Here is a list of TV programmes that your Learning & Information Sevices (LIS) team will be recording for the Sheffield Business School next week (4th-10th July 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 the LIS team (see the Contact Information section of this blog).
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Title: When Diets Go Wrong
Broadcast Info: Sunday 05 Jul 09, 22:45 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC3
Director: Shirley Hunt-Benson
Description: Actress Mikyla Dodd has dealt with her own demons
by losing 11 stone, so she knows a thing or two
about diets. Mikyla takes a tour through a whole
range of dieting disasters as she discovers the
dangers of diet pills; talks to those whose diets
gave them saggy skin and smelly sweat; and meets
those whose extreme dieting put them under the
knife, brought on seizures and made their life an
addictive hell
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Title: What To Eat Now
Broadcast Info: Monday 06 Jul 09, 20:30 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Valentine Warner returns for a second series of
his guide to seasonal cooking and eating, this
time concentrating on the culinary delights of
summer. In this programme, Valentine tracks down
the best ingredients to make the summer barbecue
sizzle and reveals his top five barbecue tips,
the perfect way to cook beef on the grill, and
how to make a lobster meal that will take you to
a higher state of consciousness
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Title: The Supersizers Eat... The French Revolution
Broadcast Info: Monday 06 Jul 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and
comedian Sue Perkins experience the food culture
of years gone by. Giles and Sue go for a journey
back to Revolutionary France in the 1780s.
Donning wigs and corsets, Giles and Sue find out
what King Louis 16th ate, why Marie Antoinette
was so hated, and how the Revolution was
instrumental in creating the first restaurant and
first restaurant critic. French chef Mickael Weiss
from London's Coq d'Argent sweats it out to
provide the lavish banquets
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Title: The Hotel Inspector
Episode: Crown Inn
Broadcast Info: Monday 06 Jul 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Five
Description: New series of the show that transforms failing
hotels across the UK. No-nonsense hotelier Alex
Polizzi comes face to face with one of the worst
establishments she has ever visited - the Crown
Inn in Lewes. After a string of terrible internet
reviews and the loss of a precious star in the
Visit England ratings, can Alex restore this
filthy guesthouse to its former glory?
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Title: Supersave Me
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 08 Jul 09, 22:00 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: In the last of this Money Programme series looking
at Britain in recession, financial journalist and
author Merryn Somerset-Webb sets off to find out
what we should be doing with our money as risk is
high, interest rates are low and pensions are in
turmoil. Merryn gathers views on the latest
movements in property, high street savings,
stocks and shares, gold and other more exotic
investments
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Title: Gerry's Big Decision
Broadcast Info: Thursday 09 Jul 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: Entrepreneur Sir Gerry Robinson provides failing
businesses with a financial lifeline. Each week,
Gerry is presented with two struggling ventures
and must decide which, if any, to invest in. A
Lancashire chair manufacturer and a well-known
Devon pasty maker compete for funds
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
TV Recordings: 27th June - 3rd July 2009
The following television programmes will be recorded by your LIS team next week. 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 upcoming 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: TV Adverts' Greatest Hits
Broadcast Info: Saturday 27 Jun 09, 22:00 (130 mins)
Channels: More4
Description: From Coca-Cola to Levi's to the iPod, TV
advertising campaigns have launched or
re-launched some of the most successful pop
singles ever and spawned a lucrative love affair
between TV advertising and pop music. This
programme tells the story of the hits and misses
and takes a look at those who made their names in
the music business off the back of a TV advert
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Title: The Madoff Hustle: This World
Broadcast Info: Sunday 28 Jun 09, 19:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: On June 29th Bernie Madoff will be sentenced for
perpetrating an elaborate con. Willard Foxton,
whose father - a former British army officer -
committed suicide after losing his life savings
in Madoff's fraud, heads to the US to investigate
the con and its fallout. Narrated by Robert Vaughn
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Title: The Way We Travelled
Broadcast Info: Monday 29 Jun 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Last in a three-part series of documentaries on
how holiday and travel programmes have changed
the British public's attitude to other countries
and cultures over the years. The rise of
independent travel programmes such as Rough Guide
is featured, along with the more intrepid likes of
Michael Palin and Benedict Allen
Stereo
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Title: The Supersizers Eat... The Fifties
Broadcast Info: Monday 29 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and
comedian Sue Perkins experience the food culture
of years gone by. Giles and Sue go back to the
1950s, an era started on rations and ended by
Prime Minister Harold MacMillan remarking that
'we'd never had it so good'. Cookery writer Mary
Berry helps Sue become the perfect housewife as
they start the week on rations with canned salmon
and horse. Meanwhile, Giles has his real boss from
The Times round for Babycham and a dinner taken
from Elizabeth David's bestseller, Mediterranean
Food
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Title: The Secret Life of the Airport
Episode: The Final Approach
Broadcast Info: Monday 29 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Series charting the development of Britain's
airports and how they have transformed the
country, in the process creating both freedom and
fear. The final part takes us from the open,
easily accessible airport of late 1960s to one
besieged by present day security procedures and
climate protesters. Using rare archive and
eye-witness accounts, it reveals the events that
have shaped our experience and view of the modern
airport. Contributors include Lord Foster,
Jonathan Glancey and Will Self
------------------------------------------
Title: The World's Best Diet
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 30 Jun 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: ITV1
Description: Conclusion of the two-part special. Four
overweight celebs are adopting the diets of other
cultures which have bucked the UK obesity trend to
see who will lose the most weight and emerge the
healthiest. Today actress Linda Robson and
columnist Carole Malone head to Japan and LA to
try out alternative ways of eating. Plus
presenter Jonathan Maitland reveals the winner of
the six-week challenge
------------------------------------------
Title: Gregg Wallace's Recession Bites
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 30 Jun 09, 22:00 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: In the fourth programme of the series,
Masterchef's Gregg Wallace examines the effect of
the recession on the British food economy. It is
the UK's second biggest spend and the downturn is
affecting not only how much we fork out on food,
but also what we are putting in our shopping
baskets. Gregg looks at these shifting trends in
our shopping habits and how we are dictating what
the shops sell to us
------------------------------------------
Title: True Stories: Pig Business
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 30 Jun 09, 22:00 (100 mins)
Channels: More4
Description: Documentary exposing intensive pig farming.
