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 (31st Oct - 6th Nov 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: Britain's Really Disgusting Food: Meat
Broadcast Info: Monday 02 Nov 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC3
Description: Alex Riley, BBC's connoisseur of rubbish food, is
back on the search for more disgusting fare and
sets out to unearth the horrors that could be in
his meaty snacks
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Title: The Last Days of the Liners
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 03 Nov 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Documentary telling how, in the years following
WWII and with national pride and prestige at
stake, countries competed to launch the most
magnificent passenger ships. The Americans had the
fast United States, the Dutch the elegant
Rotterdam, the Italians the sleek Michelangelo,
the French the symbolic France and the British the
Queens Mary and Elizabeth. The coming of the
jetliner and the 1960s' assault on class and
privilege might have swept this world away, but
the giant vessels sailed on
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Title: Dishing the Dirt
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 03 Nov 09, 22:35 (60 mins)
Channels: ITV1
Description: Rebecca Wilcox and Phil Vickery present the series
which takes a critical look at Britain's food
industry, using undercover footage and expert
interviews. The final programme looks at the
problem of food poisoning and travels undercover
to the Dominican Republic to investigate one of
the worst cases in recent times. A thousand hotel
guests wents down with salmonella, e-coli,
campylobacter and shigella. Plus the Waltham
Forest food police are on the trail of a rat
infestation at a takeaway
--------------------------------
Title: Jimmy's Food Factory
Episode: From the Fridge
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 04 Nov 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 he investigates what happens to
milk before it arrives on the supermarket shelf.
He also attempts to make his own reduced fat
spread, unearths some of the imperfect wrinkly
eggs that do not make the grade and discovers how
bacteria are used to turn milk into Red Leicester
cheese
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Title: Ruth Watson's Hotel Rescue
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 04 Nov 09, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
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
------------------------------------------
Title: Could the Internet Make You Rich: Tonight
Broadcast Info: Friday 06 Nov 09, 20:00 (30 mins)
Channels: ITV1
Description: Could the internet be your route to making a
fortune? Jonathan Maitland meets the entrepreneurs
who are using the latest technology to forge new
careers and create new opportunities
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Radio Recordings:
Title: Analysis
Broadcast Info: Monday 02 Nov 09, 20:30 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC Radio 4
Description: The Economist's New Clothes: Many have said that
the near collapse of the global financial system
exposed the failures of 30 years of economic
thinking. Stephanie Flanders, the BBC economics
editor, examines the arguments raging within and
outside the world of economics and asks what
future students should learn from the 'great
recession'
British Universities Film & Video Council (2009). Information from TRILT database, last accessed 27 October 2009 at: http://www.trilt.ac.uk/
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
TV Recordings: 24th-30th October 2009
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
------------------------------------------
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
------------------------------------------
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
------------------------------------------
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
------------------------------------------
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
------------------------------------------
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
--------------------------------
British Universities Film & Video Council (2009). Information from TRILT database, last accessed 20 October 2009 at: http://www.trilt.ac.uk/
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
------------------------------------------
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
------------------------------------------
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
------------------------------------------
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
------------------------------------------
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
------------------------------------------
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
--------------------------------
British Universities Film & Video Council (2009). Information from TRILT database, last accessed 20 October 2009 at: http://www.trilt.ac.uk/
Friday, 16 October 2009
New journal download tool
A new tool to make downloading Secure Electronic Delivery (SED) articles and documents from The British Library quicker and simpler will be launched at the University next week. The new FileOpen plug-in has been installed on all machines in University offices and open access PCs in the learning centres. If you are opening an article from your home PC, you will be given instructions on how to install the plug-in and then download your document. Just follow the on screen instructions to download the article. More information can be found at http://www.fileopen.com/
A new tool to make downloading Secure Electronic Delivery (SED) articles and documents from The British Library quicker and simpler will be launched at the University next week. The new FileOpen plug-in has been installed on all machines in University offices and open access PCs in the learning centres. If you are opening an article from your home PC, you will be given instructions on how to install the plug-in and then download your document. Just follow the on screen instructions to download the article. More information can be found at http://www.fileopen.com/
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?
