Off-air recordings for week 23-29 April 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.*

Sunday 23rd April

BBC1 - The Story Of Jesus - parts 1&2 "In a major two part series, nine of the world's leading Biblical experts re-examine the Gospel accounts of Jesus's life. Using the very latest archaeological, historical and theological research, the programmes analyse the key influences on Jesus's teaching, explore the land in which he lived and preached, and encounter the people who surrounded him. 
Illustrated with specially-shot drama footage of the key moments in Jesus's life, aerial and time-lapse footage, these experts investigate the true meaning of the 2000-year-old story of Jesus, and what it meant to his original first century followers.
This episode investigates the story of Jesus from his birth to the beginning of his ministry, when he performed some of his famous healings and miracles. Expert analysis is provided by Dr Simon Gathercole of Cambridge University, who visits Bethlehem to investigate the stories of Jesus's birth; Professor James Strange of Florida University, who uses the archaeology of Galilee to explore Jesus's childhood, the lost years of his life; Dr Joan Taylor of London University, who examines the key character of John the Baptist and his influence on Jesus; and Professor Greg Carey of Lancaster Seminary, who investigates some of Jesus's key miracles, their meaning and significance."


Tuesday 26th

BBC1 - The Prison Restaurant - "The Clink is a restaurant with a difference. The menu may sound mouthwatering, but the paying customers at this classy establishment tuck into their crab, lobster and coq au vin knowing that most of the staff are convicted criminals.
This unique and controversial rehabilitation scheme, set within the walls of HMP Highdown Prison, aims to transform prisoners into fully trained chefs and waiters.
The film follows fiery head chef Al as he employs three new inmates who are struggling to change their lives and turn their backs on crime."


BBC1 - The Lock Up - "It's a game of comic and tragic survival for the police custody teams and the prisoners of the Lock Up. For a year a BBC team had exclusive access to the custody suite of Humberside Police that specialises in hosting Hull's 2,000 young people who are arrested annually.
Two thirds of young offenders usually grow out of a life of crime, but in the first of this eight-part series, Sgt Jane Biglin has a guest list of regular clients - the dangerous ASBO breaker who gives an Oscar-winning performance to get out of jail; the prostitute who finds refuge in the cells; and the young thief, a heroin addict since he was 15, who goes cold turkey."
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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.

Off-air recordings for week 16-22 April 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 16th

More 4 - When The Moors Ruled Europe - "Bettany Hughes traces the story of the mysterious and misunderstood Moors, the Islamic society that ruled in Spain for 700 years, but whose legacy was virtually erased from Western history.
In 711 AD, a tribe of newly converted Muslims from North Africa crossed the straits of Gibraltar and invaded Spain. Known as The Moors, they went on to build a rich and powerful society.
Its capital, Cordoba, was the largest and most civilised city in Europe, with hospitals, libraries and a public infrastructure light years ahead of anything in England at the time.
Amongst the many things that were introduced to Europe by Muslims at this time were: a huge body of classical Greek texts that had been lost to the rest of Europe for centuries (kick-starting the Renaissance); mathematics and the numbers we use today; advanced astronomy and medical practices; fine dining; the concept of romantic love; paper; deodorant; and even erection creams.
This wasn't the rigid, fundamentalist Islam of some people's imaginations, but a progressive, sensuous and intellectually curious culture. But when the society collapsed, Spain was fanatically re-Christianised; almost every trace of seven centuries of Islamic rule was ruthlessly removed.
It is only now, six centuries later, that The Moors' influences on European life and culture are finally beginning to be fully understood.


Sunday 17th

BBC1 - Does Christianity Have  A Future? - "According to some, Christianity in the UK has no future. Closure of churches and falling attendances in the last few decades appear to show that the Christian faith is in terminal decline.
Ann Widdecombe examines the evidence, and discovers at least three areas of Christian growth which are bucking the trend - immigration into the Catholic Church, the Alpha course and the Black Pentecostalist Churches.
But even if these do arrest the decline, what about the very long term? Can Christianity survive in a world in which the young seem even less interested in Christianity than their parents? And in such a world, how is it possible to justify an established Church of England and all its privileges?


