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 24th August
Factual > Politics > Documentaries
Thatcher - The Downing Street Years
BBC2, 8:10-9:10pm, 2/4 - Best of Enemies
In her second term in office after victory in 1983, Mrs Thatcher's position seemed impregnable. Her conduct of the Falkland's war was popular, she had trounced Arthur Scargill and the striking miners, and had survived the bombing by the IRA of the Grand Hotel in Brighton. But all was not well: Cabinet Secretary Robert Armstrong and ex Chancellor Nigel Lawson are amongst those who recall the emnity between the Prime Minister and her Defence Secretary Michael Heseltine. Thatcher thought of him as 'over-poweringly ambitious and self-centred', and his handling of the Westland affair in 1986 only served to increase ill-feeling between the two, which reached its height with his challenge to her leadership in 1990.
Factual > News > Documentaries
This World: America's Stoned Kids
BBC2, 9:10-10:10pm
In November last year the American state of Colorado voted to legalise the recreational use of cannabis. It is the most radical experiment in drugs policy for generations and the world will be looking to see what happens, particularly to drug use amongst teenagers. In this hour long documentary for This World, clinical psychologist and addiction expert Professor John Marsden heads to Denver, the state capital, to assess the likely impact of legalisation on a country already suffering an epidemic of teenage marijuana use.
At a local high school, John hears from A grade students who explain that getting stoned is now more socially acceptable than getting drunk. At an addiction clinic that treats children as young as 12, John hears how marijuana is already the number one reason for kids to enter residential programmes more than alcohol, cocaine, ecstasy and other drugs combined. With rates of teenage cannabis use in the USA the highest that they have been in years, it is widely acknowledged the war on drugs has failed. However the question is, will full legalisation manage to take the selling of the drug out of the hands of the street dealers and into the hands of the legitimate business people and be the answer to stopping America's kids from getting stoned?
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Monday 26th August
Factual > Science & Nature > Nature & Environment
Ultimate Swarms
BBC1, 9:00-10:00pm
Zoologist and explorer George McGavin goes in search of some of the world's most impressive swarms. By getting right to the heart of these natural spectacles, he finds out why swarms are the ultimate solution to surviving against all odds and discovers how unlocking the secrets to how animals swarm could be crucial to understanding our own increasingly crowded lives.
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Tuesday 27th August
Factual > Crime > Documentaries
Born to Kill? The Killer Prophet
Channel 5, 8:00-9:00pm, 3/6
In October 1970, the bodies of Dr Victor Ohta, his wife Virginia, their two sons and the medic's secretary were found dumped in the swimming pool of their California home. Many believed that a murderous hippie cult was on the rampage, but the killer turned out to be reclusive 24-year-old John Linley Frazier, who believed that he was on a mission from God. In this programme, eyewitnesses and criminal experts analyse Frazier's motives and personality.
Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media > Arts > Documentaries > Factual > History
Ancient Greece: The Greatest Show On Earth
BBC4, 9:00-10:00pm, 1/3 - Democrats
Classicist Dr Michael Scott journeys to Athens to explore how drama first began.
He discovers that from the very start it was about more than just entertainment
- it was a reaction to real events, it was a driving force in history and it was
deeply connected to Athenian democracy. In fact, the story of theatre is the
story of Athens.
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Wednesday 28th August
Factual > History > Documentaries
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm
Documentary commemorating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's March on Washington, a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. This programme tells the story of the how the march for jobs and freedom began, speaking to the people who organised and participated in it. Using rarely seen archive footage the film reveals the background stories surrounding the build up to the march as well as the fierce opposition it faced from the JFK administration, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI and widespread claims that it would incite racial violence, chaos and disturbance. The film follows the unfolding drama as the march reaches its ultimate triumphs, gaining acceptance from the state, successfully raising funds and in the end, organised and executed peacefully - and creating a landmark moment in the struggle for civil rights and racial equality in the united states.
Including interviews with some of the key actors: members of the inner circles of the core organizational groups such as Jack O'Dell, Clarence B. Jones, Julian Bond and Andrew Young; Hollywood supporters and civil rights campaigners including Harry Belafonte, Diahann Carroll and Sidney Poitier; Performing artists at the March such as Joan Baez and Peter Yarrow; as well as JFK administration official, Harris Wofford; the CBS Broadcaster who reported from the March, Roger Mudd; Clayborne Carson, the founding director of Stanford's Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute and a participant in the March; as well as those who witnessed the march on TV and were influenced by it, such as Oprah Winfrey, and most of all, the remembrances of the ordinary citizens who joined some 250,000 Americans at the capital on that momentous.
Factual > History > Politics > Documentaries
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
BBC4, 10:00-10:50pm
April 4, 1968, and Martin Luther King is gunned down on the balcony of a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. The catalyst that would lead to his assassination began three months before his death, when the city's sanitation workers went on strike. Realising that this might be a seminal moment in the civil rights movement, scholars at the University of Memphis started to collect every piece of media they could find - television, radio and print.
Unbelievably, most of this remarkable footage hasn't been seen since 1968. Now, for the first time, it has been chronologically reassembled, bringing to life as never before the tumultuous events surrounding one of the most shocking assassinations in America.
Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media
Dreaming the Impossible: Unbuilt Britain
BBC4, 10:50-11:50pm, 3/3 - A Revolution in the City
Using her skills to uncover long-forgotten and abandoned plans, architectural investigator Dr Olivia Horsfall Turner explores the fascinating and dramatic stories behind some of the grandest designs that were never built.
Destruction, whether intentional or circumstantial, often creates a clean slate and demands a fresh outlook in which we come to think the unthinkable. This programme looks at bold, and in some cases shocking, plans to make revolutionary changes to Britain's biggest cities.
In the mid 17th century, the capital was reeling from the devastation caused by the Great Fire of London. But amid the destruction, a huge opportunity arose to completely remodel and modernise London and make it into a very different city than the one we know today.
London was effectively a blank sheet of paper and within a week of the city being razed to the ground, architect Sir Christopher Wren presented King Charles II with a vision to create a completely new city. Wren wanted the winding streets and old courtyards that had existed almost unchanged since medieval times to be replaced by monumental Parisian-style avenues in a formal grid pattern with large piazzas. This was a unique opportunity to improve on the past, but while Wren's design for St Paul's Cathedral did become a reality London was reconstructed on essentially the same street plan as before the fire.
Three centuries later, Glasgow was the second city of the empire and the industrial powerhouse of the nation, but was struggling to cope with overcrowding and slum housing. Many believed the only solution was to start again. The city's leading planner, Robert Bruce, proposed demolishing the entire city centre - the celebrated buildings of Mackintosh and Greek Thompson would all have been bulldozed - to create a 1940s vision of the future. The new Glasgow would have been built as a system of regular tower blocks, ringed by a motorway, built in districts according to function. Bruce's justification for these drastic proposals was the creation of a new 'healthy and beautiful city'. Although his plan was not realised in its entirety, many of his ideas were carried out, and the M8 motorway which cuts right through the city centre is probably the most visible legacy of the 'Bruce Report'.
In both plans, destruction was the driving force behind creating a new city on a fresh slate. Separated in time by 300 years, these two radical thinkers, Christopher Wren and Robert Bruce, devised colossal, transformative schemes for their respective cities in a bid to create their very personal vision of the 'perfect city'.
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Thursday 29th August
Factual > Science & Nature > Nature & Environment
Poaching Wars with Tom Hardy
ITV1, 9:00-10:00pm, 2/2
All over Sub-Saharan Africa, the poaching crisis is spreading like a plague. Cameroon, Chad, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have all seen large-scale elephant slaughter and throughout the rest of Africa, both rhino and elephant are being killed in alarming numbers. The everyday effect of the poaching business on African wildlife is one of horror and cruelty that brutalises both the animals and the humans involved.
In programme two, Tom heads to Botswana, Mozambique and Tanzania, looking for answers.
In the 1930s there were believed to be nearly five million elephant ranging free in Africa. Today their total number is thought to be less than half a million. Rhino populations have also been decimated due to the simple greed for horn and ivory.
Botswana’s second biggest industry, tourism, is wildlife-related, so it has a lot to protect and more incentive than most. Tom goes to meet Tshekedi Khama, the Minister of Environment Wildlife and Tourism and a big player in the world of poaching. Tom is directed to a very secretive warehouse on the outskirts of Gaborone, Botswana’s capital city. Inside he is stunned to see thousands of elephant tusks being stored.
The ivory trade was banned worldwide in 1989 but today the black market is estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars every year...
Factual > Science & Nature > Science & Technology > Documentaries
Horizon: Dinosaurs - The Hunt for Life
BBC2, 11:20pm-12:20am
The hunt for life within the long-dead bones of dinosaurs may sound like the stuff of Hollywood fantasy - but one woman has found traces of life within the fossilised bones of a T Rex.
Dr Mary Schweitzer has seen the remains of red blood cells and touched the soft tissue of an animal that died 68 million years ago. Most excitingly of all, she believes she may just have found signs of DNA. Her work is revolutionising our understanding of these iconic beasts.
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Friday 30th August
Factual > Science & Nature > Nature & Environment
The Burrowers: Animals Underground
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm
Chris Packham sheds light on the magical underground world of three iconic
British animals - badgers, water voles and rabbits - investigating wild burrows
and creating full scale replicas too.
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Wednesday 21 August 2013
Tuesday 13 August 2013
Off-air recordings for week 17-23 August 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 17th August
Factual > Politics > Documentaries
Thatcher: The Downing Street Years
BBC2, 8:10-9:10pm
Award-winning four-part documentary series, examining Margaret Thatcher's 11 years as Prime Minister. The first programme looks at how she rejected the postwar consensus that had governed the country for more than 30 years, and came into conflict with trade unions, the old establishment and even members of her own cabinet. Yet even as the country moved into a crippling recession, the Prime Minister refused to make a U-turn in policy.
Religions > Superstitions > Beliefs > Documentaries
A Very British Witchcraft
More4, 9:00-10:00pm
The extraordinary story of Britain's fastest-growing religious group - the modern pagan witchcraft of Wicca - and of its creator, an eccentric Englishman called Gerald Gardner.
Historian and leading expert in Pagan studies Professor Ronald Hutton explores Gardner's story and experiences first-hand Wicca's growing influence throughout Britain today.
