Off-air recordings for week 31 October - 6 November 2009

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

Sunday 2nd

Channel 4 - Human Zoo: Sciences Dirty Secret - "Only one hundred years ago, many of the world's leading scientists agreed with A. C. Haddon, when he wrote in his 1898 book Study of Man, that, "on the whole, the white race has progressed beyond the black race."
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, scientists were so fascinated by race that thousands of 'exotic' and indigenous people from all over the world were put on display in human zoos. They were not intended as merely entertaining freak shows but also scientific demonstrations of racial difference. Across the western world millions gawped in fascination at these 'uncivilised savages' and would depart convinced of the superiority of the white race.
This documentary explores the phenomenon of human zoos and tells the poignant story of Ota Benga, a Batwa pygmy from the Belgian Congo, who was first put on display at the 1904 St Louis World's Fair and then the Bronx Zoo where he was labelled as the 'missing link'.
As the film reveals, it was only a short step from these human zoos to the horrors of Nazi Germany as pseudo science that underpinned one, helped legitimise the other."

Monday 3rd

Channel 4 - The Last Voices of World War I - 6-part series -continues throughout the week until 9 November - "The stories of a group of the last remaining World War I veterans - 1. The Call to Arms 2. The Somme 3. Saving the Wounded 4. Horror in the Mud 5. The Home Front 6. The Boys of 1918

Channel 4 - Is it Better To Be Mixed Race? - "Before 1967, it was illegal in 16 American states for a black person and white person to marry. Right wing groups on both sides of the Atlantic continue to espouse that the mixing of races is destructive and against some kind of natural order.
Aarathi Prasad, a geneticist and mother of a mixed race child, sets out to challenge the ideas of racial purity and examines provocative claims that there are in fact biological advantages to being mixed race.
It's a controversial subject that has aroused much opposition from both ends of the political spectrum, but does greater genetic diversity confer advantages in humans, as seen in the breeding of plants and animals, or are lifestyle and environment the primary influences?"

Tuesday 3rd

BBC 2 - Horizon: Who's Afraid of a Big Blackhole? - "Black Holes are one of the most destructive forces in the universe, capable of tearing a planet apart and swallowing an entire star. Yet scientists now believe they could hold the key to answering the ultimate question - what was there before the Big Bang?
The trouble is that researching them is next to impossible. Black holes are by definition invisible and there's no scientific theory able to explain them. Despite these obvious obstacles, Horizon meets the astronomers attempting to image a black hole for the very first time and the theoretical physicists getting ever closer to unlocking their mysteries. It's a story that takes us into the heart of a black hole and to the very edge of what we think we know about the universe."

BBC1 - Black Widow Granny? - "In the autumn of 2008, Al Gentry from Albemarle, North Carolina, achieved his goal of 22 years hard work - he had Betty Neumar arrested for the murder of his brother Harold who was Betty's husband back in 1986.
Only then did it emerge that Harold Gentry was just one of Betty's former husbands. She'd in fact been married five times in total - and all five husbands appear to have died in suspicious circumstances. The US media had a field day and labelled her 'The Black Widow', but could this 76-year-old grandmother really have got away with murder, not just once but five times?
Made by acclaimed director Norman Hull, this film seeks the answer, tracking down some of the surviving relatives of the dead husbands, some of Betty's own children from these marriages, and finally the alleged 'The Black Widow' herself who completely denies all the accusations and presents a very plausible defence.
Betty has been charged with solicitation to murder Harold Gentry. As her trial approaches the film pieces together a trail of destruction and broken lives through investigation and reportage in a journey which is not over yet."

Thursday 5th

BBC 4 - Culture Fix - "The celebrated French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was the creator of some of the most popular paintings in the history of modern art. An aristocrat by birth, he spent much of his career recording the life of the Parisian demi-monde - particularly the bars, dance-halls and brothels that appeared in the city's Montmartre district at the end of the 19th century.
Although Toulouse-Lautrec was hugely successful both as a painter and print-maker, his was a tragic life, scarred by family conflict, alcoholism and illness. This profile explores the life and work of this important, intriguing and influential artist."

