Please email Rich Deakin rdeakin@glos.ac.uk ,or fchmediaservices@glos.ac.uk if you would like any of the following programmes / series recording.*
Monday 14th
BBC2 - The Secret War On Terror - 2 part series - "The Secret War on Terror reveals the astonishing inside story of the intelligence war which has been fought against Al Qaeda over the last decade since 9/11.
With unparalleled access to Western intelligence and law enforcement agencies, and with a host of exclusive interviews with those who have been at the sharp end of fighting the terrorists - from the CIA and the FBI to MI5 - Peter Taylor asks whether there is any end in sight and whether we are any safer from attack. The series includes the first ever television interview with the former director-general of MI5, Baroness Manningham-Buller, and an extensive interview with the recent director of the CIA, General Michael Hayden.
This first episode looks at how the West became involved in abductions, secret prisons and even torture, and how the intelligence services successfully disrupt major terrorist plots.
Tuesday 15th
BBC4 - Around The World In 60 Minutes - "A unique journey around the weird and wonderful planet that we call home.
When Yuri Gagarin was blasted into space he became the first human to get a proper look at where we live. 'The Earth is blue,' he exclaimed, 'how amazing!'. Suddenly our perspective on the world had changed forever. We thought we were going to explore the universe, yet the most extraordinary thing we discovered was our own home planet, the Earth.
So what would you see during just one orbit of the Earth? Starting 200 miles above the planet, this film whisks you around the planet to show what changes in the time it takes to circumnavigate the Earth just once. We hear from British-born astronaut Piers Sellers on what it's like to live and work in space, and also to gaze down and see how we are altering and reshaping our world.
We marvel at the incredible forces of nature that brings hundred-mile wide storms and reshapes continents, and also discover how we humans are draining seas and building cities in the middle of the desert. We also visit the wettest place on Earth, as well as the most volcanic.
Narrated by David Morrissey, this inspirational trip around the planet will make you view our home as you've never seen it before."
BBC2 - Bible's Buried Secrets - 3 part series - "Hebrew Scholar Francesca Stavrakopoulou examines how recent archaeological discoveries are changing the way stories from The Bible are interpreted and how these, in turn, are forcing a re-assessment of the understanding of the legacy of Judaism, Christianity and Islam both in the Middle East and in the West.
In a new three-part series, Francesca travels to major archaeological digs throughout the Middle East to investigate the origins of the story of the Garden of Eden, the emergence of the worship of one God and the historical context of King David and his wondrous kingdom.
She also visits Khirbet Qeiyafa, a fortified city in Judah from the time of King David, and the ancient city of Ugarit in Syria, considered to be the single most important biblical archaeological discovery of the last century.
Following Francesca on her journey through some of the world's most beautiful but inaccessible landscapes, The Bible's Buried Secrets aims to place some of its most iconic stories into a new historical context."
Thursday 17th
BBC4 - Time To Remember: A Woman's World - "Newsreel footage and original 1950s Time to Remember voiceover by Joyce Grenfell and Dame Edith Evans offer an insight into the ways women's roles in society changed through the first five decades of the 20th century.
Featuring footage of suffragette protest, including Emily Davison at the 1913 Derby; working women during the First World War; Suzanne Lenglen playing tennis; and something of the fashions of the 20s and 30s."
Friday 18th
BBC4 - The End Of The World? A Horizon Guide To Armageddon - "Dallas Campbell delves into the Horizon archive to find out how scientists have tried to predict the end of the world, from natural disasters to killer diseases and asteroid impact. He asks whether science will be able to save the human race when the apocalypse eventually arrives."
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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.
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Tuesday, 8 March 2011
Microsoft Photostory 3 for Windows
We now have Microsoft Photostory 3 for Windows software installed on the PC in the bookable study room (FCQU003) as well as the FCH LC Edit Suite PC (FCQU015).The software can also be downloaded onto your own PC / laptop using the Microsoft Photostory 3 for Windows link .
Please contact Rich Deakin if you need any help or advice about creating a photostory using this software.
