Wednesday, 5 August 2009

TV and Radio Recordings: 8th-14th August 2009

Here is a list of TV and radio programmes that your Learning & Information Sevices (LIS) team will be recording for the Sheffield Business School next week.

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).

TV Recordings:

Title: Panorama
Episode: The Truth About Happy Hour
Broadcast Info: Monday 10 Aug 09, 20:30 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC1
Description: Panorama visits the town tackling binge drinking
with a radical new approach. Richard Bilton looks
at reclaiming Britain's town centres from the
drunk and violent, with the bar that makes it too
difficult to get drunk and the battle against
cheap drink promotions
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Title: What to Eat Now
Broadcast Info: Monday 10 Aug 09, 20:30 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Valentine Warner concludes his guide to seasonal
cooking and eating by focusing on the very best
summer fruits. He hopes for divine assistance
when he makes a heavenly summer pudding for an
order of Benedictine nuns, and engages in a
battle of the berries to see who should be
crowned king - the raspberry or the strawberry.
He also celebrates the arrival of the British
cherry season with a sumptuous cherry pie
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Title: The Hotel Inspector
Episode: African Queen
Broadcast Info: Monday 10 Aug 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Five
Description: Alex Polizzi transforms failing hotels across the
UK. Alex climbs aboard floating hotel the African
Queen. With the boat running at just 30 per cent
occupancy, owners Bonny and Andy are at breaking
point. Can the hotel inspector throw this
beleaguered couple a life jacket?
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Title: Rock 'n' Roll Hotel
Broadcast Info: Friday 14 Aug 09, 22:35 (40 mins)
Channels: BBC1
Description: Documentary. As Mark Fuller reaches the middle of
March 2009, work on the hotel is finally nearing
completion. He desperately needs the hotel to
open and start making money. But hours before a
vital building inspection, disaster strikes as a
pipe bursts, flooding the entire reception. With
the pressure on, will Mark get Sanctum ready in
time for his celeb-filled grand opening?
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Radio Recordings:

Title: The Money Grab
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 05 Aug 09, 15:00 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC Radio 4
Description: First of two programmes in which Alvin Hall
explores the rise in corporate pay and bonus
culture. Starting in the 1980s, with Wall
Street's mantra of 'greed is good', Alvin charts
the changes in the finance world which led to a
new generation of multi-millionaires. He reveals
how big businesses calculate super salaries, and
asks how much is enough; can a company suffer
from paying its top talent too much?
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Title: The Money Grab
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 12 Aug 09, 15:00 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC Radio 4
Description: In the second of two programmes, Alvin Hall
explores the rise in corporate pay and bonus
culture. He meets the politicians and
shareholders looking to rein in sky-high
executive salaries and asks if their cause is a
realistic one. Will the era of big bonuses soon
be over, or can the finance world's top talent
always name their price?
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Title: Selling Cheese to the Chinese
Broadcast Info: Friday 14 Aug 09, 11:00 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC Radio 4
Description: Mukul Devichand travels to Shanghai to tell the
story of the Europeans who are trying to persuade
China's expanding middle class that it is worth
ditching their noodles and soya and paying for
pricey European fine foods instead. He explores a
world of classes in western table manners, Single
Malt Karaoke and Shanghai jazz DJs who broadcast
shows about brie and camembert. Beneath the
colourful marketing, Mukul discovers that the
story of food helps to reveal who the new Chinese
middle classes really are

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