Monday 18th

BBC4 - The Gene Code - 2 part series - "SynopsisDr Adam Rutherford takes the viewer on a rollercoaster ride as he explores the consequences of one of the biggest scientific projects of all time - the decoding of the entire human genome in 2000. Adam discovers that every human carries the entire story of life on earth hidden in his or her DNA and sees how we are all linked directly to the origins of life and to the first creatures with backbones. He also investigates the implications of the fact that for much of its existence, the human race was an endangered species."



Tuesday 19th

BBC1 - The Baby Born In A Concentration Camp - "Anka Bergman gave birth to her baby daughter Eva in a Nazi concentration camp.

During her pregnancy, Anka witnessed the horrors of Auschwitz and endured six months of forced labour. If the Nazis found a woman was pregnant, she could be sent straight to the gas chambers. Amazingly, Anka's pregnancy went unnoticed for months.
Anka eventually gave birth - on the day she arrived at an extermination camp. Anka weighed just five stone and was on the brink of starvation; baby Eva weighed just three pounds.
Remarkably, both mother and daughter survived, and are living in Cambridge. Now they tell their story.


Thursday 21st

BBC1 - Jon Venables: What Went Wrong? - "The man who brought Jon Venables and Robert Thompson to justice for the murder of two-year-old Jamie Bulger goes on a journey to find out what happened to Jon, the system that was designed to rehabilitate him, and what led to him being returned to jail. Featuring experts, practitioners, and people who knew Venables, this thought-provoking documentary lifts the lid on the system of secure children's homes, and asks if more should be done for the next generation of serious child criminals."

Friday 22nd

BBC4 - Secrets Of The Arabian Nights - "The Arabian Nights arrived in the West 300 years ago and its stories have entranced generations of children and seduced adults with a vision of an exotic, magical Middle East. Richard E Grant wants to know why the book he loved as a child still has such a hold on our imagination. He travels to Paris to discover how the stories of Sinbad, Ali Baba and Aladdin were first brought to the West by the pioneering Arabist Antoine Galland in the early 18th century. The Nights became an overnight literary sensation and were translated into all the major European languages. In Cairo, Richard explores the medieval Islamic world which first created them and finds that some of the stories are still controversial because of their sexually-explicit content. Richard meets the Egyptian writer Gamal al Ghitani, who received death threats when he published a new edition of the book, and finds that the ribald and riotous stories in the Nights represent a very different view of Islam than fundamentalism."
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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.

Off-air recordings for week 9-15 April 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 9th

More4 - Death Of The Megabeasts - " Long after the extinction of the dinosaurs, other extraordinary species of giant beasts roamed the earth: the megafauna. Australia was home to some of the most bizarre of these creatures, including a giant wombat, a huge kangaroo, a massive lizard and the earth's biggest flightless bird. For hundreds of thousands of years these were the heavyweight champions of the animal kingdom. But suddenly and inexplicably they vanished. Something happened which wiped them off the face of the planet forever. There have been several mass extinctions of large terrestrial animals throughout history, but the death of Australia's megafauna is relatively recent. It occurred less than 60,000 years ago and no one knows why. For decades, scientific sleuths have been trying to solve the mystery. Now a team of top scientists from around the globe attempt to reveal what killed the megafauna in Australia. Their discoveries could offer an insight into environmental problems that threaten the world and all life today, and provide clues to our own future survival. This extraordinary prehistoric world is brought to life in high-quality, 3D animation. Walk with a giant wombat, the diprotodon; hop with a giant kangaroo, the procoptodon; and crawl with a giant lizard, the megalania."