The bookable study room can be booked via the OPAC and the issue desk (02142 714600) and enquiry desk (01242 714666), email lcinfofch@glos.ac.uk, whilst the edit suite must be booked via issue and enquiry desks, or directly through Rich Deakin on 01242 714665, email rdeakin@glos.ac.uk
Tuesday, 1 March 2011
Off-air recordings for week 5-11 March 2011
Please email Rich Deakin rdeakin@glos.ac.uk ,or fchmediaservices@glos.ac.uk if you would like any of the following programmes / series recording.*
Saturday 5th March
More 4 - Drain The Ocean - "Below the surface of the Earth's oceans lies a mysterious and relatively unknown world. With a diversity of life that rivals the rainforest, the ocean is one of the world's largest ecosystems, but relatively little is known about what lives in its great depths.
Drain the Ocean draws on the latest scientific knowledge and uses CGI animation to remove the water, revealing a landscape of unimaginable scale - with underwater mountain ranges long enough to stretch round the world one and a half times - and with tens of thousands of mud volcanoes and other features that are more dynamic than anything found on land."
Sunday 6th
Channel 4 - Civilization: Is The West History? - 6 part series - "The first programme in the series begins in 1420 when Ming China had a credible claim to be the most advanced civilization in the world: 'All Under Heaven'. England on the eve of the Wars of the Roses would have seemed quite primitive by contrast.
Yet the lead that China had established in technology was not to be translated into sustained economic growth. In China a monolithic empire stifled colonial expansion and economic innovation. In Europe political division bred competition.
The question for our own time is whether or not we have lost that competitive edge to a rapidly ascending Asia."
BBC2 - Wonders of the Universe - 4 part series - "Professor Brian Cox reveals how the most fundamental scientific principles and laws explain not only the story of the universe, but the story of us all."
Monday 7th
Channel 4 - Dispatches: Selling Off Britain - "Selling Off Britain: Krishnan Guru-Murthy hosts a live studio debate about whether we should sell the family silver - from missiles to the government wine cellar - to cut our national debt."
Tuesday 8th
BBC4 - Justice: Freedom Versus Fit - "The seventh of Harvard professor Michael Sandel's famous lectures on the philosophy of justice looks at the issue of individual rights and the freedom to choose. If our place in society is determined by where we best fit, doesn't that eliminate personal choice? What if I am best suited to do one kind of work, but I want to do another?
Sandel addresses one of the most glaring objections to Aristotle's views on freedom, his defence of slavery as a fitting social role for certain human beings. Students discuss other objections to Aristotle's theories and debate whether his philosophy overly restricts the freedom of individuals."
BBC2 - Horizon: Predators In Your Back Yard - "
Across the world scientists are releasing predators, nature's ultimate killers, close to where people live.
In Florida, a new population of panthers, feared as ambush predators, have been released near to the busy town of Naples. In the Italian Alps, bears have been reintroduced after they became virtually extinct, and now try to get into people's homes in the middle of the night.
And in Yellowstone National Park, wolves have been brought back 70 years after they were exterminated.
Horizon meets the scientist behind this radical scheme, and the people who now have to share their backyards with these predators."
Thursday 10th
BBC1 - Bang Goes The Winter Weather Special - "Dallas Campbell, Liz Bonnin and Jem Stansfield build an innovative weather chamber and re-create wintry conditions by making their own clouds, rain and snow. They reveal the wettest and windiest parts of the UK and explain the science behind the big freeze that has struck two years in a row."
BBC2 - The British At Work - 4 part series - "Kirsty Young explores British working lives since the Second World War, combining archive footage with testimonials from members of the public. She hears from women about the experiences of moving into a male-dominated workforce, and examines how the optimistic dreams of the post-war years were undermined by poor management and bickering workers."
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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.
Saturday 5th March
More 4 - Drain The Ocean - "Below the surface of the Earth's oceans lies a mysterious and relatively unknown world. With a diversity of life that rivals the rainforest, the ocean is one of the world's largest ecosystems, but relatively little is known about what lives in its great depths.
Drain the Ocean draws on the latest scientific knowledge and uses CGI animation to remove the water, revealing a landscape of unimaginable scale - with underwater mountain ranges long enough to stretch round the world one and a half times - and with tens of thousands of mud volcanoes and other features that are more dynamic than anything found on land."