Eco-campaigner Tracy Worcester argues that
intensive production systems harm human and
environmental health, and is pushing traditional
farmers out of business. Tracy travels from the
UK to the US and Poland to investigate and meet
local people who believe that their health has
been affected by the new pig production methods.
She also confronts industrial farming executives
with her findings and argues that supermarket
labelling is not reliable
------------------------------------------
Title: Gerry's Big Decision
Broadcast Info: Thursday 02 Jul 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: Entrepreneur Sir Gerry Robinson provides failing
businesses with a financial lifeline. Each week,
Gerry is presented with two struggling ventures
and must decide which, if any, to invest in. In
the opening episode of this new series, two
couples compete to save their brewery businesses
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Title: The Best Job in the World
Broadcast Info: Thursday 02 Jul 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC1
Description: Documentary following the marketing campaign for
an Australian state, which asked for potential
caretakers for a beautiful barrier reef island.
The job involves living in a luxury villa and
getting 70 thousand pounds for six months' work.
In the depths of credit-crunch January, the
campaign caught the world's imagination and
35,000 people applied from across the globe with
funny and original one minute videos highlighting
their talents
------------------------------------------
Title: Crude Britannia: The Story of North Sea Oil
Broadcast Info: Thursday 02 Jul 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Series telling the story of North Sea oil and gas
from the 1960s to the present. The first Gulf War
of 1991 brought home the fragility of global
supplies of energy. Suddenly our North Sea oil
and gas were more important than ever, but there
were problems looming on the horizon. Getting rid
of redundant platforms brought oil companies into
a confrontation with an environmental movement
that was growing in confidence and influence
If there are any other upcoming 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: TV Adverts' Greatest Hits
Broadcast Info: Saturday 27 Jun 09, 22:00 (130 mins)
Channels: More4
Description: From Coca-Cola to Levi's to the iPod, TV
advertising campaigns have launched or
re-launched some of the most successful pop
singles ever and spawned a lucrative love affair
between TV advertising and pop music. This
programme tells the story of the hits and misses
and takes a look at those who made their names in
the music business off the back of a TV advert
------------------------------------------
Title: The Madoff Hustle: This World
Broadcast Info: Sunday 28 Jun 09, 19:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: On June 29th Bernie Madoff will be sentenced for
perpetrating an elaborate con. Willard Foxton,
whose father - a former British army officer -
committed suicide after losing his life savings
in Madoff's fraud, heads to the US to investigate
the con and its fallout. Narrated by Robert Vaughn
------------------------------------------
Title: The Way We Travelled
Broadcast Info: Monday 29 Jun 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Last in a three-part series of documentaries on
how holiday and travel programmes have changed
the British public's attitude to other countries
and cultures over the years. The rise of
independent travel programmes such as Rough Guide
is featured, along with the more intrepid likes of
Michael Palin and Benedict Allen
Stereo
------------------------------------------
Title: The Supersizers Eat... The Fifties
Broadcast Info: Monday 29 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and
comedian Sue Perkins experience the food culture
of years gone by. Giles and Sue go back to the
1950s, an era started on rations and ended by
Prime Minister Harold MacMillan remarking that
'we'd never had it so good'. Cookery writer Mary
Berry helps Sue become the perfect housewife as
they start the week on rations with canned salmon
and horse. Meanwhile, Giles has his real boss from
The Times round for Babycham and a dinner taken
from Elizabeth David's bestseller, Mediterranean
Food
------------------------------------------
Title: The Secret Life of the Airport
Episode: The Final Approach
Broadcast Info: Monday 29 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Series charting the development of Britain's
airports and how they have transformed the
country, in the process creating both freedom and
fear. The final part takes us from the open,
easily accessible airport of late 1960s to one
besieged by present day security procedures and
climate protesters. Using rare archive and
eye-witness accounts, it reveals the events that
have shaped our experience and view of the modern
airport. Contributors include Lord Foster,
Jonathan Glancey and Will Self
------------------------------------------
Title: The World's Best Diet
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 30 Jun 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: ITV1
Description: Conclusion of the two-part special. Four
overweight celebs are adopting the diets of other
cultures which have bucked the UK obesity trend to
see who will lose the most weight and emerge the
healthiest. Today actress Linda Robson and
columnist Carole Malone head to Japan and LA to
try out alternative ways of eating. Plus
presenter Jonathan Maitland reveals the winner of
the six-week challenge
------------------------------------------
Title: Gregg Wallace's Recession Bites
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 30 Jun 09, 22:00 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: In the fourth programme of the series,
Masterchef's Gregg Wallace examines the effect of
the recession on the British food economy. It is
the UK's second biggest spend and the downturn is
affecting not only how much we fork out on food,
but also what we are putting in our shopping
baskets. Gregg looks at these shifting trends in
our shopping habits and how we are dictating what
the shops sell to us
------------------------------------------
Title: True Stories: Pig Business
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 30 Jun 09, 22:00 (100 mins)
Channels: More4
Description: Documentary exposing intensive pig farming.
Eco-campaigner Tracy Worcester argues that
intensive production systems harm human and
environmental health, and is pushing traditional
farmers out of business. Tracy travels from the
UK to the US and Poland to investigate and meet
local people who believe that their health has
been affected by the new pig production methods.
She also confronts industrial farming executives
with her findings and argues that supermarket
labelling is not reliable
------------------------------------------
Title: Gerry's Big Decision
Broadcast Info: Thursday 02 Jul 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: Entrepreneur Sir Gerry Robinson provides failing
businesses with a financial lifeline. Each week,
Gerry is presented with two struggling ventures
and must decide which, if any, to invest in. In
the opening episode of this new series, two
couples compete to save their brewery businesses
------------------------------------------
Title: The Best Job in the World
Broadcast Info: Thursday 02 Jul 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC1
Description: Documentary following the marketing campaign for
an Australian state, which asked for potential
caretakers for a beautiful barrier reef island.
