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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Monday 5th August
News
Panorama: The Brothers who Bombed Boston
BBC1, 8:30-9:00pm
On the 15th of April, in the worst terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11, two homemade bombs exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 200 participants and spectators. With interviews with those who knew them, Panorama reporter Hilary Andersson explores how the two suspected bombers - brothers raised and educated in the US - became radicalised, and asks if America's war on terror has come home.
With the surviving brother due to stand trial later this year, she goes on patrol with New York Police Department's anti-terrorist squad which uses the latest technology to protect New Yorkers from future terrorist attacks. But she finds a backlash amongst many Muslims in America against law enforcement programmes they believe are designed specifically to profile, map and spy on Muslims. Panorama asks: are the authorities spying on the right people?
Factual > Health & Wellbeing > Documentaries
Long Live Britain
BBC1, 9:00-10:00pm & 10:35-11:20pm
Julia Bradbury, Phil Tufnell and Dr Phil Hammond set out to tackle one of the nation's most pressing health issues. Britain's 'secret killers' - type two diabetes, liver and heart disease - affect more than eight million people in the UK. At the nation's largest-ever combined health screening at the Rugby Football League's Magic Weekend in Manchester, 50 NHS nurses, three leading charities and a team of doctors screen hundreds of people to find out if they are at risk of developing one of these three preventable conditions, with shocking results.
Dr Phil Hammond also screens a group of famous faces to find out who might develop one of these potentially lethal conditions. And when former EastEnder Ricky Grover, actress and singer Jodie Prenger and actress and comedienne Crissy Rock make some alarming discoveries, they agree to work with Dr Phil to turn their health around. Long Live Britain follows them as they learn how these conditions are affecting their bodies - and what they can do to get their health back on track.
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Tuesday 6th August
factual > History > Documentaries
King Alfred and the Saxons
BBC4, 9:00-10:00pm, 1/3 - Alfred of Wessex
Historian and broadcaster Michael Wood tells the story of King Alfred the Great, arguing that he and his descendants were England's most influential and important rulers. In the first edition, the presenter details a desperate guerrilla war in Somerset, and establishes how Alfred laid the foundations for a single kingdom of `all the English'. Filmed in locations including Reading and Rome, with contributions by leading scholars.
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Wednesday 7th August
Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media > History > Documentaries
The Culture Show: Venice - A Tale of Two Cities
BBC2, 10:00-10:30pm
Alastair Sooke heads to Venice with historian Bendor Grosvenor to explore the art the city has to offer, with each putting forward the case for their favourite styles and periods. Alastair is passionate about the contemporary art being exhibited at the Biennale, while Bendor prefers the work of the Renaissance masters who changed the very nature of painting, and landscape artists who dominated the 18th century.
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Thursday 8th August
Factual > Health & Wellbeing > Documentaries
The Men Who Made Us Thin
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm, 1/4
In the first of this four-part series, Jacques examines the scientific reasons why so many diets fail long-term and why - in spite of this failure - we go back to them again and again.
Travelling to the US and speaking to industry insiders, he discovers some of the secrets of the industry. The knowledge that dieting is problematic was realised by scientists back in the 1940s and 1950s. Jacques asks whether this research influenced the modern diet industry, which often relies on returning customers who blame themselves for failure when the diet doesn't deliver a long-term solution.
Jacques speaks to a former director of Weight Watchers, who admits that customer failure was a significant factor in the company's profits: people have to keep coming back. In addition, Peretti meets other industry leaders, including Slimfast billionaire Danny Abrahams and Pierre Dukan, of the Dukan diet, to question them about the strategy behind the fortunes they’ve made.
Factual > Drugs > Health & Wellbeing > Documentaries
Legally High
Channel 4, 10:00-11:10pm
Recent years have seen a step-change in Britain's drug culture. Out go the 'old' illegal drugs - cocaine, heroin, speed - swept to one side by a younger generation who can get their hits not only more cheaply but also legally.
The new drugs are legal to buy because they're sold as research chemicals and labelled 'not for human consumption'.
This hard-hitting observational documentary - directed by triple BAFTA-award winner Dan Reed - takes a trip into a murky world where underground chemists invent new drugs faster than the government can legislate against them.
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Friday 9th August
Factual > News > Current Affairs > Documentaries
How to get a Council House
4Seven, 9:00-10:00pm
How do councils cope with a lack of properties and a surplus of people in need of homes with affordable rent? With 1.8 million people on England's social housing list, this series looks at how Tower Hamlets and Manchester councils are dealing with the problems caused by a lack of affordable homes.
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