Tuesday, 9 March 2010

TV and Radio Recordings: 13-19 March 2010

The following programmes will be recorded during the week: 13-19 March 2010.
TV Recordings:

Title: Requiem for Detroit
Broadcast Info: Saturday 13 Mar 10, 20:00 (75 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Detroit was once America's fourth largest city.
Built by the car for the car, with its
groundbreaking suburbs, freeways and shopping
centres, it was the embodiment of the American
dream. Now it is truly a dystopic post-industrial
city, in which 40 per cent of the land in the
centre is returning to prairie. The burgeoning
urban agricultural movement is the fastest growing
movement in the US. Detroit leads the way again
but in a very different direction
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Title: Panorama
Episode: Are the Net Police Coming for You?
Broadcast Info: Monday 15 Mar 10, 20:30 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC1
Description: A proposed new law is threatening to disconnect
the millions of internet users who unlawfully
download free music, films and TV. Jo Whiley looks
at how broadband use at home may never be the
same, and could even be cut off
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Title: Raymond Blanc's Kitchen Secrets
Episode: Winter Vegetables
Broadcast Info: Monday 15 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
attempts to make roots exciting with a simple
beetroot salad, celeriac puree served alongside a
crisp-skinned roast wild duck with blackberry
sauce, and watercress soup
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Title: Mark Lawson Talks to Marguerite Patten
Broadcast Info: Monday 15 Mar 10, 23:25 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Veteran 'home economist' Marguerite Patten
reflects on nine decades of cookery. From learning
to cook as a child, to being one of the first
celebrity TV chefs to her performances at the
Palladium, to writing over 170 books, she explains
what has motivated her to keep going and how, in
her early 90s, she shows little sign of slowing
down
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Title: Sport Relief Does Dragons' Den
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 16 Mar 10, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: Sport Relief special. There are a few changes to
watch out for, including having Sport Relief
celebrities walk up those famous stairs to
accompany the cash hungry entrepreneurs in their
bid for investment. Two sisters hope the Dragons
will see the potential in their bottom toning
prototype, ably demonstrated by Ruby Wax. James
Cracknell lends a hand to young businessman Liam
O'Reilly and his dancing troupe; and Greg Rusedski
helps two Irish entrepreneurs pitch their portable
sports stadium
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Title: Fat Man in a White Hat
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 16 Mar 10, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Writer Bill Buford dons a white hat and works in a
series of French kitchens to investigate whether
French food is all it's cracked up to be. Bill
starts in one of the best French restaurants in
America before moving, with his family, to Lyon,
where he enrols in a cookery school and works on
the line for one of the most demanding chefs in
France, Matthieu Viannay. Can Bill survive in a
restaurant where one of the signature dishes
consists of garlic snails on a bed of crusty veal
ears?
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Title: Mark Lawson Talks to Claudia Roden
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 16 Mar 10, 23:30 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Claudia Roden, the cookery writer who brought us
Middle Eastern recipes long before couscous and
houmous were on every supermarket shelf, talks to
Mark Lawson about her memories of growing up
Jewish in Cairo in the 1930s, the true origins of
pasta, and going kosher for her award-winning Book
of Jewish Food
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Title: The Business Inspector
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 17 Mar 10, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Five
Description: New series. Self-made millionaire Hilary Devey
gives advice to struggling businesses. Hilary puts
her keen business mind to good use as she comes to
the aid of two ailing companies. For her first
venture, Hilary travels to Milton Keynes to help a
pair of florists who have yet to earn enough money
to take a wage. Elsewhere, in Warwick, she assists
an entrepreneur who has created illuminated table
centres
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Title: Inside John Lewis
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 17 Mar 10, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
Description: A documentary series going behind the scenes of
John Lewis - one of Britain's biggest and best
known department stores - as it tackles changing
tastes, tougher competition and the worst
recession for 80 years. This edition views the
steps that are being taken by the business to
boost sales and control costs. Jobs are being lost
and there is a pervading sense of unease in the
corridors of the London Head Office.
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Title: The Man Who Ate Everything
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 17 Mar 10, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Andrew Graham-Dixon presents a profile of the food
writer Alan Davidson, one of the unsung heroes of
the culinary world. Davidson's greatest work, the
Oxford Companion to Food, took him 20 years to
write. It's an encyclopaedia of everything a human
being can eat, from aardvark to zucchini, all
catalogued in 2,650 entries. But it is much more
than just a food reference book; it is a portrait
of the human race, its cultures, customs and
histories, all revealed through the stories of
what we eat
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Title: Kings of Pastry: Storyville
Broadcast Info: Thursday 18 Mar 10, 21:00 (85 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Description: Documentary chronicling the prestigious Meilleurs
Ouvriers de France competition, in which 16 French
pastry chefs gather in Lyon for three intense days
of mixing, piping and sculpting everything from
delicate chocolates to six-foot sugar sculptures
in hopes of being declared one of the best by
President Sarkozy. The blue, white and red striped
collar worn on the jackets of the winners is more
than the ultimate recognition for every pastry
chef - it is a dream and an obsession
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Radio Recordings:

Title: A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping
Broadcast Info: Daily 15-19 Mar 10, 15:45 (15 mins)
Channels: BBC Radio 4
Description: Jolyon Jenkins investigates how accountants shaped
the modern world.
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Title: Cadbury is Our Longbridge
Broadcast Info: Wednesday 17 Mar 10, 11:00 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC Radio 4
Description: Three-part series in which Miles Warde tells the
inside story of the closure of Cadbury's Somerdale
factory near Bristol. Two years in the making, it
reveals how Somerdale became caught up in a global
story. 1: Cadbury first announced the closure of
this historic site at the end of 2007. Miles
follows the protests, the frustrations, and the
raised hopes of a workforce who believed that
Kraft's takeover meant their jobs could be saved.
Production is now largely moving to Poland instead
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Title: Peer Review in the Dock
Broadcast Info: Thursday 18 Mar 10, 21:00 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC Radio 4
Description: Mark Whitaker investigates the tarnished image of
a flawed process. Peer Review is supposed to be
the keystone of quality control for research
projects and academic studies, yet evidence of its
many deficiencies has been building up for over 20
years. American lawyers have started challenging
expert witnesses on the basis that peer review no
longer guarantees their expertise. Yet accurate
peer review in fields such as medicine can be a
matter of life and death
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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 9th March 2010 at: http://www.trilt.ac.uk/

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