Oxstalls Off-Air Recordings. Week 8 November 13th - November 19th 2010

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 November

Film
A Clockwork Orange 10:30pm - 1:20am ITV4

Withdrawn from release by director Stanley Kubrick in 1974 and officially unseen until 1999 (after his death), A Clockwork Orange suffers from an artificially inflated degree of mythology. Adapted from the 1962 Anthony Burgess novel about anarchic, slang-spouting yobs ("droogs") in a grey, divided, dystopian future, it was shocking then and still is today, particularly the rape and sadistic "ultraviolence" in the first half. But such unpleasant excesses make important points about the dangers of a two-tier totalitarian society, and the scenes in which ringleader Alex (Malcolm McDowell) is relentlessly brainwashed into submission by the state send an ambiguous message. Kubrick's vision is a thing to behold; whether or not it's an actual masterpiece is still up for debate. What it is, however, is prescient, visceral, compelling and hard to forget.

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Monday 15th November

Documentary
Tax the Fat: Panorama 8:30pm - 9:00pm BBC1

Shelley Jofre investigates whether putting up the price of sugar and junk food would cut obesity rates in the same way that a tax on cigarettes has helped reduce smoking. In addition to visiting Denmark, the first country in the world to introduce such a move, she talks to Health Secretary Andrew Lansley - and meets families who would end up paying 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.