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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Saturday 6th August
Factual; Arts, Culture & the Media; Documentaries
The Impressionists: Painting and Revolution
Channel 4, 8:00-9:00pm, 4/4, Final Flourish
This episode takes a closer look at the late years of Impressionism, using the last show these artists did together as a starting point.
Waldemar looks in considerable depth at the work of Georges Seurat, taking into consideration his academic training at the Beaux-Arts School in Paris and the artists that influenced him, such as Piero della Francesca and Puvis de Chavannes.
There is also an insight into the complex but fascinating world of optics and art, and the ways in which the Impressionists were using the new discoveries in light and eyesight to influence their work. A fascinating 'after-image' experiment brings to life the ways in which our own eyes see colour, both in its presence and its absence.
Van Gogh's time in Paris, a period very little is known about, is also covered, charting the incredible journey the artist made from his brown and dull canvases to the splendid colour and light that pervaded his work on the cusp of his departure for the South of France.
The film finishes with a revisiting of Monet and his later waterlily paintings in the Orangerie in Paris. Waldemar investigates how a bad case of cataracts was responsible for a seismic shift in his colour palette and his brushstrokes. Spending time with an ophthalmologist, he finds out how old age and a fairly common ailment of the eyes caused Impressionism to shift and become radical again at the turn of the century and into the 20th century.
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Sunday 7th August
Factual; News
This World: Thailand - Justice Under Fire
BBC2, 10:30-11:30
In Thailand a charismatic woman leader has just won a general election promising justice for the victims of army violence. Last year more than ninety people were killed in bloody clashes between demonstrators and the army in central Bangkok.
Award-winning correspondent Fergal Keane investigates the struggle of victims' families as they seek the truth about what happened to their loved ones. He explores claims of cover-up and impunity for the powerful.
Documentaries
Sperm Whale: Inside Nature's Giants Special
Channel 4, 9:00-10:30pm
The BAFTA-winning team battle through the night against a rising tide to explore the mysteries of the largest predator on Earth: the sperm whale.
Veterinary scientist Mark Evans and comparative anatomist Joy Reidenberg dissect the whale's enormous organs to reveal the secrets of this 45-foot deep-sea giant, which stranded and died on Pegwell Bay in Kent.
Despite their enormous size, we know very little about sperm whales because their lives are normally hidden deep beneath the waves.
The programme reveals how they can survive diving down thousands of metres for over an hour on one gulp of air in conditions that would freeze our blood and crush our bones.
As the team go inside the whale, biologist Simon Watt tracks whales in the Azores with modern-day Jonah, Malcolm Clarke, who gives him a sniff of his prized whale rectum samples and shows him the huge number of squid beaks in a whale's stomach.
Meanwhile, joined by diggers, trucks and a reluctant local tree surgeon, the team on the beach discover how sperm whales use the largest nose in creation to hunt giant squid in the dark.
In a memorable hands-on demonstration, whale expert Joy Reidenberg demonstrates how the whale can manoeuvre a prehensile penis of huge proportions with devastating precision.
And evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins marvels at the gigantic teeth that have evolved in the lower jaw of a sperm whale and digs out his copy of the King James Bible for a reading from the Book of Job about Leviathan.
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Monday 8th August
Drama
Women In Love
BBC4, 10:00-11:30pm, 1/2
Adaptation of DH Lawrence's classic novels The Rainbow and Women in Love, focusing on the lives of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, as they struggle with love, passion and commitment in the build up to the First World War.
Factual; Arts, Culture & the Media; Documentaries
Birth of the British Novel
BBC4, 11:30pm-12:30am
Author Henry Hitchings explores the lives and works of Britain's radical and pioneering 18th century novelists who, in just 80 years, established all the literary genres we recognise today. It was a golden age of creativity led by Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Fanny Burney and William Godwin, amongst others. Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, Tom Jones and Tristram Shandy are novels that still sparkle with audacity and innovation.
On his journey through 18th century fiction, Hitchings reveals how the novel was more than mere entertainment, it was also a subversive hand grenade that would change British society for the better. He travels from the homes of Britain's great and good to its lowliest prisons, meeting contemporary writers like Martin Amis, Will Self, Tom McCarthy and Jenny Uglow on the way.
Although 18th century novels are woefully neglected today compared to those of the following two centuries, Hitchings shows how the best of them can offer as much pleasure to the reader as any modern classic.
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Tuesday 9th August
Factual; Documentaries
Timeshift: When The Circus Comes To Town
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm, 2/2
Roll up! Roll up! Join Timeshift under the big top for unique access to the University of Sheffield's National Fairground Archive which tells the story of the circus. From Billy Smart to Gerry Cottle and Archaos to Cirque du Soleil, the documentary captures the appeal of this enduring mass entertainment. Find out what a josser is, discover why clowns are one of the few acts to achieve lasting celebrity and marvel at the sheer spectacle of some of the biggest circuses of all time. In an age when almost every form of popular entertainment owes something to the circus, When the Circus Comes to Town is a nostalgic journey into the origins of one of the ultimate expressions of human athleticism and showmanship.