BBC 4 - A History of Christianity - Major new 6 part series - "Presented by Diarmaid MacCulloch - one of the world's leading historians and Professor of History of the Church and Fellow at St Cross College Oxford - A History Of Christianity will reveal the true origins of Christianity and delve into what it means to be a Christian.
Intelligent, thought-provoking and magisterial in its scope the series will reveal how a small Jewish sect that preached humility became the biggest religion in the world.
Most Christian histories start with St Paul's mission to Rome, but Diarmaid MacCulloch argues that the first Christianity stayed much closer to its Middle-Eastern roots."

Friday 6th

BBC 1 - Panorama: The Child Protectors - "In the aftermath of Baby Peter, Panorama has gained exclusive access to Coventry's social workers. The film follows the city-wide emergency response team and one of the local neighbourhood teams - all tasked with identifying at-risk children, assessing parents' capabilities and, if deemed necessary, separating families.
Child protection social workers are facing huge caseloads, working with marginalised families, juggling the time-consuming problem of multi-agency coordination and tackling the mountains of paperwork. Not to mention low pay, a staffing crisis and the knowledge that they are always only one phone call away from finding themselves at the centre of a tabloid witch-hunt.
In the midst of all this, are they managing to keep children safe?"

Channel 4 - Unreported World: Sudan - "Unreported World visits Sudan, where escalating violence has claimed more lives this year than the conflict in Darfur, with a disturbing trend of women and children being directly targeted."

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* 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 24-30 October 2009

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

Saturday 24th

BBC4 - Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution - "The watchwords of the French Revolution were liberty, equality and fraternity. Maximilien Robespierre believed in them passionately. He was an idealist and a lover of humanity. But during the 365 days that Robespierre sat on the Committee of Public Safety, the French Republic descended into a bloodbath.
'The Terror' only came to end when Robespierre was devoured by the repressive machinery he'd created. This drama-documentary tells the story of the Terror and looks at how Robespierre's revolutionary idealism so quickly became an excuse for tyranny, and why a lover of liberty was so keen to use the guillotine."

Sunday 25th

Channel 4 - Not Forgotten: The Men who Wouldn't Fight - "In this special edition of Not Forgotten, journalist and broadcaster Ian Hislop explores the compelling and emotive stories of conscientious objectors during the First World War.
Ian visits war memorials and the battlefields of the Western Front, and looks for evidence in local archives and personal war diaries to inspire his search for stories. He meets the descendants of some of the ‘Conchies’ and hears how they have dealt with the social stigma of their relatives’ refusal to fight.
Ian discovers that conscientious objectors fell into two loose categories; the ‘alternativists', those prepared to undertake non-combative roles, such as ambulance drivers and stretcher-bearers; and the ‘absolutists', the most determined and extreme COs who refused to carry out any work that aided the army – they wouldn't even peel a potato if it helped the war effort. Ian also explores the experiences of volunteers, who on witnessing the horrors of the battlefield, became committed COs. Ian uncovers stories of imprisonment, physical abuse, tragedy and extreme bravery.
At the heart of the film he asks, if we memorialise the courage of those who fought and died, should we not also remember and honour those who had the courage not to fight?"

More 4 - Secret History: Brighton Bomb - "The story of the IRA's audacious terrorist attack in October 1984, when they planted a devastating bomb in Brighton's Grand Hotel, aiming to kill the PM Margaret Thatcher."

Monday 26th

BBC 1 - Panorama: Freed To Offend Again - "Are we safe from dangerous prisoners released back onto our streets? A Panorama investigation reveals that known sex offenders and violent offenders are committing many more serious crimes, including rape and murder, on their release from prison than the government tells us about."

