Monday, 11 June 2012

TV Recordings: 9-15 June 2012

The following programmes will be recorded during the week: 9-15 June 2012.

TV Recordings:

Title: The Restaurant Inspector
Episode: Tarragon
Description: Restaurateur Fernando Peire comes to the aid of struggling
eateries across Britain. Tarragon is a fine-dining French
restaurant in East Sussex that is failing fast. First-time
restaurateur Nigel and award-winning chef John Cameron are
at a loss as to why business is so bad. Fernando is
convinced that Tarragon needs to ditch its fancy ways to get
the customers in. But will he be able to persuade both owner
and chef that the frogs’ legs and snails need to go?
Broadcast: 11 Jun 2012, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 5
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Title: Jimmy and the Giant Supermarket
Description: Pig farmer Jimmy Doherty attempts to make free range food
affordable to everyone by creating higher-welfare versions
of Tesco products. Jimmy tries to transform Tesco’s own
brand chicken Kiev and finds the solution in the form of
’spent’ egg-laying hens. Successfully creating a
prototype for his affordable free range Kievs, he puts it to
the taste test with Tesco’s Head of Product Quality and
Customer Taste Panel. Jimmy also turns his attention back to
British rose veal, to help stop the slaughter of tens of
thousands of male dairy calves after birth
Broadcast: 12 Jun 2012, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
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Title: The Men Who Made Us Fat
Description: Around the world, obesity levels are rising. More people are
now overweight than undernourished. Two thirds of British
adults are overweight and one in four of us is classified as
obese. In the first of this three-part series, Jacques
Peretti traces those responsible for revolutionising our
eating habits, to find out how decisions made in America 40
years ago influence the way we eat now. Peretti travels to
America to investigate the story of high-fructose corn syrup
Broadcast: 14 Jun 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 11th June 2012 at: http://www.trilt.ac.uk/

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