The job involves living in a luxury villa and
getting 70 thousand pounds for six months' work.
In the depths of credit-crunch January, the
campaign caught the world's imagination and
35,000 people applied from across the globe with
funny and original one minute videos highlighting
their talents
------------------------------------------
Title: Crude Britannia: The Story of North Sea Oil
Broadcast Info: Thursday 02 Jul 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Series telling the story of North Sea oil and gas
from the 1960s to the present. The first Gulf War
of 1991 brought home the fragility of global
supplies of energy. Suddenly our North Sea oil
and gas were more important than ever, but there
were problems looming on the horizon. Getting rid
of redundant platforms brought oil companies into
a confrontation with an environmental movement
that was growing in confidence and influence
Friday, 19 June 2009
Edina Ag-Census service
We have access to this service until the end of July. Please feel free to look at it and let us know what you think!
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We are pleased to inform that your institution now has access to the EDINA agcensus service. You should be able to access through the 'login via UK Federation' button now.
To access the service please go to:
A quick reference guide and a service demonstration screencam are available for downloading from: http://edina.ac.uk/agcensus/support/
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
TV Recordings: 20th-26th June 2009
Here is a list of TV programmes that your Learning & Information Sevices (LIS) team will be recording for the Sheffield Business School next week (20th-26th June 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 the LIS team (see the Contact Information section of this blog).
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Title: China's Capitalist Revolution
Broadcast Info: Saturday 20 Jun 09, 19:30 (90 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Twenty years after the tragic events in Tiananmen
Square in Beijing, this documentary argues that
it was Deng Xiaoping's capitalist revolution that
created today's China, and reveals a new
interpretation of the motives of the
demonstrators. Deng overturned Maoism, which had
left China in chaos and poverty, although his
crash course in capitalism went wrong when
inflation grew and workers lost jobs, and China
faced disaster by 1989
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Title: STRIKE NIGHT: Strike: When Britain Went to War
Broadcast Info: Saturday 20 Jun 09, 21:00 (130 mins)
Channels: More4
Description: Feature-length documentary looking at the huge
political and social changes in Britain sparked
by the closing of 20 coalmines in 1984. It was an
era-defining moment in which the ultimate left
wing of the country led by Arthur Scargill took
on the polar opposite Thatcherite Tory Party.
With archive footage and many key players from
both sides including politicians, pop stars,
police and of course the miners and their
families
------------------------------------------
Title: STRIKE NIGHT: Which Side Are You On?
Broadcast Info: Saturday 20 Jun 09, 23:10 (65 mins)
Channels: More4
Description: Ken Loach introduces his affectionate look at the
songs and poems inspired by the miners' strike in
1984. Those featured include singer Dick Gaughan,
comedian Mike Elliott, redundant miner Mog
Williams and Kay Sutcliffe, the wife of a
striking miner. Originally commissioned by the
South Bank Show, the documentary - which was shot
during the industrial action - was not aired
because of its 'controversial' views
------------------------------------------
Title: STRIKE NIGHT: The Battle of Orgreave
Broadcast Info: Sunday 21 Jun 09, 00:15 (80 mins)
Channels: More4
Description: A partial re-enactment of the clash between
striking miners and police in the Yorkshire
village of Orgreave in 1984, directed by Mike
Figgis and conceived by Turner Prize-winning
artist Jeremy Deller. As well as reliving one of
the most violent stand-offs of the 1984-85
miners' strike, the film hears from former MP
Tony Benn and those who experienced the
confrontation first-hand
------------------------------------------
Title: Oz and James Drink to Britain
Broadcast Info: Sunday 21 Jun 09, 19:30 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Oz Clarke and James May travel through Britain and
Ireland to discover the amazing array of drinks on
offer. They start their journey on top of the
White Cliffs and travel north to Yorkshire and
Derbyshire to discover exactly what goes into a
pint of beer. Oz tracks down one of the most
northerly commercial vineyards in the country,
and for the final part of the first leg of their
trip they take to the rails, enjoying the beers
in a string of real ale pubs located on station
platforms
------------------------------------------
Title: The Way We Travelled
Broadcast Info: Monday 22 Jun 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Second in a three-part series recalling holiday
and travel guides that have graced British
television screens focuses on travel's 'golden
girls', Anne Gregg, Judith Chalmers and Jill
Dando and follows their journeys as the
programmes and destinations became more
adventurous
------------------------------------------
Title: The Supersizers Eat... Medieval
Broadcast Info: Monday 22 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and
comedian Sue Perkins experience the food culture
of years gone by. In this programme, they go back
to medieval England to live the life of a Lord and
Lady. Taking on the role of 100 servants is
Michelin-starred chef and Anglo-Saxon lookalike
Martin Blunos. During an exhausting week, Giles
becomes a chivalrous knight and goes off to
experience the food of a crusader, while Sue
learns to play the harp
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Title: The Secret Life of the Airport
Episode: Joining the Jet Set
Broadcast Info: Monday 22 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Series charting the development of Britain's
airports and how they have transformed the
country, in the process creating both freedom and
fear. This part explores the golden age of jet
travel, when 'money, tickets, passport' became
the mantra of the moving masses. Using archive
and contributions from early travellers and
airport workers, it looks at how airports
expanded our horizons and the repercussions for
British society. Contributors include Deyan
Sudjic and Sarfraz Manzoor
------------------------------------------
Title: Jet Set
Broadcast Info: Monday 22 Jun 09, 22:00 (40 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: A look at the glamorous heyday of the
international jet set from the 1950s to the
1970s, the golden age before celebrity became a
dirty word. Contributors include former Formula
One world champion Jackie Stewart, psychologist
Dr Martyn Dyer Smith, society columnist Ross
Benson, travel writer Simon Calder, Concorde
pilot Christopher Orlebar and former women's
magazine editor Marcelle d'Argy Smith
------------------------------------------
Title: The World's Best Diet
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 23 Jun 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: ITV1
Description: Jonathan Maitland presents a two-part programme in
which four overweight celebrities adopt the diets
of other cultures that have bucked the obesity
trend, to see who emerges the healthiest and
loses the most weight. Today cricketer Darren
Gough travels to Italy while Cheryl Baker from
Bucks Fizz heads to India. Meanwhile, Jonathan
decides to adopt the diet his post-war parents
would have endured
------------------------------------------
Title: Mary Portas: Save Our Shops
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 23 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: As the recession continues to affect the nation's
shopping habits, retail guru Mary Portas attempts
to save not just a single shop but the entire town
centre of Tewkesbury. What can be done to prevent
shop closures here and on increasingly
beleaguered high streets throughout Britain?