Channel 4 - Race and Intelligence: Science's Last Taboo - "In 2007, Nobel Prize winning US scientist James Watson was quoted referring to research suggesting that black people were less intelligent than other races. His comments caused a storm of controversy, Watson was condemned.
Although he apologised for the offence he caused, his public engagements were cancelled and he left his British speaking tour in disgrace.
Meanwhile, right wing websites hailed him as the new Galileo - a martyr to political correctness that was concealing the fact that there is indeed evidence that shows different races score differently in IQ tests. But are the tests biased? Is race really a scientific category at all?
In this documentary, part of the season Race: Science's Last Taboo, Rageh Omaar sets out to find out the truth, meeting scientists who believe the research supports the view that races can be differentiated as well as those who vehemently oppose this view. By daring to ask the difficult questions, Omaar is able to explode the myths about race and IQ and reveal what he thinks are important lessons for society."

Tuesday 27th

BBC2 - Horizon: Fix Me - "Horizon follows the emotional journey of three young people with currently untreatable conditions to see if within their lifetime, they can be cured.
Sophie is desperate to discover if there's a medical breakthrough which will get her walking again - a car crash after celebrating her A level results left her paralysed from the waist down. Anthony's leg was amputated after a rugby accident on the eve of his eighteenth birthday. Will he ever be able to regrow his leg? Father of four Dean is desperate for a cure for his damaged heart to avoid an early death. They've all read the headlines about the astonishing potential of stem cells to heal the body. Now they've been given access to the pioneering scientists who could transform their lives.
With so much at stake, each meeting is highly emotional as our three young people find out if science can fix them."

Channel 4 - Bleach, Nip, Tuck: The White Beauty Myth - 1/2 - "The Body (pt 1) follows the emotional journeys of ethnic minorities desperate to change their bodies, as well as showing incredible surgery including pioneering limb lengthening procedures."

Wednesday 28th

More 4 - True Stories: Four Wives , One Man - "Film-maker, Nahid Persson - born and raised in Iran - goes back to her roots to explore the functional and psychological problems faced by a family which comprises one man, his four wives, 20 children and his irascible, foul-mouthed mother. There's another problem underway: 50-year-old Heda wants to take a fifth wife, this time a virgin who won't talk back.
Although the Quran permits a man to take more than one wife, polygamy is not common in Iran. It is found mainly in rural areas and only 14 per cent of Iranians practise it. Persson makes this clear from the outset - this is not a comment about Iran, rather a look at four women in an extreme situation. In an early scene, Heda's mother condemns it. 'All my son thinks about is pussy,' she states..."

BBC2 - Natural World: Bearwalker of the North Woods - "Wildlife documentary. In the forests of northern Minnesota, biologist Lynn Rogers uses food to gain the trust of wild black bears, a controversial technique developed over his own forty-year journey from fear to fascination.
Following the fortunes of mother bear June and her three cubs over a year, the film reveals an intimate portrait of the lives of black bears."

BBC2 - Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain - New 6-part series - "In the first of a six-part series, Andrew Marr revisits Britain at the dawn of the 20th century. He finds the country mourning the death of Queen Victoria; fighting an intractable war against the Boers in South Africa; enjoying the bawdy pleasures of music hall; and worrying about the physical and moral strength of the working class.
There are stories of political intrigue between David Lloyd George and his arch enemy Joseph Chamberlain; the beginning of the struggle for women's suffrage; and an account of the day Mr Rolls met Mr Royce and kicked off a revolution in motoring.
With powerful archive and vivid anecdotes, Andrew Marr gets to the heart of Edwardian Britain. He brings to life Britain's struggle to maintain its imperial power in the world in the years before the First World War."

Thursday 29th

BBC4 - Timeshift: The Men Who Built The Liners - "Many of the most famous passenger liners in history were built in the British Isles, several in the shipyards along the banks of the Clyde. This series combines personal accounts and archive footage to evoke a vivid picture of the unique culture that grew up in the Clyde shipyards. Despite some of the harshest working conditions in industrial history and dire industrial relations, it was here that the Queen Mary, the Queen Elizabeth and the QE2 were built. Such was the Clyde shipbuilders' pride in their work, and the strength of public support, that in 1971 they were able to defy a government attempt to close them down and win the right to carry on shipbuilding."

