The following 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 Way We Travelled
Broadcast Info: Monday 15 Jun 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: First in a three-part documentary series on how
holiday and travel programmes have changed the
British public's attitude to other countries and
cultures over the years. Including clips from
shows such as Richard Dimbleby's Passport, Cliff
Michelmore's Holiday in 1969, and from the
reports of Alan Whicker
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Title: The Supersizers Eat... The Eighties
Broadcast Info: Monday 15 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and
comedian Sue Perkins experience the food culture
of years gone by. In this programme, they go back
to the 1980s. After a Tory meal with Norman Tebbit
and Jeffrey Archer at Shepherd's restaurant in
Westminster, Sue samples Princess Diana's wedding
breakfast while Giles tries out the most expensive
champagne at the Stock Exchange. To round things
off, they enjoy a dinner party with guests Ken
Livingstone, Carol Decker, Lynne Franks and Toby
Young
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Title: The Secret Life of the Airport
Episode: Preparing for Take Off
Broadcast Info: Monday 15 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Series charting the development of Britain's
airports and how they have transformed the
country, in the process creating both freedom and
fear. This part takes us from the imperial glamour
of Britain's first airport terminal at Croydon to
the internationally-agreed hieroglyphics on
today's taxiways and runways. Using archive and
access to airports' hidden corners, it reveals
the local rivalry, skulduggery and sheer passion
for flight behind our airports. Contributors
include Lord Foster
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Title: Forty Minutes On
Episode: Darling Let's Set Up an Airline
Broadcast Info: Monday 15 Jun 09, 22:35 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Series which revisits and updates stories from the
classic documentary strand. In 1990, husband and
wife team Roy and Merlyn Suckling, who had
started the UK's smallest international airline,
were about to double the size of their fleet - by
acquiring a second plane. It was a classic tale of
plucky British determination. After a repeat of
the original film we revisit the Sucklings to
find out how they've fared in the face of
cut-throat competition in the toughest industry
of all
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Title: Great British Menu
Episode: Banquet
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 16 Jun 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: It is the grand finale of Great British Menu. The
nation's finest chefs have been battling it out
in the ultimate cookery contest. This one-hour
special follows the winning chefs as they journey
to the RAF's historic Halton House, where they
will prepare their dishes at a banquet to honour
the men and women from all three forces serving
in Afghanistan, with a glorious homecoming dinner
that captures the authentic tastes of home
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Title: Mary Queen of Charity Shops
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 16 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Retail guru Mary Portas aims to prove that charity
shops can be heavyweights on the high street. Mary
and her volunteers try to convince celebrities and
fashion editors to ditch their cutting-edge
outfits in favour of some of Mary's charity shop
finds. Five months of Mary's charity shop reforms
come to an end, but has she achieved her goal and
proved charity shops can compete on today's high
street?
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Title: I'm Running Sainsbury's
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 16 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: Series in which Sainsbury's chief executive Justin
King explores new business ideas suggested by
employees of the retail giant. A 27-year-old
Enfield checkout manager thinks customers should
complain more. His idea offers customers a chance
to air their grievances in store, and promises
that their problems will be solved within one
week
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Title: In the Firing Line
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 16 Jun 09, 22:00 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Paul Mason charts the moving story of two
Midlands-based manufacturing companies struggling
to survive the recession. With access to the
factories in question, the film follows the
job-saving measures being introduced, and meets
one company owner who has dedicated his life to
creating jobs that may now disappear
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Title: Youth Hostelling: The First 100 Years
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 17 Jun 09, 23:20 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Documentary telling the story of youth hostelling,
which was founded in 1909 in Germany and
established in Britain in 1930, through archive
film discovered at the Youth Hostel Association
HQ in Derbyshire. These films, which include
silent movies and video, chart the progress of
the movement, as well as our changing attitudes
towards 'youth' and the countryside. The images
show young people enjoying a new sense of freedom
- hiking, rock climbing, folk singing and even
skinny-dipping
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Title: Undercover Boss
Broadcast Info: Thursday 18 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: High-flying company executives go undercover to
ensure their businesses are in good shape. Andy
Edge, the company director of caravan holiday
enterprise Park Resorts, adopts a false guise and
takes on a variety of lower level jobs to ensure
the business is fighting fit, before revealing
his true identity to his unsuspecting employees
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Title: Crude Britannia: The Story of North Sea Oil
Broadcast Info: Thursday 18 Jun 09, 23:30 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Series combining archive footage and eye-witness
accounts to tell the story of North Sea oil and
gas from the 1960s to the present, offering a
fresh perspective on British politics and society
and an insight into the state of our economy
today. 40 years ago, Britain was poised on the
brink of an extraordinary discovery - billions of
gallons of oil deep beneath the North Sea. This
edition gives a voice to some of the men who made
that discovery and who risked their lives to get
the oil ashore
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Title: First Cut: Health Food Junkies
Broadcast Info: Friday 19 Jun 09, 19:30 (30 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: Showcase of bold and original documentaries from
up-and-coming filmmakers. Rowan Deacon meets a
group of devoted health food worshippers, the Raw
Foodists. Meat, fish, dairy, wheat and sugar are
banned from their plates, and anything they do
eat is completely raw as they believe heating
anything above 45 degrees Celsius destroys
essential enzymes and nutrients. Some even adhere
to a regimen of urine-drinking and enemas. But
when does a fixation with healthy eating become
an unhealthy habit?
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Title: The Fat Bribe Revisited: Tonight
Broadcast Info: Friday 19 Jun 09, 20:00 (30 mins)
Channels: ITV1 Yorkshire
Description: Fiona Foster examines whether an NHS pilot scheme
to pay obese people to lose weight could work.
She revisits a group of bingo workers to see if
they have managed to keep the weight off one year
after participating in a Tonight experiment where
they were paid cash to shed the pounds
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