Off-air recordings for week 5-11 March 2011

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 5th March

More 4 - Drain The Ocean - "Below the surface of the Earth's oceans lies a mysterious and relatively unknown world. With a diversity of life that rivals the rainforest, the ocean is one of the world's largest ecosystems, but relatively little is known about what lives in its great depths.
Drain the Ocean draws on the latest scientific knowledge and uses CGI animation to remove the water, revealing a landscape of unimaginable scale - with underwater mountain ranges long enough to stretch round the world one and a half times - and with tens of thousands of mud volcanoes and other features that are more dynamic than anything found on land."

Sunday 6th

Channel 4 - Civilization: Is The West History? - 6 part series - "The first programme in the series begins in 1420 when Ming China had a credible claim to be the most advanced civilization in the world: 'All Under Heaven'. England on the eve of the Wars of the Roses would have seemed quite primitive by contrast.
Yet the lead that China had established in technology was not to be translated into sustained economic growth. In China a monolithic empire stifled colonial expansion and economic innovation. In Europe political division bred competition.
The question for our own time is whether or not we have lost that competitive edge to a rapidly ascending Asia."

BBC2 - Wonders of the Universe - 4 part series - "Professor Brian Cox reveals how the most fundamental scientific principles and laws explain not only the story of the universe, but the story of us all."

Monday 7th

Channel 4 - Dispatches: Selling Off Britain - "Selling Off Britain: Krishnan Guru-Murthy hosts a live studio debate about whether we should sell the family silver - from missiles to the government wine cellar - to cut our national debt."

Tuesday 8th

BBC4 - Justice: Freedom Versus Fit - "The seventh of Harvard professor Michael Sandel's famous lectures on the philosophy of justice looks at the issue of individual rights and the freedom to choose. If our place in society is determined by where we best fit, doesn't that eliminate personal choice? What if I am best suited to do one kind of work, but I want to do another?
Sandel addresses one of the most glaring objections to Aristotle's views on freedom, his defence of slavery as a fitting social role for certain human beings. Students discuss other objections to Aristotle's theories and debate whether his philosophy overly restricts the freedom of individuals."

BBC2 - Horizon: Predators In Your Back Yard - "
Across the world scientists are releasing predators, nature's ultimate killers, close to where people live.
In Florida, a new population of panthers, feared as ambush predators, have been released near to the busy town of Naples. In the Italian Alps, bears have been reintroduced after they became virtually extinct, and now try to get into people's homes in the middle of the night.
And in Yellowstone National Park, wolves have been brought back 70 years after they were exterminated.
Horizon meets the scientist behind this radical scheme, and the people who now have to share their backyards with these predators."

Thursday 10th

BBC1 - Bang Goes The Winter Weather Special - "Dallas Campbell, Liz Bonnin and Jem Stansfield build an innovative weather chamber and re-create wintry conditions by making their own clouds, rain and snow. They reveal the wettest and windiest parts of the UK and explain the science behind the big freeze that has struck two years in a row."

BBC2 - The British At Work - 4 part series - "Kirsty Young explores British working lives since the Second World War, combining archive footage with testimonials from members of the public. She hears from women about the experiences of moving into a male-dominated workforce, and examines how the optimistic dreams of the post-war years were undermined by poor management and bickering workers."

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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.