The following television programmes will be recorded by your LIS team next week (24th-30th October 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).
Title: Dispatches: Do You Know What's In Your Breakfast?
Broadcast Info: Monday 26 Oct 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: Documentary. Journalist Jane Moore reveals how
nutritious the nation's breakfasts really are and
probes the marketing techniques employed by the
lucrative cereal and yoghurt industries. Moore
finds that some retailers and manufacturers are
unwilling to adopt the traffic light systems
recommended by food standards authorities
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Title: Restaurant In Your Home
Broadcast Info: Monday 26 Oct 09, 20:30 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Successful seafood restaurateurs and husband and
wife team Mike and Tina Pemberton show a young
couple exactly how to transform their small flat
in London into a restaurant for one night only.
They have to transform their flat, devise a menu,
choose the wine, recruit the diners, prepare and
serve the food, and then wait to see just how much
each diner is prepared to pay. There are tears,
tantrums and triumphs as experience and enthusiasm
join together in the kitchen with hilarious
results
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Title: The World's Greatest Money Maker: Evan Davis meets
Warren Buffett
Broadcast Info: Monday 26 Oct 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Warren Buffett is the greatest investor of all
time and his stock market exploits have made him
the richest person in the world. But Buffett lives
modestly in Omaha, in America's mid-West, and runs
his 150 billion dollar business with a staff of
just twenty. Evan Davis finds out about his
investment strategy and his eccentric lifestyle.
As the greed of the super-wealthy is criticised in
the current financial crisis, Davis asks whether
Warren Buffett is the acceptable face of the
filthy rich
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Title: Jimmy's Food Factory
Episode: What's in My Sandwich?
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 28 Oct 09, 19:30 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC1
Description: Science series in which farmer Jimmy Doherty tries
to find out what really goes into supermarket
food. His novel approach is to set up a food
factory in a barn and recreate his own versions.
In this programme Jimmy asks, 'What's really in my
sandwich?'. How does supermarket bread stay soft
for over a week? If processed cheese only contains
60% cheese, what else is in it? He also discovers
the lengths to which one bagged-salad producer
goes to ensure we never find a caterpillar or bug
in our bag
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Title: Ruth Watson's Hotel Rescue
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 28 Oct 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: Hotelier and food writer Ruth Watson attempts to
assist couples starting out in hotel ownership.
Ambitious couple Louise and Liam aim to convert a
property in Margate into a luxury bed and
breakfast, but spiralling costs and the building's
devaluation threaten the project
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Title: Did Heston Change Little Chef?
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 28 Oct 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: Six months after attempting to turn around the
fortunes of troubled restaurant chain Little Chef,
Heston Blumenthal revisits the trial branch in
Popham to see how things panned out and whether
profits are up
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British Universities Film & Video Council (2009). Information from TRILT database, last accessed 20 October 2009 at: http://www.trilt.ac.uk/
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