TV and Radio Recordings: 27 Feb-5 March 2010

The following programmes will be recorded during the week: 27 Feb-5 March 2010.
TV Recordings:

Title: Raymond Blanc's Kitchen Secrets
Episode: Apples
Broadcast Info: Monday 01 Mar 10, 20:30 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Legendary chef Raymond Blanc welcomes the cameras
into his kitchen to share his cooking secrets.
Filmed in the lively surroundings of his
Oxfordshire restaurant kitchen, this programme
features a range of achievable and inspirational
recipes for cooks of all abilities. Raymond looks
to apples for inspiration and returns to memories
of childhood with a simple apple tart made with a
foolproof pastry and custard filling
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Title: Horizon: Did Cooking Make Us Human?
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 02 Mar 10, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: We are the only species on earth that cooks its
food - and we are also the cleverest species on
the planet. The question is: do we cook because
we're clever and imaginative, or are we clever and
imaginative because our ancestors discovered
cooking? Horizon examines the evidence that our
ancestors' changing diet and their mastery of fire
prompted anatomical and neurological changes that
resulted in taking us out of the trees and into
the kitchen
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Title: Internet My Life: Tonight
Broadcast Info: Thursday 04 Mar 10, 19:30 (30 mins)
Channels: ITV1
Description: Jonathan Maitland investigates the importance of
the internet, and looks at what some of the 10
million Britons who have never been online might
be missing
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Title: How Safe Are Our Skies? Detroit Flight 253
Broadcast Info: Thursday 04 Mar 10, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: On Christmas Day 2009, as Northwest Airlines
Flight 253 began its descent towards Detroit
Metropolitan airport, a 23-year-old attempted to
detonate 80 grams of military-grade explosive
PETN, a deadly bomb designed to take the plane out
of the sky. With eyewitness testimony and expert
analysis, this documentary examines how alleged
bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab slipped under the
US intelligence radar and evaded three sets of
airport security. Following the attack, how safe
is it to fly?
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Radio Recordings:

Title: Food Fights
Broadcast Info: Monday 01 Mar 10, 20:00 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC Radio 4
Description: Second of two programmes in which Bill Law
investigates the causes and consequences of the
great global land grab, as richer nations and
multinational corporations acquire vast tracts of
land in developing countries. Bill weighs up the
pros and cons of Indonesia's palm oil revolution.
The country leads the world in palm oil production
and the world is hungry for it; check any food
label and as likely as not palm oil will turn up
as one of the ingredients. Low-cost, high-yield
palm oil has transformed Indonesia creating wealth
and a new middle class. But in the process, it has
carved up huge swathes of rainforest
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All recordings will be made available to borrow from Adsetts in DVD / 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.

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Source: British Universities Film & Video Council (2010). Information from TRILT database, last accessed 23rd February 2010 at: http://www.trilt.ac.uk/