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Title: I'm Running Sainsbury's
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 23 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: Series in which Sainsbury's chief executive Justin
King explores new business ideas suggested by
employees of the retail giant. Joseph Showler is
fast-tracked from supervisor to manager after
pitching an inventive idea to the executive team.
Will he handle the pressure of running a busy
branch of the chain in central London?
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Title: Undercover Boss
Broadcast Info: Thursday 25 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: High-flying company executives go undercover to
ensure their businesses are in good shape.
Stephen Martin, the chief executive of
construction business the Clugston Group, adopts
a false guise and takes on a variety of lower
level jobs to ensure the company is fighting fit,
before revealing his true identity to his
unsuspecting employees
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Title: Crude Britannia: The Story of North Sea Oil
Broadcast Info: Thursday 25 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Series telling the story of North Sea oil and gas
from the 1960s to the present, offering a fresh
perspective on British politics and society and
an insight into the state of our economy today.
As the oil industry boomed in the early 1980s,
dozens of new platforms were built, bringing in
billions of pounds of taxes to the Treasury. But
before the decade was out the boom would turn to
bust with the collapse of the global price of
oil, and the industry would be rocked a succession of tragedies
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 the LIS team (see the Contact Information section of this blog).
------------------------------------------
Title: China's Capitalist Revolution
Broadcast Info: Saturday 20 Jun 09, 19:30 (90 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Twenty years after the tragic events in Tiananmen
Square in Beijing, this documentary argues that
it was Deng Xiaoping's capitalist revolution that
created today's China, and reveals a new
interpretation of the motives of the
demonstrators. Deng overturned Maoism, which had
left China in chaos and poverty, although his
crash course in capitalism went wrong when
inflation grew and workers lost jobs, and China
faced disaster by 1989
------------------------------------------
Title: STRIKE NIGHT: Strike: When Britain Went to War
Broadcast Info: Saturday 20 Jun 09, 21:00 (130 mins)
Channels: More4
Description: Feature-length documentary looking at the huge
political and social changes in Britain sparked
by the closing of 20 coalmines in 1984. It was an
era-defining moment in which the ultimate left
wing of the country led by Arthur Scargill took
on the polar opposite Thatcherite Tory Party.
With archive footage and many key players from
both sides including politicians, pop stars,
police and of course the miners and their
families
------------------------------------------
Title: STRIKE NIGHT: Which Side Are You On?
Broadcast Info: Saturday 20 Jun 09, 23:10 (65 mins)
Channels: More4
Description: Ken Loach introduces his affectionate look at the
songs and poems inspired by the miners' strike in
1984. Those featured include singer Dick Gaughan,
comedian Mike Elliott, redundant miner Mog
Williams and Kay Sutcliffe, the wife of a
striking miner. Originally commissioned by the
South Bank Show, the documentary - which was shot
during the industrial action - was not aired
because of its 'controversial' views
------------------------------------------
Title: STRIKE NIGHT: The Battle of Orgreave
Broadcast Info: Sunday 21 Jun 09, 00:15 (80 mins)
Channels: More4
Description: A partial re-enactment of the clash between
striking miners and police in the Yorkshire
village of Orgreave in 1984, directed by Mike
Figgis and conceived by Turner Prize-winning
artist Jeremy Deller. As well as reliving one of
the most violent stand-offs of the 1984-85
miners' strike, the film hears from former MP
Tony Benn and those who experienced the
confrontation first-hand
------------------------------------------
Title: Oz and James Drink to Britain
Broadcast Info: Sunday 21 Jun 09, 19:30 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Oz Clarke and James May travel through Britain and
Ireland to discover the amazing array of drinks on
offer. They start their journey on top of the
White Cliffs and travel north to Yorkshire and
Derbyshire to discover exactly what goes into a
pint of beer. Oz tracks down one of the most
northerly commercial vineyards in the country,
and for the final part of the first leg of their
trip they take to the rails, enjoying the beers
in a string of real ale pubs located on station
platforms
------------------------------------------
Title: The Way We Travelled
Broadcast Info: Monday 22 Jun 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Second in a three-part series recalling holiday
and travel guides that have graced British
television screens focuses on travel's 'golden
girls', Anne Gregg, Judith Chalmers and Jill
Dando and follows their journeys as the
programmes and destinations became more
adventurous
------------------------------------------
Title: The Supersizers Eat... Medieval
Broadcast Info: Monday 22 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and
comedian Sue Perkins experience the food culture
of years gone by. In this programme, they go back
to medieval England to live the life of a Lord and
Lady. Taking on the role of 100 servants is
Michelin-starred chef and Anglo-Saxon lookalike
Martin Blunos. During an exhausting week, Giles
becomes a chivalrous knight and goes off to
experience the food of a crusader, while Sue
learns to play the harp
------------------------------------------
Title: The Secret Life of the Airport
Episode: Joining the Jet Set
Broadcast Info: Monday 22 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Series charting the development of Britain's
airports and how they have transformed the
country, in the process creating both freedom and
fear. This part explores the golden age of jet
travel, when 'money, tickets, passport' became
the mantra of the moving masses. Using archive
and contributions from early travellers and
airport workers, it looks at how airports
expanded our horizons and the repercussions for
British society. Contributors include Deyan
Sudjic and Sarfraz Manzoor
------------------------------------------
Title: Jet Set
Broadcast Info: Monday 22 Jun 09, 22:00 (40 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: A look at the glamorous heyday of the
international jet set from the 1950s to the
1970s, the golden age before celebrity became a
dirty word. Contributors include former Formula
One world champion Jackie Stewart, psychologist
Dr Martyn Dyer Smith, society columnist Ross
Benson, travel writer Simon Calder, Concorde
pilot Christopher Orlebar and former women's
magazine editor Marcelle d'Argy Smith
------------------------------------------
Title: The World's Best Diet
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 23 Jun 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: ITV1
Description: Jonathan Maitland presents a two-part programme in
which four overweight celebrities adopt the diets
of other cultures that have bucked the obesity
trend, to see who emerges the healthiest and
loses the most weight. Today cricketer Darren
Gough travels to Italy while Cheryl Baker from
Bucks Fizz heads to India. Meanwhile, Jonathan
decides to adopt the diet his post-war parents
would have endured
------------------------------------------
Title: Mary Portas: Save Our Shops
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 23 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: As the recession continues to affect the nation's
shopping habits, retail guru Mary Portas attempts
to save not just a single shop but the entire town
centre of Tewkesbury. What can be done to prevent
shop closures here and on increasingly
beleaguered high streets throughout Britain?
