Tuesday 31 July 2012
Off-air recordings for week 4-10 August 2012
Please email Rich Deakin rdeakin@glos.ac.uk if you would like any of the following programmes / series recording.*
*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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Sunday 5th August
Factual: Science and Nature; Nature and Environment; Documentaries
The Dark: Nature's Nighttime World
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm, 2/3 - Amazon Flooded Forests
Natural history series revealing a totally new perspective on wildlife at night. Now the expedition travels south to a flooded forest in the heart of the Amazon. Large mammal expert Bryson Voirin encounters a curious sloth whilst camerawoman Sophie Darlington spends stormy nights precariously perched high in the jungle canopy attempting to film the only nocturnal monkey in the world. Further south, Gordon Buchanan heads to the largest wetland on earth in search of giant anteaters and enters a strange deserted house that's been taken over by vampire bats. And Dr George McGavin abseils deep into the perpetual darkness of a giant cave system - cut off from the light for millions of years. Deep inside he and the team discover species new to science.
Factual; Documentaries
Timeshift: Epic - A Cast of Thousands
BBC4, 10:20-11:20pm
Timeshift reveals the ten commandments of big cinema as it goes behind the scenes of the biggest film genre of them all - the epic. See the biggest sets ever known! Hear the sound of Ancient Rome! Count the spiralling costs as budgets soared!
From Ben-Hur to The Ten Commandments, from El Cid to Cleopatra, these were films that set a new standard in BIG. In the days before computers they recreated ancient worlds on a vast scale, and they did it for real. Epic cinema hired armies, defied the seasons and changed cinema. Even the screen wasn't big enough for the epic, so Hollywood made it bigger - and some cinemagoers experienced vertigo watching these vast productions.
Today, the epic lives on in the Oscar-laden Gladiator and the spectacular sweep of Avatar. As this documentary reveals, the stories behind the films are as spectacular as the films themselves.
Factual; Arts, Culture and the Media
Shakespeare from Kabul
BBC4, 11:20pm-12:05am
This is the story of a group of Afghan actors bringing a production of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors to an international festival at London's Globe theatre.
Over 30 years of war have virtually destroyed Afghan theatre. Women can be harassed for performing on stage. Yet in just a few months the actors are expected to perform in front of an audience of thousands at one of the most prestigious theatres in the world.
The film starts with challenging auditions in the Afghan capital, caught in the grip of one of the worst winters of recent years. It follows the actors to rural India for rehearsals - safe from the security threats of Kabul but away from their friends and families. It ends with their triumphant and moving performance at the Globe. Facing an uncertain welcome on their return, the film gives real insight into the struggles and bravery of the actors determined to show the world a very different side to Afghanistan.
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Monday 6th August
Factual; Science and Nature; Science and Technology
Horizon: Eat, Fast and Live Longer
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm
Michael Mosley has set himself a truly ambitious goal: he wants to live longer, stay younger and lose weight in the bargain. And he wants to make as few changes to his life as possible along the way. He discovers the powerful new science behind the ancient idea of fasting, and he thinks he's found a way of doing it that still allows him to enjoy his food. Michael tests out the science of fasting on himself - with life-changing results.
Factual; Science and Nature; Nature and Environment; Documentaries
Nature's Microworlds
BBC4, 8:30-9:00pm, 4/6 - Monterey Bay
Monterey Bay on California's coast is one of the most diverse marine ecosystems in the world, its giant kelp forest bursting with life, from microscopic plankton to visiting ocean giants. The secret key to success in such a busy microworld is balance. Steve Backshall guides us through the unique geography of the bay and introduces some of its key characters in a quest to find the one species that keeps life in the kelp forest in check.
Factual; Science and Nature; Documentaries
After Life: The Strange Science of Decay
BBC4, 10:00-11:30pm
Ever wondered what would happen in your own home if you were taken away, and everything inside was left to rot? The answer is revealed in this fascinating programme, which explores the strange and surprising science of decay.
For two months in summer 2011, a glass box containing a typical kitchen and garden was left to rot in full public view within Edinburgh Zoo. In this resulting documentary, presenter Dr George McGavin and his team use time-lapse cameras and specialist photography to capture the extraordinary way in which moulds, microbes and insects are able to break down our everyday things and allow new life to emerge from old.
Decay is something that many of us are repulsed by. But as the programme shows, it's a process that's vital in nature. And seen in close up, it has an unexpected and sometimes mesmerising beauty.
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Tuesday 7th August
Documentaries
Lost Children
Channel 4, 10:00-11:05pm, 2/2, Josh
With intimate access to staff, pupils and families, this film tells the surprising and touching story of one of the High Close School's most challenging children: Josh. Filmed over a year, we follow the ups and downs of his education and explore his history to discover what made him the way he is.
Fourteen-year-old Josh is the school's tough man. He was taken away from his heroin-addicted mum and put into care at the age of three. He had a staggering 24 moves between foster placements before the age of six, together with his younger sister Demi. However, for the past eight years, Josh and Demi have lived with their adoptive mother, former social worker Sue, who is determined to provide them with a loving and stable home.
'You think a lot of love and lot of attention will be enough,' Sue says. But soon teenager Josh's angry outbursts and aggressive behavior mean that both Sue and the teachers at High Close are struggling to help him.
As the story of Josh's past unfolds, tensions escalate at school, and he brings his mother closer to breaking point. Can Josh avoid repeating the mistakes of his birth family and make the necessary changes to remain at High Close?
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Wednesday 8th August
Factual; Arts, Culture and the Media; Documentaries
A History of Art in Three Colours
BBC4, 9:00-10:00pm, 3/3 - White
The history of white is a fascinating and controversial tale. In his concluding documentary James Fox’s core question is how the notion that all of antiquity was clad in white came to prominence.
The blame appears to lie with a flamboyant German Johann Joachim Winckelmann, who in the 18th century promoted ideas about the virtues of white in classical art. Fox also pulls in Duchamp, Whistler, Le Courbusier and Mussolini to show how those virtues were corrupted into something darker.
Art historian James Fox concludes his examination of gold, blue and white by arguing that the latter has moved from being a symbol of virtue and purity to one revealing the darkest human instincts. He explores why the colour fascinated 18th-century potter Josiah Wedgwood and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann, and examines how in the 20th century it came to be linked with the Italian dictator Mussolini and fascism.
Documentaries; Crime
Secrets of the Pickpockets
Channel 4, 10:00-11:05pm
As London 2012 draws hundreds of thousands of tourists from around the world to the city, the historic event is also attracting organised gangs of pickpockets in search of easy money. This documentary reveals the tricks of the trade of this particular breed of criminal and explores the work of specialist teams created by the Metropolitan and British Transport Police to catch them.
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Thursday 9th August
News
Tonight: Proud to Be British
ITV1, 7:30-8:00pm
In 1972, dictator Idi Amin ordered the expulsion of tens of thousands of Asians from Uganda, forcing them to abandon their lives and seek shelter in other countries. Forty years later, Fiona Foster considers to what extent those who fled to Britain have changed the face of the nation.
Factual; Crime; Law; Documentaries
The Briefs
ITV1, 9:00-10:00pm, 2/2
With unprecedented access to Britain’s busiest legal aid practice, The Briefs takes us into the cut-throat world of criminal law.
Tonight, we experience the lawyers’ interesting marketing techniques, the case of a performance-poet accused of benefit fraud, a particularly emotive murder and a gay couple whose fights always seem to end up in a police station.
Franklin Sinclair, the partner who runs Tuckers’ Manchester office, is trying to attract business in unusual ways - umbrellas, beer mats, key rings and lighters, as well as DJing on a sponsored local radio show.
“There are less cases and more firms, or the same amount of firms, fighting for work. And you have to try to get a bit of a commercial advantage. If it doesn’t give us business, at least it creates jealousy amongst the other firms.”
Meanwhile, the firm has a new client - Tim - who was previously married but is now accused of fighting with his boyfriend in public.
“He hit me first ‘cos he thought I was flirting with another guy. Unfortunately I bit him in several places and he bit me. We both had quite a few injuries.”
Tim eventually gets a community service order. Later he appears in court a number of times, notably for damaging a restaurant window during another argument with his boyfriend. Franklin tells him he is surprised to see him again.
“I never thought you’d get involved with the justice system again and it was like I said to the court, it was like handbags at dawn, wasn’t it, your case?”
Tim is sentenced to six weeks in prison.
Part-time performance poet Gerard is accused of earning £14,000 on top of sickness benefits, which he denies. The Benefits Agency has also calculated that Gerard received £4,000 too much. He agrees to pay it back but is prosecuted for benefit fraud.
“I’m going to plead guilty. All I want is this to be over with. What I want to do is lie down on my couch and eat soup and talk to my friends about old times. That’s all I want to do ‘cos that’s what gets you better. Being dragged through court doesn’t make you better, it makes you worse.”
The court imposes a six-month community order on Gerard. He is also fined £250 and put on a four-week tag.
Documentaries
Wonderland: Young, Bright and on the Right
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm
Joe Cooke (Oxford University) and Chris Monk (Cambridge) come across as pompous, middle-aged men with posh accents rather than 20-year-old university students. But they know that Oxbridge is a conveyor belt for future political leaders and they both have their eyes on the prize. Much of this film has a tang of Twenty Twelve absurdity about it, but once the layers of faux-sophistication and political cant are peeled back, there are poignant moments that may touch even the most ardent Tory-basher.
