Wednesday 7 April 2010

Off-air recordings for week 10-16 April 2010

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

BBC1 - Panorama: Is Britain Full? - "Panorama investigates just how overcrowded the UK actually is. The latest official population projection has it rising over the next twenty years to 70 million. If it does, everybody will feel the effects - from where we live to where our kids go to school.
Some argue that the extra population, much of it made up of new immigrants, will help boost the British economy, but will it? And what can politicians actually do to stop the growth?"

Channel 4 - Saxon Gold: Finding the Hoard - "
In July 2009, amateur metal detecting enthusiast Terry Herbert uncovered the largest Anglo Saxon treasure hoard ever found in Britain.
Just below the surface of a field belonging to farmer Fred Johnson near Lichfield, Staffordshire, he unearthed over 200 pieces of jewelled gold and silver treasure, buried, lost and forgotten for over a millennium. Archaeologists later excavated a further 1,400 items.
'What I found was equivalent to finding Tutankhamen's treasure,' says Herbert.
The unprecedented find of Anglo Saxon gold mesmerised archaeologists and historians, making headlines around the world.
Saxon Gold: Finding the Hoard talks to Terry Herbert and farmer Fred Johnson, as well as the archaeologists who painstakingly excavated the site in secret to prevent 'nighthawking', and the experts from the Birmingham and the British Museums, who first realised the international significance of the hoard.
Dating back to the mid-seventh century, the 1,600 pieces of treasure, weighing over 14lbs, have been valued at an incredible £3.285 million; the workmanship is so magnificent it could have been part of a Royal treasury. When the find was displayed at the Birmingham Museum 40,000 people queued for hours to see it.
For the finder, the discovery has been life-changing; it will make him and the landowner millionaires. For archaeologists it's the beginning of a long journey to try and unravel the mysteries and answer the many questions generated by the hoard: who did it belong to and why did they bury it and never return? Could the treasure be trophies of war, stripped from the dead and dying?"

Tuesday 13th

BBC1 - Spoilt Rotten?: Panorama Special - "From obesity to alcohol misuse, from rotting baby teeth to hearing problems caused by passive smoking - Britain's largest children's hospital is treating younger and younger children for health problems which are ultimately preventable. Many are the result of kids' lifestyles and are, according to the experts, causing them unnecessary suffering.
Five-year-old Kaitlyn is having nearly half her teeth extracted because she's been consuming half a mug of tomato ketchup every day, 13-year-old Macaulay has been drinking half a bottle of vodka every Friday night, while five-year-old Leon weighs the same as an average 17-year-old.
With unprecedented access to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, Panorama meets the kids and the paediatricians treating them, and follows them home in an attempt to uncover the root cause of their problems. Reporter Richard Bilton soon discovers that some of the basic health messages from the doctors are not getting through to the parents.
The experts' forecast for our children is bleak: this generation is in danger of being the first to die before their parents- and all because of the way we live."

BBC4 - TV's Black Pioneers - "Documentary highlighting the experiences, trials and tribulations of the first generation of black African-Caribbean actors that worked in UK theatre, film and television during the 1950s, 60s and 70s. They recount their lives in the acting profession through personal testimony which is illustrated by the use of archive film and photography. Contributors include Cy Grant, Joan Hooley, George Harris, Mona Hammond, Rudolph Walker and Jim Pines."

Thursday 15th

BBC2 - Welcome to Lagos - new 3-part series - "Three part observational documentary series which explores life at the sharp end of one of the most extreme urban environments in the world: Lagos, Nigeria."


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* This applies to staff members and students 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.