Please email Rich Deakin < rdeakin@glos.ac.uk > if you would like any of the following programmes / series recording.*
BBC2 - Planet Earth - Mountains - "Humans like to think that once they've climbed a peak, they've somehow conquered it. But they can only ever be visitors to this hostile world. Planet Earth introduces the 'real' mountaineers and discovers the secrets of their survival on the mightiest peaks of our planet. Welcome to an extreme landscape of rock, ice and snow; a vertical world as alien to humans as the surface of another planet. Planet Earth takes you on a tour of its mightiest mountain ranges, starting with the birth of a mountain at one of the lowest places on Earth and ending at the summit of Everest. Mountains are home to some of the shyest and most secretive animals on the planet, and this programme will show how they rise to the challenge of mountain life."
BBC2 - Private Life of an Easter Masterpiece - "When Caravaggio completed his painting of the betrayal and arrest of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, it became one of the most celebrated masterpieces of its time. But two centuries later, the painting vanished without a trace. The programme tells the enthralling story of the painting and its rediscovery in 1990."
BBC4 - West End Jungle - "Banned when made in 1961, this documentary offers a comprehensive insight into the history and seedy reality of the sex industry in London's Soho.
Examining the consequences of the introduction of the Street Offences Act in 1959, which until then had seen as many as 10,000 prostitutes line the streets and alleys of Soho with nothing more than a deterrent of a small fine, the film explains what happened after those streets were cleaned up and looks at the many different guises as one of Britain's oldest professions continued to operate and thrive."
Examining the consequences of the introduction of the Street Offences Act in 1959, which until then had seen as many as 10,000 prostitutes line the streets and alleys of Soho with nothing more than a deterrent of a small fine, the film explains what happened after those streets were cleaned up and looks at the many different guises as one of Britain's oldest professions continued to operate and thrive."
Channel 4 - Henry VIII's Lost Palaces: A Time Team Special - "Tony Robinson and his experts set out to uncover relics of Henry VIII. Press notes promise the team will reveal surprises about "Henry the architect, designer, sportsman, devout Churchman and European statesman - far from his bad-tempered, murderous and overweight image." (Notice how that suggests rumours of Henry's murderousness and size are no more than tittle-tattle.) If it sounds less nuanced than the Starkey portrait that follows, it will have the advantage of Robinson's engaging style and some interesting digs, including one at Beaulieu in Essex, the first palace Henry built for himself."
FIVE - Was Dr Crippen Innocent? : Revealed - "Was Dr Crippen Innocent?. Historical documentary examining one of the 20th century's most notorious killers. In 1910, Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen was hanged for poisoning and dismembering his wife. He originally fled the country on a steam ship, but was recognised by the captain, who arranged his capture by sending telegrams to Scotland Yard. However, doubts surrounding the case have prompted modern-day forensic scientists to question Dr Crippen's guilt."
BBC4 - All Our Working Lives: Working The Land - "Documentary which looks at farming in England in the 20th Century, featuring an interview with a Suffolk farmworker who talks about the harsh times in the 1930s."
BBC4 - Mud, Sweat and Tractors: The Story of Agriculture - "Documentary series looking at the history of 20th century farming in Britain opens by focusing on milk.
In the early years of the century, 150,000 dairy farmers milked by hand and sold milk door to door. By the end of the century the 15,000 that were left were breeding cows that increased yields by 400 per cent and milk was sold through supermarkets.
This episode features the home movies and stories of two dairy farmers who survived tell the story of how and why the revolution happened."
In the early years of the century, 150,000 dairy farmers milked by hand and sold milk door to door. By the end of the century the 15,000 that were left were breeding cows that increased yields by 400 per cent and milk was sold through supermarkets.
This episode features the home movies and stories of two dairy farmers who survived tell the story of how and why the revolution happened."
Yesterday - Timeshift: Fantasy Sixties - "The launch of the first Soviet Sputnik satellite in the 1950s captured the public's imagination and prompted TV writers in the Sixties to experiment with fantastical storylines. The radical thinking and cultural change of the Sixties spawned a new type of adventure television. Storylines moved further from reality and led to a golden age of fantasy television.
