The following programmes will be recorded during the week: 17-23
August 2013.
TV
Recordings:
Title:
Dragons' Den
Description:
Series in which budding entrepreneurs pitch business ideas
to
multimillionaires. Dragons' Den is back with two brand
new multimillionaires joining the
illustrious line up -
cloud computing pioneer Piers Linney and design industry
icon
Kelly Hoppen take their seats alongside returning den
stalwarts Duncan Bannatyne, Peter Jones and Deborah Meaden.
This
time a crooning Texan cowboy struts into the den with
some
backing from his country band, while a husband and wife
team
hope their Brazilian dance troupe will help grab the
Dragons' attention. Will this fresh batch of entrepreneurs
get
the investment they require?
Broadcast: 18
Aug 2013, 19:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
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Title: The
Men Who Made Us Thin
Description:
Jacques Peretti continues his examination of the weight-loss
industry and discovers how the World Health Organisation's
recognition of obesity as an epidemic provided millions of
new
customers for the industry. He also explores some of the
latest developments in bariatric surgery and asks how far
these
trends will go
Broadcast: 22
Aug 2013, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
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Radio
Recordings:
Title: How
You Pay for the City
Description:
Critics have long claimed that the financial services sector
has
become too bloated and complex. But with complexity
comes
profit. In the third part of this series, David
Grossman looks at the byzantine worlds of derivatives and
high-frequency trading.
Derivatives began as a way of protecting businesses against
unexpected developments like a bad harvest. But this
practice, known as 'hedging', now represents just a small
fraction of the total market. Derivatives are now the
product of choice for speculators looking to place vast bets
on
everything from the price of gold to pork bellies. But
the
market has become so complex and tangled that it led one
of
the world's most successful investors to dub them
'financial weapons of mass destruction'. They have been at
the
heart of scandals from Enron to the sub-prime mortgage
bubble that precipitated the crash of 2008. But they remain
hugely
lucrative for the banks. David Grossman finds out why
and
hears from the small businesses who were mis-sold
products designed to protect them against fluctuations in
interest rates but which turned out to be costly bets that
they
lost and the banks won.
The
programme also assesses the growth of high-frequency
trading, where computers compete to beat the market and
where trades are performed automatically at breakneck speed.
But
if the computers are winning, who is losing? David
Grossman investigates and talks to former industry insiders
about how high-frequency traders seek an edge over the rest
of
the market.
Broadcast: 17
Aug 2013, 11:00 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC
Radio 4
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All recordings will be made available via the VOD
(Video On Demand) service. To use VOD, search for the individual programme
title in SHU Library Search, then click on the VOD link.
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Source:
British Universities Film & Video Council (2013). Information from TRILT
database, last accessed 13th
August 2013 at: http://www.trilt.ac.uk/
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