Here is a list of TV programmes that your Learning & Information Sevices (LIS) team will be recording for the Sheffield Business School next week (20th-26th June 2009).
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 of this blog).
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Title: China's Capitalist Revolution
Broadcast Info: Saturday 20 Jun 09, 19:30 (90 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Twenty years after the tragic events in Tiananmen
Square in Beijing, this documentary argues that
it was Deng Xiaoping's capitalist revolution that
created today's China, and reveals a new
interpretation of the motives of the
demonstrators. Deng overturned Maoism, which had
left China in chaos and poverty, although his
crash course in capitalism went wrong when
inflation grew and workers lost jobs, and China
faced disaster by 1989
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Title: STRIKE NIGHT: Strike: When Britain Went to War
Broadcast Info: Saturday 20 Jun 09, 21:00 (130 mins)
Channels: More4
Description: Feature-length documentary looking at the huge
political and social changes in Britain sparked
by the closing of 20 coalmines in 1984. It was an
era-defining moment in which the ultimate left
wing of the country led by Arthur Scargill took
on the polar opposite Thatcherite Tory Party.
With archive footage and many key players from
both sides including politicians, pop stars,
police and of course the miners and their
families
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Title: STRIKE NIGHT: Which Side Are You On?
Broadcast Info: Saturday 20 Jun 09, 23:10 (65 mins)
Channels: More4
Description: Ken Loach introduces his affectionate look at the
songs and poems inspired by the miners' strike in
1984. Those featured include singer Dick Gaughan,
comedian Mike Elliott, redundant miner Mog
Williams and Kay Sutcliffe, the wife of a
striking miner. Originally commissioned by the
South Bank Show, the documentary - which was shot
during the industrial action - was not aired
because of its 'controversial' views
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Title: STRIKE NIGHT: The Battle of Orgreave
Broadcast Info: Sunday 21 Jun 09, 00:15 (80 mins)
Channels: More4
Description: A partial re-enactment of the clash between
striking miners and police in the Yorkshire
village of Orgreave in 1984, directed by Mike
Figgis and conceived by Turner Prize-winning
artist Jeremy Deller. As well as reliving one of
the most violent stand-offs of the 1984-85
miners' strike, the film hears from former MP
Tony Benn and those who experienced the
confrontation first-hand
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Title: Oz and James Drink to Britain
Broadcast Info: Sunday 21 Jun 09, 19:30 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Oz Clarke and James May travel through Britain and
Ireland to discover the amazing array of drinks on
offer. They start their journey on top of the
White Cliffs and travel north to Yorkshire and
Derbyshire to discover exactly what goes into a
pint of beer. Oz tracks down one of the most
northerly commercial vineyards in the country,
and for the final part of the first leg of their
trip they take to the rails, enjoying the beers
in a string of real ale pubs located on station
platforms
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Title: The Way We Travelled
Broadcast Info: Monday 22 Jun 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Second in a three-part series recalling holiday
and travel guides that have graced British
television screens focuses on travel's 'golden
girls', Anne Gregg, Judith Chalmers and Jill
Dando and follows their journeys as the
programmes and destinations became more
adventurous
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Title: The Supersizers Eat... Medieval
Broadcast Info: Monday 22 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 medieval England to live the life of a Lord and
Lady. Taking on the role of 100 servants is
Michelin-starred chef and Anglo-Saxon lookalike
Martin Blunos. During an exhausting week, Giles
becomes a chivalrous knight and goes off to
experience the food of a crusader, while Sue
learns to play the harp
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Title: The Secret Life of the Airport
Episode: Joining the Jet Set
Broadcast Info: Monday 22 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 explores the golden age of jet
travel, when 'money, tickets, passport' became
the mantra of the moving masses. Using archive
and contributions from early travellers and
airport workers, it looks at how airports
expanded our horizons and the repercussions for
British society. Contributors include Deyan
Sudjic and Sarfraz Manzoor
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Title: Jet Set
Broadcast Info: Monday 22 Jun 09, 22:00 (40 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: A look at the glamorous heyday of the
international jet set from the 1950s to the
1970s, the golden age before celebrity became a
dirty word. Contributors include former Formula
One world champion Jackie Stewart, psychologist
Dr Martyn Dyer Smith, society columnist Ross
Benson, travel writer Simon Calder, Concorde
pilot Christopher Orlebar and former women's
magazine editor Marcelle d'Argy Smith
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Title: The World's Best Diet
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 23 Jun 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: ITV1
Description: Jonathan Maitland presents a two-part programme in
which four overweight celebrities adopt the diets
of other cultures that have bucked the obesity
trend, to see who emerges the healthiest and
loses the most weight. Today cricketer Darren
Gough travels to Italy while Cheryl Baker from
Bucks Fizz heads to India. Meanwhile, Jonathan
decides to adopt the diet his post-war parents
would have endured
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Title: Mary Portas: Save Our Shops
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 23 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: As the recession continues to affect the nation's
shopping habits, retail guru Mary Portas attempts
to save not just a single shop but the entire town
centre of Tewkesbury. What can be done to prevent
shop closures here and on increasingly
beleaguered high streets throughout Britain?
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Title: I'm Running Sainsbury's
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 23 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. Joseph Showler is
fast-tracked from supervisor to manager after
pitching an inventive idea to the executive team.
Will he handle the pressure of running a busy
branch of the chain in central London?
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Title: Undercover Boss
Broadcast Info: Thursday 25 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: High-flying company executives go undercover to
ensure their businesses are in good shape.
Stephen Martin, the chief executive of
construction business the Clugston Group, adopts
a false guise and takes on a variety of lower
level jobs to ensure the company 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 25 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Series telling 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.
As the oil industry boomed in the early 1980s,
dozens of new platforms were built, bringing in
billions of pounds of taxes to the Treasury. But
before the decade was out the boom would turn to
bust with the collapse of the global price of
oil, and the industry would be rocked a succession of tragedies
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