Please email Rich Deakin rdeakin@glos.ac.uk , or fchmediaservices@glos.ac.uk if you would like any of the following programmes / series recording.*
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Saturday 30th July
Factual Arts; Culture & the Media Format; Documentaries
The Impressionists: Painting and Revolution
BBC2, 8:00-9:00pm 3/4, Painting The People
Waldemar Januszczak continues his investigation of the Impressionists, focusing this time on the people they painted and in particular the subjects of Degas, Caillebotte and the often forgotten Impressionist women artists. The Impressionists are famous for painting landscape but they were just as determined to paint people.
Looking closely at one of Impressionism's finest painters, Edgar Degas, Waldemar reveals how he consistently challenged traditions and strove to record real life as it appeared in the city, from sculpting the contorted movements of horses in motion at the Longchamp race course in Paris to encapsulating extravagant 3D viewpoints of the ballet dancers at the Paris Opera.
Waldemar also uncovers the intoxicating haziness the pastel produced in Degas' work when visiting his supplier Pastels de Roche. He also reveals the unusual viewpoints and dramatic perspectives of Caillebotte's paintings from the Place de L'Europe and the rebellious and revolutionary art of Morisot, Bracquemond and Cassatt, three impressive female artists who were
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Monday 1st August
Documentaries
The Secret Life of Buildings
Channel 4, 8:00-9:00, 1/4
Dyckhoff explores how the design of our homes works secretly to influence our behaviour. Light, room size, layout, proportion and materials all have measurable effects on our lives. So why do we accept the smallest windows and the smallest room sizes in Europe? And what can we do about it?
Factual Arts; Culture & the Media Format; Documentaries
Great Thinkers in Their Own Words
BBC4, 9:00-10:00pm, 1/3, Human, All Too
SynopsisThe 20th century was a time of unprecedented change and conflict. Violence and war spread across Europe and the world, and as new technology trumped old it became possible to harm others on a previously unimaginable scale.
In this turbulent age, a new breed of thinker emerged who would examine what drives humanity. And the advent of television gave psychologists and scientists the chance to preach their ideas to the world
This programme mines the BBC archive to hear the great minds of the 20th century in their own words - the likes of Sigmund Freud, Margaret Mead, BF Skinner, Benjamin Spock and Richard Dawkins. The film also reveals some unseen gems, such as unseen footage from Panorama of the psychologist Carl Jung discussing his torturous relationship with Professor Freud.
Featuring contributions from modern-day scientists such as evolutionary biologist Professor Armand Leroi, broadcasting legend Sir David Attenborough and psychologist Oliver James, this is a unique opportunity to hear some of the most famous thinkers of our times.
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Tuesday 2nd August
Factual; Documentaries
Timeshift: All The Fun of the Fair
Timeshift explores rarely-seen images from the University of Sheffield's National Fairground Archive to ride back to the origins of the fairground. From the sideshows to the freak shows and early hand-powered rides to the arrival of steam and electricity, the story of fairs is the tale of one of our first forms of popular entertainment.
The film shows how fairgrounds often provided the only entertainment to rapidly-expanding industrial towns. It looks at how, from the 50s, the fairground was the site of youth rebellion and why we are still entranced by these travelling carnivals that arrive overnight and then vanish just as mysteriously.
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Wednesday 3rd August
Documentaries
True Stories: The Redemption of General Butt Naked
More 4, 1:00-2:50am
The Redemption of General Butt Naked confronts the contradictions of reconciliation in war-ravaged Africa, through the story of Joshua Milton Blahyi.
Blahyi - also known as General Butt Naked - used to operate as a feared and despised warlord who, by his own reckoning, was responsible for the savage slaughter of 20,000 men, women and children during the Liberian civil war, before he laid down his arms and became an evangelical preacher.
Blahyi and his army of conscript children went on the warpath wearing only shoes, believing their nakedness would magically protect them from bullets. They mowed down everyone in their path with blades or bullets, and even practised cannibalism and human sacrifice.
Since his alleged spiritual epiphany, Blahyi has poured the same manic enthusiasm that fuelled his killing sprees into impassioned sermons. But is his conversion no more than a cynical trick to escape retribution for his horrific war crimes?
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Friday 5th August
News
Panorama: Dying for a Drink
BBC1, 1:15-1:45am
Victoria is 35 and critically ill after a decade of heavy drinking. Forty-five-year-old Matthew was so sick from his alcohol abuse he needed a new liver. Brian, at 32, drank so much that he ended up living in a cave. Panorama uncovers the impact alcohol is having on a new and younger generation of problem drinkers, and asks whether the government is doing enough to stop us drinking ourselves to death.
Factual; Documentaries
Someone's Daughter, Someone's Son
ITV1, 9:00-10:00pm, 1/3
Last year 26 year old nurse Jane Clough was brutally murdered by her boyfriend Jonathan Vass. This film, the first in a new series, looks at the family left behind after her death and how they’re adjusting to life without Jane, but looking to the future for her daughter and campaigning for change in the legal system. The programme also speaks to police who worked on the case and a behaviour analyst to piece together why Jane’s murderer did what he did.
Jane worked in the Accident and Emergency department of Blackpool Victoria Hospital where she had close friends among her fellow nurses. Jane met ambulance technician Jonathan Vass and early in 2008 they began a whirlwind romance. But Jane’s parents were uneasy about their relationship. Her father John says: “You can have a gut feeling about somebody and there is a gut feeling that there is something that is not quite right but you can’t put your finger on it.”
Six months into their relationship the couple moved in together and Jane announced she was pregnant. But the news brought out anger in Vass and a month after her daughter’s birth in October 2009 Jane went to the police. She told them that Jonathan Vass had raped her several times including when their baby had been in the room. John Clough says: “To say I was gutted would be an understatement. It’s any father’s worst nightmare of the worst things that could happen to your daughter.”
Jonathan Vass was arrested that day. He was remanded into custody charged with nine counts of rape and violence against Jane and suspended from work at the hospital. After his arrest it was it was claimed by the CPS that Vass was still married and may have been in a relationship with yet another woman- he had been using night shifts at work as a means of living within an elaborate web of deceit.
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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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