Off-Air Recordings for Week 2nd to 8th November

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Monday 4th November 2013

Invalid Password: the Password, a History of Failure

Radio 4, 8.00pm - 8.30pm
Last year, a computer cluster was unveiled that can cycle through as many as 350 billion password guesses per second. Passwords have never been weaker and hackers have never been more powerful. For most people, passwords are the first and only line of defence for confidential information online. We've been taught that passwords are the answer - as long as they are elaborate enough.
Your password must not follow any predictable pattern.
Your password must not reference any events you have personally witnessed.
Your password must be a closely guarded personal secret.
Your password must not be something you would use as a password just to get past a password reset check.
Your password must be impossible to remember.
But, today, that's becoming a fantasy - businesses, banks, schools, governments and individuals have all been hacked.
In this social history of the password, Tim Samuels travels to Las Vegas for a password conference where he meets the man responsible for the most popular cracking software, a former US Army interrogator who now builds super computers and a passionate Norwegian who believes passwords are here to stay.
We hear how easy it is to crack Tim's password and witness the elaborate steps some people go through to protect their online information. Have we reached a stage where passwords that are secure enough to resist hacking are too hard to remember? If passwords are living on borrowed time, what can protect us online?
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Tuesday 5th November 2013

Law in Action

Radio 4, 4.00pm - 4.30pm
Legal magazine programme presented by Joshua Rozenberg.
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Wednesday 6th November 2013

Britain on the Fiddle

BBC 1, 9.00pm - 10.00pm
It's a national disgrace - £20 billion stolen from the state in 2012 by fraudsters. Richard Bilton goes on the front line with investigators chasing a woman who won £95,000 in a game show but did not stop claiming benefits.
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Thursday 7th November 2013

How to Cut Your Energy Bills: Tonight

ITV, 7.30pm - 8.00pm
Energy bills in the UK have gone up by 140 per cent in the past decade and the latest round of inflation-busting price rises means that the average annual bill for gas and electricity will for the first time top 1,500 pounds. With the issue at the top of the political agenda, Jonathan Maitland investigates why we are paying so much to heat and light our homes - and examines what we can do to stop energy companies from pocketing so much of our money.

Off-Air Recordings for Week 26th October to 1st November

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Tuesday 29th October 2013
Disowned and Disabled
BBC4, 9.00pm - 10.00pm
Sixty years ago, the care of children who were orphaned or abandoned by their parents was based on the Victorian poor laws. Most disowned kids were sent to orphanages, huge institutions run with strict discipline and little love. Others were sent away to former colonies or farmed out to unregulated foster carers where their care was hit-or-miss. Single mothers were forced to give up their babies for adoption. Some unwanted children found loving homes, while others experienced hardship and bullying - or worse.
However, all that was set to change. After the Second World War a devastating national scandal, coupled with the rise of the welfare state, led to a new commitment to put the interests of the child first. Many orphanages were closed, foster care was regulated and child welfare services were improved.
But, as this documentary shows through searing interviews and case studies, it's clear that the process of change was fraught with difficulty and disaster. Despite the best efforts of social workers the difficulty of caring for children without parents grew. Although care homes closed, many of those that remained were in meltdown as their staff grappled with the troubled teenagers in their charge. Shocking methods ensued such as isolation, lock-up and even drugs, as the staff struggled to stay in control. And child abuse came into the public consciousness when it emerged that returning children at risk to their birth parents could lead to disaster.
This film follows the stories of several individuals who experienced the care system after the war. It shows how, despite many scandals and much suffering, putting children first has become a trusted guiding principle in solving one of society's greatest challenges: how to care for those without loving parents.