Joe Cooke and Chris Monk dream of carving out careers in the Conservative Party, and hope to take the first step toward achieving their political aims by making an impression at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. However, both come from state-school backgrounds and feel like outsiders among their more privileged fellow students. Joe has become president of his party's association at Oxford, but faces an uphill battle to implement the changes he feels it needs to undergo, while Chris struggles to make a name for himself in Cambridge's renowned debating society.
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Friday 10th August
History; Documentaries
The Great British Story: A People's History
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm, 8/8 - Modern Britain
Much of Michael Wood’s series so far has involved the little-told stories of working men and women. Now, in the final programme, he reaches an age when ordinary lives have been documented much more thoroughly. Wood is a skilled communicator and his meetings with people in the once-mighty industrial centres of the north reveal how the events of the past century are still affecting them.
Michael Wood concludes his survey of the past 2,000 years of British history by charting the dramatic changes seen during the 20th and 21st centuries. He assesses the impact that two world wars had on communities across the country, explores the spread of multiculturalism over the past 50 years and charts Britain's transition into a post-industrial economy. Finally, he assesses the future of the United Kingdom, and explains what he believes British citizens can learn from their shared history.
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Wednesday 25 July 2012
Off-air recordings for week 28 July - 5 August 2012
Please email Rich Deakin rdeakin@glos.ac.uk if you would like any of the following programmes / series recording.*
*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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Sunday 29th July
Factual; Science and Nature; Nature and Environment; Documentaries
The Dark: Nature's Nighttime World
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm, 1/3 - Central American Jungle
This illuminating natural history series reveals a totally new perspective on wildlife at night. Over six months, a team of biologists and specialist camera crew explore the length of South and Central America to find out how animals have adapted to life in the dark.
The expedition starts in the jungles of Costa Rica where the team are after some of the most frightening nocturnal predators. Alone in the dark, nighttime camera specialist Justine Evans has an exceptionally close encounter with a large male jaguar. Biologist Dr George McGavin is on the trail of the most ingenious predator of the jungle - the net casting spider. And cameraman Gordon Buchanan finds ruined temples deep in the jungle as he searches for the bizarre creatures that rule the jungle canopy at night.
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Monday 30th July
News
Panorama: Disabled or Faking It?
BBC1, 8:30-9:00pm
Panorama investigates the government's plans to end the so-called 'sick note culture' and their attempts to get millions of people off disability benefits and into work. In Britain's modern welfare state, millions are being paid to private companies to assess sick and disabled claimants but is the system working? Or are new tests wrongly victimising those who deserve support the most?
Crime
Real Crime with Mark Austin
ITV1, 10:35-11:35pm, Murder of a Father
Garry Newlove's widow Helen and the couple's daughters Zoe, Danielle and Amy talk about the murder of the 47-year-old, who was beaten to death after confronting youths vandalising his wife's car outside the family home in Warrington, Cheshire, in August 2007. The case sparked a national debate about alcohol-related anti-social behaviour, and Helen now campaigns to bring an end to gangs such as the one that claimed her husband's life.
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Tuesday 31st July
Documentaries
Lost Children
Channel 4, 10:00-11:05pm, 1/2 - Courteney
Twelve-year-old Courtney from Liverpool has been diagnosed with ADHD, and was excluded from her primary school for disruptive behaviour.
She's now starting her second year as a boarder at High Close School in Berkshire, which is run by Barnardo's and is home to some of Britain's most troubled children.
According to Nikita, Courtney's key worker, she has tremendous potential. But as Courtney approaches her teenage years her behaviour is deteriorating fast.
Struggling to find words for how she feels, Courtney says it's like there's 'a little cell in inside my head that says "don't care". It's like my head's changed.'
Behind Courtney's anger there's an extraordinary family story that stretches back more than four generations, from her mother Sara to her great-grandmother, Edna.
Loving and close, these four generations are a remarkable testimony to the strength of their family ties but they're also players in a story of troubled and sometimes violent relationships.
Through the years, the women in the family have turned to each other for support. But despite their love for each other, events in their lives seem to keep on repeating themselves.
As Courtney's mother Sara inches closer to breaking point, Jonathan Newport, the dedicated deputy head teacher of High Close, is running out of ideas.
Courtney's on the brink of exclusion at an extremely understanding school, and keyworker Nikita is worried if she leaves there she will 'fall through the net.'
With the help of her family and teachers, can Courtney turn her life around?
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Wednesday 1st August
Factual; Arts, Culture and the Media
A History of Art in Three Colours
BBC4, 9:00-10:00pm, 2/3 - Blue
Dr James Fox explores how, in the hands of artists, the colours gold, blue and white have stirred our emotions, changed the way we behave and even altered the course of history.
When, in the Middle Ages, the precious blue stone lapis lazuli arrived in Europe from the East, blue became the most exotic and mysterious of colours. And it was artists who used it to offer us tantalizing glimpses of other worlds beyond our own.
Factual; History
City Beneath the Waves: Pavlopetri
BBC4, 10:00-11:00pm
Just off the southern coast of mainland Greece lies the oldest submerged city in the world. It thrived for 2,000 years during the time that saw the birth of western civilisation.
An international team of experts is using cutting-edge technology to prise age-old secrets from the complex of streets and stone buildings that lie less than five metres below the surface of the ocean. State-of-the-art CGI helps to raise the city from the seabed, revealing for the first time in 3,500 years how Pavlopetri would once have looked and operated.
Underwater archaeologist Dr Jon Henderson is leading the project in collaboration with Nic Flemming, the man whose hunch led to the discovery of Pavlopetri in 1967, and a team from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Working alongside the archaeologists are a team from the Australian Centre for Field Robotics.
The teams scour the ocean floor, looking for artefacts. The site is littered with thousands of fragments, each providing valuable clues about the everyday lives of the people of Pavlopetri. From the buildings to the trade goods to the everyday tableware, each artefact provides a window into a forgotten world.
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Thursday 2nd August
Law; Documentaries
The Briefs
ITV1, 9:00-10:00pm, 1/2
The information contained herein is strictly embargoed from all press use, non-commercial publication, or syndication until Tuesday July 24, 2012.
“Everybody on the face of it is against our client. The police are against him. He feels the court is against him. The prosecutor is against him. He thinks the judge is against him. So we're his only friend.” – Franklin Sinclair, Tuckers Solicitors
ITV1’s new two-part documentary, The Briefs, takes us into the cut-throat world of criminal law, following the lawyers from a Manchester firm as they represent clients on cases ranging from drug dealing to blackmail to murder.
With unprecedented access to Britain’s busiest legal aid-funded law practice, these programmes show privileged conversations between lawyer and client, and follow the cases from police station to court, and even to prison.
In the first programme, the lawyers represent a drug dealing mum and a man on trial for blackmailing a footballer’s family. In the second episode, we experience the unique marketing techniques lawyers’ use, the case of a performance poet accused of benefit fraud, a particularly emotive murder, and a gay couple whose fights always seem to end up in a police station.
Programme-makers Chameleon Television spent a year filming with Tuckers Solicitors, who handle more than 10,000 clients a year. More than half their cases are legally aided - the lawyers paid by the taxpayer. The firm deals with more of these cases than any other law business in the UK. Unusually, cameras have been allowed into police stations, so we see lawyers giving advice to clients following their arrest.
Franklin Sinclair, the charismatic senior partner who runs the Manchester branch of the firm, says sometimes his lawyers are the only people taking the side of the accused in a criminal case and it is their job to gain the trust of those they represent.
“We're there to support them; we have to explain things to them, as best we can. We have to make them feel like we're on their side.”
He is also unapologetic about the firm’s need to make money.
“It's been suggested that we profit from our clients' bad behaviour. Obviously in very simple terms we do, but firstly let me point out that we are a business, and if we don't make any profit, we won't survive, and there won't be any criminal law firms defending anybody. And as a senior judge recently said, nobody else protects the vulnerable as well as criminal lawyers do.”
At a time when the legal system is under increasing scrutiny, this is a unique insight into how justice really works.
News; Documentaries
Undercover at the News Of The World
Channel 4, 11:05pm-12:05am
For two decades, 'Fake Sheikh' Mazher Mahmood was responsible for a series of sensational undercover stings - some acclaimed, others much criticised.
His typical modus operandi was to pose as a wealthy Arab, prompting indiscretions from his celebrity victims by offering them highly paid jobs or other inducements.
This programme reveals the unauthorised inside story of how the famous undercover team at the News of the World used greed, alcohol, sex, money and fame to tempt their targets into indiscretions that made front-page news.
Targets included The Countess of Wessex, the then England manager Sven Goran Eriksson, and jockey Kieren Fallon.
The film centres on the revelations of the Fake Sheikh's loyal right-hand-man, who worked with him from 2001 to 2009.
In his appearance before the Leveson Inquiry, Mahmood insisted his investigations were all prompted by reliable tips and were in the public interest, exposing either criminality, moral wrong-doing or hypocrisy. He firmly denies charges of entrapment.
The programme reveals details of some of the most notorious News of the World stings and includes interviews with some of those who were stung, including Kieron Fallon and George Galloway MP.