Channel 4 - The Event: How Racist Are You? - "Are we all more racist than we realise or would like to admit?
For this Channel 4 documentary Jane Elliott, a controversial former schoolteacher from Ohio, is recreating the shocking exercise she used forty years ago to teach her nine-year-old pupils about prejudice.
Elliott is asking thirty adult British volunteers - men and women of different ages and backgrounds - to experience inequality based on their eye colour to show how susceptible we can all be to bigotry, and what it feels like to be on the other side of arbitrary discrimination.
Does Elliott's exercise still have something to teach us four decades on and in a different country? Presented by Krishnan Guru-Murthy, the exercise is observed throughout by two expert psychologists, Prof Dominic Abrams and Dr Funké Baffour, who will be unpicking the behaviour on display."

Friday 30th

Channel 4 - Unreported World - Greece: The Unwanted - "Unreported World travels to the European Union's eastern border, to the illicit crossing points for hundreds of thousands of Afghans making their way to our shores. Reporter Jenny Kleeman and director Jacob White follow migrants on the dangerous eight-mile crossing from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos, before gaining rare access to Pagani detention centre on the island. The team follows the migrants to Athens, where they witness the squalor in which they live and hear allegations of police violence against these desperate and determined people, who, it's clear, will stop at nothing for a chance to start a new life in Europe."

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* 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 17-23 October 2009

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

Saturday 17th October

BBC4 - 100 Years of the Girl Guides - "In September 2009 the Girl Guides celebrate their centenary. With a membership of over 600,000, nearly half the female population of Britain has been involved with the Brownies and Girl Guides at some time during their lives.
Throughout their history, the movement has given girls the opportunity to have fun and form life-long friendships. Narrated by Dominic West (The Wire), 100 Years of the Girl Guides delves into the movement's extraordinary archive and interviews a host of former Girl Guides from veterans to household names Kelly Holmes, Clare Short, Kate Silverton and Rhona Cameron.
In 1909 Robert Baden-Powell agreed to let girls have their equivalent of the Boy Scouts. It was a time when women couldn't vote, couldn't work once married, couldn't borrow money or seek contraception.
The guides have always risen to the challenge in times of national crisis. During the First World War, they worked in munitions factories and in the Second World War, young women in the Guides International Service worked alongside British soldiers to help Jewish inmates liberated from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
The Guide's progressive vision has pioneered the change in attitudes over disability. Their inclusive approach has produced many successful sportswomen including Kelly Holmes and paralympians Barbara Howie and Tanni Grey-Thompson.
The Girl Guides would not be the Girl Guides without their camping adventures. Baden Powell believed the great outdoors was the best way for the youth of the day to stay healthy and sane.
At the heart of the Girl Guide's ethos lies their commitment to helping others and being a good citizen."

BBC4 - Voices from the Doll's House - "Sybil Canadine, in the early years of the 20th century, wanted to be a girl scout but was repeatedly told scouting was for boys only. It was as a result of her determination that Baden Powell eventually agreed to the establishment of the movement which became the Girl Guides. Mrs Canadine talks about her experiences."

BBC4 - Ian Hislop's Scouting for Boys - "In this entertaining and affectionate film, Ian Hislop uncovers the story behind the book which kick-started the Scout movement. Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys, published 1908, may be largely forgotten today but was one of the best-selling books of the 20th century. A seemingly idiosyncratic read, it was also radical for its time, addressing modern issues such as citizenship, disaffected youth and social responsibility. As well as an interview with Baden-Powell's grandson, the documentary features contributions from the Minister for Culture David Lammy, Baden-Powell biographer Tim Jeal, and the editor of the recent re-issue of the original Scouting for Boys, Elleke Boehmer."

Sunday 18th

BBC4 - Sunday Schools: Reading, Writing and Redemption - "Documentary investigating the radical impact Sunday schools have had on British society. Their early pioneers upset local bigwigs and the state by teaching the lower orders to read. By Victorian times, huge numbers attended the schools and they even gave birth to major football clubs. In the twentieth century they still had a rich influence on the personal lives of people like Patricia Routledge, Roy Hattersley and Anne Widdecombe. Huw Edwards discovers their forgotten history."

