The following programmes will be recorded during the week: 24-30
August 2013.
TV
Recordings:
Title:
Dragons' Den
Description:
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 youthful publisher challenges protocol with a
brave business strategy that bucks magazine industry trends,
while a trio of former ad-men provide the Dragons with a
tough quizzing of their own. It's all or nothing in the den,
who will leave empty handed?
Broadcast: 25
Aug 2013, 19:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
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Title: The
Men Who Made Us Thin
Description:
Jacques Peretti asks why the world's population continues to
get fatter, despite the fact that billions
are spent on
weight loss every year. He travels to America to investigate
the
parallels between food companies and the tobacco
industry and meets the activists battling to introduce laws
to
tax fatty and sugary foods - and facing fierce resistance
from
the food industry
Broadcast: 29
Aug 2013, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
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Radio Recordings:
Title: How
You Pay for the City
Description: In
the final part of the series, David Grossman assesses the
impact of Government interventions like Quantitative Easing
and Funding
for Lending. He looks at their impact on savers
and
pensioners and asks whether the City has
disproportionately benefited from their effects.
The
programme also investigates the growth of speculation on
the
price of commodities like oil, a practice that's been
fuelled by fears of inflation as a result of QE. Has the
rise
in the price of consumables in recent years been driven
by demand or by the effects of increased
speculation? And
who
ultimately pays for it?
Broadcast: 24
Aug 2013, 11:00 (30 mins)
Channels: BBC
Radio 4
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Title:
Patently Absurd
Description: The
patent system in the USA is so distorted it's now more
lucrative for companies known as 'patent trolls' to sue
manufacturers rather than actually make anything. The
problem's so serious that President Obama has got involved
--
and British companies are targeted if they do business in
the
US. Rory Cellan-Jones investigates and finds one of the
world's biggest trolls in his lair in Dallas.
For
centuries patents have helped stimulate innovation by
rewarding inventors. But in recent years millions of US
patents have gone to minor developments often in terms so
general
they seem to cover whole technologies like
podcasting or wi-fi.
Major corporations are amassing huge 'war-chests' of patents
to
defend and sue each other. Around 250,000 patents affect
smartphones alone; such 'patent thickets' make it almost
impossible for new companies to compete without risking
ruinous lawsuits.
But
worst of all are 'trolls' - companies that buy up
patents simply to extract 'license fees' from businesses
that
actually make products. Faced with defending a lawsuit
at a
cost of at least $1 million, or settling for a smaller
license
fee, most pay up even if they're not infringing any
patents.
Last
year the majority of US patent cases were filed by
'troll' companies at an estimated cost to technology
businesses
of $29 billion a year. But it's all legal and the
companies say they're simply monetising a 'property right'
and
raising money for small inventors.
Strangely many of these cases are filed in a small town in
rural Texas. Cellan-Jones reports from Marshall, once the
home
of 'boogie-woogie' but now more famous for 'the rocket
docket' - patent cases that go to trial in a fraction of the
time they take elsewhere in the
US.
Broadcast: 25
Aug 2013, 16:00 (40 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 20th
August 2013 at: http://www.trilt.ac.uk/
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