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Friday 3rd August
Factual; Science and Nature; Nature and Environment; Documentaries
Nature's Microworlds
BBC4, 12:00-12:30am, 3/4 - The Amazon
Steve Backshall lifts the lid on an incredible world of intricate relationships and unexpected hardship in the Amazon rainforest, explores the way that the jungle's inhabitants interact, and reveals a hidden secret that might just be what keeps the whole place alive.
Factual; Science and Nature; Nature and Environment; Documentaries
New Forest: A Year in the Wild
BBC2, 7:00-8:00pm, 2/3
The opulent beauty of the New Forest is explored in another lyrical sound-and-pictures portrait of the British countryside. With a breathy commentary from Hermione Norris, it’s a glorious montage of the seasons.
Among those who make their living from the forest we meet a “storyteller”, a lady with a hair bun and a poncho who haunts the woods telling folk tales to children; and Dave, a practitioner of coppicing, the ancient art of harvesting wood from trees. Best of all we hear the autumn soundtrack of bellowing fallow deer and the snuffling of pigs as they are let into the forest to eat acorns.
Exploring 12 months in the lives of people and wildlife inhabiting the New Forest National Park in Hampshire. Although only created in 2005, its woodlands are among the oldest in the country and have supported lifestyles dating back to medieval times. Residents including coppicer Dave Dibden show how their traditions have continued into the present day, and the film also features footage of some of Britain's rarest creatures, including sand lizards, Dartford warblers and fellow birds hobbies.
Factual; History; Documentaries
The Great British Story
BBC1, 9:00-10:00pm, 7/8 - Industry and Empire
Have you ever seen a beetling mill? Although one stars only briefly in Michael Wood’s account of the Industrial Revolution, it’s a great sequence that will leave you wanting more. Beetling was the process of pounding linen with mallets to flatten it, and when mechanised it resembles a giant, rippling barrel organ, driven by water – rather beautiful.
Somehow Wood takes in this and dozens of other elements in the making of the first industrial nation and whips through two centuries’ worth in an hour: the Lunar Society, Cornish miners, Welsh smelters, Midlands canals and the first Luddites with their imaginary leader, the wonderfully named Captain Swing.
Michael Wood explores the many ways in which the Industrial Revolution transformed society during the 19th century, as towns and cities grew while the rural population shrank and Britain became the world's first industrial power. He discovers how this economic shift affected workers, visiting communities in Dorset and Wiltshire, as well as the site of a former slum in Manchester, and investigates the roles of slavery and colonialism in driving British expansion. He also travels to mines and factories that thrived during the period, and learns how the ideas of Enlightenment thinkers revolutionised the way people viewed the world.
Crime
Soham: A Parents' Tale
ITV1, 9:00-10:00pm
Two little girls wearing Manchester United replica kits. Best friends. Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. Both aged ten. Frozen in time at 5.04pm on Sunday, 2 August, 2002, when this last picture (inset above) was taken on the day they were murdered.
Holly and Jessica left a barbecue in the village of Soham in Cambridgeshire at 6.15pm and were never seen alive by their loved ones again. They were killed by school caretaker Ian Huntley. He burnt those shirts and dumped the girls’ bodies in a ditch where they were found nearly two weeks later.
In A Parent’s Tale, Holly Wells’s parents, Kevin and Nicola, lead us through the decade since their daughter died. There is sorrow, and tears. But mother and father insist that they refused to let their daughter’s murderer destroy their lives. “I would not let Huntley take any more from me,” says Kevin Wells.
A decade after the murders of 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in the Cambridgeshire town of Soham, Holly's parents, Kevin and Nicola, talk about their loss, how they have coped since school caretaker Ian Huntley committed the crimes, and the positive steps they have taken to honour the memory of their daughter.
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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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Sunday 29th July
Factual; Science and Nature; Nature and Environment; Documentaries
The Dark: Nature's Nighttime World
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm, 1/3 - Central American Jungle
This illuminating natural history series reveals a totally new perspective on wildlife at night. Over six months, a team of biologists and specialist camera crew explore the length of South and Central America to find out how animals have adapted to life in the dark.
The expedition starts in the jungles of Costa Rica where the team are after some of the most frightening nocturnal predators. Alone in the dark, nighttime camera specialist Justine Evans has an exceptionally close encounter with a large male jaguar. Biologist Dr George McGavin is on the trail of the most ingenious predator of the jungle - the net casting spider. And cameraman Gordon Buchanan finds ruined temples deep in the jungle as he searches for the bizarre creatures that rule the jungle canopy at night.
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Monday 30th July
News
Panorama: Disabled or Faking It?
BBC1, 8:30-9:00pm
Panorama investigates the government's plans to end the so-called 'sick note culture' and their attempts to get millions of people off disability benefits and into work. In Britain's modern welfare state, millions are being paid to private companies to assess sick and disabled claimants but is the system working? Or are new tests wrongly victimising those who deserve support the most?
Crime
Real Crime with Mark Austin
ITV1, 10:35-11:35pm, Murder of a Father
Garry Newlove's widow Helen and the couple's daughters Zoe, Danielle and Amy talk about the murder of the 47-year-old, who was beaten to death after confronting youths vandalising his wife's car outside the family home in Warrington, Cheshire, in August 2007. The case sparked a national debate about alcohol-related anti-social behaviour, and Helen now campaigns to bring an end to gangs such as the one that claimed her husband's life.
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Tuesday 31st July
Documentaries
Lost Children
Channel 4, 10:00-11:05pm, 1/2 - Courteney
Twelve-year-old Courtney from Liverpool has been diagnosed with ADHD, and was excluded from her primary school for disruptive behaviour.
She's now starting her second year as a boarder at High Close School in Berkshire, which is run by Barnardo's and is home to some of Britain's most troubled children.
According to Nikita, Courtney's key worker, she has tremendous potential. But as Courtney approaches her teenage years her behaviour is deteriorating fast.
Struggling to find words for how she feels, Courtney says it's like there's 'a little cell in inside my head that says "don't care". It's like my head's changed.'
Behind Courtney's anger there's an extraordinary family story that stretches back more than four generations, from her mother Sara to her great-grandmother, Edna.
Loving and close, these four generations are a remarkable testimony to the strength of their family ties but they're also players in a story of troubled and sometimes violent relationships.
Through the years, the women in the family have turned to each other for support. But despite their love for each other, events in their lives seem to keep on repeating themselves.
As Courtney's mother Sara inches closer to breaking point, Jonathan Newport, the dedicated deputy head teacher of High Close, is running out of ideas.
Courtney's on the brink of exclusion at an extremely understanding school, and keyworker Nikita is worried if she leaves there she will 'fall through the net.'
With the help of her family and teachers, can Courtney turn her life around?
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Wednesday 1st August
Factual; Arts, Culture and the Media
A History of Art in Three Colours
BBC4, 9:00-10:00pm, 2/3 - Blue
Dr James Fox explores how, in the hands of artists, the colours gold, blue and white have stirred our emotions, changed the way we behave and even altered the course of history.
When, in the Middle Ages, the precious blue stone lapis lazuli arrived in Europe from the East, blue became the most exotic and mysterious of colours. And it was artists who used it to offer us tantalizing glimpses of other worlds beyond our own.
Factual; History
City Beneath the Waves: Pavlopetri
BBC4, 10:00-11:00pm
Just off the southern coast of mainland Greece lies the oldest submerged city in the world. It thrived for 2,000 years during the time that saw the birth of western civilisation.
An international team of experts is using cutting-edge technology to prise age-old secrets from the complex of streets and stone buildings that lie less than five metres below the surface of the ocean. State-of-the-art CGI helps to raise the city from the seabed, revealing for the first time in 3,500 years how Pavlopetri would once have looked and operated.
Underwater archaeologist Dr Jon Henderson is leading the project in collaboration with Nic Flemming, the man whose hunch led to the discovery of Pavlopetri in 1967, and a team from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Working alongside the archaeologists are a team from the Australian Centre for Field Robotics.
The teams scour the ocean floor, looking for artefacts. The site is littered with thousands of fragments, each providing valuable clues about the everyday lives of the people of Pavlopetri. From the buildings to the trade goods to the everyday tableware, each artefact provides a window into a forgotten world.
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Thursday 2nd August
Law; Documentaries
The Briefs
ITV1, 9:00-10:00pm, 1/2
The information contained herein is strictly embargoed from all press use, non-commercial publication, or syndication until Tuesday July 24, 2012.
“Everybody on the face of it is against our client. The police are against him. He feels the court is against him. The prosecutor is against him. He thinks the judge is against him. So we're his only friend.” – Franklin Sinclair, Tuckers Solicitors
ITV1’s new two-part documentary, The Briefs, takes us into the cut-throat world of criminal law, following the lawyers from a Manchester firm as they represent clients on cases ranging from drug dealing to blackmail to murder.
With unprecedented access to Britain’s busiest legal aid-funded law practice, these programmes show privileged conversations between lawyer and client, and follow the cases from police station to court, and even to prison.
In the first programme, the lawyers represent a drug dealing mum and a man on trial for blackmailing a footballer’s family. In the second episode, we experience the unique marketing techniques lawyers’ use, the case of a performance poet accused of benefit fraud, a particularly emotive murder, and a gay couple whose fights always seem to end up in a police station.
