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: TV Adverts' Greatest Hits
Broadcast Info: Saturday 27 Jun 09, 22:00 (130 mins)
Channels: More4
Description: From Coca-Cola to Levi's to the iPod, TV
advertising campaigns have launched or
re-launched some of the most successful pop
singles ever and spawned a lucrative love affair
between TV advertising and pop music. This
programme tells the story of the hits and misses
and takes a look at those who made their names in
the music business off the back of a TV advert
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Title: The Madoff Hustle: This World
Broadcast Info: Sunday 28 Jun 09, 19:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: On June 29th Bernie Madoff will be sentenced for
perpetrating an elaborate con. Willard Foxton,
whose father - a former British army officer -
committed suicide after losing his life savings
in Madoff's fraud, heads to the US to investigate
the con and its fallout. Narrated by Robert Vaughn
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Title: The Way We Travelled
Broadcast Info: Monday 29 Jun 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Last in a three-part series of documentaries on
how holiday and travel programmes have changed
the British public's attitude to other countries
and cultures over the years. The rise of
independent travel programmes such as Rough Guide
is featured, along with the more intrepid likes of
Michael Palin and Benedict Allen
Stereo
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Title: The Supersizers Eat... The Fifties
Broadcast Info: Monday 29 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. Giles and Sue go back to the
1950s, an era started on rations and ended by
Prime Minister Harold MacMillan remarking that
'we'd never had it so good'. Cookery writer Mary
Berry helps Sue become the perfect housewife as
they start the week on rations with canned salmon
and horse. Meanwhile, Giles has his real boss from
The Times round for Babycham and a dinner taken
from Elizabeth David's bestseller, Mediterranean
Food
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Title: The Secret Life of the Airport
Episode: The Final Approach
Broadcast Info: Monday 29 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. The final part takes us from the open,
easily accessible airport of late 1960s to one
besieged by present day security procedures and
climate protesters. Using rare archive and
eye-witness accounts, it reveals the events that
have shaped our experience and view of the modern
airport. Contributors include Lord Foster,
Jonathan Glancey and Will Self
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Title: The World's Best Diet
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 30 Jun 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: ITV1
Description: Conclusion of the two-part special. Four
overweight celebs are adopting the diets of other
cultures which have bucked the UK obesity trend to
see who will lose the most weight and emerge the
healthiest. Today actress Linda Robson and
columnist Carole Malone head to Japan and LA to
try out alternative ways of eating. Plus
presenter Jonathan Maitland reveals the winner of
the six-week challenge
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Title: Gregg Wallace's Recession Bites
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 30 Jun 09, 22:00 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: In the fourth programme of the series,
Masterchef's Gregg Wallace examines the effect of
the recession on the British food economy. It is
the UK's second biggest spend and the downturn is
affecting not only how much we fork out on food,
but also what we are putting in our shopping
baskets. Gregg looks at these shifting trends in
our shopping habits and how we are dictating what
the shops sell to us
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Title: True Stories: Pig Business
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 30 Jun 09, 22:00 (100 mins)
Channels: More4
Description: Documentary exposing intensive pig farming.
Eco-campaigner Tracy Worcester argues that
intensive production systems harm human and
environmental health, and is pushing traditional
farmers out of business. Tracy travels from the
UK to the US and Poland to investigate and meet
local people who believe that their health has
been affected by the new pig production methods.
She also confronts industrial farming executives
with her findings and argues that supermarket
labelling is not reliable
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Title: Gerry's Big Decision
Broadcast Info: Thursday 02 Jul 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: Entrepreneur Sir Gerry Robinson provides failing
businesses with a financial lifeline. Each week,
Gerry is presented with two struggling ventures
and must decide which, if any, to invest in. In
the opening episode of this new series, two
couples compete to save their brewery businesses
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Title: The Best Job in the World
Broadcast Info: Thursday 02 Jul 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC1
Description: Documentary following the marketing campaign for
an Australian state, which asked for potential
caretakers for a beautiful barrier reef island.
The job involves living in a luxury villa and
getting 70 thousand pounds for six months' work.
In the depths of credit-crunch January, the
campaign caught the world's imagination and
35,000 people applied from across the globe with
funny and original one minute videos highlighting
their talents
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Title: Crude Britannia: The Story of North Sea Oil
Broadcast Info: Thursday 02 Jul 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Series telling the story of North Sea oil and gas
from the 1960s to the present. The first Gulf War
of 1991 brought home the fragility of global
supplies of energy. Suddenly our North Sea oil
and gas were more important than ever, but there
were problems looming on the horizon. Getting rid
of redundant platforms brought oil companies into
a confrontation with an environmental movement
that was growing in confidence and influence
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