The following television programmes will be recorded by your LIS team next week (15th-21st August 2009). 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 TV 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: Future of Food
Broadcast Info: Monday 17 Aug 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: George Alagiah travels the world to reveal a
growing global food crisis. With food riots on
three continents recently, and unprededented
competition for food due to population growth and
changing diets, there is a looming problem. George
joins a Masai chief among the skeletons of cattle
he has lost to climate change, and the English
farmer who tells him why food production in the
UK is also hit. He investigates what is wrong
with people's diets and talks to top nutritionist
Susan Jebb, DEFRA minister Hilary Benn and Nobel
laureate Rajendra Pachauri to uncover what the
future holds for our food
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Title: The Hotel Inspector
Episode: Glangrwyney Court
Broadcast Info: Monday 17 Aug 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Five
Description: Alex Polizzi transforms failing hotels across the
UK. Alex checks in to Glangrwyney Court in the
Black Mountains. Despite a five-star rating and a
reasonable occupancy rate, the guest-house is
bleeding cash at an alarming rate. Can Alex get
to the bottom of this money pit?
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Title: Virgin Cooks
Episode: The Brennans
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 18 Aug 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC3
Description: Chef Gordon Jones wants to get Britain's
households cooking tasty, healthy and fresh
meals, eating together and saving a fortune in
the process. He picks two virgin cooks from a
household and places them in a seven-day
head-to-head cookery competition. The Brennans -
dad Rob, mum Lyn and sons Jimmie and Ricky - are
a family of sports-mad Spurs supporters who eat
appalling food. Lyn takes on teenage son Jimmie,
with the winner getting to cook a three-course
menu for friends and family
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Title: Dragons' Den
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 19 Aug 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Another set of businessmen and -women pitch to the
multimillionaire Dragons for that all-important
financial backing. Samantha Gore returns with
another addition to her crime prevention business
and continued dreams of investment. Fellow
Mancunian and classical pianist David Schofield
is hoping his youthful take on the classics will
get a Dragon to finance his future recordings.
Also aiming to succeed is Ronan McCarthy from
Surrey with his 21st-century take on the shoe
polish booth
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Title: Rick Stein's Far Eastern Odyssey
Broadcast Info: Thursday 20 Aug 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.
Rick ends his culinary tour in Bangladesh, the
country that spawned thousands of 'Indian'
restaurants in Britain years ago. Not
surprisingly, curry is at the top of his list
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Title: Dolce Vito - Dream Restaurant
Broadcast Info: Thursday 20 Aug 09, 20:30 (30 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: Entrepreneur Vito Cataffo sets out on an epic
quest to prove that our food is the best in the
world by running a restaurant serving British
grub in Italy. Vito continues his search for the
perfect restaurant location and submits offers on
two properties. After both offers get tangled up
in a web of bureaucracy, Vito heads south to his
hometown of Benevento, where he finds a rural
restaurant that he hopes to transform into a
Tudor dining hall
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