Programme-makers Chameleon Television spent a year filming with Tuckers Solicitors, who handle more than 10,000 clients a year. More than half their cases are legally aided - the lawyers paid by the taxpayer. The firm deals with more of these cases than any other law business in the UK. Unusually, cameras have been allowed into police stations, so we see lawyers giving advice to clients following their arrest.
Franklin Sinclair, the charismatic senior partner who runs the Manchester branch of the firm, says sometimes his lawyers are the only people taking the side of the accused in a criminal case and it is their job to gain the trust of those they represent.
“We're there to support them; we have to explain things to them, as best we can. We have to make them feel like we're on their side.”
He is also unapologetic about the firm’s need to make money.
“It's been suggested that we profit from our clients' bad behaviour. Obviously in very simple terms we do, but firstly let me point out that we are a business, and if we don't make any profit, we won't survive, and there won't be any criminal law firms defending anybody. And as a senior judge recently said, nobody else protects the vulnerable as well as criminal lawyers do.”
At a time when the legal system is under increasing scrutiny, this is a unique insight into how justice really works.
News; Documentaries
Undercover at the News Of The World
Channel 4, 11:05pm-12:05am
For two decades, 'Fake Sheikh' Mazher Mahmood was responsible for a series of sensational undercover stings - some acclaimed, others much criticised.
His typical modus operandi was to pose as a wealthy Arab, prompting indiscretions from his celebrity victims by offering them highly paid jobs or other inducements.
This programme reveals the unauthorised inside story of how the famous undercover team at the News of the World used greed, alcohol, sex, money and fame to tempt their targets into indiscretions that made front-page news.
Targets included The Countess of Wessex, the then England manager Sven Goran Eriksson, and jockey Kieren Fallon.
The film centres on the revelations of the Fake Sheikh's loyal right-hand-man, who worked with him from 2001 to 2009.
In his appearance before the Leveson Inquiry, Mahmood insisted his investigations were all prompted by reliable tips and were in the public interest, exposing either criminality, moral wrong-doing or hypocrisy. He firmly denies charges of entrapment.
The programme reveals details of some of the most notorious News of the World stings and includes interviews with some of those who were stung, including Kieron Fallon and George Galloway MP.
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Friday 3rd August
Factual; Science and Nature; Nature and Environment; Documentaries
Nature's Microworlds
BBC4, 12:00-12:30am, 3/4 - The Amazon
Steve Backshall lifts the lid on an incredible world of intricate relationships and unexpected hardship in the Amazon rainforest, explores the way that the jungle's inhabitants interact, and reveals a hidden secret that might just be what keeps the whole place alive.
Factual; Science and Nature; Nature and Environment; Documentaries
New Forest: A Year in the Wild
BBC2, 7:00-8:00pm, 2/3
The opulent beauty of the New Forest is explored in another lyrical sound-and-pictures portrait of the British countryside. With a breathy commentary from Hermione Norris, it’s a glorious montage of the seasons.
Among those who make their living from the forest we meet a “storyteller”, a lady with a hair bun and a poncho who haunts the woods telling folk tales to children; and Dave, a practitioner of coppicing, the ancient art of harvesting wood from trees. Best of all we hear the autumn soundtrack of bellowing fallow deer and the snuffling of pigs as they are let into the forest to eat acorns.
Exploring 12 months in the lives of people and wildlife inhabiting the New Forest National Park in Hampshire. Although only created in 2005, its woodlands are among the oldest in the country and have supported lifestyles dating back to medieval times. Residents including coppicer Dave Dibden show how their traditions have continued into the present day, and the film also features footage of some of Britain's rarest creatures, including sand lizards, Dartford warblers and fellow birds hobbies.
Factual; History; Documentaries
The Great British Story
BBC1, 9:00-10:00pm, 7/8 - Industry and Empire
Have you ever seen a beetling mill? Although one stars only briefly in Michael Wood’s account of the Industrial Revolution, it’s a great sequence that will leave you wanting more. Beetling was the process of pounding linen with mallets to flatten it, and when mechanised it resembles a giant, rippling barrel organ, driven by water – rather beautiful.
Somehow Wood takes in this and dozens of other elements in the making of the first industrial nation and whips through two centuries’ worth in an hour: the Lunar Society, Cornish miners, Welsh smelters, Midlands canals and the first Luddites with their imaginary leader, the wonderfully named Captain Swing.
Michael Wood explores the many ways in which the Industrial Revolution transformed society during the 19th century, as towns and cities grew while the rural population shrank and Britain became the world's first industrial power. He discovers how this economic shift affected workers, visiting communities in Dorset and Wiltshire, as well as the site of a former slum in Manchester, and investigates the roles of slavery and colonialism in driving British expansion. He also travels to mines and factories that thrived during the period, and learns how the ideas of Enlightenment thinkers revolutionised the way people viewed the world.
Crime
Soham: A Parents' Tale
ITV1, 9:00-10:00pm
Two little girls wearing Manchester United replica kits. Best friends. Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. Both aged ten. Frozen in time at 5.04pm on Sunday, 2 August, 2002, when this last picture (inset above) was taken on the day they were murdered.
Holly and Jessica left a barbecue in the village of Soham in Cambridgeshire at 6.15pm and were never seen alive by their loved ones again. They were killed by school caretaker Ian Huntley. He burnt those shirts and dumped the girls’ bodies in a ditch where they were found nearly two weeks later.
In A Parent’s Tale, Holly Wells’s parents, Kevin and Nicola, lead us through the decade since their daughter died. There is sorrow, and tears. But mother and father insist that they refused to let their daughter’s murderer destroy their lives. “I would not let Huntley take any more from me,” says Kevin Wells.
A decade after the murders of 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in the Cambridgeshire town of Soham, Holly's parents, Kevin and Nicola, talk about their loss, how they have coped since school caretaker Ian Huntley committed the crimes, and the positive steps they have taken to honour the memory of their daughter.
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Tuesday 17 July 2012
Off-air recordings for week 21-27 July 2012
Please email Rich Deakin rdeakin@glos.ac.uk if you would like any of the following programmes / series recording.*
*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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Saturday 21st July
Drama
The Hollow Crown: Henry V
BBC2, 8:00-10:15pm
Henry V has settled onto the throne and has the makings of a fine king when the French ambassador brings a challenge from the Dauphin. Inspired by his courtiers Exeter and York, Henry swears that he will, with all force, answer this challenge. The chorus tells of England's preparations for war and Henry's army sails for France. After Exeter's diplomacy is rebuffed by the French king, Henry lays a heavy siege and captures Harfleur. The French now take Henry's claims seriously and challenge the English army to battle at Agincourt
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Sunday 22nd July
Factual; Documentaries
The Bridges that Built London with Dan Cruickshank
BBC4, 8:00-9:00pm
Dan Cruickshank explores the mysteries and secrets of the bridges that have made London what it is. He uncovers stories of bronze-age relics emerging from the Vauxhall shore, of why London Bridge was falling down, of midnight corpses splashing beneath Waterloo Bridge, and above all, of the sublime ambition of London's bridge builders themselves.
Factual; Arts, Culture and the Media; Documentaries
Teenage Kicks: The Search for Sophistication
BBC4, 11:5pm-12:50am
The teenage search for sophistication is recalled in this bittersweet film about the people we were and the luxury items we thought would give us the keys to the kingdom.
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Monday 23nd July
Factual; Science and Nature; Nature and Environment; Documentaries
Nature's Microworlds
BBC4, 8:30-9.00pm, 2/6 - Serengeti
A look at one of the most famous habitats on the planet, the Serengeti in East Africa, a vast grassland that is home to some of the greatest concentrations of herbivores on the continent. But what is the key to this exceptional grassland that allows such density and diversity?
Factual; Science and Nature; Science and Technology
Horizon: The Truth about Looking Young
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm
Plastic surgeon Dr Rozina Ali leaves the operating theatre behind for the frontiers of skin science and asks if it is possible to make your skin look younger without surgery.
She discovers the latest research about how the foods we eat can protect our skin from damage, and how a chemical found in a squid's eye is at the forefront of a new sun protection cream.
She also finds out how sugar in our blood can make us look older, and explores an exciting new science called glycobiology which promises a breakthrough in making us look younger.
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Tuesday 24th July
Factual; Science and Nature; Nature and Environment
Talking Landscapes
BBC4, 7:30-8:00pm, 3/6 - Yorkshire Dales
How have generations of Yorkshire families made a living from the bitter winds and stoney soils of the Dales? Aubrey Manning journeys high on the hillsides and deep underground to discover the key to this harsh landscape.
Factual; Families and Relationships; History
Turn Back Time - The Family
BBC1, 9:00-10:00pm, 5/5 - 1970
In this final episode of the series, Albert Road is transformed once again for family life in the 1970s. Single mum Lisa Rhodes moves in with her two sons, joining the other parents for whom the seventies are all about nostalgia. But as daily life is turned upside down by strikes, the three-day week, power cuts, water shortages and women's liberation, the rose-tinted glasses are off and the parents realise just how tough their own parents had it.
With all the mums working, the two dads on Albert Road soon take up the strain at home: Michael Taylor puts on a pinny and cooks chicken kiev, while Phil knuckles down to the housework.
