The following programmes will be recorded next week (30th Jan-5th Feb 2010). They will be made available to borrow from Adsetts in DVD or CD 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.
TV Recordings:
Title: The Virtual Revolution
Episode: The Great Levelling?
Broadcast Info: Saturday 30 Jan 10, 20:30 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Twenty years on from the invention of the World
Wide Web, Dr Aleks Krotoski explores how it is
reshaping almost every aspect of our lives. Joined
by some of the web's biggest names, she explores
how far it has lived up to its early promise. In
the first in this four-part series, Aleks charts
the extraordinary rise of blogs, Wikipedia and
YouTube, and traces an ongoing clash between the
freedom the technology offers us, and our innate
human desire to control and profit
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Title: Delia Through the Decades
Broadcast Info: Monday 01 Feb 10, 20:30 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Series celebrating Delia Smith's career and the
ways she has shaped what people eat and how they
cook it. She revisits her favourite recipes and
recreates some with a contemporary twist. In the
90s girl power bounced in and the Iron Lady was
bounced out. It was also the decade of the 'Delia
effect', when the merest hint of a new ingredient
caused a riot, and New England crowned Delia the
queen of cranberries
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Title: Crop to Shop: Jimmy's Supermarket Secrets
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 03 Feb 10, 19:30 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC1
Description: Our supermarket shelves groan with fresh food from
around the world. Farmer Jimmy Doherty explores
the global logistics that bring these crops to a
shop near you. He meets the people who grow our
food and make this global conveyor belt work. He
uncovers the science and technology that keeps
food fresh for weeks or months without decay. Does
it make any sense to transport fresh fruit and
vegetables for thousands of miles by air and by
sea, just so we can eat our favourite foods all
year long?
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Radio Recordings:
Title: Archive on 4: Flexible Friend or Foe
Broadcast Info: Saturday 30 Jan 10, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC Radio 4
Description: How did a little sliver of plastic take over the
world? Journalist Max Flint explores the arrival
of the credit card into British life and the huge
role it plays today. The credit card was launched
by Barclays in the UK in 1966. The Barclaycard was
marketed at first as a 'shopping card', rather
than a credit card, to thwart the British public's
resistance to getting into debt. Barclaycard's
first on-screen ad was called Travelling Light and
featured the famous Barclaycard Bikini Girl. That
and subsequent marketing has now given rise to the
biggest cause of personal bankruptcies in the UK.
That first card is now accompanied by some 1,700
other credit cards in Britain alone, and we have
the unenviable record as the world's most
intensive credit card country, with 67 million
cards for 59 million people. With the launch of
the first card began a technological battle
between fraudsters and card companies, and the war
is yet to be won. The American credit companies
invaded us in the mid-90's and goaded Britain into
unheard-of levels of debt. The thrill of the till
has created a spending spree which is untempered
by all the warnings from the archive news clips in
this programme, taken from over the last 40 or so
years, all of which tell us all what we already
know - that this can't continue
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Title: Analysis
Broadcast Info: Monday 01 Feb 10, 20:30 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC Radio 4
Description: A Price Worth Paying? Investment banks warn that
if British taxpayers cease to guarantee to bail
them out, they will leave the UK. That, according
to a senior Bank of England official, might be 'a
price worth paying'. Edward Stourton talks to the
growing band of experts who believe that
risk-taking investment banks should be forced to
face the consequences of their losses and finds
out why the government remains unconvinced
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Title: Inside the Virtual Anthill: Open Source Means
Business
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 02 Feb 10, 16:00 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC Radio 4
Description: Gerry Northam goes behind the scenes to
investigate 'open source' computer software. Much
has been said about the likes of free web browser
Firefox and the operating system Linux, but little
about how thousands of programmers scattered
around the world collaborate in a 'virtual
anthill' to create products that rival more
commercial offerings. Gerry finds out how it is
done and shows how its ethos is being applied to
other kinds of business, with some startling
results
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Source: British Universities Film & Video Council (2010). Information from TRILT database, last accessed 26th January 2010 at: http://www.trilt.ac.uk/
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