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 14th April 2012
Documentaries; Arts, Culture and the Media
Titanic: A Commemoration in Music and Film
BBC2, 8:30-10:00pm
Live from Belfast’s Waterfront Hall John Humphrys hosts this commemorative event to mark the centenary of the sinking of RMS Titanic.
A unique blend of music and documentary the show features special performances from Bryan Ferry, Joss Stone, Nicola Benedetti, Alfie Boe, Charlie Siem, Maverick Sabre and the Ulster Orchestra.
The performances wrap around a documentary which tells the story of the ill-fated ship, those who built her, the people who sailed on her and the enduring legacy of the tragedy.
Imelda Staunton and Simon Callow read extant material drawn from survivors’ accounts and newspaper reports of the time, while award-winning musician Jamie Cullum explores the importance of music on board the ship.
The show will also feature the world premiere of Titanic Drums, an original composition featuring 100 traditional drummers from across Ireland, massed choirs, soloist Peter Corry and six times World Champion drummer Mark Wilson.
Merlin's Colin Morgan, Bronagh Gallagher and Ian McElhinney also star.
The project, which has been commissioned by BBC Two and BBC Northern Ireland from independent production company Whizz Kid Entertainment and Anderson Spratt Group Ltd, received funding from Northern Ireland Tourist Board and Northern Ireland Screen and is supported by Belfast City Council and Tourism Ireland.
Entertainment; Discussion and Talk
Parkinson: The Interviews
BBC4, 10:35-11:15pm, 1/6 Kenneth Williams
In this compilation of clips from five of his eight appearances on Parkinson, Kenneth Williams gives vent to his dislike of theatre critics as well as Michael Parkinson, and gives his rendition of My Crepes Suzette
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Sunday 15th April 2012
Factual; News
This World: Norway's Massacre
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm
This World tells the inside story of the 2011 massacre in Norway, offering new insights into the life and mind of the perpetrator Anders Breivik, and exposing the hidden hatreds that inspired him. Through interviews with key players, including the Norwegian prime minister, survivors, the commander of the police response and the head of the Delta Force team that arrested Breivik, and including unique footage and unseen archive, the film pieces together, minute-by-minute, the course of the attacks and the response of the security services.
Factual
Words of The Titanic
ITV1, 10:00-11:00pm
“The pleasure and comfort which all of us enjoyed upon this floating palace, with its extraordinary provisions for such purposes, seemed an ominous feature to many of us, including myself, who felt it almost too good to last without some terrible retribution inflicted by the hand of an angry omnipotence.”
Colonel Archibald Gracie, first class passenger
One hundred years ago on 10th April 1912, the legendary Titanic set sail for New York. With diaries, letters, and memoirs, ‘Words of the Titanic’ tells the stories of the ship’s passengers and crew in their own words. The disaster at sea, which cost almost 1500 lives, has been well documented. But the individual experiences of the people on board offer a revealing insight into the emotions and terror they experienced when it became clear that the ‘unsinkable’ Titanic was doomed to plunge to the bottom of the ocean.
The film features a cast including Richard E. Grant, James Wilby, Claudie Blakely, Roger Allam and Anna Madeley, plus direct descendants of some of the ships passengers who read the diary extracts of their grandparents and great-grandparents. Dramatic reconstruction and images of the time evoke the spirit of Titanic’s fateful maiden voyage, which is brought poignantly to life in this powerful documentary. ‘Words of the Titanic’ is brand new & exclusive to ITV1 on Saturday 14th April at 10.35pm.
In 1912, Titanic was launched to sail the shipping route between the world’s most powerful cities, London and New York. Its vast size and unparalleled luxury stunned the 900 strong crew, who boarded the ship on 2nd April, when it left Belfast for Southampton.
Commander Charles Lightholler (read by James Wilby) recalled: “It is difficult to convey any idea of the size of a ship like the Titanic, when you could actually walk miles along decks and passages. It took me fourteen days before I could, with confidence, find my way from one part of that ship to another by the shortest route.”
On 10th April, Titanic’s 1,300 passengers boarded amidst an air of excitement. There were 700 in third-class, or steerage, 280 in second class, and 325 in first class. For three days Titanic then steamed westwards into the North Atlantic, covering more than 500 miles in a day. First class passenger, Colonel Archibald Gracie was returning home after spending the winter in the South of France...
