Tuesday, 13 October 2009

TV and Radio Recordings: 17th-23rd October 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 (17th-23rd October 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).

TV Recordings:

Title: Dragons' Den Online
Broadcast Info: Monday 19 Oct 09, 22:15 (15 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Radio 1's Dominic 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 Gavin Watson's fitness
proposition and Paul Gomm's posture-friendly
LapDesk. We also get to see Online Dragons Shaf
Rasul and Julie Meyer in action. Musician Warren
Cole is seeking 25,000 pounds for his patriotic
football song but will his pitch be music to the
Dragons' ears?
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Title: The Flying Car: Daredevils
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 20 Oct 09, 22:00 (65 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: A series of films exploring what compels some
people to risk their lives in order to push
themselves to the physical and mental limits of
human capability. Young British inventor Gilo
Cardozo teams up with former SAS soldier Neil
Laughton in a bid to travel from London to
Timbuktu using the world's first practical flying
car
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Title: Dishing the Dirt
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 20 Oct 09, 22:35 (60 mins)
Channels: ITV1
Description: Series looking at Britain's food industry, using
undercover footage and expert interviews to show
what really goes on behind closed doors in
restaurants and takeaways. Today an undercover
researcher is sent to expose a filthy Greek
restaurant in London. The owner has been in
trouble before, but will the authorities finally
be able to shut him down? An environmental health
inspector tries to help a posh restaurant in
Mayfair clean up its kitchen. Plus a pest
controller visits three Indian restaurants on
Manchester's Curry Mile
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Title: Jimmy's Food Factory
Episode: Breakfast

Broadcast Info: Wednesday 21 Oct 09, 19:30 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC1
Description: Science series in which farmer Jimmy Doherty asks
what really goes into supermarket food. To find
out, he takes a surprising and novel approach,
setting up his own food factory in a barn. Inside
the barn he makes his own versions of supermarket
food, knocking together make-shift factory
production lines to see what they are really doing
to our food. In this programme, he makes breakfast
from scratch. Why is the most nutritious part of
the corn removed from cornflakes? Jimmy tries to
find out
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Title: Ruth Watson's Hotel Rescue
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 21 Oct 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Programme Type: Documentary
Description: Hotelier and food writer Ruth Watson attempts to
assist couples starting out in hotel ownership.
Essex businessman Michael Chittenden and his
partner Tammy plan to renovate Clacton-on-Sea's
famous Victorian hotel The Royal. But rather than
a classic, tasteful renovation, they will create
themed rooms unless Ruth can convince them
otherwise
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Title: Who Made Me Fat?
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 21 Oct 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC3
Director: Suzanne Davis
Description: Why are we so fat and is it really all our own
stupid fault? Becca Wilcox sets out to find the
real culprits behind Britain's obesity epidemic,
the secret feeders who are making fat profits from
our ever-expanding waistlines
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Radio Recordings:

Title: Olympic Debate
Broadcast Info: Thursday 22 Oct 09, 18:00 (90 mins)
Channels: BBC Radio 5
Description: Lord Sebastian Coe joins Peter Allen for a live
Olympic debate as part of 5 live's Octoberfest.
What will 2012 bring to the UK beyond London?
Katharine Merry, Steve Parry and guests join the
debate, with a live audience at the Feren's Art
Gallery in Hull

British Universities Film & Video Council (2009). Information from TRILT database, last accessed 13 October 2009 at: http://www.trilt.ac.uk/

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