------------------------------------------
Title: I'm Running Sainsbury's
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 23 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: Series in which Sainsbury's chief executive Justin
King explores new business ideas suggested by
employees of the retail giant. Joseph Showler is
fast-tracked from supervisor to manager after
pitching an inventive idea to the executive team.
Will he handle the pressure of running a busy
branch of the chain in central London?
------------------------------------------
Title: Undercover Boss
Broadcast Info: Thursday 25 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: High-flying company executives go undercover to
ensure their businesses are in good shape.
Stephen Martin, the chief executive of
construction business the Clugston Group, adopts
a false guise and takes on a variety of lower
level jobs to ensure the company is fighting fit,
before revealing his true identity to his
unsuspecting employees
------------------------------------------
Title: Crude Britannia: The Story of North Sea Oil
Broadcast Info: Thursday 25 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Series telling the story of North Sea oil and gas
from the 1960s to the present, offering a fresh
perspective on British politics and society and
an insight into the state of our economy today.
As the oil industry boomed in the early 1980s,
dozens of new platforms were built, bringing in
billions of pounds of taxes to the Treasury. But
before the decade was out the boom would turn to
bust with the collapse of the global price of
oil, and the industry would be rocked a succession of tragedies
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
TV Recordings: 13th-19th June 2009
The following television programmes will be recorded by your LIS team next week. 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 upcoming 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: The Way We Travelled
Broadcast Info: Monday 15 Jun 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: First in a three-part documentary series on how
holiday and travel programmes have changed the
British public's attitude to other countries and
cultures over the years. Including clips from
shows such as Richard Dimbleby's Passport, Cliff
Michelmore's Holiday in 1969, and from the
reports of Alan Whicker
------------------------------------------
Title: The Supersizers Eat... The Eighties
Broadcast Info: Monday 15 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and
comedian Sue Perkins experience the food culture
of years gone by. In this programme, they go back
to the 1980s. After a Tory meal with Norman Tebbit
and Jeffrey Archer at Shepherd's restaurant in
Westminster, Sue samples Princess Diana's wedding
breakfast while Giles tries out the most expensive
champagne at the Stock Exchange. To round things
off, they enjoy a dinner party with guests Ken
Livingstone, Carol Decker, Lynne Franks and Toby
Young
------------------------------------------
Title: The Secret Life of the Airport
Episode: Preparing for Take Off
Broadcast Info: Monday 15 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Series charting the development of Britain's
airports and how they have transformed the
country, in the process creating both freedom and
fear. This part takes us from the imperial glamour
of Britain's first airport terminal at Croydon to
the internationally-agreed hieroglyphics on
today's taxiways and runways. Using archive and
access to airports' hidden corners, it reveals
the local rivalry, skulduggery and sheer passion
for flight behind our airports. Contributors
include Lord Foster
------------------------------------------
Title: Forty Minutes On
Episode: Darling Let's Set Up an Airline
Broadcast Info: Monday 15 Jun 09, 22:35 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Series which revisits and updates stories from the
classic documentary strand. In 1990, husband and
wife team Roy and Merlyn Suckling, who had
started the UK's smallest international airline,
were about to double the size of their fleet - by
acquiring a second plane. It was a classic tale of
plucky British determination. After a repeat of
the original film we revisit the Sucklings to
find out how they've fared in the face of
cut-throat competition in the toughest industry
of all
------------------------------------------
Title: Great British Menu
Episode: Banquet
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 16 Jun 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: It is the grand finale of Great British Menu. The
nation's finest chefs have been battling it out
in the ultimate cookery contest. This one-hour
special follows the winning chefs as they journey
to the RAF's historic Halton House, where they
will prepare their dishes at a banquet to honour
the men and women from all three forces serving
in Afghanistan, with a glorious homecoming dinner
that captures the authentic tastes of home
------------------------------------------
Title: Mary Queen of Charity Shops
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 16 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Retail guru Mary Portas aims to prove that charity
shops can be heavyweights on the high street. Mary
and her volunteers try to convince celebrities and
fashion editors to ditch their cutting-edge
outfits in favour of some of Mary's charity shop
finds. Five months of Mary's charity shop reforms
come to an end, but has she achieved her goal and
proved charity shops can compete on today's high
street?
