The following television programmes will be recorded by your LIS team next week (12-18 September 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: Dragons' Den: On Tour
Broadcast Info: Sunday 13 Sep 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: The Dragons head back on the road proving that,
even in tough times, entrepreneurialism is
fighting fit in our cities, towns and villages.
The tour heads into London for episode two where
there's a visit to one of the most successful
entrepreneurs not to get investment - Shaun
Pulfrey and his Tangle Teezer brush. But will
Duncan Bannatyne agree with Shaun that the
Dragons got it wrong?
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Title: The Hairy Bikers' Food Tour of Britain
Broadcast Info: Daily, 17:15 (45 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Series following the Hairy Bikers as they visit
different counties across Britain in search of
the tastiest regional food specialities.
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Title: Economy Gastronomy
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 15 Sep 09, 19:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Top chefs Allegra McEvedy and Paul Merrett
demonstrate ways to slash food bills and improve
diets. Douglas is a primary school head teacher
in East London and Jonathan is a charity
fundraiser. They have a baby daughter, Ellen aged
3. With their conflicting schedules, it's a
struggle to cook food that all three of them want
to eat at the same time. Ellen should have
graduated to proper food by now but chicken
dippers and still-frozen peas are still the order
of the day
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Title: Tweed
Episode: Harassed Tweed
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 15 Sep 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Series examining the Harris Tweed industry.
Textile baron Brian Haggas is not making any more
tweed before he has sold the thousands of jackets
he still has. As the islanders finish celebrating
Christmas, he flies in for another dramatic act to
completely close down the mill and lay off the
workforce. At this low point in the story, a new
chief executive of the Harris Tweed Authority
begins work. She is charged with getting the
cloth out of the doldrums and back onto the world
stage
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Title: Newsnight Special: Aftershock
Episode: The Crash - A Year On
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 15 Sep 09, 22:30 (65 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Jeremy Paxman presents a special about the
anniversary of the credit crash
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Title: Dragons' Den Online
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 16 Sep 09, 21:30 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Radio 1's Dom Byrne is our guide to Dragons' Den
Online, the underground version of the hit BBC
Two show that has been operating exclusively
online until now. Dom shows us some of his
favourite raw pitches that have been submitted to
the site, including Graeme and Tom Hill's Mpod and
Victor Scott's commuter-friendly trolley trike.
Plus Brian Loughborough's economical haircare
solution and Christine Turner-Crowe's Hay
Hammock. We also get to see Online Dragons Shaf
Rasul and Julie Meyer in action. With the Dragons
investing their own money, only the best ideas and
inventions will secure a deal. Who will be
successful this time? London based linguist
Marcus Reoch hopes the Dragons will be speaking
his language when he presents his Mandarin
Chinese tuition business. Will Lisa and Matthew
Penn come away with a snug deal for their Cosy
Shopper baby blanket? Finally, serial
entrepreneur Alexi Deak is seeking 50,000 pounds
for his social networking site Family Fridge, but
will he be left out in the cold?
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Title: Dolce Vito - Dream Restaurant
Broadcast Info: Thursday 17 Sep 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. It is the day of the big opening.
Will Vito's Italian staff cope with his British
menu, and will the VIP guests give his restaurant
the seal of approval? Back in the UK, Vito
searches for the best whiskeys in Scotland
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Title: The Love of Money
Episode: The Age of Risk
Broadcast Info: Thursday 17 Sep 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: The second part of the BBC's series on the global
crash examines the boom years before the bust.
With testimony from many of the key decision
makers, including Gordon Brown and Mervyn King,
and featuring an exclusive interview with Alan
Greenspan, it charts how the financial bubble
grew and grew. The programme explains how we
changed our attitude to risk, learnt to live with
debt and, above all, how governments stepped back
from regulating any of it. At the heart of the
story is Alan Greenspan
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