Monday 11th

BBC1 - Panorama: Living With The Ayatollah - "Young Iranians speak out for the first time about life in a state where putting up a poster can get you jailed, releasing a rap CD calling for change gets you tortured and being gay is punishable by death. In a country where men and women can still be stoned to death for adultery, reporter Jane Corbin asks how much longer Iran can keep a lid on internal unrest as revolution and regime change sweep across the Middle East."

BBC2 - A Home For Maisie - "Sue Johnston narrates the story of Maisie, an eight-year-old girl with two failed adoptions behind her. Jim and Sue are a remarkable couple who have already successfully adopted eight other children. They are experts in parenting extremely damaged children but even they find Maisie's tantrums tough to cope with. But if Jim and Sue can't turn Maisie around, she'll be returned to care. They hope that a unique course of therapy programme offered by Family Futures can provide the key to Maisie's recovery. This extraordinary and moving fim follows the family's journey over the course of a year as they work towards their goal of adopting Maisie."

Tuesday 12th

BBC4 - The Great Estate: The Rise & Fall Of The Council House - "Journalist and author Michael Collins presents a hard-hitting and heartwarming history of one of Britain's greatest social revolutions - council housing. At its height in the mid-1970s, council housing provided homes for over a third of the British population. From the 'homes for heroes' cottages that were built in the wake of the First World War to the much-maligned, monolithic high rises of the 60s and 70s, Collins embarks on a grand tour of Britain's council estates. He visits Britain's first council estate, built as an antidote to London's disease and crime-ridden Victorian slums, the groundbreaking flats that made inter-war Liverpool the envy of Europe, the high rise estate in Sheffield that has become the largest listed building in the world, and the estate built on the banks of the Thames that was billed as 'the town of the 21st century'. Along the way he meets the people whose lives were shaped by an extraordinary social experiment that began with a bang at the start of the 20th century and ended with a whimper 80 years later."

Thursday 14th

BBC4 - Petworth House: The Big Spring Clean - 6 part series - "Andrew Graham-Dixon becomes an honorary member of the expert conservation team, as they commence the epic task of 'putting the house to bed' for the winter. He gets up close and personal with a Turner painting, does the dishes the National Trust way, vacuums one of Britain's rarest rugs and learns the secrets of a book which predates the invention of printing."

BBC4 - If Walls Could Talk: The History Of The Home - "Dr Lucy Worsley, chief curator of the Royal Historic Palaces, presents a new series for BBC Four exploring how homes have evolved into what they are today – and how our relationship with them has changed over time. If Walls Could Talk, tells the story of British domestic life from the Middle Ages to the present day through four rooms – the kitchen, the bedroom, the bathroom and the lounge – Lucy examines ever-shifting attitudes to privacy, class, cleanliness and technology. She recreates a range of domestic experiences, from attempting to do a Tudor laundry to cooking and eating a meal in a medieval crofter's cottage. Featuring interviews with a range of specialist historians, curators and living history experts, If Walls Could Talk will change the way you look at your home forever."

BBC2 - The Animal's Guide To Britain - 4 part series - "Chris Packham examines Britain from an animal's point of view as he tries to understand the needs, problems and histories of native species. He begins with freshwater creatures, visiting the Highlands, where he witnesses a fishing display by ospreys and learns how to tempt them to nest farther south. He also investigates what white-faced darter dragonflies, black water voles and brown trout can reveal about the changing nature of waterways.

Friday 15th

Channel 4 - Dispatches: Undercover Hospital - "With the coalition government pledging to protect the NHS, Dispatches reporter Tazeen Ahmad investigates what's really happening to the Health Service. Dispatches goes undercover inside one of the country's busiest NHS hospitals as it faces multi-million-pound cuts and hundreds of job losses in the next year."

Channel 4 - Unreported World - Pakistan: Defenders Of Karachi - "Unreported World visits Karachi, where last year more civilians were killed in political, ethnic and criminal violence than died across the whole of Pakistan in terrorist attacks."

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *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.