------------------------------------------
Title: I'm Running Sainsbury's
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 16 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: Series in which Sainsbury's chief executive Justin
King explores new business ideas suggested by
employees of the retail giant. A 27-year-old
Enfield checkout manager thinks customers should
complain more. His idea offers customers a chance
to air their grievances in store, and promises
that their problems will be solved within one
week
------------------------------------------
Title: In the Firing Line
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 16 Jun 09, 22:00 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Paul Mason charts the moving story of two
Midlands-based manufacturing companies struggling
to survive the recession. With access to the
factories in question, the film follows the
job-saving measures being introduced, and meets
one company owner who has dedicated his life to
creating jobs that may now disappear
------------------------------------------
Title: Youth Hostelling: The First 100 Years
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 17 Jun 09, 23:20 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Documentary telling the story of youth hostelling,
which was founded in 1909 in Germany and
established in Britain in 1930, through archive
film discovered at the Youth Hostel Association
HQ in Derbyshire. These films, which include
silent movies and video, chart the progress of
the movement, as well as our changing attitudes
towards 'youth' and the countryside. The images
show young people enjoying a new sense of freedom
- hiking, rock climbing, folk singing and even
skinny-dipping
------------------------------------------
Title: Undercover Boss
Broadcast Info: Thursday 18 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: High-flying company executives go undercover to
ensure their businesses are in good shape. Andy
Edge, the company director of caravan holiday
enterprise Park Resorts, adopts a false guise and
takes on a variety of lower level jobs to ensure
the business is fighting fit, before revealing
his true identity to his unsuspecting employees
------------------------------------------
Title: Crude Britannia: The Story of North Sea Oil
Broadcast Info: Thursday 18 Jun 09, 23:30 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Series combining archive footage and eye-witness
accounts to tell the story of North Sea oil and
gas from the 1960s to the present, offering a
fresh perspective on British politics and society
and an insight into the state of our economy
today. 40 years ago, Britain was poised on the
brink of an extraordinary discovery - billions of
gallons of oil deep beneath the North Sea. This
edition gives a voice to some of the men who made
that discovery and who risked their lives to get
the oil ashore
------------------------------------------
Title: First Cut: Health Food Junkies
Broadcast Info: Friday 19 Jun 09, 19:30 (30 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: Showcase of bold and original documentaries from
up-and-coming filmmakers. Rowan Deacon meets a
group of devoted health food worshippers, the Raw
Foodists. Meat, fish, dairy, wheat and sugar are
banned from their plates, and anything they do
eat is completely raw as they believe heating
anything above 45 degrees Celsius destroys
essential enzymes and nutrients. Some even adhere
to a regimen of urine-drinking and enemas. But
when does a fixation with healthy eating become
an unhealthy habit?
------------------------------------------
Title: The Fat Bribe Revisited: Tonight
Broadcast Info: Friday 19 Jun 09, 20:00 (30 mins)
Channels: ITV1 Yorkshire
Description: Fiona Foster examines whether an NHS pilot scheme
to pay obese people to lose weight could work.
She revisits a group of bingo workers to see if
they have managed to keep the weight off one year
after participating in a Tonight experiment where
they were paid cash to shed the pounds
If there are any other upcoming 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: The Way We Travelled
Broadcast Info: Monday 15 Jun 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: First in a three-part documentary series on how
holiday and travel programmes have changed the
British public's attitude to other countries and
cultures over the years. Including clips from
shows such as Richard Dimbleby's Passport, Cliff
Michelmore's Holiday in 1969, and from the
reports of Alan Whicker
------------------------------------------
Title: The Supersizers Eat... The Eighties
Broadcast Info: Monday 15 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and
comedian Sue Perkins experience the food culture
of years gone by. In this programme, they go back
to the 1980s. After a Tory meal with Norman Tebbit
and Jeffrey Archer at Shepherd's restaurant in
Westminster, Sue samples Princess Diana's wedding
breakfast while Giles tries out the most expensive
champagne at the Stock Exchange. To round things
off, they enjoy a dinner party with guests Ken
Livingstone, Carol Decker, Lynne Franks and Toby
Young
------------------------------------------
Title: The Secret Life of the Airport
Episode: Preparing for Take Off
Broadcast Info: Monday 15 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Series charting the development of Britain's
airports and how they have transformed the
country, in the process creating both freedom and
fear. This part takes us from the imperial glamour
of Britain's first airport terminal at Croydon to
the internationally-agreed hieroglyphics on
today's taxiways and runways. Using archive and
access to airports' hidden corners, it reveals
the local rivalry, skulduggery and sheer passion
for flight behind our airports. Contributors
include Lord Foster
------------------------------------------
Title: Forty Minutes On
Episode: Darling Let's Set Up an Airline
Broadcast Info: Monday 15 Jun 09, 22:35 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Series which revisits and updates stories from the
classic documentary strand. In 1990, husband and
wife team Roy and Merlyn Suckling, who had
started the UK's smallest international airline,
were about to double the size of their fleet - by
acquiring a second plane. It was a classic tale of
plucky British determination. After a repeat of
the original film we revisit the Sucklings to
find out how they've fared in the face of
cut-throat competition in the toughest industry
of all
------------------------------------------
Title: Great British Menu
Episode: Banquet
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 16 Jun 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: It is the grand finale of Great British Menu. The
nation's finest chefs have been battling it out
in the ultimate cookery contest. This one-hour
special follows the winning chefs as they journey
to the RAF's historic Halton House, where they
will prepare their dishes at a banquet to honour
the men and women from all three forces serving
in Afghanistan, with a glorious homecoming dinner
that captures the authentic tastes of home
------------------------------------------
Title: Mary Queen of Charity Shops
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 16 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Retail guru Mary Portas aims to prove that charity
shops can be heavyweights on the high street. Mary
and her volunteers try to convince celebrities and
fashion editors to ditch their cutting-edge
outfits in favour of some of Mary's charity shop
finds. Five months of Mary's charity shop reforms
come to an end, but has she achieved her goal and
proved charity shops can compete on today's high
street?