As the families living on the street pull together as a community for the penultimate decade, the question to which everyone wants to know the answer is, when do they feel the golden era for the family really was?
Documentaries
Jon Richardson: A Little Bit OCD
Channel 4, 10:00-11:05pm
Jon Richardson's life is driven by a quest for perfection. It dictates everything from his eating habits and his relationship with his mother, to his ability to go on dates or entertain the idea of living with his friends.
His obsessive nature and need to control the world around him was minutely detailed in his book, It's Not Me, It's You.
Now he delves into the world of Obsessive Compulsive Disorders. Jon is not alone. After writing an article about his exacting nature affecting his ability to find a suitable girlfriend, he was inundated with letters from readers who identified with his compulsive need for immaculate cleanliness, precision and organisation.
But Jon admits he knows very little about the condition. With his 30th birthday approaching, he's determined to find out exactly what OCD is, what it's like for people living with this disorder and whether he actually has the condition.
Jon meets some of the one million sufferers around the UK, ranging from mild to extreme conditions. Jon also talks to his friends, former flat-mates, including comedian Russell Howard, and his mother, in a bid to discover the nature of his compulsions.
He also meets staff who treat in-patients with the most extreme form of OCD, and experts in the field, to gain insight into the disorder.
And finally, in an intimate one-to-one session with one of the country's leading experts on OCD, Jon finds out once and for all if he's a simply a demanding perfectionist or if he has OCD.
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Wednesday 25th July
Factual; Arts, Culture and the Media; Documentaries
A History of Art in Three Colours
BBC4, 9:00-10:00pm, 1/3 - Gold
For the very first civilisations and also our own, the yellow lustre of gold is the most alluring and intoxicating colour of all. From the midst of pre-history to a bunker deep beneath the Bank of England, Fox reveals how golden treasures made across the ages reflect everything we have held as sacred.
Opening with early sun worship, he storms across history, reinterpreting the golden treasures of the pharaohs, the lavish mosaics of Byzantium and the alluring work of the Renaissance master Benvenuto Cellini. We bask in the glow of Gustav Klimt's The Kiss and discover the curious case of a Birmingham inventor who made the alchemist's dream come true.
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Thursday 26th July
Factual; Science and Nature; Nature and Environment; Documentaries
Natural World Special: Tiger Island
BBC1, 8:00-9:00pm
A gorgeous Sumatran tiger snarls, struts and lashes out in her tiger “prison”. The unfortunate beast has been incarcerated because she is suspected of killing local villagers (the case has not been proved).
She is one of 12 captured Sumatran tigers who might or might not have attacked their human neighbours on the Indonesian island. The problem is that no one in authority knows what to do with these tigers and it’s likely they will die behind bars.
Controversial Indonesian businessman Tomy Winata is using a lump of his considerable fortune attempting to rehabilitate the maneaters before releasing them back into the wild. But conservationist, zoologist and tiger expert Alan Rabinowitz is sceptical. Though the released tigers are supposed to be radio-collared and monitored, the data from these devices that tracks their movements has disappeared. It’s a strange, unsettling story without an easy resolution.
A millionaire tries to save jungle tigers on the Indonesian island of Sumatra by capturing them in their natural habitat, then transporting them to his own land and setting them free. However, zoologist Alan Rabinowitz is unsure about the wisdom of his scheme, particularly given the dangers the big cats pose to humans, and decides to investigate further.
Criminology: Documentaries
Fred West: Born to Kill?
Channel 5, 8:00-9:00pm, 1/6 - new series
Psychologists and criminology experts analyse the personalities of some of the world's most infamous murderers, beginning with serial killer Fred West, who was charged with 12 murders in 1994 after police discovered the remains of nine bodies at his home in Gloucester. Though he committed suicide before he could be tried for the crimes, his wife Rosemary was convicted of killing 10 women and girls in November 1995.
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Friday 27th July
History; Documentaries
The Great British Story: A People's History
BBC1, 7:30-8:30pm, 6/8 - The Age of Revolution
He was a bit of a bollocks,” says one Irish lady of Oliver Cromwell. It’s a masterly understatement considering she’s talking in Drogheda, site of an infamous massacre carried out by Cromwell’s New Model Army in 1649.
In another engrossing chapter of British history, told in the words of those involved, Michael Wood explores the British Civil Wars, the almighty conflict that set community against community and town against town throughout Britain and Ireland. In London, he stands amid the Occupy London tents, the modern day-equivalent, he says, of the Levellers and Diggers movements that grew out of the Civil Wars.
Michael Wood explores how civil war split Britain during the 17th century, beginning his journey in Dublin, where he examines artefacts of the 1641 Irish Rebellion, before travelling to Co Down to find out about the Ulster-Scots. Back in England, he explains how communities in the West Midlands were divided by the violent conflict between Parliament and the Crown, and visits a local history project that is unearthing evidence from a Cornish battlefield. He also charts the origins of revolutionary movements including the Levellers and Diggers, which he believes laid the foundations for modern British democracy.
Factual; Science and Nature; Nature and Environment; Documentaries
Snowdonia: A Year in the Wild
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm, 1/3
Hermione Norris purrs narration over enchanting images of the crags and valleys of the Snowdonia National Park. There are otters and falcons and boxing hares to be sure, but my favourite shot is a simple one of some rare-breed pigs crossing a stone bridge. The film takes a dim view of the tourists who flock to the area, but sorry, programmes like this will only encourage us.
The first of three films exploring life in Britain's National Parks. Snowdonia in north Wales is a landscape formed by extinct volcanos, and is home to creatures including otters, hen harriers and peregrine falcons. The programme explores the area over the course of a year through the eyes of people who live and work there, including a warden, a farmer, a climber and a poet.
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Wednesday 11 July 2012
Off-air recordings for week 14-20 July 2012
Please email Rich Deakin rdeakin@glos.ac.uk if you would like any of the following programmes / series recording.*
*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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Saturday 14th July
Drama
The Hollow Crown: Henry IV - Part 2
BBC2, 8:00-9:00pm
In the aftermath of the Battle of Shrewsbury, Northumberland learns of the death of his son. The Lord Chief Justice attempts on behalf of the increasingly frail King to separate Falstaff from Prince Hal. The rebels continue to plot insurrection. Falstaff is sent to recruit soldiers and takes his leave of his mistress, Doll Tearsheet. The rebel forces are overcome. This brings comfort to the dying king, who is finally reconciled to his son. Falstaff rushes to Hal's coronation with expectations of high office.
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Sunday 15th July
Documentaries
Cutting Edge: Meeting Ian Brady
Channel 4, 10:00-11:00pm
The story behind the Moors murderer's request to move to a mainstream prison from Ashworth high-security psychiatric hospital in Liverpool, where he has been detained since 1985. This Cutting Edge documentary meets the people closest to Brady and those involved in his case, hearing from psychiatrists who have worked directly with the killer and revealing what it is like to represent the rights of such a high-profile and infamous client.
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Monday 16th July
Storyville: documentary which takes a personal look at the history of Ireland's vanished Anglo-Irish classes through the quirky family of filmmaker Fiona Murphy. The director follows her father and his four siblings back to the estate in County Mayo where they grew up in the newly-independent Ireland of the 1930s, to trace lives rich in contradiction.
While the siblings wrestled with their Anglo-Irish identity, their father carved out a successful career as a diplomat at the height of the British Empire. Tracking the family's fortunes from Cromwell's times, through first-hand accounts of the Civil War and mass exodus of the Anglo-Irish under Eamon de Valera, the film explores how this individualistic family tried to hold on, despite the odds.
In this episode, the families are thrown into the swinging sixties and the street is introduced to a new family, the Hawkes, who are walking in the shoes of their ancestors who arrived as immigrants from the Caribbean. Brother and sister Jonathan and Rachel arrive on Albert Road first, and are shocked by life in the sixties. They discover life in the sixties was a difficult time, with racism, isolation and separation from loved ones taking its toll.
The Meadows family follow their ancestors' climb up the social ladder from their traditional working class home in the forties to a sixties middle-class dwelling. All appears well, until sisters Saskia and Genevieve spoil the party with a teenage rebellion.
And the twists and turns of the Taylor family tree mean they leave behind the high life they have lived since the 1900s, as they find themselves in the working class house.
Factual; Arts, Culture and the Media; Documentaries
Imagine... Glasgow: The Grit and the Glamour
In Hamlet, David Tennant, whose own RSC performance was a huge hit, meets other actors who have played the role - from the legendary David Warner in the 1960s to the recent Jude Law. He also tries, alongside Simon Russell Beale and Ben Whishaw, to unravel the meaning of the play and the reason why it is considered by many to be the greatest play Shakespeare ever wrote.
David Tennant surprised when he took on the role of Hamlet - most did not know that he had trained in and worked for many years at the Royal Shakespeare Company. But that didn't mean he wasn't scared stiff at the prospect of taking on the legendary role. Now he takes up the challenge of unravelling the story and trying to uncover what it is about it that has made Hamlet the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays.
He revisits his own performance, alongside his director Greg Doran, and he meets up with other actors who have tackled the role. With the historian Justin Champion he tries to enter the mindset of the 16th century audiences who would have watched this story and he discovers how different generations of actors, directors and scholars have interpreted the play.