Imagine: Jimi Hendrix - Hear My Train a Comin'

BBC1, 10.35pm -  12.05am
In just four years, Jimi Hendrix revolutionised the music scene with his transcendent sound and explosive stage presence. A peacock, poet and perfectionist, he was a true original, who restlessly pushed his musical gifts to their extremes.
imagine... tells the story of how this shy, former private in the 101st Airborne became the greatest rock guitarist of all time, using never-before-seen performance footage, home movies and family letters.
With contributions from the Hendrix family, Sir Paul McCartney, and former band mates Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell, imagine... presents an in-depth look at Hendrix's life and career that was tragically cut short at just 27 years old in 1970.
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Wednesday 30th October 2013
Disowned and Disabled
BBC4, 9.00pm - 10.00pm
In the summer of 2012, the Paralympic Games became one of the most watched sporting events in recent times. But just 60 years ago, disability was considered a shameful tragedy, to be hidden away and forgotten.
Part two of the series tells the largely unknown story of disabled people's battle for equality in the decades following the second world war. It was a battle led by people who as children had found themselves rejected by society; stigmatised and traumatised by years of patronising care and forced segregation.
Before the 1940s, society had always assumed that children with physical and learning disabilities would not amount to anything. Care for physically disabled children was largely based on trying to make them appear 'normal'; children with learning disabilities were often housed in institutions for 'idiots' and 'imbeciles', and received little to no education.
In the late 1960s, the first generation of post-war disabled children came of age. Inspired by the civil rights movement and the sixties spirit of liberalization, disabled young people founded a new movement to fight for equal rights. Over the next two decades, the disabled peoples movement grew in strength, putting increasing pressure on the government to improve the lives of disabled people and to end the discrimination many continued to experience.
Change was slow to come, but in the 80s and 90s a huge shift in policy and attitudes began to take place. This had a profound effect on the lives of future generations of disabled children, an effect which continues to be felt to this day. Using the powerful stories of individuals such as Kevin Donnellon and Anne Rae, who tell the moving and uplifting stories of their lives and how they fought for change, this film sheds light on the often harsh reality faced by disabled children in the late 20th century. It is also a story of empowerment about how one of the most vulnerable groups in society fought to be accepted, to make themselves heard and finally gain control of their lives - control which they had been denied for many years.

Off-Air Recordings for Week 19th to 25th October

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Wednesday 23rd October 2013
Exposure: Undercover Colleges
ITV, 10.35pm - 11.35pm
Current affairs strand presenting new documentary films on a range of powerful and controversial subjects, investigating foreign and domestic topics, and reporting on issues that resonate with our lives. In this edition, Exposure goes undercover to investigate colleges, given highly trusted status by the Government, as they seek to attract foreign students

Off-Air Recordings for Week 12th to 18th October

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Monday 14th October 2013

Britain's New Banking Scandal: Panorama

BBC 1, 8.30pm - 9.00pm
Panorama lifts the lid on what could be Britain's biggest financial mis-selling scandal - the hard sell of so-called interest rate swaps. With thousands of businesses pushed into administration or struggling to stay afloat, Panorama hears from bank insiders as well as from business owners and employees who have lost their jobs and homes.
As the new financial regulator faces its first major test, reporter Adam Shaw asks why the banks who broke the rules are allowed to control the redress scheme for the victims. Has anything really changed in the way our banks are regulated.
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Thursday 17th October 2013

Robert Peston Goes Shopping

BBC 2, 9.05am - 10.05am
Robert Peston reveals how shopping in Britain was transformed over the 20th century. This episode looks at how the British high street has been hit hard in recent years by the rise of online shopping and the financial crash. The result has been a revolution in how and where we shop. From Amazon and ASOS to the world's first pop-up mall in East London, Robert shows how our shopping experience has changed and predicts how we will shop in the future.

Dying to get High: Tonight

ITV, 7.30pm - 8.00pm
An investigation into the world of legal highs - chemicals designed to mimic the effects of drugs such as ecstasy, cocaine and cannabis - that are widely available on our high streets across the UK. They arrived on the scene in 2008 and their popularity has grown rapidly with up to 700,000 young people thought to have experimented with them. Last year more than fifty deaths were linked to so-called legal highs as the law makers struggle to keep up with manufacturers and suppliers, many of whom are exploiting the legal loopholes. Fiona Foster talks to a bereaved mother whose daughter died after taking a legal high.  

