The following programmes will be recorded during the week: 4-10 December 2010.
TV Recordings:
Title: Undercover Boss USA
Description: The US version of the show where high-flying company
executives go undercover to ensure their businesses are in
good shape. Bill Carstanjen is the chief operating officer
of a company that owns America's most famous horse tracks.
Bill goes on a life-changing journey in which he learns that
people, not profits, are the true bottom line
Broadcast: 5 Dec 2010, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
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Title: The Foods that Make Billions
Episode: Pots of Gold
Description: Series telling the story of how big businesses transform
simple commodities into highly profitable brands. This final
episode tells the story of how yoghurt has been transformed
from an unknown hippy food into a super food in 40 years.
Along the way, yoghurt has driven a health revolution in the
modern food business. With access to the world's largest
food companies, this film from the Money Programme team
travels to Japan, Finland, France to explain how yoghurt's
most important role has been to lead the food industry into
the lucrative new market of functional food. The film
explains how and why, today, all major food companies
consider themselves less as processed food companies and
more as health and wellness providers. It's a story of how
our changing attitudes to food and health have both shaped
and been influenced by this extraordinary industry. The
story of yoghurt tracks a changing and diversifying Britain,
along the way delivering consumers enormous choice, and
business enormous profits
Broadcast: 7 Dec 2010, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
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Title: The Joy of Stats
Description: Professor Hans Rosling presents a documentary about
statistics, exploring their history, how they work
mathematically and how they can be used in today's computer
age to see the world as it really is. He shows how a new app
mashes up police department data with San Francisco's street
map to show what crime is being reported street by street,
in near real-time. While, at Google HQ, the machine
translation project tries to translate between 57 languages,
using lots of statistics and no linguists
Broadcast: 7 Dec 2010, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
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Title: Jimmy's Food Factory
Episode: Roast Dinner
Description: Science series in which farmer Jimmy Doherty asks what
really goes into supermarket food. Jimmy makes Sunday lunch
from scratch. He tries to create the potato flakes that make
instant mash. Like the factory, he uses a drum dryer to
dehydrate his potatoes - but is his flame-thrower too
powerful for the job? And how do the food factories get the
caffeine out of coffee? To find out, Jimmy makes his own
decaf coffee using a fish tank
Broadcast: 8 Dec 2010, 20:00 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC1
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Title: The Apprentice
Episode: London Tours
Description: Ten weeks into his search for an apprentice, Lord Sugar
challenges the teams to set up their own London tour
company. The teams are supplied with their very own open-top
bus to showcase the sights and sounds of London, and are
tasked with taking their punters on a themed walking tour to
show another side to the capital city. In addition, both
teams have the opportunity to bid for a potentially
lucrative deal with a travel agency. But for one candidate,
it will be the end of the line as they are fired
Broadcast: 8 Dec 2010, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC1
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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 30 November 2010 at: http://www.trilt.ac.uk/
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