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 (22nd-28th August 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: The Hairy Bikers' Food Tour of Britain
Episode: Suffolk
Broadcast Info: Monday 24 Aug 09, 17:15 (45 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: The Hairy Bikers get on their bikes to find the
best of each county's larder. Simon King and Dave
Myers get on their bikes to find the best of each
county's larder, and meet the local producers who
keep traditional recipes alive. Si and Dave
explore Suffolk, where they cook a traditional
county favourite at Snape Maltings, collect flour
from a working water mill, and then pit their
new-found knowledge against top local chef Chris
Lee in a cook-off. Restaurant diners decide who
has created the dish that best defines Suffolk
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Title: Caribbean Food Made Easy
Broadcast Info: Monday 24 Aug 09, 20:30 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: New four-part Caribbean cookery series in which
passionate food enthusiast Levi Roots travels
around Jamaica and across the UK showing how to
bring sunshine flavours to your kitchen. Levi
returns to Jamaica where he grew up to cook spicy
lamb in his childhood village; eat delicious yam
mash with the family of Jamaican Olympic hero
Usain Bolt; and show how to barbecue fish
Caribbean style - on the beach
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Title: Can You Bank on Me?
Broadcast Info: Monday 24 Aug 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC1
Description: Documentary following two ex-bankers who, until
recently, enjoyed earning huge salaries, with all
the trappings of a high-flying lifestyle. The pair
spend a week working with a struggling business
that has been on the receiving end of the credit
crunch. The bankers, one who was made redundant
and another who resigned, now experience the
recession from a very different perspective, and
see first-hand the human cost of economic
meltdown
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Title: Future of Food
Broadcast Info: Monday 24 Aug 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: George Alagiah travels the world to reveal a
growing global food crisis. In this episode,
George heads out to India to discover how a
changing diet in the developing world is putting
pressure on the world's limited food resources.
He finds out how using crops to produce fuel is
impacting on food supplies across the continents.
George then meets a farmer in Kent, who is
struggling to sell his fruit at a profit, and a
British farmer in Kenya who is shipping out
tonnes of vegetables for the UK's supermarket
shelves. He also examines why so many people are
still dying of hunger after decades of food aid.
Back in the UK, George challenges the
decision-makers with the facts he has uncovered -
from Oxfam head of research Duncan Green to
Sainsbury's boss Justin King. He finds out why
British beef may offer a model for future meat
production and how our appetite for fish is
stripping the world's seas bare
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Title: The Hotel Inspector
Episode: Hotel du Repos
Broadcast Info: Monday 24 Aug 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Five
Description: Alex Polizzi transforms failing hotels across the
UK. The hotel inspector checks in to Liz and
Michael's guesthouse in the Swiss Alps. The
British couple emigrated a year ago - but their
hopes of a restful retirement have been destroyed
by an avalanche of work. Can Alex help keep their
dream alive?
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Title: The Hairy Bikers' Food Tour of Britain
Episode: Anglesey
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 25 Aug 09, 17:15 (45 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Director: Duncan Barnes
Description: Brand new series which follows the Hairy Bikers as
they visit a different county across Britain in
every episode. Simon King and Dave Myers get on
their bikes to find the best of each county's
larder and meet the local producers who are
keeping traditional recipes alive. Si and Dave
explore Anglesey where they cook an ancient local
favourite in Beaumaris, harvest mussels from the
Menai Strait and sample some very special sea
salt. Finally, armed with the finest of the
area's ingredients, they go head-to-head in a
cook-off with top local chef Stephen Duffy.