Monday 19th

BBC1 - Panorama: Undercover - Hate on the Doorstep - "Bullied, attacked and racially-abused more than fifty times in eight weeks. That's the experience of two British Asian reporters posing as a couple and living undercover on a housing estate in Britain during summer 2009.
In a shocking insight into race hate and anti-social behaviour in our neighbourhoods, Tamanna Rahman was pelted with glass and stones and threatened with a brick during an attempted mugging by an 11-year-old boy. Her "husband," Amil Khan, was punched in the head. Yet the head of the government's equality watchdog has said that having a neighbour of a different ethnic background isn't an issue any more.
Panorama investigates the truth about racism and anti-social behaviour in Britain today."

Channel 4 - Age 8 and Wanting a Sex Change - "As experts consider a review of UK guidelines for treating transgender children, this film follows a number of children in the US who told their parents they were born in the wrong body.
In America, children under 16 can be prescribed hormone 'blockers' to prevent the onset of puberty, with a view to then follow with hormone treatment to become their new gender. This film follows the American experience.
Eight-year-old Josie was born a boy but has been living as a girl for two years since revealing the full extent of his feelings about his identity to his mother.
Kyla is also eight. He was born a boy but loves anything pink and sparkly, has grown his hair, and is preparing to return for school after summer dressed as a girl for the first time. He says: 'If I had to wear boys' clothes and be a boy for the rest of my life, I'd probably die.'
They have both been diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
Sixteen-year-old Chris, who was born a girl, started testosterone treatment at 14. She now has a deep voice and plentiful body hair, and shaves regularly.
These children and their parents reveal what it is like to face life-changing questions, giving a frank insight into a subject most people never have to consider."

BBC4 - Glamour's Golden Age - new 3 part series, part 1 - "Hermione Norris narrates a three-part series on the 1920s and 30s, which creates a portrait of a golden age so daring, so influential, so exciting that it still shapes who we are today.
The decades between the world wars saw a cultural revolution in music, fashion, design and the arts. Mass media, mass production and the resulting mass exposure to an alluring, seductive glamour saw the world changing at a dizzying pace, amid which many of our modern obsessions were born.
The first part looks at how architecture and design both created and reflected the spirit of the time. The fun and frivolity of Art Deco sat alongside the pure, functionality of modernism and helped democratise style. Streamlining followed, making sleek, sophisticated, elegant design part of ordinary people's everyday lives. At home, the radio became a beautiful object. In the urban environment a new aesthetic changed the way buildings looked, while planes, trains and automobiles started to shrink the world.
Featuring photographs of the Hoover Factory, Saltdean Lido, the Midland Hotel, the Savoy Theatre, the De La Warr Pavilion, the New Victoria Palace cinema, plus archive newsreel of the Mallard, the Queen Mary, the Schneider Trophy and Bluebird."

Tuesday 20th

BBC2 - Horizon: The Secret You - "With the help of a hammer-wielding scientist, Jennifer Aniston and a general anaesthetic, Professor Marcus du Sautoy goes in search of answers to one of science's greatest mysteries: how do we know who we are? While the thoughts that make us feel as though we know ourselves are easy to experience, they are notoriously difficult to explain. So, in order to find out where they come from, Marcus subjects himself to a series of probing experiments.
He learns at what age our self-awareness emerges and whether other species share this trait. Next, he has his mind scrambled by a cutting-edge experiment in anaesthesia. Having survived that ordeal, Marcus is given an out-of-body experience in a bid to locate his true self. And in Hollywood, he learns how celebrities are helping scientists understand the microscopic activities of our brain. Finally, he takes part in a mind-reading experiment that both helps explain and radically alters his understanding of who he is."

