TV Recordings:
Title: The Town that Never Retired
Description: Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford head up an experiment to
send 70-something pensioners back into full time work in the
city of Preston. The experiment reflects the Government’s
plans to raise the state pension age. They’re more used to
judging thrusting young apprentices, but this time the pair
pluck 14 older workers out of retirement and set them to
work in a chocolate factory, building site, restaurant,
health clinic and estate agency. The sceptical employers cut
the 14 older workers no slack and at the end of the week
must choose whether they’re prepared to keep any of the
pensioners who made it through on for a second week or send
them back into retirement.
Broadcast: 11 Jul 2012, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC1
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Title: Show Me Your Money
Description: Documentary following one of Britain’s top bosses as he
attempts to break the rules and encourage a more honest and
open working environment. Inspired by a real pay experiment
from the 1950s, the managing director of Pimlico Plumbers,
Charlie Mullins, asks his workers to reveal how much they
are paid by pinning their salaries on a notice board. After
seeing the huge pay discrepancies between workers doing the
same jobs, a revelation that prompts a variety of emotional
responses from his staff, Charlie challenges his workers to
devise a new pay scheme that is fairer for everyone
Broadcast: 11 Jul 2012, 22:00 (65 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
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Title: The Men Who Made Us Fat
Description: Jacques Peretti examines assumptions about what is and is
not healthy. He also looks at how product marketing can
seduce consumers into buying supposed ’healthy foods’
such as muesli and juices, both of which can be high in
sugar. He speaks with Simon Wright, an ’organic
consultant’ for Sainsbury’s in the 1990s, who explains
how the food industry cashed in on the public’s concerns
around salmonella, BSE and GM crops. By 1999 the organic
industry was worth over £605M, a rise of 232% within two
years. Peretti speaks with Kath Dalmeny, former policy
director at the Food Commission, who explains some of the
marketing strategies used by mainstream food producers to
keep our custom. The programme also explores the impact of
successive government initiatives and health campaigns, such
as the proposal of ’traffic light labelling’. But in
2012, when we have an Olympic Games sponsored by McDonalds
and Coca Cola, has anything changed?
Broadcast: 12 Jul 2012, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
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Title: Bank of Dave
Description: Two-part documentary following businessman David Fishwick as
he tries to open his own bank to serve his local community
in Burnley, providing good rates to borrowers and savers
alike. In the first part of the series Dave learns how banks
operate. Almost everyone in banking tells Dave that his idea
will not work, but with the support of the people of Burnley
he presses ahead anyway. With help from local businesses and
tradesmen, Dave is able to transform a tiny old flower shop
into Burnley’s very own ’bank’. On the bank’s
opening day, he meets people in the community who until now
have been unable to borrow money
Broadcast: 12 Jul 2012, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
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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 3rd July 2012 at: http://www.trilt.ac.uk/
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