Sunday 6th
Channel 4 - Civilization: Is The West History? - 6 part series - "The first programme in the series begins in 1420 when Ming China had a credible claim to be the most advanced civilization in the world: 'All Under Heaven'. England on the eve of the Wars of the Roses would have seemed quite primitive by contrast.
Yet the lead that China had established in technology was not to be translated into sustained economic growth. In China a monolithic empire stifled colonial expansion and economic innovation. In Europe political division bred competition.
The question for our own time is whether or not we have lost that competitive edge to a rapidly ascending Asia."
BBC2 - Wonders of the Universe - 4 part series - "Professor Brian Cox reveals how the most fundamental scientific principles and laws explain not only the story of the universe, but the story of us all."
Monday 7th
Channel 4 - Dispatches: Selling Off Britain - "Selling Off Britain: Krishnan Guru-Murthy hosts a live studio debate about whether we should sell the family silver - from missiles to the government wine cellar - to cut our national debt."
Tuesday 8th
BBC4 - Justice: Freedom Versus Fit - "The seventh of Harvard professor Michael Sandel's famous lectures on the philosophy of justice looks at the issue of individual rights and the freedom to choose. If our place in society is determined by where we best fit, doesn't that eliminate personal choice? What if I am best suited to do one kind of work, but I want to do another?
Sandel addresses one of the most glaring objections to Aristotle's views on freedom, his defence of slavery as a fitting social role for certain human beings. Students discuss other objections to Aristotle's theories and debate whether his philosophy overly restricts the freedom of individuals."
BBC2 - Horizon: Predators In Your Back Yard - "
Across the world scientists are releasing predators, nature's ultimate killers, close to where people live.
In Florida, a new population of panthers, feared as ambush predators, have been released near to the busy town of Naples. In the Italian Alps, bears have been reintroduced after they became virtually extinct, and now try to get into people's homes in the middle of the night.
And in Yellowstone National Park, wolves have been brought back 70 years after they were exterminated.
Horizon meets the scientist behind this radical scheme, and the people who now have to share their backyards with these predators."
Thursday 10th
BBC1 - Bang Goes The Winter Weather Special - "Dallas Campbell, Liz Bonnin and Jem Stansfield build an innovative weather chamber and re-create wintry conditions by making their own clouds, rain and snow. They reveal the wettest and windiest parts of the UK and explain the science behind the big freeze that has struck two years in a row."
BBC2 - The British At Work - 4 part series - "Kirsty Young explores British working lives since the Second World War, combining archive footage with testimonials from members of the public. She hears from women about the experiences of moving into a male-dominated workforce, and examines how the optimistic dreams of the post-war years were undermined by poor management and bickering workers."
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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.
Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Off-air recordings for week 26 February - 4 March 2011
Please email Rich Deakin rdeakin@glos.ac.uk ,or fchmediaservices@glos.ac.uk if you would like any of the following programmes / series recording.*
Monday 28th February
BBC1 - Panorama: Classroom Warrior - "Panorama goes back to school to examine government plans to send in the troops to Britain's troubled classrooms. Can they help restore discipline, leadership and respect? It is an idea born in the USA, where around 15 thousand ex-military personnel have become teachers and done their bit in some of America's toughest inner-city schools. Vivian White reports on the military manoeuvres claimed to be building David Cameron's so-called "Big Society"."
Tuesday 1st March
BBC1 - Girls Behind Bars - "Documentary series filmed over a year in Scotland's only women's prison which reveals an intimate and often shocking portrait of jail life."
Wednesday 2nd
BBC1 - The Boat That Guy Built - 6 part series - "Guy Martin – a 29-year-old motorcycle racer, truck mechanic and engineering boffin – faces a challenge. He and his companion, Mave – who is also handy with a spanner, blowtorch and hammer – are taking to the canals of Britain to restore a dilapidated narrow boat, fitting it inside and out with all the mod cons you would expect ... in the Victorian era. This is not going to be your average cruise.
In this first instalment of The Boat That Guy Built, the skilled duo set out on their maiden voyage. It does not take long to realise that where there is work, there needs to be refreshment, so they set about making everything needed to create a cup of tea.