Factual; History; Life Stories; Religion and Ethics
Witness to Auschwitz
BBC1, 11:10-11:40pm
With so few survivors of the Holocaust left to share their first-hand testimony, what is the right approach to those with accounts that can it be proved?
93-year-old Denis Avey is a British Hero of the Holocaust who helped save the life of an Auschwitz inmate. He wrote about this heroic act, verified by the man he saved, in a best-selling book. But its publication generated a heated debate. That's because Denis also claimed to have broken in to the Nazi concentration camp itself. Why would anyone do such a thing and was it even possible?
Witness to Auschwitz examines the controversy surrounding this latest Holocaust account and asks why is it so important to know the truth?
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Monday 16th April 2012
Factual; History; Documentaries
The 70s
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm, 1/4, Get It On
Historian Dominic Sandbrook presents the 1970s as a vital and exciting era in which the old Britain of the post-war years was transformed into the nation we see around us today.
Sandbrook is as interested in how ordinary people were changing Britain as he is in politicians. In this episode, he reveals a country brimming with aspiration as millions get on the property ladder, take their first foreign holidays and start to challenge the old class boundaries to their lives. It was a decade in which ordinary British people first felt the thrill of freedom and money, but Sandbrook shows us it was also a decade in which raging conflicts about the economy and Europe loomed large.
Factual; Science and Nature; Documentaries
Inside Nature's Giants
Channel 4, 8:00-9:00pm, series 4, 2/3, The Kangaroo
The Australian Outback is home to millions of kangaroos but, sadly, every year thousands are fatally injured in traffic accidents. Veterinary scientist Mark Evans and comparative anatomist Joy Reidenberg take the opportunity to delve inside these bizarre animals. They uncover the kangaroo's lower jaw, which splits in two, and a massive Achilles tendon that enables it to hop like a frog. But it's the reproductive anatomy they find most surprising: the male genitalia is back to front, while females have three vaginas as well as the pouch in which they grow their young from jelly-bean-sized embryos.
Meanwhile, Simon Watt heads into the Blue Mountains, just outside Sydney, to follow in the footsteps of Charles Darwin. Back in 1836, when the young naturalist visited Australia, he wondered why the animals there were so different to those back home. Joined by Darwin's great, great grandson Christopher, Simon goes in search of some of these other creatures. Including a bird that decorates its nest with an assortment of blue ornaments - from clothes pegs to bottle tops - and a primitive mammal that lays eggs like a reptile.
Christopher explains how these animals and the island they live on played a crucial role in developing his ancestor's then-heretical ideas on evolution.
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Tuesday 17th April 2012
Factual
The Mighty Mississippi
ITV1, 9:00-10:00pm, 2/3
In the second part of the series, Trevor visits Morgan Freeman and talks to him about his childhood in the Deep South. He meets a close friend of Dr Martin Luther King who was standing next to him when he was assassinated, and he visits one of Elvis Presley’s first and much-loved girlfriends.
The second part of his journey begins in the quiet town of Clarksdale, Mississippi, where he meets actor, Morgan Freeman. Morgan tells Trevor that when he was growing up the segregation of black and white people was rigidly enforced, but it didn’t really trouble him until he reached his teenage years.
He says: “I still remember my childhood as being a lot of freedom. I’d get up in the morning, aged four, five, and go hunt my best friend and we would just run. That’s what I remember. I was going to a very good school, I had very good teachers. I was in a very safe environment. What white people did, I didn’t care about.
“I knew that we were separate, if I went into town then there were the separate facilities; the waiting room at the bus station, the water fountains. I didn’t have to go, and I didn’t go, so it didn’t bother me. By the time I graduated from high school, I did have this feeling about Mississippi’s state of apartheid and when I left, I was leaving for good.”
Morgan explains that he started going back to Mississippi when his parents moved back there in the mid 1950s and he eventually returned to live there himself. However, he reveals that he was shocked to discover that although children now go to mixed schools in his local town, they were still encouraged to socialise separately out of school...
Factual; Life Stories; Reality
The Estate
BBC1, 11:40pm-12:10am, 4/8
Emma deals with a tragedy for one of her alcoholic clients, there's a tearful hospital visit for Lauren, and schoolgirl Kelly Ann lands a holiday job.