Factual; Science & Nature; Science & Technology; Documentaries
Horizon: Do You See What I See?
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm
Roses are red, violets are blue but according to the latest understanding these colours are really an illusion. One that you create yourself.
Horizon reveals a surprising truth about how we all see the world. You may think a rose is red, the sky is blue and the grass is green, but it now seems that the colours you see may not always be the same as the colours I see. Your age, sex and even mood can affect how you experience colours.
Scientists have unlocked the hidden power that colours can have over your life - how red can make you a winner, how blue makes time speed up, and more.
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Wednesday 10th August
Factual; History; Documentaries
Kidnapped: A Georgian Adventure
BBC4, 9:00-10:00pm
In 1728, 12-year-old James Annesley was snatched from the streets of Dublin and sold into slavery in America - the victim of a wicked uncle hell-bent on stealing his massive inheritance. Dan Cruickshank traces James's astonishing journey from the top table of 18th century society to its murky depths. The story, which helped inspire Robert Louis Stevenson's book Kidnapped, reveals some disturbing home truths that cast a shadow over the century of the Enlightenment.
Factual; Science and Nature; Documenataries
Natural World: Empire of the Ants
Natural World visits the Arizona desert, where a new honey ant queen wages an intense battle for survival as she attempts to build and defend her empire. Eliminating rivals with ruthless efficiency, sacrificing thousands in her quest for domination, murder, cannibalism, genocide - she will do anything to keep her crown.
Empire of the Ants is the epic story of one honey ant queen's dramatic rise to power - her brutal fall from grace.
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Thursday 11th August
Documentaries
Me, My Sex and I
New documentary looking at the truth about the sexes. It is a deeply-held assumption that every person is either male or female, but many people are now questioning whether this belief is correct.
This compelling and sensitive film unlocks the stories of people born neither entirely male nor female. Conditions like these have been known as 'intersex' and shrouded in unnecessary shame and secrecy for decades. It is estimated that DSDs (Disorders of Sexual Development) are, in fact, as common as twins or red hair - nearly one in 50 of us. The programme features powerful insights from people living with these conditions, and the medical teams at the forefront of the field, including clinical psychologist Tiger Devore, whose own sex when born was ambiguous.
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Friday 12th August
Documentaries
Carrot Stick? A Horizon Guide to Raising Kids
BBC4, 2:30-3:30am
Child psychologist Laverne Antrobus delves into the Horizon archive to find out how science has shaped our approach to parenting and education over the last fifty years. From lessons in motherly love to tough discipline to bribery tactics, she asks what's the best approach when it comes to bringing up children. Laverne also explores how extreme behaviour can sometimes be explained by underlying neurological problems and discovers whether children learn best in a more child-centred environment.
Factual; History
A Renaissance Education: The Schooling of Thomas More's Daughter
BBC4, 3:30-4:30am
The intellectual forces at work in the Tudor era ensured it was a pivotal period for children's education. Historian Dr Helen Castor reveals how the life and education of Margaret More, daughter of Thomas More, tell a story of the transforming power of knowledge. As a child in Tudor England, and educated to an exceptionally high level, Margaret embodies the intellectual spirit of the age - an era which embraced Humanism, the birth of the Church of England and the English Renaissance. This film reveals what a revolutionary intellectual spirit Margaret More was and how the ideas that shaped her education helped change the cultural life of England forever.
Factual
Someone's Daughter, Someone's Son
ITV1, 9:00-10:00pm, 2/3
The second episode in the series looks at the murder of Jamie Lavis – one of Britain’s most appalling child murder cases. The programme speaks to the Lavis family and those involved in the case as a manipulative paedophile infiltrated those closest to his victim.
Jamie was murdered fourteen years ago when he was just eight years old. The Lavis family lived in Openshaw, Manchester - one of the cities most deprived suburbs. Jamie was the middle of five children and he and his siblings would often stay out playing all day.
But on bank holiday Monday, May 5th 1997 Jamie did not return home on time. His mother Karen remembers: “I was waiting for John to come home from work at eight o’clock, I told him and we just started panicking then. The police were phoned at ten.”
As the search intensified Jamie’s parents grew more worried. His older sister Nicola, now a mum herself, says: “I remember having to do everything because my mum and dad were just focused on finding him. Which is what I would be doing if it was one of [my children missing].”
Police knew that Jamie loved riding on the local buses, sometimes travelling around Manchester for hours at a time. 24 hours after his disappearance a local bus driver, Darren Vickers, approached the family and told them that Jamie had been travelling on his bus the day he went missing. As the last person to have seen Jamie alive, the Lavis family welcomed him into their home...
Factual; Documentaries
Of Time and The City
BBC2, 11:55pm-1:10am
Acclaimed British director Terence Davies's love song to his native city of Liverpool, looking at the city's transformation over the years through archival footage, personal memory and a powerful soundtrack.
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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.
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