Off-air recordings for week 2-8 July 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.*

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Monday 4 July

Documentary; Nature and Environment

The Truth About Wildlife

7:00-7:30pm, BBC2, 1/3

Naturalist Chris Packham presents a hard-hitting personal take on what's going wrong - and sometimes right - with our precious wildlife and its conservation. In this episode, he looks at the state of wildlife on farms and finds many key species in decline. He follows a farmer who is giving up on government nature schemes to make more money from cash crops. He finds others committed to wildlife friendly farming but there remain big concerns that we are failing the nation's wildlife.

Documentary

Landlords From Hell: Dispatches

8:00-9:00pm, Channel 4

In this undercover investigation, Jon Snow reports on the return of the slum landlord in 21st-century Britain. At a time when more people than ever are having to rent privately, unable to get on the property ladder, Dispatches reveals the shocking conditions in which tenants are forced to live.

Dispatches sends an undercover reporter to work for a rogue property empire in the north of England. He reveals a world of forced evictions, slum properties in dangerous condition, and routine bullying of tenants. Jon confronts the man raking in millions while his tenants suffer.
Dispatches also exposes an extraordinary new phenomenon: thousands of people living in illegal sheds, transforming parts of London into slums. A second undercover reporter lives in a squalid, illegal shed in London, paying £40 a week rent to another rogue landlord.
Dispatches lifts the lid on a world where unscrupulous landlords are exploiting the most vulnerable people in society and getting away with it.

Documentary

Babies Behind Bars

9:00-10:00pm, ITV1, 2/2

Babies Behind Bars follows the stories of a group of pregnant inmates at the Indiana Women's Prison in the USA.
With a 400 per cent increase in the number of incarcerated women in the US in the last 30 years, prison births are becoming an increasingly regular occurrence and this new two part series follows the dramatic and emotional stories of one group of expectant mothers serving time. The film provides a unique insight into the experiences of the inmates with intimate access to their lives.
Many of the inmates are forced to give up their babies after just 24 hours while the lucky ones get to keep their babies in a special prison nursery – Wee Ones, which was launched in 2007. Featuring births, babies and often intensely emotional scenes, these films use powerful personal stories to pose questions about how the American criminal justice deals with women and children.
The programme explores the personal stories of several prisoners including Donna, who says she was raped at 14 after getting drunk for the first time and spiralled into years of substance abuse; and Heather, a former prostitute and mother of 8, who fell pregnant with twins aged 11 and claims she is denied a place on the Wee Ones project due to a conviction for violence dating back to when she was 10 years old.
The prison is a maximum security facility that houses 670 convicts. Doug Garrison, the prison’s Chief Communications Officer explains: “if the rates for re-incarceration are lower for women that have gone through this programme, then we’ve done something right. If the rates of criminal activity by their children in five or 10 or 15 or 20 years are low, then we know we’ve done something right.”...
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Tuesday 5 July

Documentary

Should I Test My Genes? The Price Of Life

9:00-10:00pm, BBC2


Can the secrets of our blood foretell our destiny? When the mother of award-winning director Adam Wishart died of cancer he decided to find out if there was a family cancer gene, and if there would be any benefit to knowing. He asks whether the NHS is keeping up with this brave new world of genetics.


Documentary

Imagine

10:35-11:25pm, 2/5, The Pharaohs' Museum On Liberation Square

Alan Yentob visits Egypt's National Museum, possibly the most precious museum in the world, with its dust-covered collection of thousands upon thousands of priceless ancient antiquities.

The museum was caught up in the revolution on Cairo's Tahrir Square, standing right at the centre of the action. Its precious cargo was looted, and young revolutionaries formed a cordon around it to protect it.
The museum is the heart of Egypt, containing the key not just to the country's past but to its future, offering inspiration and hope. Alan discovers that the pharaohs were not the slave-drivers of Hollywood legend, and that 4,000 years ago there was another revolution, foreshadowing today's, and even a goddess of social justice.
With Omar Sharif and novelist Ahdaf Soueif.

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Wednesday 6 July

Documentary

Glamour's Golden Age

2:00-3:00am, 2/3, Beautiful and Damned

The story of 1920s London's Bright Young People is a tale of sex, drink, drugs and a gossip-hungry press. Beautiful and Damned traces the growth of 1920s London's bright young party set whose antics were enjoyed and scorned in equal measures by a watching nation. And the more artistic of the merry band - Cecil Beaton, Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford among them - saw their work make the characters and attitudes of the era both legend and fable.


Documentary

Afghanistan: The Unknown Country

9:00-10:00pm, BBC2

A journey through the parts of Afghanistan that don't normally feature in news coverage to meet some amazing people and see fascinating places. Lyse Doucet uses her many years experience in Afghanistan to show a different side of a country which has been at war for 30 years.


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