Off-air recording for week 20-26 July 2013

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 20th July

Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media > History

David Starkey's Music and Monarchy
BBC2, 8:10-9:10pm, 1/4 - Crown of Choir

Dr David Starkey reveals how the story of British music was shaped by its monarchy. In this first episode he begins with kings who were also composers - Henry V and Henry VIII - and the golden age of English music they presided over. He discovers how the military and religious ambitions of England's monarchy made its music the envy of Europe - and then brought it to the brink of destruction - and why British music still owes a huge debt to Queen Elizabeth I.

Featuring specially recorded music performances from King's College Cambridge, Canterbury Cathedral and Eton College, and early music ensemble Alamire; and the music of Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, John Dunstable and John Dowland.

Dr Starkey reveals why Henry V took a choir with him to the Battle of Agincourt, and hears the music the king wrote to keep God on-side in his crusade against the French - rarely performed in the centuries since, and now sung by the choir at Canterbury Cathedral. He visits Eton College, founded by Henry VI, where today's choristers sing from a hand-illuminated choir-book which would have been used by their 16th-century predecessors; King's College, Cambridge, built by successive generations of monarchs and still world-famous for its choir; and the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace, where Henry VIII and Elizabeth I heard works created especially for their worship by some of the greatest composers in British history.


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Monday 22nd July

Factual > Documentaries

Privacy Under Pressure
BBC Radio 4, 9:00-9:30am, 2/3

Continuing his series on the state of privacy in Britain today, Steve Hewlett looks at the impact on visual privacy of technological developments like improved CCTV cameras, advancing face recognition software, drones and Google Glass.


Religion > Beliefs

Ramadan Diaries
Channel 4, 7:55-8:00pm

For one month, from dawn to dusk, they forgo food, water, smoking and swearing, in an attempt to focus on what's important, think about those who have less than them and better appreciate what they have.

Channel 4 follows and hears from a wide range of British Muslims throughout Ramadan, on how they cope with daily life and the physical and spiritual effects of fasting, as they go through it.


Documentaries

Taliban Child Fighters
Channel 4, 8:00-8:30pm

More than 200 children convicted of fighting for the Taliban are currently being held in special prisons across Afghanistan. Their crimes include the laying of improvised explosive devices, ambush and the preparation of suicide missions. Dispatches has had unique access to meet the captured child fighters, to document their experiences and tell their stories.

Fifteen-year-old Hanan comes from a line of guerrilla soldiers; his father fought for the Taliban, his grandfather for the Mujahadeen. He took up arms after his father was killed in a NATO air strike and, as a young teenager, Hanan went on to command his own cell of child combatants.

He is serving a two-year sentence after surrendering during a shoot-out with government forces. Like many of these children Hanan has had little formal education, and has only been schooled in a madrasa. Despite attempts made within the prison to provide learning and change his mindset, Hanan is unrepentant.

As well as visiting two of these prisons, award winning film-maker Najibullah Quraishi travels to an orphanage in Helmand province. Here he meets 10-year-old Neaz who was seized by the Taliban to perform a special mission, after his entire family was killed in a NATO bombing raid.

Neaz describes how the Taliban members who abducted him tried to persuade him to become a suicide bomber, but he escaped during the night, walked toward the nearest town and handed himself in to police.

Children of the Taliban offers a unique perspective on the ongoing conflict and raises important questions about the legacy of western intervention in Afghanistan.

After 12 years of bitter fighting and with the insurgents proving a resilient enemy, when NATO pulls out are we leaving behind another traumatised generation destined to continue the conflict?


Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media > Arts > Life Stories > Documentaries

The Richard Burton Diaries
BBC4, 10:30-11:00pm

Richard Burton's talent, presence and unforgettable voice made him a superstar of stage and screen. The Welsh actor was equally famous for his hellraising, womanising private life and his two marriages to Elizabeth Taylor. Now private diaries he wrote at the height of his fame have been published in their entirety for the first time and present a unique opportunity to reassess the man behind the myth.