After negotiating some of the finest ingenuity from the industrial revolution, the Anderton Boat Lift, the pair build a blast furnace and then start heating it up and filling it with iron ore and coke. Far from clicking a switch on the kettle, they will need exactly the right ratio and temperature to produce molten iron. Next, Guy heads off to choose the tea he will be drinking, learning a bit more about its heritage and acquiring the correct slurping and sucking tasting technique, before heading to the Wedgwood factory to create cups to drink it from.
Back at the furnace, Guy and Mave make a green sand cast of a pot. Just as their cast is finished, it appears that so, too, is the furnace as they crack the front. The iron is poured into their mould and, if it sets, it will make a pot. Will the duo finally enjoy a well-earned cuppa?
Drawing on the rich history of British waterways, a proud industrial heritage and sterling innovation, the presenting duo have an exciting challenge on their hands, but have they bitten off more than they can chew?"
BBC2 - Attenborough and the Giant Egg - "When David Attenborough was filming in Madagascar for Zoo Quest in 1960, he was given pieces of an egg belonging to the largest bird to have ever lived – the extinct "elephant bird". The enormous egg has become one of his most treasured possessions.
In Attenborough And The Giant Egg, David returns to Madagascar to see how the island has changed in the last 50 years and to search for more clues about the amazing elephant bird, which was something like a giant ostrich, weighing half a ton. He also investigates whether unravelling the story of its extinction can throw light on what is happening on the island today.
There have been dramatic changes since David's first visit – 80 per cent of Madagascar's native forest has been destroyed; the human population has quadrupled; and many of its unique species are teetering on the brink of extinction. On the positive side, new species have been discovered and, today, scientists and conservationists know far more about the complexities of the environment.
Modern carbon-dating techniques reveal, for the first time, the age of David's egg. Scientists are surprised to find it is only 1,300 years old. Such a recent date confirms that the elephant bird existed alongside human beings for several hundred years.
Channel 4 - Jamie's Dream School - 7 parts - "Jamie Oliver brings together some of Britain's most inspirational individuals to see if they can persuade 20 young people who've left school with little to show for the experience to give education a second chance."
Friday 4th
Channel 4 - Dispatches: Secret NHS Diaires - "The NHS is there to make our final days as dignified and pain-free as possible. But as a devastating health service ombudsman report has shown, the reality can be very different.
For the first time, Dispatches has given three people cameras to film the last weeks of their lives, at home, in a care home, and in hospital. Their experiences provide a unique insight into the gap between what we hope for compared with the painful reality of dying."
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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.
Monday 28th February
BBC1 - Panorama: Classroom Warrior - "Panorama goes back to school to examine government plans to send in the troops to Britain's troubled classrooms. Can they help restore discipline, leadership and respect? It is an idea born in the USA, where around 15 thousand ex-military personnel have become teachers and done their bit in some of America's toughest inner-city schools. Vivian White reports on the military manoeuvres claimed to be building David Cameron's so-called "Big Society"."
Tuesday 1st March
BBC1 - Girls Behind Bars - "Documentary series filmed over a year in Scotland's only women's prison which reveals an intimate and often shocking portrait of jail life."
Wednesday 2nd
BBC1 - The Boat That Guy Built - 6 part series - "Guy Martin – a 29-year-old motorcycle racer, truck mechanic and engineering boffin – faces a challenge. He and his companion, Mave – who is also handy with a spanner, blowtorch and hammer – are taking to the canals of Britain to restore a dilapidated narrow boat, fitting it inside and out with all the mod cons you would expect ... in the Victorian era. This is not going to be your average cruise.
In this first instalment of The Boat That Guy Built, the skilled duo set out on their maiden voyage. It does not take long to realise that where there is work, there needs to be refreshment, so they set about making everything needed to create a cup of tea.
After negotiating some of the finest ingenuity from the industrial revolution, the Anderton Boat Lift, the pair build a blast furnace and then start heating it up and filling it with iron ore and coke. Far from clicking a switch on the kettle, they will need exactly the right ratio and temperature to produce molten iron. Next, Guy heads off to choose the tea he will be drinking, learning a bit more about its heritage and acquiring the correct slurping and sucking tasting technique, before heading to the Wedgwood factory to create cups to drink it from.