More 4 - True Stories: The End of the Line - "The True Stories strand presents Rupert Murray's acclaimed film looking at the consequences of unchecked, unregulated sea fishing across the globe.
It is not a film about what might happen, it is a film about what has happened.
The collapse of the cod population saw the end of 40,000 jobs; the bluefin tuna is being hunted to extinction; it takes five kilos of anchovies to produce one fish farmed salmon.
And while there are some positive signs, with Walmart and McDonalds both selling fish from sustainable sources, some outlets still sell endangered species.
But the final chilling conclusion is that unless more radical steps are taken globally, including the reduction of overfishing, it will take just 50 years for the world's ocean's to be all fished out."

Wednesday 21st

Five - The Lost Symbol: Truth or Fiction - "Investigative documentary exploring the story behind Dan Brown's new novel, The Lost Symbol. Featuring unique access to Freemason lodges throughout the world, the film examines the history of the organisation and explores the biggest conspiracy theories surrounding it. After centuries of rumour, suspicion and scandal, do the Freemasons deserve their mysterious reputation?"

BBC4 - Legends: Josephine Baker - The First Black Superstar - "A look at the life of the black entertainer Josephine Baker, who was a pioneer in every sense of the word and whose impact on the cultural history of the 20th century was profound."

BBC4 - Art Deco Icons - "The Art Deco movement swept through Britain in the 1930s, bringing a little glamour to everyone's life. In this series, architectural historian David Heathcote explores and enjoys four of the best examples of Art Deco in Britain.
Heathcote checks into Claridge's Hotel in London's Mayfair and explores the Art Deco makeover of the 1930s, which transformed the old Victorian hotel into a fashionable destination for the rich and famous.
He enjoys the glamour of the Deco fumoir which made smoking sexy and glamorous, even for women, and samples the cocktail bar with Guy Oliver, the man whose job it is to renovate and restore the hotel's glamorous 1930s image.
Heathcote then settles into a perfect Art Deco bath complete with glass panels, bubble bath and two bell pulls - one for the maid and the other for the butler."

BBC4 - A Tale of Two Britains - "The conventional view of 1930s Britain is of slag heaps, unemployed men hanging round street corners with nothing to do, hunger marches and economic depression.
This is only part of the truth, as the 1930s was a period of transformation. While most of the world suffered from the depression, the UK was able to shrug off the worst effects thanks to prudent management of the economy by the National Government and a degree of protectionism. Areas of high unemployment remained, but they were isolated from the general trend.
For many, it was a time of rising prosperity. Consumption increased as new gadgets - vacuum cleaners, cookers, fridges - came on the market. Car ownership increased massively and, as leisure time grew, so did travel as people took holidays, often for the first time. Millions went to the cinema and eating out became commonplace. To back up the increase in consumption new forms of credit emerged, with HP the most popular.
Using interviews with people who remember the decade, this documentary offers an alternative vision of Britain in the 30s and shows that, after the recovery from the slump that followed the crash of 1929, life was good for a large proportion of the country.
It celebrates the growing market for entertainment and consumer goods; shows how a boom in housing transformed the lives of millions of slum dwellers and how new towns grew up near centres of economic growth; and it challenges the view that the period was one of national gloom and austerity.
A considerable amount of research has shed new light on the period, and historians like Peter Scott, Richard Overy, Juliet Gardiner and Martin Pugh underpin the film's thesis, which will both surprise and cheer many viewers who have lived under the shadow of the bleak 1930s."

Thursday 22nd

BBC4 - The Golden Age of Liners - "Paul Atterbury recalls the heyday of ocean liners in this Time Shift documentary, revealing a story of design, politics and tragedy as he finds out how great ships captured the public's imagination.

Friday 23rd

Channel 4 - Unreported World: Guatemala - Riding with the Devil - "In Guatemala City, bus drivers are being murdered at a rate of one every other day as part of an extortion campaign by criminal gangs that is threatening to bring the city to its kness. Extortion is so lucrative for the gangs that they don't stop at the buscompbaies - practically any business in the city is a target , as this diquieting documentary reveals."

