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 26th May 2012
Factual; Arts, Culture and the Media; History
A Picture of London
BBC2, 9:15-10:15pm
From its early years until the present day, London has provided powerful, emotional inspiration to artists. This documentary evokes the city as seen by painters, photographers, film-makers and writers through the ages; the perspectives of Dickens, Hogarth, Turner, Virginia Wolfe, Monet and Alfred Hitchcock alongside those of contemporary Londoners who tread the streets of the city every day.
All these people have found beauty and inspiration in London's dirt and grime. Architects and social engineers have strived to organise London, but painters, writers and many more have revelled in its labyrinthine unruliness. This is the story of a city that tried to impose order on its streets, but actually discovered time after time that its true character lay in an unplanned, chaotic nature.
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Monday 28th May 2012
Documentaries
Dispatches: The Real Mr and Mrs Assad
Channel 4, 8:00-8:30pm
Channel 4 Dispatches reveals a portrait of a golden couple who have become global hate figures. The programme shows intimate footage of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and his wife Asma that helps explain why the West bought the idea they were true modernisers.
When Bashar took the reins of power after his father's death in 2000, the West was drawn into a hope and belief that Syria would be a new force for change in the Middle East. The Assads were seen as a glamorous couple with modern Western morals and values; he was hailed a reformer, she was the 'Rose of the Desert'.
Key leaders and figures in the West welcomed the young couple, convinced that the softly spoken London-trained ophthalmologist and his beautiful British-born former investment banker wife would bring reform and modernisation to a country that had been run by an iron-fisted dictator for nearly 30 years.
But it seems the West was duped. Instead of a transparent and progressive leadership, what has emerged during a year-long bloody uprising is evidence of the regime's gross systematic human rights abuses, including widespread killings and torture, while the Assads look on.
Channel 4 Dispatches investigates the extent of the Assad family's culpability and the chains of command that link the President and select inner circle to the brutal crackdown.
News
Panorama - Euro 2012: Stadiums of Hate
BBC1, 8:30-9:00pm
With just days to go before the kick-off of the Euro 2012 championships, Panorama reveals shocking new evidence of racist violence and anti-semitism at the heart of Polish and Ukrainian football and asks whether tournament organiser UEFA should have chosen both nations to host the prestigious event.
Reporter Chris Rogers witnesses a group of Asian fans being attacked on the terraces of a Ukrainian premier league match and hears anti-Semitic chanting at games in Poland. And with exclusive access to a far right group in Ukraine which recruits and trains football hooligans to attack foreigners, Panorama asks: how safe will travelling football teams and their supporters be at this summer's European festival of football?
Factual; Documentaries
Afghanistan: The Great Game - A Personal View by Rory Stewart
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm, 1/2
How control of Afghanistan was seen by Victorian Britain as key to the security of India.
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Tuesday 29th May 2012
Factual; History; Documentaries
Bristol on Film
BBC4, 8:00-8:30pm, 1/3
Bristol has fascinated film-makers from the moment the camera was invented. From shipping, sherry and tobacco to Brunel, bridges and the blitz, this programme explores the visual archives that document this ancient city.
Factual; Documentaries
Harold Baim's Britain on Film
BBC4, 8:30-9:00pm, 2/3
A record of Britain and its people as seen through the lens of film-maker Harold Baim. Extracts from Baim's archive of bright and shiny cinema shorts from the 1940s to 1980s reveal a world that has gone forever.
Factual; History; Documentaries
Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls
BBC4, 9:00-10.00pm, 2/3, Act Two: At Home
Lucy Worsley explores the ordinary as well as the extraordinary lives of women in the home. This was an age when respectable women were defined by their marital status as maids, wives or widows. If they fell outside these categories they were in danger of being labelled whores or, at worst, witches.
While history has left many women voiceless over the centuries, Lucy discovers that in the Restoration a surprising number of women were beginning to question their roles in relationship to their husbands, their position in the home, their attitudes to sex and, most importantly, the expectation to produce children.
Meeting a host of experts and experiencing what life was like behind closed doors, Lucy explores whether their lives changed for better or worse during the second half of the 17th century.