Born of a nudist colony in 1930s Dorset, Wicca rapidly grew from a small New Forest coven to a worldwide religion in the space of just 70 years.
It's a journey that takes in tales of naked witches casting spells to ward off Hitler, tabloid hysteria about human sacrifices and Gerald Gardner himself appearing on Panorama.
Religions > Superstitions > Beliefs > Documentaries
Tony Robinson's Gods and Monsters
More4, 10:00-11:05pm
Featuring dramatic reconstructions, the opening programme examines our fascination with and terror of dead bodies.
People in the past believed that even in death a body retained some vital force, and that the dead could rise from the grave to cause havoc among the living. Why did they believe this? What powers did they believe the dead had? And what did they do about it?
Tony's journey takes him on a fascinating and sometimes humorous tour of some of the darkest recesses of the ancient mind, and brings him face to face with a plague-breathing zombie, a dead body that seems alive three weeks after it died, and the English monarchs who ate the bodies of their subjects.
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Monday 18th August
Documentaries > Science and Nature > Diseases > Medicine
Ade Adepitan: Journey of a Lifetime
Channel 4, 8:00-9:00pm
'Making this film has changed my life. It was always very personal territory for me. When the polio virus attacked me as a baby in Nigeria, it took away any chance of me being able to walk.'
Ade Adepitan, Paralympic medal-winner and presenter of Channel 4's Bafta Award-winning Paralympics coverage, was inspired to return to the land of his birth to find out why it remains one of three places on Earth where children are still contracting polio.
What he found challenged, shocked, frightened and inspired him by turn, as he travelled from the commercial centre of Lagos in the south to the dangerous, violent north, where health workers risk their lives in an attempt to complete one of most ambitious health campaigns in history.
Ade inspires others along the way, as he joins in a game of para-soccer under a flyover in Lagos, holds a young victim in a remote township, and then, with a local activist, galvanises the biggest march of polio victims in years, in the town of Sokoto.
He joins hundreds of men and women, some of whom are usually hidden away in their homes, as they take over the main street on their primitive wheelchairs, and on skateboards and crutches, leaving Ade exhausted but jubilant.
'I can't get over how motivated these people are,' he says. 'Every step must be painful. But they've still got a smile on their face.' Ade discovers the toxic mix of religion, superstition and suspicion of the outsider, the so called 'White Witch', that has made the task of eradication so difficult.
He feels powerless as he meets the parents who have made the tragic decisions that resulted in their children not being vaccinated and becoming 'crippled': a word he is happy to use in this context.
But this is not just a local battle. Polio is a virulent virus. Unless the combined forces of state and local leaders can be brought together for the final push, other countries that are now free can easily be re-infected and decades of work could be undone.
Factual > Science & Nature > Science & Technology > Documentaries
Horizon: Defeating the Hackers
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm
Exploring the murky and fast-paced world of the hackers out to steal money and identities and wreak havoc with people's online lives, and the scientists who are joining forces to help defeat them.
Horizon meets the two men who uncovered the world's first cyber weapon, the pioneers of what is called ultra paranoid computing, and the computer expert who worked out how to hack into cash machines.
Documentaries
Benefits Britain 1949
4Seven, 11:05pm-12:05am, 1/3
The second episode follows three claimants as they give up their 2013 entitlement to council housing and agree to be reassessed and rehoused according to 1949 rules.
In 1949 it wasn't about how much you needed a house, but whether you were deemed suitable to deserve one.
Twenty-five-year-old single mum Nichola and her two young daughters are top of the housing priority list in 2013, but because she is unmarried she would never have qualified for a council house in 1949.
They are evicted from their council flat and have to fend for themselves. Nichola finds the judgemental 1949 attitude towards women who have children out of wedlock challenging, and thinks she might have made different life decisions if she had lived them.
Patson arrived in the UK in 2002, fleeing violence in Zimbabwe. As an asylum seeker with unlimited right to remain in the UK, he currently claims Jobseeker's Allowance, but feels that the 2013 system does little to help the unemployed back to work. There was work for all in 1949 and Patson is allocated a job at a farm.
He's given an accommodation voucher for a migrant workers hostel, but institutional racism was rife in 1949 and he is turned away at the hostel door. Patson realises that the 1949 system did little to support immigrants, and he's forced to seek the generosity of fellow immigrants.
Matt and Heidi live in an untidy and chaotic three-bed council house. In 1949 unsuitable tenants would have been threatened with eviction, but such was the state's commitment to preserving and promoting the family unit, that Matt and Heidi are offered the chance of 'rehabilitation' and are taken to a rehabilitation house where they are taught how to cook, clean and behave.
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Tuesday 19th August
Crime > Criminal Psychology > Documentaries
The Devil's Disciple: Born to Kill?
Channel 5, 2/6 - 8:00-9:00pm
Documentary profile of Patrick Mackay, once dubbed the most dangerous man in Britain. In the mid 1970s, London and the south east was gripped by a series of bizarre murders. The last was the most horrific of all - a Catholic priest found floating in a bath of his own blood, bludgeoned to death with an axe. With insights into his childhood and from those who encountered him, experts attempt to unravel if Patrick Mackay was born to kill.
Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media > Arts > Documentaries
Perspectives - Lenny Henry: Finding Shakespeare
ITV1, 10:35-11:35pm
Lenny Henry explores his changing relationship with the works of Shakespeare. Growing up in the West Midlands, the comedian found the plays boring, irrelevant and inaccessible, but after appearing on a Radio 4 programme about the Bard he was offered the chance to take the title role in a production of Othello in 2009, and has since appeared in The Comedy of Errors at the National Theatre. Lenny joins forces with a rapper, an Oxford don, the mentor who prepared him to play Othello and actors Dominic West and Adrian Lester to try to show a class of London schoolchildren how Shakespeare can be relevant to them.
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Wednesday 20th August
Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media > Arts > Magazines & Reviews
The Man Who Collected the World
BBC4, 9:00-10:00pm
William Burrell made a fortune out of shipping and spent it on art. Over his long life, he assembled one of the most remarkable private collections of paintings, sculptures, tapestries, ceramics and stained glass in the world and in 1944 he donated it all - over 9,000 objects - to the city of Glasgow. The Burrell Collection finally opened to the public in 1983 but the building that bears his name contains no tribute to Burrell and he never commissioned a portrait of himself. Kirsty Wark tells the story of the self-effacing collector and tours the highlights of his collection in the company of its curators.
Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media
Dreaming the Impossible
BBC4, 10:00-11:00pm, 2/3 - Making Connections
Using her skills to uncover long-forgotten and abandoned plans, architectural investigator Dr Olivia Horsfall Turner explores the fascinating and dramatic stories behind some of the grandest designs that were never built. In this episode she looks at two of the most radical civil engineering projects proposed in the last century and explores how international politics and vested interests both drove, and derailed, plans to better connect Britain to the continent.
In the early 1900s Britain was anticipating the threat of war. As concern grew about Germany expanding its naval fleet and investing in its infrastructure, there were calls to find a way for Britain's navy to be able to react swiftly to protect our waters. The solution proposed was to create a ship canal big enough for warships to cross from the Firth of Clyde on the west of Scotland to the Firth of Forth on the east. This enormous civil engineering endeavour would have completely changed the central belt of Scotland - the favoured route was through Loch Lomond, now considered one of the most treasured wilderness areas in the country.
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Thursday 21st August
Documentaries
Poaching Wars with Tom Hardy
ITV1, 1/2 - 9:00-10:00pm
Motivated by his love of animals, BAFTA award-winning actor Tom Hardy (Inception, The Dark Knight Rises, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) travels to South Africa, Botswana and Tanzania aiming to uncover the truth about why poaching has reached crisis levels and to see for himself what can be done to stop the killing.
Having heard some appalling stories about the poaching industry, Tom is galvanised into action and in this two-part (2x60) documentary series, he is determined to see for himself why this is happening and what can be done to stop the killing.
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Friday 22nd August
Factual > Pets & Animals > Science & Nature > Nature & Environment > Documentaries
The Burrowers: Animals Underground
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm, 2/3
Chris Packham sheds light on the magical underground world of three iconic British animals, badgers, water voles and rabbits. In one of the biggest natural history experiments ever undertaken, he investigates wild burrows to recreate full-scale replicas for the animals to live in and be observed, including the largest man-made rabbit warren of its kind ever built. This creates a window on their lives never witnessed before, from birth in winter to their emergence from the burrow in summer.
How do they create their burrows? How do they breed and give birth? Observe fascinating new science and new behaviour as the team design and build a rabbit warren, a badger sett and a water vole burrow with its own riverbank.
______________________________________________
*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
____________________________________________
Saturday 17th August
Factual > Politics > Documentaries
Thatcher: The Downing Street Years
BBC2, 8:10-9:10pm
Award-winning four-part documentary series, examining Margaret Thatcher's 11 years as Prime Minister. The first programme looks at how she rejected the postwar consensus that had governed the country for more than 30 years, and came into conflict with trade unions, the old establishment and even members of her own cabinet. Yet even as the country moved into a crippling recession, the Prime Minister refused to make a U-turn in policy.
Religions > Superstitions > Beliefs > Documentaries
A Very British Witchcraft
More4, 9:00-10:00pm
The extraordinary story of Britain's fastest-growing religious group - the modern pagan witchcraft of Wicca - and of its creator, an eccentric Englishman called Gerald Gardner.
Historian and leading expert in Pagan studies Professor Ronald Hutton explores Gardner's story and experiences first-hand Wicca's growing influence throughout Britain today.
Born of a nudist colony in 1930s Dorset, Wicca rapidly grew from a small New Forest coven to a worldwide religion in the space of just 70 years.
It's a journey that takes in tales of naked witches casting spells to ward off Hitler, tabloid hysteria about human sacrifices and Gerald Gardner himself appearing on Panorama.
Religions > Superstitions > Beliefs > Documentaries
Tony Robinson's Gods and Monsters
More4, 10:00-11:05pm
Featuring dramatic reconstructions, the opening programme examines our fascination with and terror of dead bodies.
People in the past believed that even in death a body retained some vital force, and that the dead could rise from the grave to cause havoc among the living. Why did they believe this? What powers did they believe the dead had? And what did they do about it?
