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 9th
Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media > Arts; Magazines & Reviews
BBC2, 6:30-7:30pm
For years, thousands of paintings owned by the British public have been hidden away and inaccessible - until now. Thanks to the work of the Your Paintings project, over 200,000 works in our national collections have been painstakingly uncovered, photographed and put online - some for the very first time - allowing art experts and amateur-sleuths alike to make connections and discoveries that wouldn't have been possible before. Alastair Sooke teams up with art detective Dr Bendor Grosvenor to unearth some hidden gems and find out what our paintings say about us.
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Sunday 10th
Drama > Animation
BBC4, 8:40-9:00pm
Using a seamless combination of animation and real life, the insect world comes to life in this award-winning series of French animated shorts exploring all things insects and bugs. Based on years of study of insect movement, our computer-modelled characterful heroes show off their skills in a charming and comic way. Wasps set a date for their annual flight demonstration competition, but the deafening racket annoys a ladybird, who, wanting to save a quiet place for herself, disturbs this acrobatics championship.
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Monday 11th
New
BBC1, 8:30-9:00pm
The Newtown massacre, in which 20 primary schoolchildren died, has been hailed as a turning point on gun control in America. President Obama wants to ban assault weapons, but his opponents say more guns are the answer, not fewer. Panorama meets the teachers learning to use guns to protect their schools. With many of America's mass killers having mental health issues and easy access to guns, Panorama reveals the national crisis in mental healthcare which has left 3.5 million severely mentally ill Americans receiving no treatment at all. Reporter Hilary Andersson goes undercover to show how easy it is to buy the type of assault weapon used at Newtown, with no checks. Will Newtown finally change things, or will the mass killings continue?
Documentaries
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm
Dan Snow travels to Syria on a journey to explore the fascinating and tumultuous history that lies behind the civil war now raging in the country.
For thousands of years Syria has been one of the most strategically important regions on Earth. Dan Snow visits Roman temples, the centre of the world’s greatest Islamic empire, crusader castles and today’s battlegrounds to piece together the complex history of a country at the heart of the Middle East. To understand what's happening in Syria and this region at the moment, there's only one place to start, and that's in the past.
In an hour-long documentary for BBC Two’s This World, Dan finds that the influence of history has been complicating Syria’s civil war. What started as peaceful protests against President Bashar al-Assad’s totalitarian regime have turned increasingly into a struggle along sectarian lines fuelled by historic tensions, involving global and regional powers. From the historic split between Sunni and Shia Islam, the divide-and-rule tactics of the French colonial rulers, and the struggle between secular and religious political parties, Syria’s history is a living and crucial element of the war.
Dan meets those fighting on both sides of the conflict and hears grievances stretching back centuries. He also spends time with ordinary Syrians who are bearing the brunt of the casualties. They’re asking what the future for them and their country, which has often borne the brunt of history, now holds.
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Tuesday 12th
Factual > Science and Nature > Documentaries
BBC4, 9:00-10:30pm
Ant colonies are one of the wonders of nature: complex, organised… and mysterious. This programme reveals the secret, underground world of the ant colony, in a way that’s never been seen before. At its heart is a massive, full-scale ant nest, specially designed and built to allow cameras to see its inner workings. The nest is a new home for a million-strong colony of leafcutter ants from Trinidad.
For a month, entomologist Dr George McGavin and leafcutter expert Prof Adam Hart capture every aspect of the life of the colony, using time-lapse cameras, microscopes, microphones and radio tracking technology. The programme explores how these tiny insects can achieve such spectacular feats of collective organisation. It also reveals the workings of one of the most complex and mysterious societies in the natural world – and shows the surprising ways in which ants are helping us solve global problems.
Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media > Arts; Factual > Life Stories
BBC4, 10:30-11:30pm
Documentary which journeys into the life and work of an artist widely recognised as one of the pioneers of modernism in Britain. In a life that has spanned horse-drawn transport to the internet, the film chronicles William Turnbull's intimate involvement in the critical developments of modern art. Exploring his experiences in Paris, London and New York where he befriended and worked alongside artists like Alberto Giacometti, Richard Hamilton, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, the film gives an insightful account into the life of one of the great masters of 20th-century art.
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Wednesday 13th
Factual > Families & Relationships; Factual > Life Stories
BBC2, 8:30-9:30pm, 1/4
Following the weddings of two multicultural couples to explore how traditions are maintained by couples in Britain today.
Sikh couple Kami and Dav they tread the same steps their ancestors did in the northern Indian state of Punjab hundreds of years ago as the programme follows them to their wedding day. Also following Sasha and Vlod, a couple who are among the newest of Britain's immigrants and who are looking to stick to the oldest of traditions originating in Eastern Europe.
