Healey Investigates 9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC3.
TV presenter Cherry Healey explores both sides of the breastfeeding debate. While the World Health Organisation advises all mothers to give their children their own milk for at least the first six months after birth, Cherry found the experience painful and traumatic. She follows a 19-year-old woman's struggle to nourish her baby, hears practical advice from experts and asks why the UK has such a low breastfeeding rate. Part of the Bringing Up Britain season.
Documentary
Britain Goes Camping 11:00pm - 12:00am BBC4.
Archive footage and the memories of enthusiasts detail how sleeping under canvas has evolved, changing from a leisure activity for adventurous Edwardians into a quintessentially British family pastime.
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Wednesday 13th April
Documentary
The Gatwick Baby: Abandoned at Birth 9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC3.
Documentary following Steven Hydes' worldwide search for his true identity. The 24-year-old was left in a ladies toilet at Gatwick Airport when he was just 10 days old, and was later adopted by a loving family. With the help of DNA testing, he hopes to pinpoint his racial make-up and increase the chances of locating his mother, and along the way he hears the stories of other people's quests to find their birth parents. Part of the Bringing Up Britain season. _______________________________________________
Thursday 14th April
Documentary
Misbehaving Mums to Be 9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC3 1/6, series 1
New series. A team of midwives helps pregnant women give up their bad habits and reverse the dangers posed to their babies' health. Lisa Fendall meets a 22-year-old woman who is struggling to stop smoking, Alison Williams mentors a wine-drinking workaholic, and Carol Hemmings advises an obese mother-to-be who lives on a diet of chips and gravy. Narrated by Jaime Winstone. Part of the Bringing Up Britain season. ______________________________________________
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, 2 April 2011
Oxstalls Off -Air Recordings 2 - 8 April
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. ____________________________________________
Saturday 2 April Music
Pop's Greatest Dance Crazes April 8:00pm - 9:00pm BBC3
Robert Webb counts down from numbers 30 to 13 of top dance fads, using archive footage to explore how the choreography for songs including Macarena, Thriller, Vogue and Single Ladies became worldwide phenomena. Featuring contributions and re-enactments of the moves by Melanie C, Louie Spence, Rufus Hound, Bradley Macintosh, Katy Brand, Craig Revel Horwood, Richard O'Brien, MC Hammer, Carl Douglas, the Village People, Jarvis Cocker, Suggs, Andrew Stone, Shappi Khorsandi, Lisa Scott Lee and Whigfield. __________________________________________
Sunday 3 April
Documentary The Eiger: Wall of Death 8:00pm - 9:00pm BBC4
An in-depth examination of the mountain in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland, which at 13,025 ft, is one of Europe's most notorious peaks, especially its infamous north face. The documentary explores its history and provides testimonies of those who have climbed its forbidding slopes and the people who live in its shadow.
Documentary
Re-Trial by TV: The Rise and Fall of Rough Justice 9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC4
How do people feel about our justice system? If you think it's soft on criminals, it wasn't always so, as this excellent Time Shift on the BBC series Rough Justice reminds us. For 27 years, from 1980 onwards, its investigations into miscarriages of justice led to the freeing of 18 people wrongfully convicted of serious crimes - we're told the series paved the way for the public to accept that the Guildford Four and Birmingham Six were innocent. It's an interesting story told with contributions from ex-policeman Brian Paddick, journalist Simon Heffer and presenter David Jessel, among others.Radio Times reviewer - Geoff Ellis
The Highest Court in the Land: Justice Makers 10:00pm - 11:00pm BBC4
Documentary in which four Justices of the Supreme Court, the UK's final court of appeal, talk about the nature of their work and how they make decisions. The programme explores how fair the rulings of the court's members - 10 men and one woman - are, and whether their feelings ever influence their judgements. In its first 14 months, cases included MPs' expenses, which resulted in the prosecution of David Chaytor, and amendments to the status of pre-nuptial agreements. Narrated by Aidan Gillett. Part of the Justice season.
Documentary
Eyewitness 11:00pm - 12:00am BBC4 1/3, series 1
How reliable are eyewitness accounts of violent crimes? Through a combination of drama, observational documentary, secret filming and interviews, the difference between what witnesses say they saw and what actually happened is revealed. On a break from taking part in tests and experiments, a group of volunteers go to a local pub for lunch, where some of them notice a "domestic" going on at one of the tables. What follows is an argument between three men, which escalates into a fight and ends in a fatal stabbing. The volunteers are now what the police call key and significant eyewitnesses, but how accurately can they recall the details of the crime, and how do their accounts differ? Narrated by Philip Glenister. ______________________________________________
Monday 4 April
News and current affairs Finished at Fifty? - Panorama 8:30pm - 9:00pm BBC1
Fiona Phillips investigates the difficulties unemployed people in their fifties face in finding work. The programme follows the progress of four case studies who have been challenged by former business leader Digby Jones to change their approach to getting a job. Documentary Dispatches: Cashing in on Degrees 8:00pm - 9:00pm Channel 4 Journalist LauriePenny investigates the increasing commercialisation of higher education and asks what happens when universities scour the world for students and funds. She also looks at the pay, perks and privileges available to the highest earners at universities.
