TV Recordings:
Title: Great British Menu
Description: It is the battle of the London and South East chefs -
All of them are determined to knock out their rivals in the
race to the Olympic banquet.
Broadcast: nightly, 19:30 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC2
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Title: Inside Facebook: Zuckerberg’s $100 Billion Gamble
Description: As Facebook heads for its 100 billion dollar flotation,
Emily Maitlis updates her recent documentary on the
prospects for Mark Zuckerberg’s social network phenomenon.
She examines how Facebook, now with 900 million users, plans
to earn the billions its new investors will expect from it.
With exclusive access to Mark Zuckerberg and senior
executives, Emily tells the Facebook story, and reports on
its challenge - to build its advertising business from the
personal information its users provide, without losing their
trust
Broadcast: 14 May 2012, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
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Title: The Truth About Tax - Panorama
Description: Aggressive tax avoidance was branded ’morally repugnant’
by the chancellor in the last budget. But what does he mean?
Panorama investigates how some of the UK’s most famous
companies are using a tax haven at the heart of Europe to
save millions in tax. Armed with a cache of secret
documents, the programme reveals how global names have
received big tax breaks on billion-pound transactions in the
tiny country of Luxembourg. They say legal tax efficiency is
good news for shareholders. In these austere times, Darragh
MacIntyre asks: is big business paying its fair share?
Broadcast: 14 May 2012, 20:30 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC1
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Title: The Town Taking on China
Description: Documentary following a cushion manufacturer’s attempts to
shift jobs from his Chinese factory back to Merseyside. Tony
Caldeira’s experiment to bring jobs back to Britan is
hanging by a thread. At his factory, orders are up but a
third of his new staff have left, and time is starting to
run out for Tony and his team to prove that British
manufacturing can compete with China’s. At the world’s
biggest cushion trade fair in Frankfurt, they must win
enough orders to help secure the factory’s future, then
recruit new staff and expand the sewing floor in order to
meet demand. With the experiment reaching a critical phase,
experienced machinists Joanne and Sharon fly out to the
Chinese factory to see the competition and it is a huge
culture shock as they witness how their fellow employees
both work and live at the factory. The experiment concludes
with a direct competition between the two workforces -
before Tony makes a decision about whether to move jobs back
to Britain permanently
Broadcast: 15 May 2012, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
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Title: The Apprentice
Episode: English Bubbles
Description: The longest champagne bar in Europe at St Pancras
International is the venue chosen by Lord Sugar to launch
the latest task. But he is not buying the teams bubbly; he
is setting them the challenge of raising awareness of
English sparkling wine, which rivals champagne in quality,
but not in market dominance. It is a real issue for the
industry - can the teams devise a brand and identity for the
British product to compete with cava, prosecco and
champagne? Their marketing campaigns will be judged on merit
by discerning wine industry experts. Half of each team stays
in London to plan the marketing campaigns, while their
team-mates head to a vineyard in Surrey to get better
acquainted with the product. One team opts to stop off at
Tesco to get a feel for the market, but cannot find a
sommelier to explain which fizz sells best and why. At the
vineyard there is plenty of sparkling wine on hand to
sample, but tongues get tangled when one team takes the
tasting too seriously. It leaves their sober London
team-mates having to do all the work
Broadcast: 16 May 2012, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC1
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Title: The Great Euro Crash with Robert Peston
Description: With Europe teetering on the edge of an economic precipice,
BBC business editor Robert Peston takes a long view of the
euro - from Churchill’s vision of a United States of
Europe to the bail-outs of Greece, Portugal and Ireland.
Meeting a property developer in Ireland, a taxi driver in
Rome and a German manufacturing worker, the film exposes the
high cost being paid by European workers today for the dream
of monetary union - and how close Europe came to a complete
banking meltdown. The crisis could yet claim another victim
- Britain, with its vast financial sector, would be dragged
down by the collapse of the euro. The cost for saving the
euro may be high, but the alternative would be a return to
the economic mayhem of the 1930s
Broadcast: 17 May 2012, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
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All recordings will be made available via the SHU VOD (Video On Demand) service. To use the VOD service just search for the individual programme title on the SHU Library Search, then click on the VOD link.
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Source: British Universities Film & Video Council (2012). Information from TRILT database, last accessed 8th May 2012 at: http://www.trilt.ac.uk/
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