Off-air recordings for week 1-7 November 2008

Please email Rich Deakin < rdeakin@glos.ac.uk > if you would like any of the following programmes / series recording.*

Timewatch: The Last Day of World One - "In the week before Remembrance Day, Michael Palin tells the story of how the First World War ended on 11 November 1918 and reveals the shocking truth that soldiers continued to be killed in battle for many hours after the Armistice had been signed. Recounting the events of the days and hours leading up to that last morning, Palin tells the personal stories of the last soldiers to die as the minutes and seconds ticked away to the 11am ceasefire."

Armistice - "Professor David Reynolds takes a fresh look at the extraordinary events and personalities that brought about the armistice of 1918, venturing beyond the familiar British account of Remembrance Day to unravel how the other side, the Germans, plunged to total defeat in just a few months at the end of the war.In a journey that takes him through command centres and battlefields, he uncovers a story of wounded egos, mental illness and political brinkmanship as statesmen and generals haggled over the terms of peace, while, at the front, the soldiers fought on with sustained brutality.For many Germans, the armistice was a betrayal of all they had fought for and it caused lasting resentments that would eventually fuel Adolf Hitler's rise to power. Reynolds argues that the bitter endgame of the 'war to end all wars' tragically sowed the seeds of even more appalling conflict to come."

An Awfully Big Adventure - "Looking at the life of the creator of The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame."

Picture Book - "3 part Series which reveals the enchanting story of our childhood reading.This opening part looks at our very first books and the picture book heaven they create for under fives, exploring the magical interplay of words and pictures and how they begin to shape our childhood imagination. Featuring favourites from The Tale of Peter Rabbit to Charlie and Lola, from Noddy to Thomas the Tank Engine, plus modern classics such as We're Going on a Bear Hunt and Each Peach Pear Plum.There are also interviews, readings and demonstrations of their art from leading writers and illustrators including Michael Rosen, Shirley Hughes, Alan Ahlberg and Lauren Child."

Michael Portillo: Death of a Schoolfriend - "A trio of BBC2 documentaries about mental health will see Michael Portillo examine youth suicide, Terry Pratchett discuss Alzheimer's disease and Meera Syal look at self-harm... The first of the three documentaries, Michael Portillo: Death of a School Friend, looks at the suicide of one of the former MP's close friends. The Liberty Bell Productions programme features interviews with the parents of Gary, a friend of Portillo who died just before his 16th birthday.

Unreported World: Paraguay's Painful Harvest
"Documentary series on topical global issues. Paraguay has become one of the world's biggest suppliers of genetically modified soya, much of it destined to feed cattle that ends up on European plates. This programme reveals how our demand for meat is driving the industrial farming of soya to epic proportions, leading to violent clashes between peasants, foreign landowners and the police."

People's Century: 1929 Breadline - "The story of 'the hungry thirties' told by men and women who suffered in the worldwide depression that followed the Wall Street Crash. In Chicago, the unemployed ripped wooden paving blocks from the city streets, while in Belgium, laid-off miners broke into their own pits to scavenge for waste coal. Sweden was the first democracy to fight the depression, and America's President Roosevelt offered the country a new deal."

Regeneration - "Powerful, grim and compelling adaptation of Pat Barker's prize-winning novel, set in a Scottish hospital during the First World War. Eminent psychiatrist Captain William Rivers (Jonathan Pryce) questions his values and training when charged with treating victims of shell shock, only to send the soldiers back into active service at the Front."

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If there are any other programmes that you would like recording please let me know and will see if I can accomodate your request.

* This applies to staff members at the University of Gloucestershire only. Any recordings made are to be used only for educational and non-commercial purposes under the terms of the ERA Licence.

Off-air recordings for week 25-31 October 2008

Please email Rich Deakin < rdeakin@glos.ac.uk > if you would like any of the following programmes / series recording.*

A Midsummer Night's Dream - 1999 adaptation directed by Michael Hoffman

Reader I Married Him - "Daisy Goodwin delves into one of the most successful literary genres - romantic fiction. From Jane Austen to the present day, via Mills & Boon, this three-part series explores the enduring appeal of the love story and the integral part it plays in readers' lives."

Dispatches: Jon Snow's American Journey - "As Obama and McCain's gladiatorial showdown enters its final week, Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow goes in search of the new America. Starting at the border with Mexico, Snow takes a road trip up the Pacific highway linking San Diego to Seattle, travelling though areas of great affluence, deprivation, innovation and tradition to find out about the new Americans, new economy and new directions that are shaping the next America..."

