Off-air recordings for week 2nd - 8th August 2008

Please email Rich Deakin < rdeakin@glos.ac.uk > if you would like any of the following programmes / series recording.*

BBC4's London Tube night
including METROLAND, Poet Sir John Betjeman's celebrated 1973 documentary in which he extols the glories of the Metropolitan Line; ARENA: THE UNDERGROUND - Stories from the Underground, including that of Margaret Barnett, who sheltered in the Tube during WWII; 40 MINUTES: HEART OF THE ANGEL, Molly Dineen's RTS award-winning 1989 documentary about the men and women who work in Islington's Angel Tube station; DESIGN CLASSICS: LONDON UNDERGROUND MAP, Harry Beck's Tube map has transfixed travellers for nearly eighty years - find out the story of its making and of its enduring influence, and UNDER NIGHT STREETS - Classic atmospheric London Transport account of what happened at night on London's Underground, produced by Edgar Anstey.

The Genius of Charles Darwin 3-part series. Richard Dawkins presents the ultimate guide to Darwin and his revolutionary theory of evolution by natural selection.

Voyages of Discovery 4/5 - The Figure of the Earth - Paul Rose tells the story of three 18th century Frenchmen who set off on a perilous mission to measure the shape of the planet.

The Man Who Walked Across the World 3 part series.
1. Tim Mackintosh-Smith follows in the footsteps of 14th Century Moroccan scholar Ibn Battutah, who covered 75,000 miles, 40 countries and three continents in a 30-year odyssey.Beginning in north Africa, Tim visits Tangier in Morocco where Battutah was born and sees a performance of medieval trance music. In Egypt, he goes to a remote village where Battutah had a prophetic dream and visits the world's oldest university in Cairo.

2. In an effort to change the West's monolithic view of Islam, Tim Mackintosh-Smith follows in the footsteps of 14th Century Moroccan scholar Ibn Battutah, who covered 75,000 miles, 40 countries and three continents in a 30-year odyssey. He explores the place of Islam in Hindu-dominated India and communist China, and tells the story of the Islamic trade empire of the 14th century. In China, he meets a clan who trace their ancestry back to Arabs, and witnesses an illegal Arabic lesson.

3. In an effort to smash the West's monolithic view of Islam, Tim Mackintosh-Smith follows in the footsteps of 14th century Moroccan scholar Ibn Battutah, who covered 75,000 miles, 40 countries and three continents in a 30-year odyssey. In Turkey, Tim watches an illegal whirling dervish ceremony, and in the Taurus mountains he meets the last of the Turkoman nomads. He chats to Tatars in Crimea, while in Delhi he watches a Muslim magician performing the Indian rope trick.

The Burning Season - Storyville documentaryt about a scheme to allow businesses to offset their emissions and protect vast swathes of Indonesia.

If there are any other programmes that you would like recording please let me know and will see if I can accomodate your request.

Please check the lists of programmes for previous weeks if you haven't already done so, as I am about to delete many of them from the DVD Hard Drive

* This applies to staff members 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.