Back at the furnace, Guy and Mave make a green sand cast of a pot. Just as their cast is finished, it appears that so, too, is the furnace as they crack the front. The iron is poured into their mould and, if it sets, it will make a pot. Will the duo finally enjoy a well-earned cuppa?
Drawing on the rich history of British waterways, a proud industrial heritage and sterling innovation, the presenting duo have an exciting challenge on their hands, but have they bitten off more than they can chew?"
BBC2 - Attenborough and the Giant Egg - "When David Attenborough was filming in Madagascar for Zoo Quest in 1960, he was given pieces of an egg belonging to the largest bird to have ever lived – the extinct "elephant bird". The enormous egg has become one of his most treasured possessions.
In Attenborough And The Giant Egg, David returns to Madagascar to see how the island has changed in the last 50 years and to search for more clues about the amazing elephant bird, which was something like a giant ostrich, weighing half a ton. He also investigates whether unravelling the story of its extinction can throw light on what is happening on the island today.
There have been dramatic changes since David's first visit – 80 per cent of Madagascar's native forest has been destroyed; the human population has quadrupled; and many of its unique species are teetering on the brink of extinction. On the positive side, new species have been discovered and, today, scientists and conservationists know far more about the complexities of the environment.
Modern carbon-dating techniques reveal, for the first time, the age of David's egg. Scientists are surprised to find it is only 1,300 years old. Such a recent date confirms that the elephant bird existed alongside human beings for several hundred years.
Channel 4 - Jamie's Dream School - 7 parts - "Jamie Oliver brings together some of Britain's most inspirational individuals to see if they can persuade 20 young people who've left school with little to show for the experience to give education a second chance."
Friday 4th
Channel 4 - Dispatches: Secret NHS Diaires - "The NHS is there to make our final days as dignified and pain-free as possible. But as a devastating health service ombudsman report has shown, the reality can be very different.
For the first time, Dispatches has given three people cameras to film the last weeks of their lives, at home, in a care home, and in hospital. Their experiences provide a unique insight into the gap between what we hope for compared with the painful reality of dying."
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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.
Wednesday, 16 February 2011
Off-air recordings for week 19-25 February 2011
Please email Rich Deakin rdeakin@glos.ac.uk ,or fchmediaservices@glos.ac.uk if you would like any of the following programmes / series recording.*
Sunday 20th
BBC4 - The Story of Science - Power, Proof and Passion:What Is The World Made Of? - "Michael Mosley takes an informative and ambitious journey exploring how the evolution of scientific understanding is intimately interwoven with society's historical path.
In this episode, Michael demonstrates how our society is built on our search to find the answer to what makes up everything in the material world. This is a story that moves from the secret labs of the alchemists and their search for gold to the creation of the world's first synthetic dye - mauve - and onto the invention of the transistor.
This quest may seem abstract and highly theoretical. Yet it has delivered the greatest impact on humanity. By trying to answer this question, scientists have created theories from elements to atoms, and the strange concepts of quantum physics that underpin our modern, technological world."
Monday 21st
BBC4 - When God Spoke English: The Making Of The King James Bible - "Documentary telling the unexpected story of how arguably the greatest work of English prose ever written, the King James Bible, came into being.
Author Adam Nicolson reveals why the making of this powerful book shares much in common with his experience of a very different national project - the Millennium Dome. The programme also delves into recently discovered 17th century manuscripts, from the actual translation process itself, to show in rich detail what makes this Bible so good.
In a turbulent and often violent age, the King hoped this Bible would unite a country torn by religious factions. Today it is dismissed by some as old-fashioned and impenetrable, but the film shows why, in the 21st century, the King James Bible remains so great."
Tuesday 22nd
More 4 - True Stories: My Kidnapper - "In 2003, Mark Henderson was one of eight backpackers taken hostage while trekking in the Colombian jungle. What started as an innocent tourist adventure ended up as 101 terrifying days of captivity.
Eleven months after his release Mark received an email from Antonio, one of his kidnappers. Another of the hostages, Reini from Germany, received a facebook friend request from Antonio's girlfriend, another of their captors. That email was the start of a five-year correspondence between hostage and kidnapper that eventually drew Mark back to the one part of the world he thought he'd never see again and face-to-face with the man who had once held the key to his freedom.