Factual Timeshift: Crime & Punishment - The Story of Corporal Punishment 9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC4
Documentary examining the use of physically imposed discipline, and how attitudes toward its application have changed over the years. The film investigates the ways schools, religion and the justice system have been involved with corporal punishment, and how its imposition has also provoked debate from a sexual aspect. Part of the Justice season. ___________________________________________
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. ________________________________________
Pop's Greatest Dance Crazes April 8:00pm - 9:00pm BBC3
Robert Webb counts down from numbers 30 to 13 of top dance fads, using archive footage to explore how the choreography for songs including Macarena, Thriller, Vogue and Single Ladies became worldwide phenomena. Featuring contributions and re-enactments of the moves by Melanie C, Louie Spence, Rufus Hound, Bradley Macintosh, Katy Brand, Craig Revel Horwood, Richard O'Brien, MC Hammer, Carl Douglas, the Village People, Jarvis Cocker, Suggs, Andrew Stone, Shappi Khorsandi, Lisa Scott Lee and Whigfield. __________________________________________
Documentary
An in-depth examination of the mountain in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland, which at 13,025 ft, is one of Europe's most notorious peaks, especially its infamous north face. The documentary explores its history and provides testimonies of those who have climbed its forbidding slopes and the people who live in its shadow.
Documentary
Re-Trial by TV: The Rise and Fall of Rough Justice 9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC4
How do people feel about our justice system? If you think it's soft on criminals, it wasn't always so, as this excellent Time Shift on the BBC series Rough Justice reminds us. For 27 years, from 1980 onwards, its investigations into miscarriages of justice led to the freeing of 18 people wrongfully convicted of serious crimes - we're told the series paved the way for the public to accept that the Guildford Four and Birmingham Six were innocent. It's an interesting story told with contributions from ex-policeman Brian Paddick, journalist Simon Heffer and presenter David Jessel, among others.Radio Times reviewer - Geoff Ellis
The Highest Court in the Land: Justice Makers 10:00pm - 11:00pm BBC4
Documentary in which four Justices of the Supreme Court, the UK's final court of appeal, talk about the nature of their work and how they make decisions. The programme explores how fair the rulings of the court's members - 10 men and one woman - are, and whether their feelings ever influence their judgements. In its first 14 months, cases included MPs' expenses, which resulted in the prosecution of David Chaytor, and amendments to the status of pre-nuptial agreements. Narrated by Aidan Gillett. Part of the Justice season.
Documentary
Eyewitness 11:00pm - 12:00am BBC4 1/3, series 1
How reliable are eyewitness accounts of violent crimes? Through a combination of drama, observational documentary, secret filming and interviews, the difference between what witnesses say they saw and what actually happened is revealed. On a break from taking part in tests and experiments, a group of volunteers go to a local pub for lunch, where some of them notice a "domestic" going on at one of the tables. What follows is an argument between three men, which escalates into a fight and ends in a fatal stabbing. The volunteers are now what the police call key and significant eyewitnesses, but how accurately can they recall the details of the crime, and how do their accounts differ? Narrated by Philip Glenister. ______________________________________________
Monday 4 April
News and current affairs Finished at Fifty? - Panorama 8:30pm - 9:00pm BBC1
Fiona Phillips investigates the difficulties unemployed people in their fifties face in finding work. The programme follows the progress of four case studies who have been challenged by former business leader Digby Jones to change their approach to getting a job. Documentary Dispatches: Cashing in on Degrees 8:00pm - 9:00pm Channel 4 Journalist LauriePenny investigates the increasing commercialisation of higher education and asks what happens when universities scour the world for students and funds. She also looks at the pay, perks and privileges available to the highest earners at universities.
Factual Timeshift: Crime & Punishment - The Story of Corporal Punishment 9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC4
Documentary examining the use of physically imposed discipline, and how attitudes toward its application have changed over the years. The film investigates the ways schools, religion and the justice system have been involved with corporal punishment, and how its imposition has also provoked debate from a sexual aspect. Part of the Justice season. ___________________________________________
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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