What he discovers is that Hamlet is a play full of questions rather than answers - but they are the questions we all continue to ask ourselves to this day. Questions about who to believe, who to trust, how to live and how to love, how to understand life and how to face death. What all the actors who have played it seem to share is that the process of acting the role is deeply and profoundly personal - and perhaps that is why audiences also feel that the play touches them more than any other play before or since.
Johannes Vermeer is one of our favourite painters, with his Girl with a Pearl Earring now deemed the 'Mona Lisa of the North'. But little is known about his life and for almost two centuries he was lost to obscurity.
Andrew Graham-Dixon, travelling to Vermeer's hometown of Delft and a dramatic Dutch landscape of huge skies and windmills, embarks on a detective trail to uncover the life of a genius in hiding.
Renowned for painting calm and beautiful interiors, the real life of Vermeer was marred by crime and violence. His life was a bid to escape the privations of his family and yet even a glamorous marriage and artistic success failed to save him from the fate he dreaded more than any other.
Crime and Justice
Biologist Mat Pines has been observing baboons in Ethiopia’s Awash National Park for five years and they’re comfortable with each other. In a touching sequence one young baboon with long, dexterous fingers, even starts to groom the back of Pines’s shirt.
They are scintillating animals with enormously expressive faces. For example, when they raise their eyebrows it’s a very big clue that they are not at all pleased. But they’re ruthless and scrappy, too. It’s a violent patriarchal society where the males abduct the mates of others in cacophonous fights over territory and females. These riots can be hugely destructive and age is no bar to injury; one youngster is horribly wounded after an affray involving many hundreds of baboons brawling over ownership of a favourite clifftop.
But they’re under threat from their human neighbours, cocky, gun-toting young men of the Afar tribe, and before Pines leaves, he wants to try to persuade the Afars that coexistence is possible.
Mat Pines's five-year study of the lives of hamadryas baboons in Ethiopia, in which he lived alongside the primates in the Awash National Park, observing their behaviour and gaining acceptance in their society. As his study draws to a close, his favourite baboon, who he has called Critical, is trying to find a family and fend off male rivals - while Mat attempts to foster a greater understanding of the creatures among the local Afar tribe, who have traditionally regarded them as enemies. Narrated by David Attenborough.
Factual; History; Documentaries
Pompeii: Life and Death in a Roman Town
Pompeii: one of the most famous volcanic eruptions in history. We know how its victims died, but this film sets out to answer another question - how did they live? Gleaning evidence from an extraordinary find, Cambridge professor and Pompeii expert Mary Beard provides new insight into the lives of the people who lived in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius before its cataclysmic eruption.
In a dark cellar in Oplontis, just three miles from the centre of Pompeii, 54 skeletons who didn't succumb to the torrent of volcanic ash are about to be put under the microscope. The remains will be submitted to a barrage of tests that will unlock one of the most comprehensive scientific snapshots of Pompeian life ever produced - and there are some big surprises in store.
Using the latest forensic techniques it is now possible to determine what those who perished in the disaster ate and drank, where they came from, what diseases they suffered, how rich they were, and perhaps, even more astonishingly, the details of their sex lives.
The way the remains were found in the cellar already provides an invaluable clue about the lives of the people they belonged to. On one side of the room were individuals buried with one of the most stunning hauls of gold, jewellery and coins ever found in Pompeii. On the other, were people buried with nothing. It looked the stark dividing line of a polarised ancient society: a room partitioned between super rich and abject poor. But on closer examination the skeletons reveal some surprises about life in Pompeii.
*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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Saturday 14th July
Drama
The Hollow Crown: Henry IV - Part 2
BBC2, 8:00-9:00pm
In the aftermath of the Battle of Shrewsbury, Northumberland learns of the death of his son. The Lord Chief Justice attempts on behalf of the increasingly frail King to separate Falstaff from Prince Hal. The rebels continue to plot insurrection. Falstaff is sent to recruit soldiers and takes his leave of his mistress, Doll Tearsheet. The rebel forces are overcome. This brings comfort to the dying king, who is finally reconciled to his son. Falstaff rushes to Hal's coronation with expectations of high office.
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Sunday 15th July
Documentaries
Cutting Edge: Meeting Ian Brady
Channel 4, 10:00-11:00pm
The story behind the Moors murderer's request to move to a mainstream prison from Ashworth high-security psychiatric hospital in Liverpool, where he has been detained since 1985. This Cutting Edge documentary meets the people closest to Brady and those involved in his case, hearing from psychiatrists who have worked directly with the killer and revealing what it is like to represent the rights of such a high-profile and infamous client.
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Monday 16th July
News
BBC1, 8:30-9:00pm
Reporter Raphael Rowe tracks down some of Britain's biggest illegal fly-tippers - criminals who have pocketed tens of thousands of pounds handed over by motorists to recycle their used tyres. Money that was meant to protect the environment has instead vanished, leaving our countryside littered with massive piles of used tyres - many large enough to be seen from space.
Factual; Crime and Justice; Documentaries
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm, 1/2 - The Rioters
The story of last summer's riots, told with dramatic accounts from the rioters themselves. With powerful words and previously unseen footage, this is a compelling and shocking tale of what happened and why. The first film in this two-part series features the real words of rioters performed by actors.
Factual; Documentaries
BBC4, 10:00-11:00pm
While the siblings wrestled with their Anglo-Irish identity, their father carved out a successful career as a diplomat at the height of the British Empire. Tracking the family's fortunes from Cromwell's times, through first-hand accounts of the Civil War and mass exodus of the Anglo-Irish under Eamon de Valera, the film explores how this individualistic family tried to hold on, despite the odds.
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Tuesday 17th July
Factual; Science and Nature; Environment
BBC4, 1/6 - Pembrokeshire
Professor Aubrey Manning explores the Pembrokeshire coastline and its connections with the sea. He discovers castles and standing stones, as well as evidence of successive invaders who arrived by sea when the coastline was far from remote.
Factual; Families; Relationships; Factual; History
BBC1, 9:00-10:00pm, 4/5 - 1960
The Meadows family follow their ancestors' climb up the social ladder from their traditional working class home in the forties to a sixties middle-class dwelling. All appears well, until sisters Saskia and Genevieve spoil the party with a teenage rebellion.
And the twists and turns of the Taylor family tree mean they leave behind the high life they have lived since the 1900s, as they find themselves in the working class house.
Factual; Arts, Culture and the Media; Documentaries
Imagine... Glasgow: The Grit and the Glamour
BBC1, 10:35-11:45pm
Imagine... explores the untold story of a group of artists and curators who stormed the international art world and turned their home city of Glasgow into a global capital for contemporary art. Amongst the artists Alan Yentob encounters are 2011 Turner Prize-winner Martin Boyce, as well as previous winners Douglas Gordon, Simon Starling, and Richard Wright, to tell the story of a city now as famed for its contemporary art as it was for its shipbuilding.
Factual; Arts, Culture and the Media
BBC2, 11:20pm-12:20am
David Tennant surprised when he took on the role of Hamlet - most did not know that he had trained in and worked for many years at the Royal Shakespeare Company. But that didn't mean he wasn't scared stiff at the prospect of taking on the legendary role. Now he takes up the challenge of unravelling the story and trying to uncover what it is about it that has made Hamlet the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays.
He revisits his own performance, alongside his director Greg Doran, and he meets up with other actors who have tackled the role. With the historian Justin Champion he tries to enter the mindset of the 16th century audiences who would have watched this story and he discovers how different generations of actors, directors and scholars have interpreted the play.
What he discovers is that Hamlet is a play full of questions rather than answers - but they are the questions we all continue to ask ourselves to this day. Questions about who to believe, who to trust, how to live and how to love, how to understand life and how to face death. What all the actors who have played it seem to share is that the process of acting the role is deeply and profoundly personal - and perhaps that is why audiences also feel that the play touches them more than any other play before or since.
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Wednesday 18th July
Factual; Crime and Justice; Documentaries
BBC2, 2/2 - The Police
The story of the riots of 2011 told with first-hand accounts from the police and previously unseen police footage. Outnumbered coppers on the frontline tell how they took the brunt of the rioters' aggression, while officers in the control room explain why things happened as they did. Many criticised the police after the riots, now they explain their side of the story.
Factual; Arts, Culture and the Media
BBC4, 10:30-11:30pm
Andrew Graham-Dixon, travelling to Vermeer's hometown of Delft and a dramatic Dutch landscape of huge skies and windmills, embarks on a detective trail to uncover the life of a genius in hiding.
Renowned for painting calm and beautiful interiors, the real life of Vermeer was marred by crime and violence. His life was a bid to escape the privations of his family and yet even a glamorous marriage and artistic success failed to save him from the fate he dreaded more than any other.
Crime and Justice
More4, 11:05-11:35pm
Documentary telling the story of Winnie Johnson, whose 12-year-old son Keith Bennett was killed by Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in 1964. Recently diagnosed with cancer and nearing 80, Winnie is desperate to find Keith's body before she dies and makes one last plea to Brady to reveal where he buried his victim.
Religion and Ethics; Documentaries
BBC1, 11:15-11:45pm
As Ramadan approaches, this documentary tells the little-known story of three English gentlemen who embraced Islam at a time when to be a Muslim was to be seen to be a traitor to your country. Through personal journeys of still surviving relatives, the programme looks at their achievements and how their legacy lives on today.