Tony's journey takes him on a fascinating and sometimes humorous tour of some of the darkest recesses of the ancient mind, and brings him face to face with a plague-breathing zombie, a dead body that seems alive three weeks after it died, and the English monarchs who ate the bodies of their subjects.
____________________________________________
Monday 18th August
Documentaries > Science and Nature > Diseases > Medicine
Ade Adepitan: Journey of a Lifetime
Channel 4, 8:00-9:00pm
'Making this film has changed my life. It was always very personal territory for me. When the polio virus attacked me as a baby in Nigeria, it took away any chance of me being able to walk.'
Ade Adepitan, Paralympic medal-winner and presenter of Channel 4's Bafta Award-winning Paralympics coverage, was inspired to return to the land of his birth to find out why it remains one of three places on Earth where children are still contracting polio.
What he found challenged, shocked, frightened and inspired him by turn, as he travelled from the commercial centre of Lagos in the south to the dangerous, violent north, where health workers risk their lives in an attempt to complete one of most ambitious health campaigns in history.
Ade inspires others along the way, as he joins in a game of para-soccer under a flyover in Lagos, holds a young victim in a remote township, and then, with a local activist, galvanises the biggest march of polio victims in years, in the town of Sokoto.
He joins hundreds of men and women, some of whom are usually hidden away in their homes, as they take over the main street on their primitive wheelchairs, and on skateboards and crutches, leaving Ade exhausted but jubilant.
'I can't get over how motivated these people are,' he says. 'Every step must be painful. But they've still got a smile on their face.' Ade discovers the toxic mix of religion, superstition and suspicion of the outsider, the so called 'White Witch', that has made the task of eradication so difficult.
He feels powerless as he meets the parents who have made the tragic decisions that resulted in their children not being vaccinated and becoming 'crippled': a word he is happy to use in this context.
But this is not just a local battle. Polio is a virulent virus. Unless the combined forces of state and local leaders can be brought together for the final push, other countries that are now free can easily be re-infected and decades of work could be undone.
Factual > Science & Nature > Science & Technology > Documentaries
Horizon: Defeating the Hackers
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm
Exploring the murky and fast-paced world of the hackers out to steal money and identities and wreak havoc with people's online lives, and the scientists who are joining forces to help defeat them.
Horizon meets the two men who uncovered the world's first cyber weapon, the pioneers of what is called ultra paranoid computing, and the computer expert who worked out how to hack into cash machines.
Documentaries
Benefits Britain 1949
4Seven, 11:05pm-12:05am, 1/3
The second episode follows three claimants as they give up their 2013 entitlement to council housing and agree to be reassessed and rehoused according to 1949 rules.
In 1949 it wasn't about how much you needed a house, but whether you were deemed suitable to deserve one.
Twenty-five-year-old single mum Nichola and her two young daughters are top of the housing priority list in 2013, but because she is unmarried she would never have qualified for a council house in 1949.
They are evicted from their council flat and have to fend for themselves. Nichola finds the judgemental 1949 attitude towards women who have children out of wedlock challenging, and thinks she might have made different life decisions if she had lived them.
Patson arrived in the UK in 2002, fleeing violence in Zimbabwe. As an asylum seeker with unlimited right to remain in the UK, he currently claims Jobseeker's Allowance, but feels that the 2013 system does little to help the unemployed back to work. There was work for all in 1949 and Patson is allocated a job at a farm.
He's given an accommodation voucher for a migrant workers hostel, but institutional racism was rife in 1949 and he is turned away at the hostel door. Patson realises that the 1949 system did little to support immigrants, and he's forced to seek the generosity of fellow immigrants.
Matt and Heidi live in an untidy and chaotic three-bed council house. In 1949 unsuitable tenants would have been threatened with eviction, but such was the state's commitment to preserving and promoting the family unit, that Matt and Heidi are offered the chance of 'rehabilitation' and are taken to a rehabilitation house where they are taught how to cook, clean and behave.
_____________________________________________
Tuesday 19th August
Crime > Criminal Psychology > Documentaries
The Devil's Disciple: Born to Kill?
Channel 5, 2/6 - 8:00-9:00pm
Documentary profile of Patrick Mackay, once dubbed the most dangerous man in Britain. In the mid 1970s, London and the south east was gripped by a series of bizarre murders. The last was the most horrific of all - a Catholic priest found floating in a bath of his own blood, bludgeoned to death with an axe. With insights into his childhood and from those who encountered him, experts attempt to unravel if Patrick Mackay was born to kill.
Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media > Arts > Documentaries
Perspectives - Lenny Henry: Finding Shakespeare
ITV1, 10:35-11:35pm
Lenny Henry explores his changing relationship with the works of Shakespeare. Growing up in the West Midlands, the comedian found the plays boring, irrelevant and inaccessible, but after appearing on a Radio 4 programme about the Bard he was offered the chance to take the title role in a production of Othello in 2009, and has since appeared in The Comedy of Errors at the National Theatre. Lenny joins forces with a rapper, an Oxford don, the mentor who prepared him to play Othello and actors Dominic West and Adrian Lester to try to show a class of London schoolchildren how Shakespeare can be relevant to them.
