TV Recordings:
Title: The Hotel
Description: Documentary revealing life behind-the-scenes at the Damson
Dene, a typical three-star British holiday hotel. The hotel
receives a variety of guest complaints, which push manager
Wayne and his staff to the brink. A mother and daughter want
to take advantage of the hotel’s bed, breakfast and dinner
deal. A Geordie couple are not impressed when their hotel
room TV goes on the blink. Wayne also clashes with head chef
Kirk, who is forced to rethink how to run his kitchen
Broadcast: 15 May 2011, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
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Title: Business Nightmares with Evan Davis
Episode: Marketing Mess-ups
Description: Evan Davis uncovers the astonishing stories of how some of
world’s most successful businesses have made monumental
mistakes. With British business leaders including Sir
Richard Branson, Sir Martin Sorrell and Rita Clifton, Evan
reveals how marketing and publicity plans can turn from
clever ideas into commercial catastrophes. Company insiders
give their own accounts of these very public blunders,
including how a bestselling soft drink hit the headlines and
fell from favour; why there was such a backlash to a blip in
a computer giant’s usually faultless PR handling; and how
a jewellery empire was toppled with a few careless comments.
Evan extracts universal lessons from each exceptional error
in this essential guide to what not to do in business
Broadcast: 16 May 2011, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
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Title: The Street That Cut Everything
Description: Nick Robinson presents a unique social experiment. He has
persuaded one street in Preston to give up all council
services for six weeks. Armed with their council tax
rebates, the 50 residents must rally round and run their own
community themselves. What happens when rubbish is no longer
collected, street lights go out and neighbours now depend on
each other for their benefits? Will the residents do some
things better than the council or, at the end of it all,
will they be begging them to come back? Will it galvanise
their community, or tear it apart?
Broadcast: 16 May 2011, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC1
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Title: The Hotel Inspector
Description: Straight-talking, award-winning hotelier Alex Polizzi
strives to transform the fortunes of struggling guesthouses
across Britain. Alex comes to the rescue of a family-run
themed hotel in Devon
Broadcast: 16 May 2011, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Five
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Title: Britain’s Next Big Thing
Description: Series in which the buying teams of three high street giants
ask members of the public to supply them with the next
bestselling product. The fledgling suppliers experience the
highs and lows of life producing products for three of
Britain’s biggest retail names. As numbers are crunched,
it looks like some suppliers and inventors are heading for
the big time whilst others will need to stick to the day job
for that little bit longer than planned. Professor
Weston’s scarf adventure continues with a trip to the
printers on the shores of Lake Como in Italy, and Michelle
Alger shows signs of losing patience with the young
designers. Under the orders of the product safety team, the
pharmacy chain push Birgitte Lydum’s pram shade to the
limits, while Stuart Jolley’s male deodorant wipe receives
a makeover and Theo Paphitis spots a product he believes
could make billions. At the home retailer, Catherine Gray
casts her critical eye over the re-design of her beloved
vase
Broadcast: 17 May 2011, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
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Title: Secrets of the Superbrands: Technology
Description: Alex Riley explores the world of the technology superbrands
- how they get us to buy their stuff, trust them and even
idolise them. He meets the supergeeks who are inventing the
future and finds out how some of the most powerful companies
in the world really make their billions
Broadcast: 17 May 2011, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC3
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Title: Jamie’s Food Revolution Hits Hollywood
Description: Chef Jamie Oliver attempts to kick-start a revolution in
eating habits in Los Angeles. At a food convention he
discovers a seminar advocating flavoured and sugar-laden
milk in schools. Jamie then attempts to create a healthy
fast food menu in a local drive-through restaurant
Broadcast: 17 May 2011, 22:00 (65 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
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Title: Two Greedy Italians
Episode: Regional Pride
Description: Internationally renowned chefs and old friends Antonio
Carluccio and Gennaro Contaldo return to the Italy they left
more than 40 years ago, to discover what has changed in
Italian culture and how that has affected the way Italians
eat. When Antonio and Gennaro were boys, every Italian
thought that the food from their own region was the best. In
this episode they set out to discover if regional pride is
still as strong today. Antonio returns to his home town of
Borgo Franco to devour the truffles, cheeses and game of the
Piemonte region in the far north-west of the country. From
the moment they arrive it’s a battle between north and
south, with Gennaro reluctantly admitting that the local
food has some merits despite its lack of vegetables. Antonio
cooks a traditional dish of pasta ribons with chicken liver
sauce, and a German-influenced apple strudel which brings
back memories. Gennaro however gets creative with pork
fillet with honey and ginger
Broadcast: 18 May 2011, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
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Title: The Apprentice
Episode: Discount Buying for the Savoy
Description: Business-based reality show. The candidates are called to
meet Lord Sugar at London’s famous Savoy Hotel to be
briefed on their next task. Following a 220 million pound
refurbishment, the hotel requires a number of last-minute
items prior to its grand reopening. The business hopefuls
have nine hours to source ten products, and their powers of
negotiation are pushed to the limit as they attempt to track
down everything on the hotel’s unusual shopping list and
purchase them at the lowest possible price. Nick and Karren
watch on as the candidates get increasingly desperate in
their attempts to find quality items at bargain prices.
Missing or incorrect items are subject to penalty fines, and
this leads to a dramatic result in the boardroom. The losing
team gets a grilling from Lord Sugar, and the blame game
begins before one of the remaining candidates hears the
fateful words: "You’re fired!"
Broadcast: 18 May 2011, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC1
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Title: Business Nightmares with Evan Davis
Episode: Disastrous Decisions
Description: Evan Davis uncovers the inside stories of mistakes that
triggered some of the business world’s most spectacular
falls from grace. With top British business leaders
including Sir Martin Sorrell, Sir Richard Branson and Sir
Gerry Robinson, Evan analyses deals that spelled disaster
and projects that backfired. Executives reveal what it was
like to be at the heart of corporate calamities including an
audacious but ill-fated bid to take on the big airlines; the
sportswear website that became the archetypal dotcom
disaster; and a bank takeover blunder. From each
extraordinary error, Evan distils a vital strategic lesson,
offering his essential guide to what not to do in business
Broadcast: 19 May 2011, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
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Radio Recordings:
Title: The Food Programme
Description: Sheila Dillon reveals the secrets behind some of the
world’s great vinegars. She hears from producers of
Italian balsamic in Modena and fruit vinegar makers in the
UK
Broadcast: 15 May 2011, 12:32 (25 mins)
Channels: BBC Radio 4
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Title: The Bankers and the Bottom Billion
Description: The story of a group of women in an Indian slum who were targeted by plans to create financial services for the "bottom billion". Can financial markets help the poorest, or do they need to be protected from them?
Broadcast: 17 May 2011, 20:00 (40 mins)
Channels: BBC Radio 4
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Title: In Business: Take a Copy
Description: Peter Day finds out why copyright is such a
contentious issue in the internet age
Broadcast: 19 May 2011, 20:30 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC Radio 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 (2011). Information from TRILT database, last accessed 10th May 2011 at: http://www.trilt.ac.uk/
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