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Thursday 19th July
Science and Nature; Documentaries
BBC2, 8:00-9:00pm
They are scintillating animals with enormously expressive faces. For example, when they raise their eyebrows it’s a very big clue that they are not at all pleased. But they’re ruthless and scrappy, too. It’s a violent patriarchal society where the males abduct the mates of others in cacophonous fights over territory and females. These riots can be hugely destructive and age is no bar to injury; one youngster is horribly wounded after an affray involving many hundreds of baboons brawling over ownership of a favourite clifftop.
But they’re under threat from their human neighbours, cocky, gun-toting young men of the Afar tribe, and before Pines leaves, he wants to try to persuade the Afars that coexistence is possible.
Mat Pines's five-year study of the lives of hamadryas baboons in Ethiopia, in which he lived alongside the primates in the Awash National Park, observing their behaviour and gaining acceptance in their society. As his study draws to a close, his favourite baboon, who he has called Critical, is trying to find a family and fend off male rivals - while Mat attempts to foster a greater understanding of the creatures among the local Afar tribe, who have traditionally regarded them as enemies. Narrated by David Attenborough.
Factual; History; Documentaries
Pompeii: Life and Death in a Roman Town
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm
In a dark cellar in Oplontis, just three miles from the centre of Pompeii, 54 skeletons who didn't succumb to the torrent of volcanic ash are about to be put under the microscope. The remains will be submitted to a barrage of tests that will unlock one of the most comprehensive scientific snapshots of Pompeian life ever produced - and there are some big surprises in store.
Using the latest forensic techniques it is now possible to determine what those who perished in the disaster ate and drank, where they came from, what diseases they suffered, how rich they were, and perhaps, even more astonishingly, the details of their sex lives.
The way the remains were found in the cellar already provides an invaluable clue about the lives of the people they belonged to. On one side of the room were individuals buried with one of the most stunning hauls of gold, jewellery and coins ever found in Pompeii. On the other, were people buried with nothing. It looked the stark dividing line of a polarised ancient society: a room partitioned between super rich and abject poor. But on closer examination the skeletons reveal some surprises about life in Pompeii.
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Friday 10th July
Factual; Science and Nature; Nature and Environment; Documentaries
BBC4, 12:30-1:00am
A visit to arguably the most famous archipelago on Earth, the Galapagos. It's home to a myriad of bizarre and unique creatures, endemic to these islands - but how did they get here and what is the key to these extraordinary islands that allows them to thrive? The programme reveals that this key holds not just the secret to life here, but also to how Darwin was able to leave with the ideas that would revolutionise biology.
Factual; Science and Nature; Documentaries
BBC4, 1:00-2:00am
Is there any way to slow or even prevent the ravages of time? Veteran presenter Johnny Ball looks back over the 45 years that Horizon - and he - have been on air to find out what science has learned about how and why we grow old. Charting developments from macabre early claims of rejuvenation to the latest cutting-edge breakthroughs, Johnny discovers the sense of a personal mission that drives many scientists and asks whether we are really any closer to achieving the dream of immortality.
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Wednesday 4 July 2012
Off-air recordings for week 7-13 July 2012
Please email Rich Deakin rdeakin@glos.ac.uk if you would like any of the following programmes / series recording.*
*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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Saturday 7th July
Factual; Arts, Culture and the Media; History
Illuminations: The Private Lives of Medieval Kings
BBC4, 8:00-9:00pm, 2/3 - What a King Should Know
Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of medieval illuminated manuscripts and shows how they gave power to the king and united the kingdom in an age of plague, warfare and rebellion. She discovers that Edward III used the manuscripts he read as a boy to prepare him for his great victory at the battle of Crecy and reveals how a vigorous new national identity bloomed during the 100 Years War with France (1340-1453).
In the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection she finds out that magnificent manuscripts like the Bedford Hours, taken as war booty from the French royal family, were adapted for the education of English princes. Dr Ramirez also explores how knowledge spread through a new form of book - the encyclopaedia.
Drama
The Hollow Crown: Henry IV Part 1
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm
The heir to the throne, Prince Hal, defies his father, King Henry, by spending his time at Mistress Quickly's tavern in the company of the dissolute Falstaff and his companions. The King is threatened by a rebellion led by Hal's rival, Hotspur, his father Northumberland and his uncle Worcester. In the face of this danger to the state, Prince Hal joins his father to defeat the rebels at the Battle of Shrewsbury and kill Hotspur in single combat.
Factual; Arts, Culture and the Media; Documentaries
Jeremy Irons on the Henrys: Shakespeare Uncovered
BBC2, 10:55-11:55pm
In Henry IV and Henry V, Jeremy Irons (who is playing Henry IV in the new BBC films) uncovers the extraordinary appeal of Shakespeare's History Plays. He unravels the differences between the real history and the drama that Shakespeare creates. He discovers what William's sources were - and how he distorts them! And he invites us behind the scenes at the filming of some of the most important scenes in the new films of all of these plays.
The History plays were the big hits of the 1590s because they allowed the ordinary men and women of Elizabethan England the chance to talk and think about power and politics without being controlled by the church or the state. In these plays Shakespeare appears to be writing heroic and patriotic propaganda - but as soon as you look at them in more detail, you discover that he was also undermining all those values at the same time. With detailed coverage of the filming of these plays by Richard Eyre and Thea Sharrock for the BBC and with clips from these new films as well as other iconic versions from Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh, Jeremy uncovers the truth behind the version of history that Shakespeare was telling and even uncovers the very sources that inspired him to write some of the most famous speeches he ever composed. He travels to the true locations described in the plays but also to Shakespeare's Globe to see how these extraordinarily ambitious plays were performed in Shakespeare's time.
As Jeremy himself visits the battlefield at Agincourt in Northern France, which is the climax of these history plays, the truth emerges that Shakespeare's view of History was rather more subversive and less patriotic than some of his most ardent admirers often think.
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Sunday 8th July
Factual; Pets and Animals; Science and Nature; Documentaries
Lonesome George and the Battle of Galapagos
BBC4, 7:00-8:00pm
Documentary about Lonesome George, officially the loneliest animal on the planet until his death in June 2012. He was the last remaining Pinta Island giant tortoise in existence and now his race is extinct. He was an icon of his native Galapagos Islands and symbol of the battle to preserve their unique wildlife. The islands are at a critical point in their history - threatened by illegal fishing, the demands of a booming population and an ever-expanding tourism industry - yet the will within the islanders to protect Galapagos is strong. This is both the personal story of Lonesome George and of the local characters intent on turning around the fortunes of their unique tropical paradise.
Factual; Science and Nature; Nature and Environment; Documentaries
Secrets of the Living Planet
BBC2, 8:00-9:00pm, 4/4 - Waterworlds
Secrets of Our Living Planet showcases the incredible ecosystems that make life on Earth possible. Using beautifully shot scenes in the wild, Chris Packham reveals the hidden wonder of the creatures that we share the planet with, and the intricate, clever and bizarre connections between the species, without which life just could not survive.
Discover previously unknown relationships, like why a tiger needs a crab, or why a gecko needs a giraffe. Each week Chris visits one of our planet's most vital and spectacular habitats and dissects it to reveal the secrets of how our living planet works.
In this episode, Chris travels across the world, from Iceland to Brazil, to Bangladesh and the Maldives. His aim: to reveal the secrets of our watery habitats, fresh and salty.
The extra ingredients, carried in water and necessary for life, are oxygen and sediment. But it's how the animals manage these resources that determines whether a habitat can actually support much live.
In the Brazilian Pantanal, Chris witnesses a riot of life, in a land where everything seems to be a giant: the snakes, the big cats, the otters, the fish- even the lilies! The reason? Well, it comes down to a very unassuming mollusc, the apple snail.
In the Sunderbans swamp of Bangladesh, Chris shows us how crabs create an environment fit for mangroves, deer and tigers. In the Maldives, he meets the hero of the coral reef - the sponge. And in the deep ocean, Chris meets the biggest (or smallest) hero of them all. Plankton not only feed our ocean giants, they even influence our atmosphere and climate.
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Monday 9th July
Factual; Science and Nature; Nature and Environment
Talking Landscapes
BBC4, 7:30-8:00pm, 1/6 - The Weald
Aubrey Manning sets out to uncover the history of Britain's ever-changing landscape. This edition focuses on the Weald, investigating why so much woodland has survived here when so much ancient forest has been felled elsewhere. A trip to the Mary Rose and Nelson's Victory reveals the full story of the Weald and its valuable timber.
Factual; Science and Nature; Nature and Environment
Volcano Live
BBC2, 8:00-9:00pm, 1/4
Kate Humble and Professor Iain Stewart present a four day journey into our extraordinary and dynamic planet, live from Kilauea on Hawaii, the world's most active volcano. They broadcast from the edge of the summit crater and the Halema'uma'u lava lake. Kate also travels to Iceland to visit Eyjafyallajokull, the volcano which caused air traffic chaos in 2010, and comedian Ed Byrne heads to Bristol university to work out why different volcanoes erupt in different ways.
News
Panorama - Britain On The Brink: Back to the 70s?