------------------------------------------
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
------------------------------------------
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
------------------------------------------
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
------------------------------------------
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
------------------------------------------
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
------------------------------------------
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/
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?
------------------------------------------
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
------------------------------------------
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
------------------------------------------
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
------------------------------------------
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
------------------------------------------
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
------------------------------------------
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/
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
TV Recordings: 10th-16th October 2009
The following television programmes will be recorded by your LIS team next week (10th-16th 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: Panorama
Episode: Why Hate Ryanair?
Broadcast Info: Monday 12 Oct 09, 20:30 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC1
Description: Vivian White investigates the reasons why the
ultimate 'no frills' airline has gained a
reputation as the brand Britain loves to hate but
can't stop using. Passengers, suppliers and
insiders contribute, and chief executive Michael
O'Leary doorsteps the programme makers in his own
unique style
------------------------------------------
Title: Podfather
Broadcast Info: Monday 12 Oct 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Documentary telling the story of silicon chip
inventor Robert Noyce, godfather of today's
digital world. Re-living the heady days of Silicon
Valley's seminal start-ups, the film tells how
Noyce also founded Intel, the company responsible
for more than 80 per cent of the microprocessors
in PCs. Noyce defined the unconventional,
innovative culture of the Valley - the likes of
Apple and Google would be influenced by his
egalitarian management style, which was inspired
by his religious upbringing
------------------------------------------
Title: The Human Spider Returns: Daredevils
Broadcast Info: Monday 12 Oct 09, 21:00 (60 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. French climber Alain Robert,
known as the 'Human Spider', attempts to scale
Malaysia's 88-storey Petronas Twin Towers.
Featuring footage of Alain's incredible feats and
interviews with his family
------------------------------------------
Title: Dragons' Den Online
Broadcast Info: Monday 12 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's favourite raw pitches
include Richard Nicholls's Spin Clean Brushes and
Michael Corbett's time-saving tap brackets. We
also get to see Online Dragons Shaf Rasul and
Julie Meyer in action, while Hayrat Akhmetov and
his father Zinnoor hope the Dragons will lend
their support to their spine-strengthening
exercise machine
------------------------------------------
Title: Horizon: Do I Drink Too Much?
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 13 Oct 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Alcohol is by far the most widely used drug - and
a dangerous one at that. So why are so many of us
drinking over the recommended limits? Addiction
expert John Marsden, who likes a drink, makes a
professional and personal exploration of our
relationship with alcohol. He undergoes physical
and neurological examinations to determine its
impact, and finds out why some people will find it
much harder than others to resist alcohol
------------------------------------------
Title: Dishing the Dirt
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 13 Oct 09, 22:35 (55 mins)
Channels: ITV1
Description: New series which takes a critical look at
Britain's seventy billion pound food industry and
examines what really goes on behind closed doors
in restaurants and takeaways. In this edition we
are undercover at two restaurants in a leading
sushi chain to find out just how long some of the
food is going round and round on that conveyor
belt. And presenter Rebecca Wilcox heads out on
patrol with local environmental health officers as
they inspect high street takeaways
------------------------------------------
Title: Ruth Watson's Hotel Rescue
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 14 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.
Ruth helps out Rod and Shaun Smallwood, who have
ambitious plans for the zero-starred Kenbarry
Hotel in Blackpool
------------------------------------------
Title: The Red Lion
Broadcast Info: Thursday 15 Oct 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: Documentary. As the recession forces seven pubs a
day to shut their doors for good, award-winning
film-maker Sue Bourne journeys 3,000 miles to
visit some of the country's 600 Red Lions.
