If there are any other programmes you'd like us to record, which are not on this list, please contact Geoff or any other member of the LIS team (see the Contact Information section on this blog).
------------------------------------------Title: Dispatches
Episode: Britain's Bankers: Still Cashing In
Broadcast Info: Monday 18 May 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: Current affairs series. Jane Moore investigates
the British bankers who helped cause the credit
crunch and who have been amply rewarded for their
failings. She shows the extraordinary number of
ways bankers were remunerated, from a variety of
incentives and huge pension pots, to funds for
'extras' such as dentist bills
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Title: Pay Drop Britain: Tonight
Broadcast Info: Monday 18 May 09, 20:00 (30 mins)
Channels: ITV1
Description: Would you take a pay drop to save your job? Fiona
Foster reports on the companies cutting wages or
hours to stave off redundancies. And what are
your rights if you find yourself in this
position?
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Title: The Trouble with Working Women
Episode: Why Can't a Woman Succeed Like a Man?
Broadcast Info: Monday 18 May 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: In the first of two programmes, Sophie Raworth and
Justin Rowlatt investigate what we really think of
women at work. Why do men still hold the top jobs?
Can women have it all? Has gender equality gone
too far? Sophie and Justin track down a
businesswoman who refuses to employ females of
child-bearing age, go head-to-head on a
testosterone-fuelled trading floor, head for the
MET's shooting range, and quiz a professor who is
overseeing the world's largest study into the
effects of childcare
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Title: The Trouble with Working Women
Episode: Why Can't a Woman Earn As Much As a Man?
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 19 May 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: In the second of two provocative programmes,
Sophie Raworth and Justin Rowlatt look at pay.
The pair meet professionals, mums and academics,
and do some of their own tests, asking whether
sexism is at play or if there are more complex
reasons for the fact that, several decades after
the Equal Pay Act, there is still a pay gap
between men and women
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Title: Blood, Sweat and Takeaways
Episode: Tuna
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 19 May 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC3
Description: Six young British food consumers go to live and
work alongside the millions of people in south
east Asia's food production industries. They
tackle Indonesia's tuna industry in Bitung on the
island of Sulawesi. In the UK, we consume over a
billion tins of tuna a year and Bitung's
canneries supply to many supermarkets and
sandwich chains. The Brits live with tuna workers
in basic communities, endure the heat in the
canneries and struggle with the harsh realities
of life on a traditional tuna boat
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Title: Feasts
Episode: India
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 20 May 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Food writer Stefan Gates immerses himself in some
of the most extraordinary feasts and festivals on
earth. He makes a journey across India to discover
how feasts and celebration both divide and bring
together a turbulent nation. He is shocked to see
how much extravagance and social engineering there
is in an expensive showpiece Rajasthani Hindu
wedding. In Kerala, he experiences the
bewildering festival of Onam, a Hindu celebration
that brings this massive state of millions of
people together
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Title: The Apprentice
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 20 May 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC1
Description: Reality series. With just seven candidates
remaining, Sir Alan sends the teams to London's
Olympia, to sell baby products at the country's
biggest baby show. Success depends on choosing
the right products, and the candidates have one
day to check out a range of innovative new baby
products. Failure to pick the right one could
cost them the task. With hundreds of other
exhibitors at the show, competition is fierce.
Can the candidates adapt their usual hard-sell
techniques?
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Title: The Apprentice: You're Fired
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 20 May 09, 22:00 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Companion discussion show to the Apprentice, with
Adrian Chiles. Meet the candidate who, in a task
to select products at The Baby Show, fell on the
nursery slopes. Counting the cost of what went
wrong are comedian Hugh Dennis, singer and
performer Michael Ball and the MD of JoJo Maman
Bebe, Laura Tenison
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Title: Keep It in the Family
Episode: Forest Farm
Broadcast Info: Thursday 21 May 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Twenty-eight-year-old Sarah manages a delicatessen
in Glasgow's trendy West End, but now the future
of her family's 400-acre dairy farm in Kent rests
on her shoulders. The farm was established by
Sarah's 98-year-old grandfather Robert, who still
lives on the estate. Sarah has a week to learn
about milking, feeding, animal husbandry and the
running of the business before deciding whether
to leave her city life to keep the family
business alive
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