------------------------------------------
Title: I'm Running Sainsbury's
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 16 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: Series in which Sainsbury's chief executive Justin
King explores new business ideas suggested by
employees of the retail giant. A 27-year-old
Enfield checkout manager thinks customers should
complain more. His idea offers customers a chance
to air their grievances in store, and promises
that their problems will be solved within one
week
------------------------------------------
Title: In the Firing Line
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 16 Jun 09, 22:00 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Paul Mason charts the moving story of two
Midlands-based manufacturing companies struggling
to survive the recession. With access to the
factories in question, the film follows the
job-saving measures being introduced, and meets
one company owner who has dedicated his life to
creating jobs that may now disappear
------------------------------------------
Title: Youth Hostelling: The First 100 Years
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 17 Jun 09, 23:20 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Documentary telling the story of youth hostelling,
which was founded in 1909 in Germany and
established in Britain in 1930, through archive
film discovered at the Youth Hostel Association
HQ in Derbyshire. These films, which include
silent movies and video, chart the progress of
the movement, as well as our changing attitudes
towards 'youth' and the countryside. The images
show young people enjoying a new sense of freedom
- hiking, rock climbing, folk singing and even
skinny-dipping
------------------------------------------
Title: Undercover Boss
Broadcast Info: Thursday 18 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: High-flying company executives go undercover to
ensure their businesses are in good shape. Andy
Edge, the company director of caravan holiday
enterprise Park Resorts, adopts a false guise and
takes on a variety of lower level jobs to ensure
the business is fighting fit, before revealing
his true identity to his unsuspecting employees
------------------------------------------
Title: Crude Britannia: The Story of North Sea Oil
Broadcast Info: Thursday 18 Jun 09, 23:30 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Series combining archive footage and eye-witness
accounts to tell the story of North Sea oil and
gas from the 1960s to the present, offering a
fresh perspective on British politics and society
and an insight into the state of our economy
today. 40 years ago, Britain was poised on the
brink of an extraordinary discovery - billions of
gallons of oil deep beneath the North Sea. This
edition gives a voice to some of the men who made
that discovery and who risked their lives to get
the oil ashore
------------------------------------------
Title: First Cut: Health Food Junkies
Broadcast Info: Friday 19 Jun 09, 19:30 (30 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: Showcase of bold and original documentaries from
up-and-coming filmmakers. Rowan Deacon meets a
group of devoted health food worshippers, the Raw
Foodists. Meat, fish, dairy, wheat and sugar are
banned from their plates, and anything they do
eat is completely raw as they believe heating
anything above 45 degrees Celsius destroys
essential enzymes and nutrients. Some even adhere
to a regimen of urine-drinking and enemas. But
when does a fixation with healthy eating become
an unhealthy habit?
------------------------------------------
Title: The Fat Bribe Revisited: Tonight
Broadcast Info: Friday 19 Jun 09, 20:00 (30 mins)
Channels: ITV1 Yorkshire
Description: Fiona Foster examines whether an NHS pilot scheme
to pay obese people to lose weight could work.
She revisits a group of bingo workers to see if
they have managed to keep the weight off one year
after participating in a Tonight experiment where
they were paid cash to shed the pounds
Wednesday, 3 June 2009
Withdrawal from Athens
From 1 August 2009 all access to databases and electronic journals will be controlled using the lcproxy.shu.ac.uk (EZProxy) service or Shibboleth Institutional login via UK Federation. You will still use your standard SHU username and password to access resources. For reliable access to resources, use the links provided in LitSearch or the Library Catalogue and remember to login to shuspace first.
Sheffield Hallam University will be withdrawing from the Athens service after 31 July 2009. Any alerts, saved searches, notes or references associated with your Athens login will be lost after this date. If you have a Refworks database created with an Athens password you should have already received instructions by e-mail - connect to our advice page for instructions.
The last remaining links to Athens authenticated resources will be moved from Athens during June and July.
Tuesday, 2 June 2009
TV Recordings: 6th -12th June 2009
Here is a list of TV programmes that your Learning & Information Sevices (LIS) team will be recording for the Sheffield Business School next week (6th -12th June 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 the LIS team (see the Contact Information section of this blog).
Title: The Apprentice
Broadcast Info: Sunday 07 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC1
Description: Reality series. After 11 gruelling weeks, it is
time for Sir Alan Sugar to finally choose his
next Apprentice. The two finalists have just
three days to create and brand a new box of
chocolates with original flavours before
launching them to an audience of industry
experts. Some of this year's fired candidates
return to help out, but who will be left with a
bitter taste in their mouth, and who will enjoy
the sweet taste of success when Sir Alan finally
says: 'You're hired'?
------------------------------------------
Title: The Apprentice: You're Hired
Broadcast Info: Sunday 07 Jun 09, 22:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC1
Description: After twelve weeks, Sir Alan's search has come to
an end, and he has found his apprentice. Adrian
Chiles hears from the winner, the runner-up and
the boss himself as they look back over the job
interview from hell. Jonathan Ross, Ruby Wax and
bra millionaire Michelle Mone are on hand to
congratulate the winner, and to meet the
runner-up who came so close to the top job. All
of the fired candidates return, along with Sir
Alan's trusted advisors Nick and Margaret, for
this hour-long special
------------------------------------------
Title: Dispatches: Crash Gordon
Broadcast Info: Monday 08 Jun 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: Journalist Andrew Rawnsley presents the inside
political story of the credit crunch and its
implications for Prime Minister Gordon Brown,
featuring exclusive interviews with senior
politicians
------------------------------------------
Title: Cornershop Crunch Time: Tonight
Broadcast Info: Monday 08 Jun 09, 20:00 (30 mins)
Channels: ITV1
Description: First of a two-part report about independent
convenience stores, which are facing threats to
their existence from supermarket growth, the
recession and the rise in crime. Mark Jordan goes
behind the counter to meet the shopkeepers
battling against the vandalism, violent attacks,
theft and arson that threaten to close them down
------------------------------------------
Title: I'm Running Sainsbury's
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 09 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: Series in which Sainsbury's chief executive Justin
King explores new business ideas suggested by
employees of the retail giant. PA announcer
Barbara Bentley, who has 30 years of sales
experience, proposes to introduce specialist shop
floor sellers
------------------------------------------
Title: Blood, Sweat and Takeaways
Episode: Chicken
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 09 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC3
Description: Six young British food consumers go to live and
work alongside people in south east Asia's
poultry industry
------------------------------------------
Title: Mary Queen of Charity Shops
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 09 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Retail guru Mary Portas aims to prove that charity
shops can be heavyweights on the high street.