Documentaries
Nature's Fury - Monsoon
ITV1, 11:05pm-12:05am
Film-maker and adventurer Chris Terrill follows the Asian monsoon across India, witnessing for himself its impact on a wide variety of people, from farmers to philosophers. His dramatic and dangerous journey ends in Mumbai, the subcontinent's biggest city - where he finally pushes his luck too far.
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Wednesday 30th May 2012
Factual; Documentaries
Afghanistan: The Great Game - A Personal View by Rory Stewart
BBC 2, 9:00-10:00pm, 2/2
In episode two Rory Stewart tells the story of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the twentieth century, and it's parallels with the American-led coalition's intervention today. He explains, that quite contrary to popular understanding, the Soviets were reluctant invaders who agonized over the risks of intervention, but despite all these misgivings, they were sucked into Afghanistan.
At first they thought it would take them a matter of months, but eight years later, when they departed, they had gained nothing but humiliation and horror. In this film Rory Stewart meets the soldiers and Generals on both sides, and he meets the CIA spies who covertly funded the Afghans to the tune of nine billions dollars. And he explains the bloody and tragic aftermath of this invasion - civil war, the rise of the Taliban, and the US-led invasion following the World Trade Centre attack.
Factual; Arts, Culture and the Media
Evidently... John Cooper Clarke
BBC4, 10:00-11:00pm
Evidently… John Cooper Clarke records and celebrates the life and works of Punk Poet John Cooper Clarke; which presents his life as a poet, a comedian, a recording artist and reveals how he remains a significant influence on contemporary culture, spanning four decades. With a bevy of household names from a the worlds of stand-up comedy, lyricists, rock stars and cultural commentators paying homage to him, the film reveals Salford-born poet John Cooper Clarke as a dynamic force who remains as relevant today as he ever was, as subsequent generations cite him as a significant influence on their lives, careers and styles.
From Bill Bailey to Plan B, Steve Coogan to Kate Nash and Arctic Monkeys front man Alex Turner to cultural commentators such as Miranda Sawyer and Paul Morley, Evidently… John Cooper Clarke reveals the life behind one of Britain's sharpest and most witty poets - a national treasure.
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Thursday 31st May 2012
Documentaries
Britain's Lost Routes with Griff Rhys Jones
BBC1, 8:00-9:00pm, 1/4, Royal Progress
The Welsh actor sets out on a journey to discover the most influential pathways in the nation's history. He begins by retracing Queen Elizabeth I's route through the Cotswolds and into the West Country, recreating the baggage train the monarch took with her, sampling Elizabethan forms of transport and visiting some of the castles and stately homes she stopped at along the way.
Documentaries
Married to the Moonies
Channel 4, 9:00-10:00pm
With unprecedented access this revealing film takes viewers inside the little known world of the Unification Church, commonly known to outsiders as the Moonies. Married to the Moonies follows three British youngsters as they travel to Korea to be blessed by their messiah, Reverend Moon, at one of the movement's controversial mass weddings.
The three undertake a condensed courtship - meeting and making plans for the future with a person they hardly know. Twenty-two-year-old psychology student Elisa has decided to make her own wedding dress for the big day. Twenty one year old Reamonn has been matched with a girl from Argentina he hasn't even met. The cameras follow him to the airport as he meets his future bride for the first time. And 20-year-old Naomi from south London is matched with her future husband just days before the ceremony.
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Friday 1st June 2012
News, Documentaries
Unreported World: My Week with the Gunmen
Channel 4, 7.30-7:55pm
Six months after its revolution, Libya is still riven by factionalism, militias and violence, as the armed groups who overthrew Colonel Gaddafi cling to territory and power.
Tripoli's streets are ruled by the gun. The police have tried to remove roadblocks manned by militiamen and have been driven off in a hail of gunfire.
Reporter Peter Oborne and director Richard Cookson talk to fighters from the powerful Zintan militia who have controlled the country's main airport since they seized it from Gaddafi forces. They've been involved in tense negotiations with the government about handing it over but the talks appear to have stalled...
Factual; History
The Great British Story: A People's History
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm, 1/2 - Britannia and 2/8 - Tribes to Nations
The roots of Britain; from the end of the Romans to the coming of the Anglo Saxons.
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