Little Dorritt - New BBC adaptation "Little Dorrit tells the story of the Dorrit family and the rich array of characters they meet on their way from rags to riches and back again."

Diwali: A Sikh's Journey Home - "To mark Diwali, a story symbolising the hurdles faced by families caught up in the clash of cultures, religions, generations and genders in the 21st century."

True Stories: Jesus Politics the Bible and the Ballot - "Showing as part of More 4's US election season, Ilan Ziv's film is a probing look at how deeply religious faith shapes 21st century American politics."

Earth From The Air - "French aerial photographer Yann Arthus Bertrand spent ten years making a photographic inventory of the earth's surface. From magestic landscapes to rubbish dumps, the images are shockingly beautiful, but for Yann the most important part is the powerful environmental message which accompanies each image.
Yann takes on various photographic assignments, amongst them locations such as Russia and the Lebanon, learning on the way about the ecological issues that drive him."

Radio programmes

Archive Hour: Potteries Fascists - "Seventy years ago the Public Order Act of 1936 marked the beginning of the end of the British Union of Fascists, banning the wearing of the blackshirt uniform and giving police the power to ban fascist marches. Within a year, the movement was also barred from most big halls in the country, leaving its leader Oswald Mosley without his two main weapons processions and mass meetings.In Potteries Fascists, Gerry Northam marks the anniversary of the Act with a unique set of recordings, never before heard on network radio, chronicling the rise and fall of the fascist movement in one of its strongest provincial bases, Stoke-on-Trent."

Classic Serial: Robinson Crusoe and His Farther Adventures - "Adaptation of Daniel Defoe's less famous sequel to the classic adventure Robinson Crusoe. After returning to England from his island home, Robinson Crusoe sets sail once more in search of adventure."

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If there are any other programmes that you would like recording please let me know and will see if I can accomodate your request.
* This applies to staff members at the University of Gloucestershire only. Any recordings made are to be used only for educational and non-commercial purposes under the terms of the ERA Licence.

Off-air recordings for week 18-24 October 2008

Please email Rich Deakin rdeakin@glos.ac.uk if you would like any of the following programmes / series recording.*

Timewatch - Young Victoria - "Timewatch tells the story of how an unassuming little girl rose to be the most powerful woman in the world. At her birth few believed Princess Victoria would ascend the throne, but a number of untimely deaths and the failure of her uncles to father any children meant that Victoria became heiress to the throne of England. The battle between her and her mother the Duchess of Kent, however, was to become one of the fiercest mother-daughter struggles of all time, as the Duchess schemed to share in the power and riches that would one day be Victoria's."

Violent Women: Tonight - "With recent figures showing 240 women are arrested for violent crimes every day, the programme investigates the reasons behind this rise in aggressive behaviour. Former Big Brother contestant Alex de Gale, who was removed from the house for intimidating other contestants, tries a variety of anger-management therapies to curb her temper."

Channel 4 Education -
What's So Good About Jamila Gavin? (ages 7-11)
What's So Good About Roald Dahl? " "
What's So Good About JK Rowling? " "
We Are From Croatia (ages 9-12)

Imagine: A Love Story - "What makes a great love story? Imagine looks at the great books, films and pop songs that have tackled the thorny issues of love, pain and desire. Lancelot and Guinevere, Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Lady Chatterley's Lover, 24 Hours from Tulsa, Casablanca, Brief Encounter and Lolita are all great love stories, but what makes them special?

According to Pulitzer prize winner Jeffrey Eugenides, "A great love story has to have a fly in the ointment." Other contributors include best-selling authors Sarah Waters, Helen Fielding, Jane Austen's biographer Claire Tomalin, Burt Bacharach's lyricist Hal David, screen doctor Robert McKee, psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, and literature professor John Sutherland"

1914-1918 - "Documentary series telling the history of the Great War, in which nine million people perished. Beginning with the origins of the conflict." Parts 1-2 of 7.

True Stories: No End In Sight - "A searing indictment of the Iraq War, representing a full analysis of Iraq's descent into civil war... Based on over 200 hours of footage, the shocking story of post-invasion Iraq is told via interviews with high-ranking Bush Administration officials including General Jay Garner, who briefly ran the reconstruction before being replaced by L. Paul Bremer; Ambassador Barbara Bodine, who was placed in charge of the Baghdad embassy; Richard Armitage, former deputy secretary of the State Department; Robert Hutchings, former chairman of the National Intelligence Council; Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's former chief of staff; Col. Paul Hughes, who worked in the ORHA and then the CPA."