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* 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 10-16 October 2009

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

Monday 12th

Channel 4 - The Enemy Within - "
An extremist ideology is sweeping across Europe. Fundamentalist terrorist groups are operating in London. They want to end the British way of life and a minority are prepared to bomb and kill to get what they want.
But the year is 1892: Victorian England, where the government is fighting a war on terror against many of its own citizens.
Over 100 years later, Britain is home to another community which some claim is in deep conflict with its fundamental values.
The Enemy Within explores the discontent which fuelled radical sentiment in the 19th century and the anger that fuels it again today.
It tells the story of a largely forgotten period of English history - an Anarchist insurgency that took place in Victorian London - and examines the parallels that can be drawn with the modern-day war on terror.
A cast of non-professional actors, young British Muslims, speak the words of the 19th-century Anarchists involved with the terror campaign. Their performances are intercut with interviews in which they explain how they feel about being a Muslim in Britain today.
The programme uses surveillance-style camera techniques to evoke an atmosphere of tension and paranoia as it examines the feelings of oppression, persecution and anger that can lead to extremism."

Tuesday 13th

BBC2 - Horizon 1/6 -'Do I Drink Too Much?' - "Alcohol is by far the most widely used drug - and a dangerous one at that. So why are so many of us drinking over the recommended limits?
Why does alcohol have such a powerful grip on us? How much of our relationship with this drug is written in our genes? What are the real dangers of our children drinking too young?
Addiction expert John Marsden, who likes a drink, makes a professional and personal exploration of our relationship with alcohol. He undergoes physical and neurological examinations to determine its impact, and finds out why some people will find it much harder than others to resist alcohol. Even at the age of 14 there may be a way of determining which healthy children will turn into addicts.
John experiments with a designer drug being developed that hopes to replicate all the benefits of alcohol without the dangers. Could this drug replace alcohol in the future?"

More 4 - True Stories: Last of the Honey Bees - "Jeremy Simmons' moving film about the plight of honeybees throughout the world but this time from a very human angle.
Through the stories of three American beekeepers; Nicole Ulibarri from Montana, Eric Mills from Carolina and Matt Hutchens from Washington State, Simmons follows their efforts to make the epic journey with their hives to the biggest event on the beekeepers' calendar - the pollination of the almond groves of California.
But in common with many of the world's apiarists, the three are suffering from unexplained colony collapse disorder (CCD) which results in devastating consequences not just for the bees but for the beekeepers whose livelihoods are at stake.
The film hints at the global consequences of CCD continuing unchecked: the possibility that the crops, fruit and flowers that humanity rely will not be pollinated and will die out."

Friday 16th

Channel 4 - The Force - new 3 part series - "With unprecedented access to Hampshire Constabulary, this series follows the investigation of three major crimes, offering a rare and unique insight into the reality of modern policing." Part 1 - "
A woman's body, burned beyond all recognition, is discovered lying in a cornfield on an idyllic summer's day.
Two days into the case, Hampshire Constabulary know their victim has been strangled, her body carried in a suitcase to a field near a tiny Hampshire village, and then set alight; but not who she or who her killer is.
House-to-house inquiries unearth a witness who's seen a battered Vauxhall being driven slowly around the crime scene, the day before the killing. The offender profilers advise that whoever chose that lonely spot had done so because he knew the area, and a database search of car registrations throws up four names, one of them with a Hampshire bank account.
The chase is on, and as the case unfolds it presents an extraordinary snapshot of Britain in the 21st century - the passions and divisions hidden beneath the placid surface of middle England - and a unique insight into the fragility of modern policing."

Channel 4 - Unreported World: Liberia - Stolen Childhood - "The foreign affairs documentary series reveals how the west African country of Liberia is facing a child rape crisis. Six years after a brutal civil war in which rape was routinely used as a weapon, children are still at risk of being attacked. Reporter Jenny Kleeman and director Matt Haan meet victims at safe houses and children's hospitals to hear their harrowing stories. With little being done to bring rapists to justice, just how serious is the Liberian government about tackling child rape?"

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* 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.