Restaurant diners decide who has best defined the
taste of Anglesey in a blind tasting
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Title: Virgin Cooks
Episode: The Duggalls
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 25 Aug 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC3
Description: Chef Gordon Jones picks two virgin cooks from a
household and places them in a seven-day
head-to-head cookery competition, with the one
who has come on the furthest winning the chance
to cook a three-course meal for friends and
family. Brother and sister Adrien and Olivia have
successful jobs and are very competitive, but are
novices in the kitchen. Gordon sets them a series
of challenges - shopping, solo cooking,
head-to-head cooking - while their budget is
slowly whittled away
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Title: The Hairy Bikers' Food Tour of Britain
Episode: Fermanagh
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 26 Aug 09, 17:15 (45 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Brand new series which follows the Hairy Bikers as
they visit a different county across Britain in
every episode. Simon King and Dave Myers get on
their bikes to find the best of each county's
larder and meet the local producers who are
keeping traditional recipes alive. Si and Dave
explore Fermanagh where they cook a traditional
county favourite at Crom Castle and fish for
brown trout. Finally, armed with the finest local
ingredients, they go head to head in a cook-off
with top local chef, Noel McMeel. Restaurant
diners will decide who has created the dish that
best defines Fermanagh
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Title: Economy Gastronomy
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 26 Aug 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Top chefs Allegra McEvedy and Paul Merrett
demonstrate ways to slash food bills and improve
diets. James and Claire Caddy have five children
and a huge weekly food bill. However, their
shopping is chaotic and the busiest kitchen
gadget is the waste disposal unit because they
throw so much food away. Recipes include warm
poached salmon with neverfail hollandaise,
chicken escalope with rocket, sage and lemon,
creamy garlic rabbit casserole and perennial
favourite, treacle tart
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Title: Dragons' Den
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 26 Aug 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2 East
Description: Another diverse mix of businesses and
entrepreneurs go before the multimillionaire
investors. Hampshire-based businessman Stephen
Voller hopes the Dragons won't put the brakes on
his new electric car invention, as he smashes the
Den record for the most money ever asked for. But
will he walk away with the cash? Serial inventor
Michael Pritchard hopes to clean up in the Den
with his revolutionary invention that allows
every last drop of liquid to be used in household
product sprays. Young Bolton entrepreneurs Umar
Mohammed and Ahmed Suleman hope they'll get
investment from a Dragon with their fast food
curry trays
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Title: The Hairy Bikers' Food Tour of Britain
Episode: Cheshire
Broadcast Info: Thursday 27 Aug 09, 17:15 (45 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Brand new series which follows the Hairy Bikers as
they visit a different county across Britain in
every episode. Simon King and Dave Myers get on
their bikes to find the best of each county's
larder and meet the local producers who are
keeping traditional recipes alive. Si and Dave
explore Cheshire where they cook a traditional
county favourite at Chester Zoo, visit a
smokehouse and tuck into some of Cheshire's
famous cheese. Finally, they pit their new found
knowledge against top local chef David Mooney in
a cook-off. Restaurant diners decide who has
created the dish that best defines Cheshire
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Title: The Hairy Bikers' Food Tour of Britain
Episode: Shropshire
Broadcast Info: Friday 28 Aug 09, 17:15 (45 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Brand new series which follows the Hairy Bikers as
they visit a different county across Britain in
every episode. Simon King and Dave Myers get on
their bikes to find the best of each county's
larder and meet the local producers who are
keeping traditional recipes alive. Si and Dave
explore Shropshire, in Shrewsbury, collect game
from a pheasant shoot and pick hedgerow berries.
Finally, they use some of the best of the area's
ingredients to go head to head in a cook-off with
Michelin starred local chef, Will Holland.
Restaurant diners decide who has created the dish
that best defines Shropshire in a blind tasting
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Radio Recordings:
Title: Peston and the Money Men
Broadcast Info: Monday 24 Aug 09, 21:30 (28 mins)
Channels: BBC Radio 4
Description: As the first anniversary of the global financial
meltdown approaches, the BBC's business editor
Robert Peston talks to four key individuals who
were in the eye of the storm. Why did they fail
to see the warning signs of economic catastrophe
and what are the long term consequences? 2: Jim
Chanos. Hedge fund managers and 'short-sellers':
evil market manipulators who contributed to the
financial mess, or canny soothsayers who
predicted what politicians and bankers wouldn't
or couldn't see? Jim Chanos is a hedge fund
pioneer. He made his fortune spotting and
exposing irregularities in companies like Enron
and gambling that their share price would
collapse. He offers an insight in the psychology
of short selling and why it allowed people like
him to see what others did not
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Title: A Small Business
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 25 Aug 09, 16:00 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC Radio 4
Description: Three-part series in which Liz Barclay travels the
UK meeting the passionate owners of the small
businesses which keep our economy running. 1:
Starting up in a recession