Mum, Heroin and Me - "This is a film about what happens when your daughter becomes a heroin addict. Shot over the course of a year by award-winning documentary-maker Jane Treays, the film follows Kate (49), her 20-year-old heroin-addicted daughter Hannah (pictured) and Hannah's boyfriend, Ricky (31). As Hannah moves from pavement, to hostel, to bedsit, the film provides a moving portrait of a mother and daughter trying to love one another through the fog of heroin addiction."

British Transport Films – A Nation On Film Special - "... reviews the work of Edgar Anstey and his team of film-makers in the state-owned British Transport Films Unit after the Second World War. The archive features beautiful documentaries and travelogues, but did they strike the right balance between truth and propaganda?"

Elizabethan Express - "'Elizabethan Express' is an example of a widely released British Transport Film (BTF) film which focussed directly on rail travel, this film features the express locomotive Silver Fox which travelled from London’s King’s Cross to Edinburgh – a distance of 393 miles in six and a half hours."

Greart Railway Journeys of the World: Euston, London to Kyle of Lochalsh, western Scotland - "Avid trainspotter Michael Palin fulfils a boyhood dream as he travels from Euston in London to Kyle of Lochalsh in Scotland. Part of The Golden Age of Steam season."

Unreported World: South Africa Body Parts for Sale - "Channel 4's acclaimed foreign affairs strand returns with an eye-opening, and horrifying, investigation into "Muti Murder" in South Africa. While the country is modernising fast, Unreported World reveals how hundreds of people, including children, have been killed for body parts destined for the booming practise of traditional medicine and talks to a "healer" who claims he tortures and kills people for his trade."

Unreported World: India: God's own Country - "Kerala is apopular tourist destination in southern India where thousands of pilgrims seek slavation from the growing number of gurus in the region. However, as Jenny Kleeman reports, many of these so-called godmen now face allegations that range from fraud to sexual abuse."

Radio Programmes

Wayfarers All: a Hundred Years of Wind in the Willows - (5-part series) To mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of Kenneth Grahame's iconic children's novel, The Wind In The Willows, BBC Radio 4 has commissioned five authors to write short stories inspired by the names of the book's main characters. The line-up includes: Rat by Candia McWilliam; Toad by Beatrice Colin; Mole by David Almond; Weasel by Zoe Strachan; and Badger by Mark McNay.

Misfits in France: Wild(e) about Dieppe - (3-part series) "Series in which Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee explore the connections between a group of Victorian writers and artists who crossed the English Channel for different reasons. Examining the differing fortunes of Oscar Wilde and the painter Walter Sickert during their time in the French town of Dieppe. Wilde arrived at Dieppe in May 1897 in disgrace, following his release from Reading Gaol, but quickly moved on. Sickert enjoyed a long and happy association with the resort, beginning with childhood holidays there and including an affair with one of the local fishwives."

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If there are any other programmes that you would like recording please let me know and will see if I can accomodate your request.

* This applies to staff members at the University of Gloucestershire only. Any recordings made are to be used only for educational and non-commercial purposes under the terms of the ERA Licence.

TASI - Internet for Image Searching

"Would you like to learn how to use the Internet to find copyright cleared images for your work, quickly and efficiently?"

Welcome to Internet for Image Searching

TASI (the JISC Advisory service for Digital Media) and Intute as part of the Intute: Virtual Training Suite have created this tutorial to help you make the most of the internet to find and use copyright cleared images for your work.

"Use this free, interactive tutorial to improve your image searching skills."

Off-air recordings for week 11-17 October 2008

Please email Rich Deakin rdeakin@glos.ac.uk if you would like any of the following programmes / series recording.*

Building of the Year: RIBA Stirling Prize 2008 Live - "Which building will win this year's most prestigious award in UK architecture? Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud hosts live coverage from the RIBA Stirling Prize announcement, which this year is held at the BT Convention Centre, part of ACC Liverpool. The award goes to the architects of the building that has made the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year."

Timewatch - The Boxer Rebellion - "Timewatch exclusively reveals the dramatic true story behind the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, when Imperial troops and Chinese rebels laid siege to the diplomatic quarter in Beijing. Told through Chinese sources and the diaries and memoirs of the outnumbered European defenders, the siege helped to bring down the imperial monarchy, precipitating a century of destruction, revolution and ultimate renewal."