This deeply personal, authored documentary follows Mark and three of his fellow hostages as they return to the Sierra Nevada mountains in northern Colombia: the place where they lived out their worst nightmares.
As they travel deeper into the jungle, they discover the truth behind their kidnapping, come to understand how they all dealt with the ordeal and finally confront two of their kidnappers.
My Kidnapper is an emotional journey into the heart of a kidnapping, told from all sides. True Stories commissions and showcases the best feature documentaries from around the world."
Friday 25th
BBC4 - Map: Power, Plunder and Possession - 3 parts - "Map expert Professor Jerry Brotton uncovers how maps aren't simply about getting from A to B, but are revealing snapshots of defining moments in history and tools of political power and persuasion."
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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.
Sunday 20th
BBC4 - The Story of Science - Power, Proof and Passion:What Is The World Made Of? - "Michael Mosley takes an informative and ambitious journey exploring how the evolution of scientific understanding is intimately interwoven with society's historical path.
In this episode, Michael demonstrates how our society is built on our search to find the answer to what makes up everything in the material world. This is a story that moves from the secret labs of the alchemists and their search for gold to the creation of the world's first synthetic dye - mauve - and onto the invention of the transistor.
This quest may seem abstract and highly theoretical. Yet it has delivered the greatest impact on humanity. By trying to answer this question, scientists have created theories from elements to atoms, and the strange concepts of quantum physics that underpin our modern, technological world."
Monday 21st
BBC4 - When God Spoke English: The Making Of The King James Bible - "Documentary telling the unexpected story of how arguably the greatest work of English prose ever written, the King James Bible, came into being.
Author Adam Nicolson reveals why the making of this powerful book shares much in common with his experience of a very different national project - the Millennium Dome. The programme also delves into recently discovered 17th century manuscripts, from the actual translation process itself, to show in rich detail what makes this Bible so good.
In a turbulent and often violent age, the King hoped this Bible would unite a country torn by religious factions. Today it is dismissed by some as old-fashioned and impenetrable, but the film shows why, in the 21st century, the King James Bible remains so great."
Tuesday 22nd
More 4 - True Stories: My Kidnapper - "In 2003, Mark Henderson was one of eight backpackers taken hostage while trekking in the Colombian jungle. What started as an innocent tourist adventure ended up as 101 terrifying days of captivity.
Eleven months after his release Mark received an email from Antonio, one of his kidnappers. Another of the hostages, Reini from Germany, received a facebook friend request from Antonio's girlfriend, another of their captors. That email was the start of a five-year correspondence between hostage and kidnapper that eventually drew Mark back to the one part of the world he thought he'd never see again and face-to-face with the man who had once held the key to his freedom.
This deeply personal, authored documentary follows Mark and three of his fellow hostages as they return to the Sierra Nevada mountains in northern Colombia: the place where they lived out their worst nightmares.
As they travel deeper into the jungle, they discover the truth behind their kidnapping, come to understand how they all dealt with the ordeal and finally confront two of their kidnappers.
My Kidnapper is an emotional journey into the heart of a kidnapping, told from all sides. True Stories commissions and showcases the best feature documentaries from around the world."
Friday 25th
BBC4 - Map: Power, Plunder and Possession - 3 parts - "Map expert Professor Jerry Brotton uncovers how maps aren't simply about getting from A to B, but are revealing snapshots of defining moments in history and tools of political power and persuasion."
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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.
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
Off-air recordings for week 12-18 February 2011
Please email Rich Deakin rdeakin@glos.ac.uk ,or fchmediaservices@glos.ac.uk if you would like any of the following programmes / series recording.*
Tuesday 15th February
Channel 4 - Dispatches: Lessons In Hate And Violence - "Dispatches goes undercover to investigate allegations that teachers regularly assault young children in some of the 2,000 Muslim schools in Britain run by Islamic organisations.
The programme also follows up allegations that, behind closed doors, some Muslim secondary schools teach a message of hatred and intolerance."
BBC1 - The Richard Dimbleby Lectures - "In this year's Richard Dimbleby Lecture, Michael Morpurgo explores the increasingly urgent issue of children's rights, and investigates the wrongs that young people have to endure.