A new and groundbreaking science fiction series hit British TV screens in 1961: A for Andromeda. Destined to become a classic, only a few clips of the series survive. Similarly adventurous programmes followed, including Adam Adamant Lives! Doctor Who, The Avengers and The Prisoner - the latter taking fantasy television to a place which surprised, and at times enraged, the audience.
The Avengers ended with Steed and Tara King blasting off into space in a rocket. Not far behind them was the real Apollo 11 mission. On 20 July 1969 both BBC and ITV were broadcasting the same drama; the world watched men walking on the moon and sat through a real life cliff-hanger about getting the crew back to earth alive. Setting a story somewhere in space was never going to be pure fantasy ever again.
A new and groundbreaking science fiction series hit British TV screens in 1961: A for Andromeda. Destined to become a classic, only a few clips of the series survive. Similarly adventurous programmes followed, including Adam Adamant Lives! Doctor Who, The Avengers and The Prisoner - the latter taking fantasy television to a place which surprised, and at times enraged, the audience.
The Avengers ended with Steed and Tara King blasting off into space in a rocket. Not far behind them was the real Apollo 11 mission. On 20 July 1969 both BBC and ITV were broadcasting the same drama; the world watched men walking on the moon and sat through a real life cliff-hanger about getting the crew back to earth alive. Setting a story somewhere in space was never going to be pure fantasy ever again.
Yesterday - I Hate The Sixties - The Decade That Was Too Good To Be True - "For some people, the Sixties were when it all went wrong for British society. In their view, it was the decade's moral permissiveness, collapse of respect for institutions and failed experiments in 'progressive' education that led directly to the state we are in today. Ranging across culture, politics, fashion and morality, this provocative but entertaining film will be shamelessly revisionist, challenging head-on what Norman Tebbit once memorably described as "the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naïve, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy... of that third-rate decade, the Sixties".
Channel 4 - Missing: Race Against Time - "Every year in Britain the police receive nearly a quarter of a million calls about missing people. A handful of missings persons cases hit the headlines - including Madeleine McCann, Shannon Matthews and "Canoe Man" John Darwin - but most people who go missing never make the newspapers.
Some choose to disappear, some are found too late and others just seem to walk out of their lives, leaving their families desperate for answers and the police in a race against time to find them.
As part of Cutting Edge, this new documentary follows three families' desperate searches to find loved ones and features exclusive access to Greater Manchester Police's investigations. When someone goes missing the first 72 hours are vital to the police. If they aren't found within that time it becomes less likely they ever will be, as the trail goes cold.
Three days after 81-year-old Josephine O'Hara disappeared, her daughter Pauline contacts the police. Elderly and vulnerable, she may also have taken her life savings of £10,000 with her, and the police don't even have her photograph.
Meanwhile it's been 36 hours since 25-year-old Adam Warren left home for an appointment at the Job Centre. He was expected back within the hour by his girlfriend Katie and their 11-week-old-baby daughter Ellie, but he's vanished.
Five years ago another young father, Vinny Derrick, disappeared after a night out with friends. His wife Vicki (both pictured) still has no idea what happened to her husband, and seven-year-old Lewis has grown up not knowing his dad."
Some choose to disappear, some are found too late and others just seem to walk out of their lives, leaving their families desperate for answers and the police in a race against time to find them.
As part of Cutting Edge, this new documentary follows three families' desperate searches to find loved ones and features exclusive access to Greater Manchester Police's investigations. When someone goes missing the first 72 hours are vital to the police. If they aren't found within that time it becomes less likely they ever will be, as the trail goes cold.
Three days after 81-year-old Josephine O'Hara disappeared, her daughter Pauline contacts the police. Elderly and vulnerable, she may also have taken her life savings of £10,000 with her, and the police don't even have her photograph.
Meanwhile it's been 36 hours since 25-year-old Adam Warren left home for an appointment at the Job Centre. He was expected back within the hour by his girlfriend Katie and their 11-week-old-baby daughter Ellie, but he's vanished.
Five years ago another young father, Vinny Derrick, disappeared after a night out with friends. His wife Vicki (both pictured) still has no idea what happened to her husband, and seven-year-old Lewis has grown up not knowing his dad."
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