Having sent out an open invite to the charity
sector, Mary teaches a class of volunteers how to
raise their game - and their profits. Meanwhile,
at the shop she is overseeing in Orpington, big
changes are afoot as she has convinced Head
Office to pay for a shop manager and to give her
15,000 pounds for a radical shopfit. But there is
dissent in the ranks as Mary's grey army lose
faith in her plans
------------------------------------------
Title: Gerry Robinson's Car Crash
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 09 Jun 09, 22:00 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Business troubleshooter Sir Gerry Robinson
investigates Britain's ailing car industry. In
search of short and long-term answers to the
industry's problems, Sir Gerry gets stuck in on
the production line at Nissan's Sunderland
factory, test-drives the world's first electric
sports car, challenges Lord Mandelson on the
Government's efforts to lead Britain's car
industry through the recession, and asks Sir
James Dyson whether Britain should be in the
business of manufacturing at all
------------------------------------------
Title: Rick Stein's Memoirs of a Seafood Chef
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 10 Jun 09, 21:00 (90 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: An account of Rick Stein's rites of passage to
becoming a seafood chef, with humorous insights
from those closest to him. A light-hearted look
at his life and rise to fame in Padstow spanning
nearly thirty years, during which the poor man's
food became a gourmet's delight
------------------------------------------
Title: When Diets Go Wrong
Broadcast Info: Thursday 11 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC3
Description: Actress Mikyla Dodd has dealt with her own demons
by losing 11 stone, so she knows a thing or two
about diets. Mikyla takes a tour through a whole
range of dieting disasters as she discovers the
dangers of diet pills; talks to those whose diets
gave them saggy skin and smelly sweat; and meets
those whose extreme dieting put them under the
knife, brought on seizures and made their life an
addictive hell
------------------------------------------
Title: Cornershop Crunch Time: Tonight
Broadcast Info: Friday 12 Jun 09, 20:00 (30 mins)
Channels: ITV1
Description: Mark Jordan concludes a two-part report examining
whether a small convenience store can survive in
head-to-head competition with one of the big
supermarket chains
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 the LIS team (see the Contact Information section of this blog).
Title: The Apprentice
Broadcast Info: Sunday 07 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC1
Description: Reality series. After 11 gruelling weeks, it is
time for Sir Alan Sugar to finally choose his
next Apprentice. The two finalists have just
three days to create and brand a new box of
chocolates with original flavours before
launching them to an audience of industry
experts. Some of this year's fired candidates
return to help out, but who will be left with a
bitter taste in their mouth, and who will enjoy
the sweet taste of success when Sir Alan finally
says: 'You're hired'?
------------------------------------------
Title: The Apprentice: You're Hired
Broadcast Info: Sunday 07 Jun 09, 22:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC1
Description: After twelve weeks, Sir Alan's search has come to
an end, and he has found his apprentice. Adrian
Chiles hears from the winner, the runner-up and
the boss himself as they look back over the job
interview from hell. Jonathan Ross, Ruby Wax and
bra millionaire Michelle Mone are on hand to
congratulate the winner, and to meet the
runner-up who came so close to the top job. All
of the fired candidates return, along with Sir
Alan's trusted advisors Nick and Margaret, for
this hour-long special
------------------------------------------
Title: Dispatches: Crash Gordon
Broadcast Info: Monday 08 Jun 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: Journalist Andrew Rawnsley presents the inside
political story of the credit crunch and its
implications for Prime Minister Gordon Brown,
featuring exclusive interviews with senior
politicians
------------------------------------------
Title: Cornershop Crunch Time: Tonight
Broadcast Info: Monday 08 Jun 09, 20:00 (30 mins)
Channels: ITV1
Description: First of a two-part report about independent
convenience stores, which are facing threats to
their existence from supermarket growth, the
recession and the rise in crime. Mark Jordan goes
behind the counter to meet the shopkeepers
battling against the vandalism, violent attacks,
theft and arson that threaten to close them down
------------------------------------------
Title: I'm Running Sainsbury's
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 09 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: Series in which Sainsbury's chief executive Justin
King explores new business ideas suggested by
employees of the retail giant. PA announcer
Barbara Bentley, who has 30 years of sales
experience, proposes to introduce specialist shop
floor sellers
------------------------------------------
Title: Blood, Sweat and Takeaways
Episode: Chicken
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 09 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC3
Description: Six young British food consumers go to live and
work alongside people in south east Asia's
poultry industry
------------------------------------------
Title: Mary Queen of Charity Shops
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 09 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Retail guru Mary Portas aims to prove that charity
shops can be heavyweights on the high street.
Having sent out an open invite to the charity
sector, Mary teaches a class of volunteers how to
raise their game - and their profits. Meanwhile,
at the shop she is overseeing in Orpington, big
changes are afoot as she has convinced Head
Office to pay for a shop manager and to give her
15,000 pounds for a radical shopfit. But there is
dissent in the ranks as Mary's grey army lose
faith in her plans
------------------------------------------
Title: Gerry Robinson's Car Crash
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 09 Jun 09, 22:00 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Business troubleshooter Sir Gerry Robinson
investigates Britain's ailing car industry. In
search of short and long-term answers to the
industry's problems, Sir Gerry gets stuck in on
the production line at Nissan's Sunderland
factory, test-drives the world's first electric
sports car, challenges Lord Mandelson on the
Government's efforts to lead Britain's car
industry through the recession, and asks Sir
James Dyson whether Britain should be in the
business of manufacturing at all
------------------------------------------
Title: Rick Stein's Memoirs of a Seafood Chef
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 10 Jun 09, 21:00 (90 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: An account of Rick Stein's rites of passage to
becoming a seafood chef, with humorous insights
from those closest to him. A light-hearted look
at his life and rise to fame in Padstow spanning
nearly thirty years, during which the poor man's
food became a gourmet's delight
------------------------------------------
Title: When Diets Go Wrong
Broadcast Info: Thursday 11 Jun 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC3
Description: Actress Mikyla Dodd has dealt with her own demons
by losing 11 stone, so she knows a thing or two
about diets. Mikyla takes a tour through a whole
range of dieting disasters as she discovers the
dangers of diet pills; talks to those whose diets
gave them saggy skin and smelly sweat; and meets
those whose extreme dieting put them under the
knife, brought on seizures and made their life an
addictive hell
------------------------------------------
Title: Cornershop Crunch Time: Tonight
Broadcast Info: Friday 12 Jun 09, 20:00 (30 mins)
Channels: ITV1
Description: Mark Jordan concludes a two-part report examining
whether a small convenience store can survive in
head-to-head competition with one of the big
supermarket chains
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