High Anxieties: The Mathematics of Chaos - "Documentary which looks at how developments in mathematics over the past 40 years has completely changed our understanding of the fundamental nature of the world we live in. As we approach tipping points in both the economy and the climate, the film examines the mathematics we have been reluctant to face up to and asks if, even now, we would rather bury our heads in the sand rather than face harsh truths."

True Stories: Garbage Warrior - "A documentary telling the epic story of maverick US architect Michael Reynolds. - Hippie architect Michael Reynolds has spent the past 35 years creating eco-friendly homes known as “Earthships”. Using beer cans and tyres to hold the structures together, he came up with a way of life that requires none of the traditional household fuels. Running foul of American planning mandates, he found his buildings threatened, but in the wake of the Boxing Day Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, he has found recognition at last. Brit filmmaker Oliver Hodge’s documentary initially depicts its subject as a bit of an ass, but it gradually becomes obvious that Reynolds is a true humanitarian, offering a real alternative to modern living"

Between The Lines: Railways in Fiction and Film - "Novelist Andrew Martin presents a documentary examining how the train and the railways came to shape the work of writers and film-makers... " (click the link for more info.)

The Last Days of Steam - "The Last Days Of Steam asks why, when the rest of the world was committing to diesel trains, Britain was building hundreds of steam-powered locomotives."

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If there are any other programmes that you would like recording please let me know and will see if I can accomodate your request.

* This applies to staff members at the University of Gloucestershire only. Any recordings made are to be used only for educational and non-commercial purposes under the terms of the ERA Licence.

Off-air recordings for week 4-10 October 2008

Please email Rich Deakin < rdeakin@glos.ac.uk > if you would like any of the following programmes / series recording.*

Timewatch: Britain's Forgotten Floods
"Tsunamis are among the most destructive forces known to Man - but in Britain, most of us think they are one thing we don't need to worry about. Professors Simon Haslett and Ted Bryant have already challenged this view. They believe that the Bristol Channel flood of 1607 - one of Britain's greatest natural disasters - was in fact a tsunami. But the story doesn't stop there - in Britain's Forgotten Floods, Simon and Ted investigate evidence for what they believe are at least four more British tsunamis.
Joining them on their journey around the British coastline is historian and scientist Vanessa Collingridge (presenter of Radio 4's Making History). Vanessa will be weighing up the evidence, and also looking back to the Lisbon tsunami of 1755 - an almost forgotten disaster that had a profound effect on Britain, and changed the course of European history.theory of the healing stones bear up to modern day forensic science?"

Spy Stories: British Espionage in Fact and Fiction
"The story of the long and often extraordinary relationship between fact and fiction in the mysterious world of British espionage. The programme charts the evolution of spying through the twentieth century and looks at the parallel development of spy fiction during the same period. Contributors include Stella Rimington, Daphne Park, David Shayler, John Le Carre, Charlie Higson, Bernard Porter, Nick Hiley and Stephen Dorril."

Dirty Tricks: Storyville The Man Who Got the Bushes Elected
"Stefan Forbes's gripping documentary tells the story of Lee Atwater, the blues-playing rogue whose rambunctious rise to become chairman of the GOP positioned him as kingmaker and political rock star. Atwater mentored George W Bush and Karl Rove while leading the Republicans to victory, helped make liberal a dirty word and transformed the way America elects its presidents. Featuring interviews with colleagues and adversaries, the film sheds new light on his role in America's shift to the right."

Great British Journeys - 1. Gerald of Wales, 2. William Cobbett, and 3. John Leland

Wilderness Explored (3-part series)
"Documentary series telling the stories of early European explorers who reached the wildernesses of Canada, the Congo and Australia. 200 years ago, the Arctic was a blank on the map for explorers, a place which captured their imagination as a place of sublime beauty but one where expeditions disappeared without trace. In the last century, the polar sea has become a region of vital strategic significance and, as the Arctic ice melts, the polar bear has become an emblem for the earth's fragility."

The American Future: a History by Simon Schama (4-part series)
"Shot against the backdrop of the US presidential campaign, a new documentary series on BBC Two, The American Future: A History, sees Simon Schama travel through America to dig deep into the conflicts of its history to understand what is at stake right now..."

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If there are any other programmes that you would like recording please let me know and will see if I can accomodate your request.

* This applies to staff members at the University of Gloucestershire only. Any recordings made are to be used only for educational and non-commercial purposes under the terms of the ERA Licence.