Collecting tales that are by turns touching,
funny, sad, gentle and quirky, Bourne creates a
timely snapshot of British drinking habits. The
pub is the hub of many communities, but with more
closing than ever before, are we at risk of losing
a unique and irreplaceable aspect of our culture?
British Universities Film & Video Council (2009). Information from TRILT database, last accessed 6 October 2009 at: http://www.trilt.ac.uk/
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: Panorama
Episode: Why Hate Ryanair?
Broadcast Info: Monday 12 Oct 09, 20:30 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC1
Description: Vivian White investigates the reasons why the
ultimate 'no frills' airline has gained a
reputation as the brand Britain loves to hate but
can't stop using. Passengers, suppliers and
insiders contribute, and chief executive Michael
O'Leary doorsteps the programme makers in his own
unique style
------------------------------------------
Title: Podfather
Broadcast Info: Monday 12 Oct 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Documentary telling the story of silicon chip
inventor Robert Noyce, godfather of today's
digital world. Re-living the heady days of Silicon
Valley's seminal start-ups, the film tells how
Noyce also founded Intel, the company responsible
for more than 80 per cent of the microprocessors
in PCs. Noyce defined the unconventional,
innovative culture of the Valley - the likes of
Apple and Google would be influenced by his
egalitarian management style, which was inspired
by his religious upbringing
------------------------------------------
Title: The Human Spider Returns: Daredevils
Broadcast Info: Monday 12 Oct 09, 21:00 (60 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. French climber Alain Robert,
known as the 'Human Spider', attempts to scale
Malaysia's 88-storey Petronas Twin Towers.
Featuring footage of Alain's incredible feats and
interviews with his family
------------------------------------------
Title: Dragons' Den Online
Broadcast Info: Monday 12 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's favourite raw pitches
include Richard Nicholls's Spin Clean Brushes and
Michael Corbett's time-saving tap brackets. We
also get to see Online Dragons Shaf Rasul and
Julie Meyer in action, while Hayrat Akhmetov and
his father Zinnoor hope the Dragons will lend
their support to their spine-strengthening
exercise machine
------------------------------------------
Title: Horizon: Do I Drink Too Much?
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 13 Oct 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Alcohol is by far the most widely used drug - and
a dangerous one at that. So why are so many of us
drinking over the recommended limits? Addiction
expert John Marsden, who likes a drink, makes a
professional and personal exploration of our
relationship with alcohol. He undergoes physical
and neurological examinations to determine its
impact, and finds out why some people will find it
much harder than others to resist alcohol
------------------------------------------
Title: Dishing the Dirt
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 13 Oct 09, 22:35 (55 mins)
Channels: ITV1
Description: New series which takes a critical look at
Britain's seventy billion pound food industry and
examines what really goes on behind closed doors
in restaurants and takeaways. In this edition we
are undercover at two restaurants in a leading
sushi chain to find out just how long some of the
food is going round and round on that conveyor
belt. And presenter Rebecca Wilcox heads out on
patrol with local environmental health officers as
they inspect high street takeaways
------------------------------------------
Title: Ruth Watson's Hotel Rescue
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 14 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.
Ruth helps out Rod and Shaun Smallwood, who have
ambitious plans for the zero-starred Kenbarry
Hotel in Blackpool
------------------------------------------
Title: The Red Lion
Broadcast Info: Thursday 15 Oct 09, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
Description: Documentary. As the recession forces seven pubs a
day to shut their doors for good, award-winning
film-maker Sue Bourne journeys 3,000 miles to
visit some of the country's 600 Red Lions.
Collecting tales that are by turns touching,
funny, sad, gentle and quirky, Bourne creates a
timely snapshot of British drinking habits. The
pub is the hub of many communities, but with more
closing than ever before, are we at risk of losing
a unique and irreplaceable aspect of our culture?
British Universities Film & Video Council (2009). Information from TRILT database, last accessed 6 October 2009 at: http://www.trilt.ac.uk/
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