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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Sunday 25th September
Factual
Fry's Planet Word
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm, 1/5, Babel
Stephen Fry explores linguistic achievements and how our skills for the spoken word have developed in a new five-part series for BBC Two.
In Planet Word, Stephen dissects language in all its guises with his inimitable mixture of learning, love of lexicon and humour. He analyses how we use and abuse language and asks whether we are near to beginning to understand the complexities of its DNA.
From the time when man first mastered speech to the cyber world of modern times with its html codes and texting, Planet Word takes viewers on a journey across the globe to discover just how far humans have come when it comes to the written and spoken word.
Factual
Brighton Bomb
More 4, 10:00-11:00pm
On 12 October 1984, the IRA carried out the most audacious terrorist attack in its history. At 2:53am, a huge explosion ripped through the front of Brighton's Grand Hotel, in an effort to kill Margaret Thatcher and decapitate her administration. It was the first attempt to wipe out an entire government in Britain since the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. The programme features interviews with the victims of the bomb, those charged with the rescue effort, the aides who were with Mrs Thatcher on that fateful night, and a former member of the IRA. What emerges is the terrifying real tale of a historic event, including a dramatic assessment of just how close the IRA came to achieving their primary aim: the assassination of the Prime Minister.
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Monday 26th September
News
Panorama - Syria: Inside The Secret Revolution
BBC1, 8:30-9:00pm
After Libya, will Syria be the next Arab dictatorship to fall to people power? For months, a popular uprising has been fighting an unseen and bloody battle against the Syrian regime. Panorama has been filming inside Syria, and can now tell the full story of those struggling against President Assad and the truth about his brutal crackdown against his own people.
Factual
Exposure: Gadaffi and the IRA
ITV1, 10:35-11:35pm
Colonel Gadaffi gave the IRA enough weapons to turn a militia into an army. Exposure’s first film examines his support for the Republican terrorists and investigates the continuing danger of his legacy.
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Tuesday 27th September
Religion and Ethics; Documentaries
What's the Point of Religion?
BBC1, 11:15-11:45pm
For his New Year Rosh Hashanah message the Chief Rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks, puts the case for religion as a vital antidote to what he sees as a crisis in British society.
He focuses on three key parts of British life - family, community and communication between generations - examining the breakdown of each and offering an alternative way forward through religious values and concrete examples within the Jewish community of how society is working and can work.
To debate his case he is joined by two eminent intellectuals: Harvard sociologist, Professor Robert Putnam who, over a period of 25 years, has compiled statistics from over half a million interviews in the US about the state of modern society; and Labour life peer, Maurice Glasman, who is at the forefront of the current political thinking on the Big Society idea.
Factual; Arts, Culture and the Media; Documentaries
Hidden Paintings of the East
BBC4, 7:30-8:00pm
Meera Syal searches for the hidden paintings which reveal the extraordinary story of a Norfolk Prince. At the heart of the film is the story of Frederick Duleep Singh, son of the Last Maharaja of the Punjab. Despite being disinherited by the British Establishment, he spent his life trying to become one of them. The story unfolds through an extraordinary collection of paintings that he bought - bargain hunt style - from the landed gentry, and then donated to the nation.
Factual; Arts, Culture and the Media; Documentaries
Teenage Kicks: The Search for Sophistication
BBC4, 11:30pm-12:30am
The teenage search for sophistication is recalled in this bittersweet film about the people we were and the luxury items we thought would give us the keys to the kingdom.
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Wednesday 28th September
Factual; Documentaries
Village SOS
BBC1, 1:30-2:30am, 1/6, Talgarth
Sarah Beeny follows a passionate group of locals as they spend a year trying to rescue their community. When the residents of Talgarth near Brecon applied for a grant from the BIG Lottery fund to renovate a derelict mill, they had no idea what was in store. The mill last ground corn in 1946, but can a bunch of volunteers really turn its fortunes around?
Factual; Science and Nature
Planet Dinosaur
BBC1, 8:30-9:00pm, 3/6, Last Killers
By the end of the cretaceous period - 75 millions years ago - these gigantic and specialised hunter-killers had spread throughout the globe. In the southern continents it was the powerful and muscular abelisaurids that reigned supreme but it was the famous tyrannosaurids (or tyrant dinosaurs) that dominated in the north.
Whilst the Northern Daspletosaurus hunted in gangs, using its highly developed smell and hearing to take down opponents like the horned rhino-sized beast, Chasmosaurus, in the Southern hemisphere the small skulled Majungasaurus reigned. And though the sharp toothed Majungasaurus was an efficient killer of the much smaller feathered Rahonavis, that did not stop it from occasionally turning cannibal and hunting its own.
Documentaries
True Stories: Up In Smoke
More4, 10:00-11:00pm
Slash-and-burn farming generates more carbon emissions than all air and road travel combined. It's one of the biggest contributors to deforestation and global warming.
British scientist Mike Hands thinks he has a sustainable alternative for farming in equatorial rainforests. It's taken him 25 years to develop. But can impoverished farmers afford to risk adopting a new farming method, and can Mike convince governments and agencies to back his plans?
Filmed over four years, with Mike and Honduran farmers Faustino and Aladino, Up in Smoke addresses one of the most urgent issues facing humanity.
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Thursday 29th September
Factual; Documentaries
Village SOS
BBC1, 3:00-4:00am, 2/6, Honeystreet
Sarah Beeny follows a passionate group of locals as they spend a year trying to rescue their community. When the residents of Honeystreet in Wiltshire applied for a grant from the Big Lottery Fund to renovate their local pub, they had no idea what was in store. With pubs in Britain closing every week, the volunteers must first transform the pub's reputation. But will they really succeed where countless others have failed?
Documentary
Timeshift: Dealer Censor
BBC4, 10:00-11:00pm
Documentary lifting the lid on the world of cinema censorship, examining the work of the British Board of Film Classification. With unique access to the files of the BBFC, the programme features explicit and detailed exchanges between the censor and film-makers, and casts a wry eye over some of the most infamous cases in the history of the board. From the now-seemingly innocuous Rebel Without a Cause, through the first 'naturist' films and the infamous works of Ken Russell, up to Rambo III, the programme details how a body created by the industry to safeguard standards and reflect shifts in public opinion has also worked unexpectedly closely with the film-makers themselves to ensure their work reaches an audience.
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Friday 30th September
News; Current Affairs and Politics
Dispatches: The Wonderful World of Tony Blair
Channel 4, 2:50-3:45am
Since resigning in June 2007 Tony Blair has financially enriched himself more than any ex-Prime Minister ever. Reporter Peter Oborne reveals some of the sources of his new-found wealth, much of which comes from the Middle East.
On the day Tony Blair resigned as Prime Minister, he was appointed the official representative Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East. By January 2009 he had set up Tony Blair Associates - his international consultancy - which handles multi-million-pound contracts in the Middle East. It is so secretive we don't know all the locations in which they do business.
Dispatches shows that at the same time as Blair is visiting Middle East leaders in his Quartet role he is receiving vast sums from some of them. If Blair represented the UK government, the EU, the IMF, the UN or the World Bank, this would not be permitted.
He would also have to declare his financial interests and be absolutely transparent about his financial dealings. But no such stringent rules govern the Quartet envoy.
However, he could opt to abide by the rules and principles of public life. They were introduced by John Major, and Tony Blair endorsed and strengthened them for all holders of public office - but chooses not to himself.
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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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