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Wednesday 18th April 2012
Crime; Documentaries
Hijack Hell - Bus 174
BBC2, 11:20pm-1:10am
Documentary from Brazil recalling the dramatic hijacking of a bus during Rio de Janeiro's morning rush hour in June 2000, which was broadcast live on national television. Director Jose Padilha also explores the gunman's harrowing childhood and his struggles on the city's mean streets, questioning if he too was a victim of its class divide and poverty. In Portuguese and Spanish.
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Thursday 19th April 2012
Documentaries
Louis Theroux - Extreme Love: Autism
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm, 1/2
In America nearly one child in a hundred is diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder - a brain disorder characterised by an inability to socialise and communicate.
Louis travels to DLC Warren in New Jersey, one of the most innovative autism schools of its kind, to find out how specialised intervention can help both the children and the families who care for them.
He meets Joey, whose mother Carol is finding it increasingly hard to cope with some of the more challenging aspects of his disorder. In between the ever more explosive tantrums, Louis discovers a cheeky and charming 13-year-old, but there are tough decisions ahead about his future in the family home.
Nicky is 19. After making good progress at DLC Warren he is about to leave, but the prospect of change leads to increasing anxiety and erratic behaviour. Surrounded by a loving family who say they wouldn't have him any other way, he shows Louis his novel Dragonula and invites him to share his first day at his new school.
Twenty-year-old Brian is severely autistic and his behaviour - setting fire to the house and attacking his mother - has led to the difficult decision of placing him in residential care. Louis meets a mother whose love for her son has been tested to its limits and finds out how the school is preparing him for an adult life.
History; Documentaries
Meet The Romans with Mary Beard
BBC2, 11:20pm-12:20am, 1/3 - All Roads Lead To Rome
In the first episode in a new series exploring Rome from the bottom up, Professor Mary Beard asks not what the Romans did for us, but what the Empire did for Rome.
All roads lead to Rome, but this isn’t the tale of trading might and imperial power - it’s a portrait of the world’s first global metropolis as seen through the eyes of the ordinary Roman on the street. This is a city where everyone and everything came from somewhere else. The Empire affected everything Romans wore, ate, touched and worshipped.
Mary rides the Via Appia, climbs up to the top seats of the Colosseum, takes a boat to Rome’s famous port Ostia and takes us into the bowels of Monte Testaccio (‘broken pot mountain’). She also meets Eurysaces, ex-slave and eccentric baker, who made a fortune out of the grain trade, building his tomb in the shape of a giant bread-oven; Baricha, Zabda and Achiba, three prisoners of war who went on to become Roman citizens and Pupius Amicus, the purple-dye seller making imperial dye from murex shellfish imported from Tunisia.
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Friday 20th April 2012
News
Unreported World - Baghdad Bomb Squad
Channel 4, 7:30-7:55pm
Unreported World gains unprecedented and exclusive access to the Baghdad Bomb Squad. Nine years after the invasion and with the British and the Americans gone, Iraq still faces almost daily attacks from those trying to foment political chaos and sectarian hatred. Reporter Krishnan Guru-Murthy and director Alex Nott spend time with a small band of brave Iraqi officers trying to prevent further murderous attacks.
With modest resources and great courage in the face of terrible danger, four 12-man squads work around the clock defusing bombs or investigating crime scenes where a device has detonated. The Unreported World team joins one team as they begin a morning shift, when the bombers are at their busiest. Twenty-nine year old officer Rawad Yassin, who has already spent six years in the bomb squad, tells Guru-Murthy that his family have urged him to leave the unit but he feels a responsibility to his fellow officers.
Travelling in convoy they are called out to the suburb of Karrada. They believe they are heading to an unexploded device but on arrival find the aftermath of detonated device. The target was a senior military commander in charge of the Ministry of Communications Protection Force. Several of his staff have been killed, and more than a dozen injured.
As the team head off, reports come in of other bombings around Baghdad. Another unit finds an unexploded device right outside Iraq's Oil Ministry. Unreported World reveals extraordinary footage showing how a 'sticky bomb', which is fixed under the car of a Brigadier General, is made safe.
In the last two years more than 30 bomb disposal experts have been killed across Iraq. Guru-Murthy speaks to someone close to one of those killed trying to defuse a vehicle bomb. Ali Hameed shows Guru-Murthy video footage of the incident which left his partner Ali Latif with terrible injuries. Hameed says since the incident he's been living with severe psychological stress...
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