One of Britain's most popular children's authors, Morpurgo has written over 120 books and more recently he has become a campaigner on behalf of children, both at home and abroad. In this role he visited the Middle East where he witnessed, first hand, the difficulties children face in times of conflict.
His most well known book, War Horse, was recently dramatised to great critical acclaim on and it is now being made into a Hollywood feature film by Stephen Spielberg."
Wednesday 16th
BBC4 - Justice: A Lesson In Lying - "Do we all have a categorical duty to tell the truth, even to a murderer? The fourth of Michael Sandel's famous lectures on the philosophy of justice looks at the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, whose stringent theory of morality allowed for no exceptions. Kant believed that telling a lie, even a white lie, was a violation of one's own dignity.
Sandel tests Kant's theory with his famous hypothetical scenario, The Killer at Your Door. If a friend were hiding inside your home and a person intent on killing them came to your door and asked you where they were, would it be wrong to tell a lie? If so, would it be moral to try to mislead the murderer without actually lying to them? This leads to a discussion of the morality of misleading truths.
Sandel wraps up the lecture with a video clip of one of the most famous recent examples of dodging the truth - President Clinton talking about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky."
More4 - True Stories: War Child - "Following on from his 2010 Dispatches: Children of Gaza, Bafta Award-winning filmmaker Jezza Neumann provides a second shocking portrait of children living in the aftermath of war.
On 27 December 2008, the Israeli Defence Force unleashed Operation Cast Lead in Gaza: a 22-day campaign to destroy the ability of Hamas to launch rockets and mortars into Israel. Over 1300 Palestinians were killed, many of them children.
Surrounded by rubble and increasingly isolated by the blockade that prevents them from rebuilding their homes and their lives, many of the surviving children's lives have been irreversibly damaged by war. War Child gives a voice to a handful of them."
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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.
Tuesday 15th February
Channel 4 - Dispatches: Lessons In Hate And Violence - "Dispatches goes undercover to investigate allegations that teachers regularly assault young children in some of the 2,000 Muslim schools in Britain run by Islamic organisations.
The programme also follows up allegations that, behind closed doors, some Muslim secondary schools teach a message of hatred and intolerance."
BBC1 - The Richard Dimbleby Lectures - "In this year's Richard Dimbleby Lecture, Michael Morpurgo explores the increasingly urgent issue of children's rights, and investigates the wrongs that young people have to endure.
One of Britain's most popular children's authors, Morpurgo has written over 120 books and more recently he has become a campaigner on behalf of children, both at home and abroad. In this role he visited the Middle East where he witnessed, first hand, the difficulties children face in times of conflict.
His most well known book, War Horse, was recently dramatised to great critical acclaim on and it is now being made into a Hollywood feature film by Stephen Spielberg."
Wednesday 16th
BBC4 - Justice: A Lesson In Lying - "Do we all have a categorical duty to tell the truth, even to a murderer? The fourth of Michael Sandel's famous lectures on the philosophy of justice looks at the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, whose stringent theory of morality allowed for no exceptions. Kant believed that telling a lie, even a white lie, was a violation of one's own dignity.
Sandel tests Kant's theory with his famous hypothetical scenario, The Killer at Your Door. If a friend were hiding inside your home and a person intent on killing them came to your door and asked you where they were, would it be wrong to tell a lie? If so, would it be moral to try to mislead the murderer without actually lying to them? This leads to a discussion of the morality of misleading truths.
Sandel wraps up the lecture with a video clip of one of the most famous recent examples of dodging the truth - President Clinton talking about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky."
More4 - True Stories: War Child - "Following on from his 2010 Dispatches: Children of Gaza, Bafta Award-winning filmmaker Jezza Neumann provides a second shocking portrait of children living in the aftermath of war.
On 27 December 2008, the Israeli Defence Force unleashed Operation Cast Lead in Gaza: a 22-day campaign to destroy the ability of Hamas to launch rockets and mortars into Israel. Over 1300 Palestinians were killed, many of them children.
Surrounded by rubble and increasingly isolated by the blockade that prevents them from rebuilding their homes and their lives, many of the surviving children's lives have been irreversibly damaged by war. War Child gives a voice to a handful of them."
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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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