TV Recordings: 3-9 Nov 2012

The following programmes will be recorded during the week: 3-9 Nov 2012.

TV Recordings:

Title: Nigel Slater: Life Is Sweets
Description: Chocolate limes, buttered brazils, sherbert dib-dabs and
marshmallows - as part of the Food, Glorious Food season,
food writer Nigel Slater charts the origins of British
sweets and chocolates from medicinal, medieval boiled sweets
to the chocolate bars that line the supermarket shelves
today. With adverts of the sweets everyone remembers and
loves, this nostalgic, emotional and heart-warming journey
transports Nigel back to his childhood by the powerful
resonance of the sweets he used to buy with his pocket
money. Nigel recalls the curiously small toffee that
inspired him to write his memoir, the marshmallow, which he
associates with his mother, and the travel sweet, which
conjures up memories of his father. He marvels at the power
of something as incidental as a sweet to reveal emotions,
character and the past
Broadcast: 5 Nov 2012, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC4
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Title: Pound Shop Wars
Description: Pound shops are one of the fastest growing retail sectors,
boosted by consumers keen to bag a bargain in economic hard
times. This documentary follows the extremely rapid
expansion of two family-run retail businesses, as they both
race to dominate the high street. Hussein Lalani is
determined to expand his 99p Stores business north, bringing
him into direct competition with Yorkshire-based pound shop
chain Poundworld. Poundworld MD Chris Edwards, meanwhile, is
keen to open more stores in the south. And both companies
have to compete with the UK’s largest pound store chain,
private equity-funded Poundland. Can the 99p Stores expand
quickly enough to retain their market position, or will
Chris’s Poundworld chain catch up? The two family
businesses are in direct competition - even opening some
stores right next door to each other - but who will come out
on top?
Broadcast: 7 Nov 2012, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC1
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Title: Unreported World:
Episode: Indonesia's Tobacco Children
Description: Indonesia is in the grip of a smoking epidemic with the
proportion of child smokers rising dramatically. And Unreported World
reveals how young children are risking their health further by harvesting and
processing tobacco bought by the UK's biggest cigarette companies.
Broadcast: 9 Nov 2012, 19:30 (25 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 30th October 2012 at: http://www.trilt.ac.uk/