Tuesday, 3 November 2009

TV and Radio Recordings: 7th-13th November 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 (7th-13th November 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: Alexander Armstrong's Very British Holiday
Broadcast Info: Sunday 08 Nov 09, 22:25 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC1
Description: Alexander Armstrong explores the state of the
great British holiday. It is widely acknowledged
that 2009 is a bumper year for the UK tourist
industry, with many consumers tightening their
belts and forgoing foreign holidays. Can Britain's
destinations cope with the masses, and is the
industry prepared for the demands of its guests?
Alexander explores life in themed hotels, quaint
and quirky B&Bs, family-run holiday parks and
unusual attractions. For some their livelihood is
at stake
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Title: Britain's Really Disgusting Food: Dairy
Broadcast Info: Monday 09 Nov 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC3
Description: Alex Riley is on the hunt for the most disgusting
dairy product. Along the way he discovers the
cheap nasty dairy substitutes and that even milk,
the purest dairy product, has its unpalatable side
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Title: John Sergeant on the Tourist Trail
Episode: Green and Pleasant Land
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 10 Nov 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: ITV1
Description: John Sergeant takes a journey around Britain and
meets tourists of all nationalities. In this
episode John joins some Californian gardening
enthusiasts at RHS Wisley in Surrey. Then he is
off to the Isle of Man to meet 10,000 Germans
there for the annual TT race, followed by
monster-hunting on Loch Ness, visiting the Lake
District with some Japanese Beatrix Potter fans,
and enjoying the Welsh Eisteddfod with a group of
visitors from Java. Finally he revisits his
childhood home at Great Tew in the Cotswolds
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Title: Jimmy's Food Factory
Episode: Preserving
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 11 Nov 09, 19:30 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC1
Description: Entertaining science series in which farmer Jimmy
Doherty explores the truth behind supermarket food
production. In this programme he tries to copy
some of the methods that food companies use to
preserve food. He finds out why peas have to be
frozen within hours of picking and attempts to
suck all the water out of strawberries. He also
discovers how heat rather than artificial
preservatives prolong the life of ready meals and
visits the world's biggest baked beans factory
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Radio Recordings:

Title: Calling Time On Student Bars
Broadcast Info: Monday 09 Nov 09, 11:00 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC Radio 4
Description: Alcohol sales in student unions have halved in
past decade; some bars have closed, and others
have downsized. Comedian Ed Byrne returns to the
city of his student days, Glasgow, to find out if
that notorious institution, the student union bar,
has had its day
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British Universities Film & Video Council (2009). Information from TRILT database, last accessed 3 November 2009 at: http://www.trilt.ac.uk/

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