_____________________________________________
Wednesday 20th August
Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media > Arts > Magazines & Reviews
The Man Who Collected the World
BBC4, 9:00-10:00pm
William Burrell made a fortune out of shipping and spent it on art. Over his long life, he assembled one of the most remarkable private collections of paintings, sculptures, tapestries, ceramics and stained glass in the world and in 1944 he donated it all - over 9,000 objects - to the city of Glasgow. The Burrell Collection finally opened to the public in 1983 but the building that bears his name contains no tribute to Burrell and he never commissioned a portrait of himself. Kirsty Wark tells the story of the self-effacing collector and tours the highlights of his collection in the company of its curators.
Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media
Dreaming the Impossible
BBC4, 10:00-11:00pm, 2/3 - Making Connections
Using her skills to uncover long-forgotten and abandoned plans, architectural investigator Dr Olivia Horsfall Turner explores the fascinating and dramatic stories behind some of the grandest designs that were never built. In this episode she looks at two of the most radical civil engineering projects proposed in the last century and explores how international politics and vested interests both drove, and derailed, plans to better connect Britain to the continent.
In the early 1900s Britain was anticipating the threat of war. As concern grew about Germany expanding its naval fleet and investing in its infrastructure, there were calls to find a way for Britain's navy to be able to react swiftly to protect our waters. The solution proposed was to create a ship canal big enough for warships to cross from the Firth of Clyde on the west of Scotland to the Firth of Forth on the east. This enormous civil engineering endeavour would have completely changed the central belt of Scotland - the favoured route was through Loch Lomond, now considered one of the most treasured wilderness areas in the country.
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Thursday 21st August
Documentaries
Poaching Wars with Tom Hardy
ITV1, 1/2 - 9:00-10:00pm
Motivated by his love of animals, BAFTA award-winning actor Tom Hardy (Inception, The Dark Knight Rises, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) travels to South Africa, Botswana and Tanzania aiming to uncover the truth about why poaching has reached crisis levels and to see for himself what can be done to stop the killing.
Having heard some appalling stories about the poaching industry, Tom is galvanised into action and in this two-part (2x60) documentary series, he is determined to see for himself why this is happening and what can be done to stop the killing.
______________________________________________
Friday 22nd August
Factual > Pets & Animals > Science & Nature > Nature & Environment > Documentaries
The Burrowers: Animals Underground
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm, 2/3
Chris Packham sheds light on the magical underground world of three iconic British animals, badgers, water voles and rabbits. In one of the biggest natural history experiments ever undertaken, he investigates wild burrows to recreate full-scale replicas for the animals to live in and be observed, including the largest man-made rabbit warren of its kind ever built. This creates a window on their lives never witnessed before, from birth in winter to their emergence from the burrow in summer.
How do they create their burrows? How do they breed and give birth? Observe fascinating new science and new behaviour as the team design and build a rabbit warren, a badger sett and a water vole burrow with its own riverbank.
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Wednesday 7 August 2013
Off-air recordings for week 10-16 August 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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Sunday 11th August
Factual > Homes & Gardens > Science & Nature > Nature & Environment
The Wonder of Weeds
BBC4, 7:00-8:00pm
Blue Peter gardener Chris Collins celebrates the humble and sometimes hated plants we call weeds. He discovers that there is no such thing as a weed, botanically speaking, and that in fact what we call a weed has changed again and again over the last three hundred years. Chris uncovers the story of our changing relationship with weeds - in reality, the story of the battle between wilderness and civilisation. He finds out how weeds have been seen as beautiful and useful in the past, and sees how their secrets are being unlocked today in order to transform our crops.
Finally, Chris asks whether, in our quest to eliminate Japanese Knotweed or Rhododendron Ponticum, we are really engaged in an arms race we can never win. We remove weeds from our fields and gardens at our peril.
Factual > Science & Nature > Nature & Environment > Documentaries
Polar Bears and Grizzlies: Bears on top of the World
BBC4, 10:30-11:20pm
Natural history film comparing the fortunes of polar bears with grizzlies by following two families in the wild. As the Arctic warms up, the creatures' habitats are beginning to overlap, causing the animals to compete for food and space, and in some cases interbreed.
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Monday 12th August
Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media > Architecture > Documentaries
Dreaming The Impossible: Unbuilt Britain
BBC4, 9:00-10:00pm, 1/3 - Glasshouses
Architectural investigator Dr Olivia Horsfall Turner reveals the fascinating and dramatic stories behind some of the grandest designs never built. She begins in 1855, when visionary designer Joseph Paxton put forward ambitious plans for the Great Victorian Way, which promised to alleviate congestion in London by encircling the city centre with a 10-mile-long glass structure containing shops, houses, hotels and eight railway lines.
Factual > History > Documentaries
Benefits Britain 1949
4Seven, 11:05pm-12:05am, 1/3
Everyone's got an opinion about the welfare state, whether we're bemoaning 'scroungers' or pointing out how it's failed the vulnerable, but there's no consensus on how it can be fixed.
In this bold piece of living history, current benefits claimants volunteer to live for a week by the rules of 1949 to explore how our safety net should work.
This first episode looks at how the state should support disabled, long-term sick and elderly people.
Craig, who's 24, finds that being born with spina bifida doesn't entitle him to any benefits under the 1949 rules. But the post-war welfare state has another solution: it offers him training and work experience, and it has the power to force employers to take on workers with disabilities.
