These television programmes will be recorded by your LIS team next week. They will be made available to borrow from Adsetts in DVD format, as well as being viewable on campus using the VOD (Video On Demand) service. To use the VOD service just search for the individual programme title on the SHU Library Catalogue, then click on the VOD link.
If there are any other upcoming programmes you would like us to record please contact Geoff or any other member of your LIS team (see the Contact Information section of this blog).
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Title: The Great British Foreign Holiday
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 26 May 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Programme Type: Documentary
Performers: Mark Benton
Description: Mark Benton narrates a clip show looking at the
Brits when they go abroad, somewhere he claims to
be 'far away - outlandish, exotic and scary.
Frankly, we're terrified of it.'
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Title: 10 Things You Need to Know About Losing Weight
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 27 May 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC1
Programme Type: Documentary
Director: Chris Salt
Description: Documentary. Every year millions of people in
Britain try to lose weight, and most. We are
bombarded with advice about dieting and the
latest slimming fads. But what really works?
Medical journalist Michael Mosley investigates
the latest scientific breakthroughs in slimming,
uncovering ten of the simplest ways you can shed
those pounds. From the slimming secrets of soup
to our brain's response after skipping meals,
what he discovers may change the way you think
about diets and losing weight
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Title: Feasts
Episode: Japan
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 27 May 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Programme Type: Documentary
Director: Kari Lia
Description: Food writer Stefan Gates immerses himself in
extraordinary feasts and festivals. In Japan,
helps a Shinto priestess carry a wooden penis
around a suburb of Tokyo and joins the Baby Sumo
festival where parents compete to get their
children to cry first, to give them good luck for
the rest of their lives. Finally, he embarks on
the most amazing event of his life - the Naked
Man festival, which involves much drinking,
eating and nudity, as traditional Japanese
reserve is literally stripped away
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Title: The Apprentice
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 27 May 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC1
Programme Type: Documentary
Category: Reality TV
Description: Reality series. Sir Alan sets the teams the task
of selling on live TV. From thousands of
products, they must select the ones they think
they can sell best during just one hour of live
television. The candidates all set out to prove
what they are made of, but Sir Alan is not in the
market for a TV presenter; he wants someone with
real business flair. When the cameras roll and
the candidates go live, even the more experienced
sales people discover being natural does not
always come naturally
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Title: The Apprentice: You're Fired
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 27 May 09, 22:00 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Programme Type: Documentary
Category: Reality TV
Description: Companion discussion show to the Apprentice, with
Adrian Chiles. Meet the candidate who, in a task
involving selling products on a shopping channel,
failed to impress the boss. Counting the cost of
what went wrong are Sir Alan's aide Margaret
Mountford, comedian Rufus Hound and shopping
channel owner Hasfa Abubacker
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Title: Keep It in the Family
Episode: Austin's Department Store
Broadcast Info: Thursday 28 May 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Programme Type: Documentary
Director: Chris Williams
Performers: Lesley Sharp
Description: Series looking at family businesses where the next
generation is unwilling to take over. Established
in 1830, Austin's of Derry is the oldest
department store in the world. Luke Hasson, the
store's 66-year-old owner, is desperate to
retire. The eldest of his five daughters,
39-year-old Sinead, runs a successful business in
recruitment, and her only retail experience is as
a teenage Saturday girl. Is she willing to give
up her life in London to help save the family
firm in Northern Ireland?
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