Off-air recordings for week 4-10 May 2013

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 4th May

Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media > Documentaries

United States of Television: America in Primetime
BBC2, 10:15-11:15pm, 3/4 - The Independent Woman


In the third programme in this star-studded series that examines the social history of America through the prism of popular primetime TV shows, Alan Yentob considers the remarkable journey made by women in the 'United States of Television'.

Edie Falco (Nurse Jackie), Roseanne Barr (Roseanne), Mary Tyler Moore (The Mary Tyler Moore Show),  Sarah Jessica Parker (Sex In The City), Sandra Oh (Grey's Anatomy) and many more stars, creators, writers and producers reflect on the dramatic social changes that transformed the homemaking, apple pie-baking CEO of the kitchen sink of the 1950s into the 'independent woman' of today, struggling with the push and pull of having it all.

Dependent on advertising dollars controlled by conservative corporations, mainstream primetime television was slow to reflect the revolution that was taking place in the economic, sexual and domestic situation of women in the America of the 60s and 70s, but into the breach opened up by non-conformists like Lucille Ball (I Love Lucy) came other unforgettable characters who changed the way that women were perceived and how women were expected to behave: Mary Tyler Moore, Murphy Brown, Roseanne and not forgetting Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte of Sex and the City fame/notoriety.

Today, the independent women of primetime have to struggle with challenges that Donna Reed, the perfectionist queen of 1950s TV, could not have dreamed of - careers, childcare, infidelity, drug addiction (or in the case of Nancy Botwin of Weeds, drug dealing) and, of course, the eternal questions of love - where to find it, how to keep it and at what cost.



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Sunday 5th May

Factual > History > Documentaries

Timewatch: Stonehenge
BBC4, 8:00-9:00pm

An investigation into a radical theory that Stonehenge, far from being a place of burial as is commonly assumed, was in fact a place of healing - a Bronze Age Lourdes. The investigation takes in forensic testing of bones excavated over the past decades and hard-won permission for the first dig in 50 years at the Henge, watched live online by millions of viewers around the world. Does the theory of the healing stones bear up to modern-day forensic science?


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Monday 6th May

Factual > History > Documentaries

The Flying Archaeologist
BBC4, 8:30-9:00pm, 2/4


Archaeologist Ben Robinson flies over the Broads where aerial photos have discovered a staggering 945 previously unknown ancient sites. Many are making historians rethink the history of the area
The fate of the Roman town of Caistor St Edmund has puzzled archaeologists for decades. It's long been a mystery why the centre never became a modern town. Now archaeologists have discovered a key piece of evidence. And near Ormseby the first proof of Bronze Age settlement in the east of England has been revealed.



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Tuesday 7th May



Factual > Health & Wellbeing > Documentaries


Keeping Britain Alive: The NHS in a Day
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm, 7/8


This episode takes a look at the NHS outside of the hospital environment, and through a vast patchwork of experiences reveals the health system's role in British lives from cradle to grave.

Featuring a Yorkshire District Nurse who spends her day changing dressings and tubes for elderly patients, a maverick GP in Everton who takes in addicts and abusive patients who have been rejected by other surgeries, and a pair of West Midlands paramedics who compare their nightshift to that of a mini-cab service. In London, the air ambulance crew rush to the scene of two serious accidents, whilst in Birmingham, a medical student makes his 16th sperm donation.



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Wednesday 8th May

Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media > Arts > Documentaries

Great Artists in Their Own Words
BBC4, 9:00-10:00pm, 1/3

In the first episode of the series, this programme unlocks the BBC archives to tell the story of the birth of modern art, in the words of the artists who created a cultural revolution - from the startling innovations of Picasso to the explosion of colour in the paintings of Matisse, to LS Lowry's industrial cityscapes and the often shocking work of surrealists like Max Ernst, Magritte and Dali.


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Thursday 9th May

Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media > Arts > History >Documentaries

Archaeology: A Secret History
BBC4, 10:50-11:50pm, 2/3 - The Search for Civilisation

Archaeologist Richard Miles presents a series charting the history of the breakthroughs and watersheds in our long quest to understand our ancient past. He shows how discoveries in the 18th and 19th centuries overturned ideas of when and where civilisation began, as empires competed to literally 'own' the past.


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