BBC1, 8:30-9:00pm
Britain today is suffering the longest peacetime slump in decades. Our economy is in a double-dip recession for the first time since 1975. Panorama asks whether Britain is ready and able to cope with a new age of austerity with surprising echoes of the 1970s. Reporter Adam Shaw examines if we're about to suffer the same social and political upheaval that emerged from that decade.
Factual; Science and Nature; Nature and Environment
Lost Land of the Volcano
BBC2, 11:20pm-12:20am
Series combining stunning wildlife with high-octane adventure, as a team of scientists and wildlife filmmakers from the BBC's Natural History Unit explores one of the last great unspoilt jungle wildernesses on earth.
New Guinea is a rugged tropical island that is home to some of the strangest creatures on the planet. The team is based at the foot of Mount Bosavi, a giant extinct volcano covered in thick and largely unexplored rainforest. With the help of trackers from a remote tribe, they aim to search for the animals that live there - and they make amazing finds.
Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan discovers the nest of the world's smallest parrot, insect expert Dr George McGavin finds a talking beetle, the scientists identify types of frog, gecko and bat that are completely new to science, and adventurer Steve Backshall has to live and sleep underground as he explores a cave system flooded with white water.
The cameras follow the team every sweaty step of the way as they search for the evidence that may help preserve this last great jungle forever.
Documentaries
Thelma's Gypsy Girls
Channel 4, 10:00-11:05pm, 1/6
Thelma begins the search for her ten new trainees. All of them are gypsies or travellers, some left school at 11 and some are unable to read, write or even tell the time.
Thelma's hopefuls include headstrong 16-year-old Margaret from a local trailer site, who doesn't like being told what to do regardless of who's telling her; 17-year-old Kathleen, whose domestic duties include looking after her 17 nieces and nephews; and 16-year-old Rosanne, who desperately lacks education and thinks Lady Gaga worships the devil.
For the girls it's the opportunity of a lifetime, for existing staff it feels like a serious upheaval, and for Thelma it could be out of the frying pan and into the fire.
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Tuesday 10th July
Factual; Science and Nature; Nature and Environment
Volcano Live
BBC1, 2/4, 8:00-9:00pm, 2/4
Kate Humble and Professor Iain Stewart present a four day journey into our extraordinary and dynamic planet, live from Kilauea on Hawaii, the world's most active volcano. They broadcast from the site of the 1969 Mauna Ulu eruption which saw more than 17 square miles of lush rainforest covered in lava. Kate also travels to Iceland to the island of Heimeay where a village of fishermen fought a volcano - and won. And volcanologist Hugh Tuffen sends back a video diary of his expedition to Mount Puyehue in Chile.
Factual; Science and Nature; Documentaries
Heart and Mind: What Makes Us Human?
BBC4, 9:00-10:00pm
The heart is the most symbolic organ of the human body. Throughout history it has been seen as the site of our emotions, the very centre of our being. But modern medicine has come to see the heart as just a pump; a brilliant pump, but nothing more. And we see ourselves as ruled by our heads and not our hearts.
In this documentary, filmmaker David Malone asks whether we are right to take this view. He explores the heart's conflicting histories as an emotional symbol and a physical organ, and investigates what the latest science is learning about its structures, its capacities and its role. In the age-old battle of hearts and minds, will these new discoveries alter the balance and allow the heart to reclaim something of its traditional place at the centre of our humanity?
Documentaries
Kashmir's Torture Trail
Channel 4, 11:10pm-12:10am
In the most militarised place on earth, one man is standing up to the armed might of the world's largest democracy. Kashmir's Torture Trail follows a Kashmiri lawyer as he uncovers India's best kept secret.
With the world's media attention focused on repression in Syria and the threat to the Euro, the Indian state of Kashmir, nestling in the shadow of the Himalayas, is in danger of becoming a forgotten conflict.
But in 2010 this valley in the shadow of the Himalayas erupted in some of the most violent street protests it has ever seen. Hundreds of thousands of stone-throwing teenagers took aim at heavily armed Indian Security Force troops, who returned live fire, with 118 demonstrators killed, many of them children, followed by a lock-down in which no one could get in or out of the state.
Kashmiri lawyer Parvez Imroz has never filed a divorce or defended a thief. Instead, this veteran Supreme Court advocate has spent his entire legal career dressed in a grey morning suit and working pro-bono.
Broke but determined, with two young children and a wife who complain he has yet to take them on a picnic, Imroz has always risked his life to keep the Indian authorities accountable in this disputed mountain state where, unseen by most of the world, an insurgency has rumbled on since 1989, claiming an estimated 70,000 lives.
Meeting the rioters to find out why they risked their lives, and accompanying a local human rights lawyer determined to investigate how India restored an uneasy peace, this powerful and shocking film uncovers a state-sanctioned torture programme that has set India on a collision course with the international community.
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Wednesday 11th July
Factual; History; Documentaries
The Secret History of Our Streets
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm, 6/6 - Arnold Circus
In 1886 Charles Booth embarked on an ambitious plan to visit every one of London's streets to record the social conditions of residents. His project took him 17 years.
Once he had finished he had constructed a groundbreaking series of maps which recorded the social class and standing of inhabitants. These maps transformed the way Victorians felt about their capital city.
This series takes six archetypal London streets as they are now, discovering how they have fared since Booth's day.
Booth colour coded each street, from yellow for the 'servant keeping classes' down to black for the 'vicious and semi-criminal'. With the aid of maps the series explores why certain streets have been transformed from desperate slums to become some of the most desirable and valuable property in the UK, whilst others have barely changed.
This landmark series features residents past and present, exploring how what happened on the street in the last 125 years continues to shape the lives of those who live there now.
Charles Booth's vast 1886 Survey of London ranks each one of London streets according to the class
The sixth episode features Arnold Circus, in the east end and the story of a Victorian social experiment that changed Britain. Arnold Circus is home to the first council estate which opened in 1896. The planning of the estate, from its lack of pubs to the pattern of the brickwork, was deliberate in order to make its residents respectable, as previously the land had played host to a notorious crime-ridden slum.
Featuring compelling accounts from residents both past and present, this is the story of how Arnold Circus made the difficult journey from feared underclass to a self-respecting community; of how it became and still is a haven in heart of the City.
Factual; Science and Nature; Documentaries
Blink: A Horizon Guide to Senses
BBC4, 9:00-10:00pm
Touch, sight, smell, hearing and taste - our senses link us to the outside world. Dr Kevin Fong looks back through 40 years of Horizon archives to find out what science has taught us about our tools of perception - why babies use touch more than any other sense, why our eyes are so easily tricked and how pioneering technology is edging closer to the dream of replacing our human senses if they fail.
Factual; Science and Nature; Nature and Environment
Volcano Live
BBC1, 8:00-9:00pm, 3/4
Kate Humble and Professor Iain Stewart present a four day journey into our extraordinary and dynamic planet, live from Kilauea on Hawaii, the world's most active volcano. They broadcast from the town of Kalapana, destroyed 20 years ago by Kilauea's lava flows and look at the connections between volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis. Iain visits the Bay of Naples and explains the forces at work behind the most devastating volcanic eruptions. Kate's Icelandic adventure continues as she descends 150 metres into the mouth of a dormant volcano.
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Thursday 12th July
Science and Nature;
Guts: The Strange and Mysterious World of the Human Stomach
BBC4, 9:00-10:00pm
Michael Mosley puts his guts on display for one day at the Science Museum in this one-off programme part of the BBC Four season, Flesh, Blood and Bone: The Amazing Human Body.
Undergoing experiments to explore the vital role of the stomach he takes viewers on a journey through his digestive system - and with the help of a small pill camera offers a unique view of his innards as they digest his food.
Michael uncovers an intricate 'second brain' present in the intestines, made up of millions of neurones which orchestrate digestion - and visits a gastroenterologist where he discovers a fascinating relationship between personality types and pain responses.
He also learns of the advent of faecal transplants increasingly used to treat sufferers of serious stomach and bowel disorders.
Guts: The Strange and Mysterious World of the Human Stomach lays bare the mysteries of the digestive system and reveals a complexity and intelligence in the human gut that science is only just beginning to uncover.
Science and Nature
Rupture: Living with My Broken Brain
BBC4, 10:00-11:10pm
In 2007 former Bond girl Maryam d'Abo suffered a brain haemorrhage. The experience inspired her to make a film about survivors of brain injuries, giving a sense of hope to those isolated by the disease.
As she guides us through her personal journey of recovery, Maryam talks to others who have suffered brain injury, including Robert McCrum, former literary editor of The Observer; Pat Martino, jazz guitarist and music producer Quincy Jones.
Along with testimony of eminent neurosurgeons, neurologists, and neuro-psychologists, these first-hand stories celebrate human life force and the will to survive. Directed by Maryam’s husband Hugh Hudson, who witnessed her illness, this film offers a unique insight into the fragility of the extraordinary human brain.
Factual; Science and Nature; Nature and Environment
Volcano Live
BBC2, 8:00-9:00pm
No programme information yet
Factual
June Brown: Respect Your Elders
BBC1, 10:35-11:25pm
June Brown explores the rise of care homes and society’s attitude towards growing old.
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Friday 13th July
Documentaries
Building The London Underground
Channel 5, 7:00-8:00pm
A fascinating look at the great engineering leaps that built the London Underground, the biggest metro system in the world.
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