Factual > Science & Nature > Nature & Environment
BBC4, 1/3 - Them and Us
Steve Backshall explores the connections and relationship that we have with insects and other arthropods. In Kenya huge armies of driver ants give houses a five-star clean up and in China we discover how silkworm caterpillars have shaped our culture and distribution. While locusts devastate crops in Africa, bees and beetles across the world provide a key link in our food chains. Many of us perceive these animals merely as creepy crawlies and nothing more than a nuisance, but as Steve reveals, we couldn't live without them.
Factual > Science and Nature > Documentaries
BBC4, 9:00-10:00pm
Metamorphosis seems like the ultimate evolutionary magic trick: the amazing transformation of one creature into a totally different being: one life, two bodies. From Ovid to Kafka to X-Men, tales of metamorphosis richly permeate human culture. The myth of transformation is so common that it seems almost pre-programmed into our imagination. But is the scientific fact of metamorphosis just as strange as fiction… or even stranger? In this programme, filmmaker David Malone explores the science behind metamorphosis. How does it happen and why? And might it even, in some way, happen to us?
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Thursday 14th
Factual > History; Religion & Ethics
BBC4, 8:30-9:00pm, 2/6 - Water
Presenter and Welsh poet Ifor ap Glyn explores the wealth of Britain's extraordinary holy places on a pilgrimage that spans almost 2,000 years of history. Travelling across the breadth of the UK, Ifor uncovers the stories and rich history behind many of our most famous sites, explaining the myths and legends of some of Britain's most sacred places.
In the second episode, Ifor explores why water crops up again and again as the essential element in many of our most holy places. Why has a yearning for pure natural water always been bound up with our spiritual beliefs?
His journey takes him to our oldest mass baptismal pool which marks the place that Scottish Picts first came into the Christian fold, the site on Loch Ness where Celtic missionaries battling the forces of paganism first encountered the legendary monster, a healing well where a young woman was reputedly brought back to life by having her severed head re-attached to her body, and a 2,000-year-old holy spring that has become a major international brand.
Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media > Arts; Factual > History
BBC4, 9:00-10:00pm, 2/3 - The Men from the Ministry
The second episode reveals the unsung heroes of the heritage movement, the clever civil servants who saved the great ruins of Britain. It explores the determination of Charles Reed Peers from the Office of Works, who seized the chance in the interwar years to make history a popular cause, and looks at how the increasingly mobile British public began to embrace the idea of a day out at an historic site. As the country houses faced a crisis with owners demolishing or abandoning their homes, who would come to the rescue - the Ministry of Works or the National Trust?
Factual > Science & Nature > Factual > Science & Nature > Science & Technology
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm
It is a feeling we all know - the moment when a light goes on in your head. In a sudden flash of inspiration, a new idea is born. Today, scientists are using some unusual techniques to try to work out how these moments of creativity - whether big, small or life-changing - come about. They have devised a series of puzzles and brainteasers to draw out our creative behaviour, while the very latest neuroimaging technology means researchers can actually peer inside our brains and witness the creative spark as it happens. What they are discovering could have the power to make every one of us more creative.
Crime > Documentaries
Channel 5, 9:00-10:00pm, series 2, 1/4 - Levi Bellfield
This week, Professor Wilson investigates Levi Bellfield. Infamous for the murder of 13-year-old Milly Dowler, Bellfield is one of the UK's most notorious serial killers. As well as Milly's murder, he was convicted of the brutal murders of French student Amelie Delagrange and Marsha McDonnell, whom he killed with series of hammer blows to the head, and the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy, whom he ran down with his car in Twickenham as she walked home from a night out.
However, linking Bellfield to further crimes proves to be one of the most complicated cases that Professor Wilson has ever studied. Bellfield had multiple signatures and seemed to be on a mission to destroy young women in anyway that he could. He hated blondes and prowled for victims on streets that he knew intimately, leaving them dead or dying after spotting them on buses or near bus stops.
Professor Wilson looks into these cases in detail to build up a profile of Bellfield. He meets a young
blonde named Edel Harbison, who miraculously survived a hammer attack on Twickenham Green, just months before the murder of Amelie Delagrange. Wilson wants to see whether he can learn any new information that can unlock secrets of hidden crimes by Bellfield.
After his 2008 murder trial, Bellfield was named by police as a suspect in connection with at least
20 unsolved murders and attacks on women dating back to 1990. Professor Wilson believes that there are reasons why Bellfield should be investigated in connection with two hideous murders, including a case that made headlines around the world but for which another man is already serving a life sentence.
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