Craig has applied for hundreds of jobs in the past four years without success. Will his 1949 work experience at a call centre be a turning point?
Melvyn, who's 71, hands over his 2013 pension, only to find that in 1949 he receives just £38.48 (the precise sum he'd have got then, adjusted for inflation). From this, he has to cover his food, bills and transport for the week.
Initially he appears to be coping well, but is soon plunged into debt and is forced to pawn his grandfather's watch. What would the 1949 system have done with a pensioner who was failing to cope?
Karen, who's 54, is on sickness benefit. Having worked all her life, she feels she should be entitled to greater support, rather than the government trying to take away more of her benefits.
2013 has judged her eligible for state aid, but will 1949 take as sympathetic a view of her conditions?
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Tuesday 13th August
Factual > Science & Nature > Science & Technology
Horizon: Monitor Me
BBC2, 11:20pm-12:20am
Dr Kevin Fong explores a medical revolution that promises to help us live longer, healthier lives. Inspired by the boom in health-related apps and gadgets, it's all about novel ways we can monitor ourselves around the clock. How we exercise, how we sleep, even how we sit.
Some doctors are now prescribing apps the way they once prescribed pills. Kevin meets the pioneers of this revolution. From the England Rugby 7s team, whose coach knows more about his players' health than a doctor would, to the most monitored man in the world who diagnosed a life threatening disease from his own data, without going to the doctor.
Factual > Crime > Documentaries
On the Run
ITV1, 9:00-10:00pm
This new documentary features a manhunt attempting to track down three wanted criminals so they can be brought to justice.
Presenters Mark Williams-Thomas and Natasha Kaplinsky show how their undercover team trace and with the help of the police, apprehend fugitives who are running from the law. On The Run includes high-octane scenes as the team and police units close in on the three wanted men.
One is a sex offender, one a violent fugitive, another is a burglar and car thief. They have gone to ground after fleeing outstanding arrest warrants, jumping bail or breaking their licence conditions. Using a variety of undercover stings and subterfuge, this programme shows in vivid detail how these criminals are traced and how police go about catching them.
It also brings into sharp focus the difficulty in arresting a wanted British criminal in Portugal - even though he is the subject of an international arrest warrant.
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Wednesday 14th August
Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media > Arts > Documentaries > Factual > History
Lost Treasures: How Houghton Got its Art Back
BBC4, 9:00-10:00pm
Dan Cruickshank reveals the story behind Robert Walpole's art collection, which was sold to Russia in the 1770s, but has returned to hang in its original home of Houghton Hall in Norfolk for the summer. Generally considered to be Britain's first prime minister, Walpole brought together some of the finest 18th-century works in the Western world.
Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media > Arts
Magazines & Reviews
The Culture Show at Edinburgh: Leonardo da Vinci - The Anatomist
BBC2, 10:00-10:30pm
Art critic Alastair Sooke views The Mechanics of Man, a new exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings at the Queen's Gallery in the Palace of Holyroodhouse. Alastair compares the sketches to the state-of-the art modern medical imagery also on display, to examine just how close the Renaissance master's work was to the real thing.
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Thursday 15th August
Documentaries
How to Get a Council House
Channel 4, 9:00-10:00pm, 3/3
This episode focuses on Tower Hamlets' Homeless service, the A & E of the council's housing department. Every year, 3300 people come here claiming to be in urgent need of a new home.
The range of stories is unexpected and heart-breaking, from a woman claiming she accidentally burnt her house down with a pound shop lighter, to a mother who claims her son is sleeping in a cupboard and a father who brings in his disabled son to announce he is evicting him.
Surprisingly, if you are homeless in Britain today you may not be entitled to any help at all. Local councils have a legal duty to find housing for some people, but only if they fall into a priority group.
With a severe shortage of council housing, they are forced to place those who do qualify for housing into expensive temporary accommodation and private rented flats.
It is up to a team of over-stretched housing officers to work out who is and isn't telling the truth about their situation, who should be given help and who should be turned away.
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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 11th August
Factual > Homes & Gardens > Science & Nature > Nature & Environment
The Wonder of Weeds
BBC4, 7:00-8:00pm
Blue Peter gardener Chris Collins celebrates the humble and sometimes hated plants we call weeds. He discovers that there is no such thing as a weed, botanically speaking, and that in fact what we call a weed has changed again and again over the last three hundred years. Chris uncovers the story of our changing relationship with weeds - in reality, the story of the battle between wilderness and civilisation. He finds out how weeds have been seen as beautiful and useful in the past, and sees how their secrets are being unlocked today in order to transform our crops.
Finally, Chris asks whether, in our quest to eliminate Japanese Knotweed or Rhododendron Ponticum, we are really engaged in an arms race we can never win. We remove weeds from our fields and gardens at our peril.
Factual > Science & Nature > Nature & Environment > Documentaries
Polar Bears and Grizzlies: Bears on top of the World
BBC4, 10:30-11:20pm
Natural history film comparing the fortunes of polar bears with grizzlies by following two families in the wild. As the Arctic warms up, the creatures' habitats are beginning to overlap, causing the animals to compete for food and space, and in some cases interbreed.
