TV Recordings: 25th-31st July 2009

Here is a list of TV programmes that your Learning & Information Sevices (LIS) team will be recording for the Sheffield Business School next week (25th-31st July 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 your LIS team (see the Contact Information section of this blog).

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Title: Bernard Madoff: 65 Billion Dollar Swindle
Broadcast Info: Sunday 26 Jul 09, 22:00 (70 mins)
Channels: More4
Description: Martin Smith presents a profile of disgraced
financier Bernard Madoff, who was sentenced to
150 years in prison in June 2009 for defrauding
investors out of billions of dollars in a Ponzi
scheme. The programme follows his career from his
first job in his father in-law's firm to his
incarceration, featuring interviews with some of
his closest colleagues and associates
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Title: What to Eat Now
Broadcast Info: Monday 27 Jul 09, 20:30 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Valentine Warner continues his guide to seasonal
cooking and eating, this time concentrating on
the culinary delights of summer. Valentine gives
his top tips on how to make truly memorable meals
for summer lunches, plus refreshing drinks that
are guaranteed to keep you cool. He also finds
out that there is such a thing as a free lunch,
as he harvests wild herbs on a field trip to
Glastonbury. Finally, he meets a gardening club
who share his passion for fresh peas, and creates
lavender cream meringues
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Title: The Hotel Inspector
Episode: Rose and Crown
Broadcast Info: Monday 27 Jul 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Five
Description: Alex Polizzi transforms failing hotels across the
UK. Alex visits the market town of Wisbech, where
the 300-year-old Rose and Crown is in crisis. Can
the hotel inspector convince owners Jacquie and
Jonathan to eliminate the mountains of paperwork
strangling their business?
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Title: The Supersizers Eat... Ancient Rome
Broadcast Info: Monday 27 Jul 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Restaurant critic Giles Coren and performer and
broadcaster Sue Perkins travel back to the early
days of the Roman Empire. Living in a splendid
villa, Senator Giles dons a toga while Vestal
Virgin Sue dresses in tunics and keeps the fires
of Rome burning. Italian chef and cookery writer
Valentina Harris slaves away in the marbled
kitchen, cooking extraordinary meals including
the stinking fish sauce known as garum. Giles and
Sue try the popular Roman snack lagana while
attending the Colosseum
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Title: Dragons' Den
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 29 Jul 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Visitors to the Den appeal to the multimillionaire
Dragons for investment in their budding
businesses. Launching a new musical is a
notoriously risky venture, but will Kent-based
theatre director and former Pebble Mill presenter
Josephine Buchan hit the right note in her quest
for cash? East London brothers Oliver and Toby
Richmond hope there will be no stalling when they
ask the Dragons to invest in their car servicing
company. A former GCSE project takes centre stage
when Welsh student Emily Webb asks for 75,000
pounds to take her invention to market, and Rugby
duo Frank Drewett and Lawrence Webb hope a
Dragon's backing will help lift the lid on the
potential of their wheelie bin accessory
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Title: Rick Stein's Far Eastern Odyssey
Broadcast Info: Thursday 30 Jul 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Rick Stein takes the viewer on an epic culinary
journey by sea, down rivers and overland to
explore the Far East's diverse food cultures. He
continues his odyssey in Thailand where he meets
up with one of his heroes, David Thompson, a man
who has immersed his professional life into
understanding Thai cuisine. Later, Rick takes a
train south to Phuket to learn the art of hot and
sour tom yum goong, the culinary icon of Thailand.
Finally, he visits Melaka, once the heart of the
spice trade, to enjoy the delights of Nyonya
cuisine
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Title: Rock 'n' Roll Hotel
Broadcast Info: Friday 31 Jul 09, 22:35 (40 mins)
Channels: BBC1
Description: Documentary following the construction of a new
boutique hotel in London. Mark Fuller, nightclub
owner, entrepreneur and host to the stars, has a
new venture: Sanctum Soho, London's first rock
'n' roll-themed boutique hotel. Its 30
individually designed rooms are aimed at rock
stars and celebrities wanting to stay in the
capital. Eight weeks ahead of opening, Sanctum
still looks like a building site. Launching in
one of the worst recessions in living memory,
it's two years late and the cost of the build has
spiralled. Amid delays and disasters, Mark wonders
whether Sanctum will open on time and on budget