Factual > Life Stories > Documentaries

Elizabeth Taylor: England's Other Elizabeth
BBC4, 11:00-11:55pm

Profile drawn from Elizabeth Taylor's visit to Britain in 2000, during which she received her damehood from the Queen. Hollywood's last great star talks for the first time in years about her career, her life, and the challenges of the future.

From her early days as a child star in Lassie Come Home and National Velvet to becoming the century's biggest star of all - in Cleopatra - her life, her loves and her work have all been lived to an intensity no other star can match.

Joined by Shirley MacLaine, Rod Steiger, and Angela Lansbury, Taylor remembers the glory days of working with Richard Burton, Montgomery Clift, Rock Hudson, James Dean and Paul Newman; how filming never stopped regardless of what life threw at her; the pain and pleasure of two Oscars - one for a film she can hardly bear to remember; and, not least, the feelings she has for Britain where she was born and how it was her English accent that launched on the way to stardom at the very beginning.


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Tuesday 23rd July

Religion > Beliefs

Ramadan Diaries
Channel 4, 7:55-8:00pm


Language > Documentaries

Why Don't You Speak English?
Channel 4, 9:00-10:00pm

First-generation immigrants are taught English by an ordinary British family, for one week, and in the family's own home.  There are almost one million immigrants living in the UK who don't speak very good English. This two-part series follows four first-generation immigrants as they try to learn the language for the first time.


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Wednesday 24th July

Religion > Beliefs

Ramadan Diaries
Channel 4, 7:55-8:00pm


Criminology > Serial Killers > Psychology

Myra Hindley: The Untold Story
Channel 5, 8:00-9:00pm, 2/3 - The Ones the got Away

The stories of Brady and Hindley's five known murder victims and the accounts of the children who got away - most notably David Smith, who was groomed as Brady's next acolyte. The film reveals the meticulous planning that preceded the murders, the bizarre details of the crimes and Brady's fascination with Hitler, Saddleworth Moor and the Marquis de Sade.



Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media > Arts > History > Documentaries

Bought With Love: The Secret History of British Art Collections
BBC4, 9:00-10:00pm, 2/3

Art historian Helen Rosslyn traces the stories of the people whose enthusiasm for art, sense of adventure and wealth built Britain's national collection and shaped the history of art of the nation.


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Thursday 25th July

Religion > Beliefs

Ramadan Diaries
Channel 4, 7:55-8:00pm


Law > Documentaries

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

On this evidence (and The Briefs is all about evidence) the clients of Manchester-based Tuckers are a rum bunch. Once again, ITV’s cameras have had impressive access to the busiest legal aid law firm in Britain, whose lawyers defend clients accused of all manner of offences. Some 70 per cent of their business is repeat, which means the firm has the air of a dysfunctional family.

One staffer reminisces about how innocent a man accused of armed robbery looked when he first came to them as a little lad; he’s now on his 36th matter with Tuckers. No matter how many police documentaries you’ve seen, the angle here is different.

There’s something about the relaxed consultation between brief and accused, often discussing serious and violent crimes, which is a real shocker. “If you brandish an axe in a public place,” one legal adviser coolly tells her client, “that would contravene conditions of your ASBO.”


Criminology > Documentaries

Catching a Killer: Crocodile Tears
Channel 4, 10:00-11:00pm

documentary looks beyond fake tears to reveal stories of deception and betrayal, when people who have feigned innocence or made public appeals for information - often on camera - committed the crime themselves.

The programme re-examines the Philpott case, in which Mick and his wife Mairead, who took part in a press conference after their house fire killed six children, were finally convicted of their manslaughter in April 2013, along with their best friend Paul Mosley.

The film contains interviews with Paul Mosley's brother Bryan, Darshna Soni, who covered the story for Channel 4 News, Mick Philpott's former partner of several years and 'star' witness to his trial Heather Keogh.


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Friday 26th July

Religion > Beliefs

Ramadan Diaries
Channel 4, 7:55-8:00pm


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