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Monday 12th August
Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media > Architecture > Documentaries
Dreaming The Impossible: Unbuilt Britain
BBC4, 9:00-10:00pm, 1/3 - Glasshouses
Architectural investigator Dr Olivia Horsfall Turner reveals the fascinating and dramatic stories behind some of the grandest designs never built. She begins in 1855, when visionary designer Joseph Paxton put forward ambitious plans for the Great Victorian Way, which promised to alleviate congestion in London by encircling the city centre with a 10-mile-long glass structure containing shops, houses, hotels and eight railway lines.
Factual > History > Documentaries
Benefits Britain 1949
4Seven, 11:05pm-12:05am, 1/3
Everyone's got an opinion about the welfare state, whether we're bemoaning 'scroungers' or pointing out how it's failed the vulnerable, but there's no consensus on how it can be fixed.
In this bold piece of living history, current benefits claimants volunteer to live for a week by the rules of 1949 to explore how our safety net should work.
This first episode looks at how the state should support disabled, long-term sick and elderly people.
Craig, who's 24, finds that being born with spina bifida doesn't entitle him to any benefits under the 1949 rules. But the post-war welfare state has another solution: it offers him training and work experience, and it has the power to force employers to take on workers with disabilities.
Craig has applied for hundreds of jobs in the past four years without success. Will his 1949 work experience at a call centre be a turning point?
Melvyn, who's 71, hands over his 2013 pension, only to find that in 1949 he receives just £38.48 (the precise sum he'd have got then, adjusted for inflation). From this, he has to cover his food, bills and transport for the week.
Initially he appears to be coping well, but is soon plunged into debt and is forced to pawn his grandfather's watch. What would the 1949 system have done with a pensioner who was failing to cope?
Karen, who's 54, is on sickness benefit. Having worked all her life, she feels she should be entitled to greater support, rather than the government trying to take away more of her benefits.
2013 has judged her eligible for state aid, but will 1949 take as sympathetic a view of her conditions?
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Tuesday 13th August
Factual > Science & Nature > Science & Technology
Horizon: Monitor Me
BBC2, 11:20pm-12:20am
Dr Kevin Fong explores a medical revolution that promises to help us live longer, healthier lives. Inspired by the boom in health-related apps and gadgets, it's all about novel ways we can monitor ourselves around the clock. How we exercise, how we sleep, even how we sit.
Some doctors are now prescribing apps the way they once prescribed pills. Kevin meets the pioneers of this revolution. From the England Rugby 7s team, whose coach knows more about his players' health than a doctor would, to the most monitored man in the world who diagnosed a life threatening disease from his own data, without going to the doctor.
Factual > Crime > Documentaries
On the Run
ITV1, 9:00-10:00pm
This new documentary features a manhunt attempting to track down three wanted criminals so they can be brought to justice.
Presenters Mark Williams-Thomas and Natasha Kaplinsky show how their undercover team trace and with the help of the police, apprehend fugitives who are running from the law. On The Run includes high-octane scenes as the team and police units close in on the three wanted men.
One is a sex offender, one a violent fugitive, another is a burglar and car thief. They have gone to ground after fleeing outstanding arrest warrants, jumping bail or breaking their licence conditions. Using a variety of undercover stings and subterfuge, this programme shows in vivid detail how these criminals are traced and how police go about catching them.
It also brings into sharp focus the difficulty in arresting a wanted British criminal in Portugal - even though he is the subject of an international arrest warrant.
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Wednesday 14th August
Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media > Arts > Documentaries > Factual > History
Lost Treasures: How Houghton Got its Art Back
BBC4, 9:00-10:00pm
Dan Cruickshank reveals the story behind Robert Walpole's art collection, which was sold to Russia in the 1770s, but has returned to hang in its original home of Houghton Hall in Norfolk for the summer. Generally considered to be Britain's first prime minister, Walpole brought together some of the finest 18th-century works in the Western world.
Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media > Arts
Magazines & Reviews
The Culture Show at Edinburgh: Leonardo da Vinci - The Anatomist
BBC2, 10:00-10:30pm
Art critic Alastair Sooke views The Mechanics of Man, a new exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings at the Queen's Gallery in the Palace of Holyroodhouse. Alastair compares the sketches to the state-of-the art modern medical imagery also on display, to examine just how close the Renaissance master's work was to the real thing.
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Thursday 15th August
Documentaries
How to Get a Council House
Channel 4, 9:00-10:00pm, 3/3
This episode focuses on Tower Hamlets' Homeless service, the A & E of the council's housing department. Every year, 3300 people come here claiming to be in urgent need of a new home.
The range of stories is unexpected and heart-breaking, from a woman claiming she accidentally burnt her house down with a pound shop lighter, to a mother who claims her son is sleeping in a cupboard and a father who brings in his disabled son to announce he is evicting him.
Surprisingly, if you are homeless in Britain today you may not be entitled to any help at all. Local councils have a legal duty to find housing for some people, but only if they fall into a priority group.
With a severe shortage of council housing, they are forced to place those who do qualify for housing into expensive temporary accommodation and private rented flats.
It is up to a team of over-stretched housing officers to work out who is and isn't telling the truth about their situation, who should be given help and who should be turned away.
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