The following programmes will be recorded during the week: 6-12 November 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. Rick Arquilla, the president and CEO of plumbing
and draining business Roto Rooter, tries to learn from his
employees as he goes undercover, but struggles to use the
systems he designed, must overcome his fear of rats and
bungles a welding job
Broadcast: 7 Nov 2010, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
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Title: Stephen Fry and the Great American Oil Spill
Description: Four months after the BP oil spill, dubbed the worst
ecological disaster in the history of America, Stephen Fry
returns to the Deep South together with zoologist Mark
Carwardine, to see what the impact has been on the people,
the vast wetlands and the species that live there. What they
find both surprises and divides the travelling duo
Broadcast: 7 Nov 2010, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
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Title: Dispatches
Description: The flagship current affairs programme investigates working
conditions in clothing manufacturing units across Britain.
Undercover footage reveals the poor treatment of workers who
make many of the clothes which end up on the shelves and
racks of high street retailers across the country
Broadcast: 8 Nov 2010, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
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Title: Are You Paying Too Much Tax?: Panorama
Description: With millions of people waiting to see if they are winners
or losers in the fallout from the recent tax code
realignment, Panorama reveals the situation inside HM
Revenue and Customs. Insiders say the much-vaunted new
computer system is making a bad situation worse, with
billions in tax owed to the revenue having to be written off
because of mistakes. Reporter Adam Shaw takes tax experts on
the road to check people's tax codes, and hears first-hand
from angry tax payers and from whistleblowers inside HMRC
who complain that mismanagement, waste and staff shortages
mean they're providing a poor service to taxpayers across
the country
Broadcast: 8 Nov 2010, 20:30 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC1
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Title: BP: $30 Billion Blowout
Description: The Money Programme team presents an inside account of the
BP oil spill. Features a host of interviews with key
industry insiders, including world exclusives with Bob
Dudley, the new Head of BP and Tony Hayward, his predecessor
Broadcast: 9 Nov 2010, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
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Title: Turn Back Time: The High Street
Episode: Edwardian
Description: A group of modern shopkeepers take over empty shops in a
neglected market square to see if they can turn back time
for the British High Street, living and trading through six
key eras of history. The shopkeepers move into the Edwardian
era, where the butcher, the baker, the grocer and the
ironmonger are joined by a dressmaker. Together they must
provide a modern town with the exceptional service and
luxuriant shop displays worthy of the Edwardians
Broadcast: 9 Nov 2010, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC1
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Title: Ramsay's Best Restaurant: The Finals
Description: Gordon Ramsay seeks out Britain's best restaurants. A
double-sized episode featuring the second semi final and the
final itself. The second semi final features Gordon's best
British, French, Indian and North African restaurants. Those
who get through to the final must cater for over thirty
special guests at Gordon's restaurant Petrus in London's
Knightsbridge
Broadcast: 9 Nov 2010, 21:00 (130 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
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Title: Jimmy's Food Factory
Episode: Food in a Flash
Description: Science series in which farmer Jimmy Doherty asks what
really goes into supermarket food. In this episode, Jimmy
tries out some of the technological tricks the food
factories use to make food that's quick and easy to prepare.
Turning a fire extinguisher into a squirty cream canister,
Jimmy squeezes out the secrets of the cream you don't need
to whip. A mangle and an office shredder come in handy when
he tries to work out what makes instant noodles 'instant',
and in a microwave-rice factory, Jimmy discovers how they
can guarantee their pre-cooked rice is safe to eat. Plus, he
joins a lettuce grower to see how technology protects his
fragile crop from the extremes of the British weather
Broadcast: 10 Nov 2010, 20:00 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC1
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Title: The Apprentice
Episode: Advertising
Description: The battle to become Lord Sugar's next apprentice
intensifies as the remaining candidates reach the series'
half-way mark. After a rude awakening from the boss, the
candidates are set to work creating branding and advertising
for a new multi-purpose household cleaner. The teams are
tasked with producing a spotless TV and radio advertising
campaign, and try to clean up when they pitch to ad agency
heads and industry experts. At the day's end, one candidate
will be fired
Broadcast: 10 Nov 2010, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC1
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Title: Britain's Trillion Pound Horror Story
Description: Martin Durkin attempts to reveal the full extent of
Britain's multi-trillion-pound national debt, talking to
academics, economic experts, entrepreneurs and four
ex-Chancellors of the Exchequer
Broadcast: 11 Nov 2010, 21:00 (90 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
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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 2nd November 2010 at: http://www.trilt.ac.uk/
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