Off-Air Recordings for Week 28th September to 4th October

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Saturday 28th September 2013

Hello: a Portrait of Leslie Phillips

More4, 9.00pm - 10.20pm
Documentary offering an intimate glimpse into the life of legendary actor Leslie Phillips, whose 75-year career has covered every medium and even embraced Twitter.

Sound of Cinema: Chaplin and Music

Radio 3, 12.15pm - 1.00pm
Charlie Chaplin's role as a pioneering actor, comedian and film maker we know. Less well known is his work as a film composer. Although he could not read music, he worked very closely with music collaborators, singing ideas and giving advice about instrumentation. Matthew Sweet explores the importance of music in Chaplin's creative life and the crucial role it played in his films.

Saturday Classics: Sound of Cinema

Radio 3, 2.00pm - 4.00pm
The iconic English actor Terence Stamp was introduced to classical music during the 1960s by his friend Michael Caine. But his musical influences stem from his East End childhood, films that he saw and an early trip with his aunt to see Bizet's Carmen at Sadlers Wells. The result is that he is a passionate lover of classical music. In this special "Sound of Cinema" edition of Saturday Classics he presents two hours of his favourite music including works by the film composer Alfred Newman, by Delibes, Borodin, Rodrigo. Dick Barton makes an appearance, as do Jimi Hendrix and KD Lang, all linked one way or another, to Terence Stamp's distinguished life and career.

Sound of Cinema

Radio 3, 4.00pm - 5.00pm

Matthew Sweet presents the first of a weekly series of programmes celebrating film music, and with the re-release of Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man there's a heady mix about life in the British countryside in today's selection.
Friday 27th September sees the re-release of Robin Hardy's cult British film The Wicker Man. On the occasion of its fortieth anniversary, Matthew Sweet looks back at the film's imaginative score - which Christopher Lee described as being some of the best music he's heard in a film - and takes it as a springboard to explore film music which evokes the uneasy and sometimes sinister side of British rural life, as portrayed in the music for the screen.
Featured scores include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight from 1973 with music by Ron Goodwin; Witchfinder General from 1968 with music by Paul Ferris; James Bernard's music for the 1957 Hound of the Baskervilles; Erich Korngold's music for The Adventures of Robin Hood; William Walton's music for Went The Day Well; Marc Wilkinson's score for Blood On Satan's Claw; Ilan Eshkeri's Stardust; Patrick Doyle's music for Brave; and Jim Williams's music for the 2013 film A Field in England.

Matthew Sweet presents the first of a weekly series of programmes celebrating film music, and with the re-release of Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man there's a heady mix about life in the British countryside in today's selection.
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Sunday 29th September 2013

Secret Voices of Hollywood

BBC 4, 9.00pm - 10.30pm
In many of Hollywood's greatest movie musicals the stars did not sing their own songs. This documentary pulls back the curtain to reveal the secret world of the 'ghost singers' who provided the vocals, the screen legends who were dubbed and the classic movies in which the songs were ghosted.
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Monday 30th September 2013
Sound of Cinema
Radio 3, 11.00am - 12.00pm

Sound of Cinema: John Williams

Radio 3, 12.00pm - 1.00pm
John Williams talks to Donald Macleod about a date with a young rookie director that changed movie history. Williams discusses the lunch meeting with Steven Spielberg in 1972 that precipitated one of the cinema's greatest partnerships - as well as introducing his pioneering score to Spielberg's "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind".
Before that, we hear about Williams's early life in jazz, working with Henry Mancini and André Previn, and composing big band jazz scores for television - including the detective drama Checkmate. The composer discusses his experiences in the hothouse film and TV studios of the 1960s, and introduces his score to the TV film Jane Eyre, for which he visited the Yorkshire Dales.
The programme ends with the first of a series of Williams's concert works - the pungently dissonant, Bartók-tinged Flute Concerto from 1969.

The Essay: Sound of Cinema: You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet

Radio 3, 10.45pm - 11.00pm The live music and sound effects, the unruly audiences, the performers paid to interpret mysterious foreign intertitles, the usherettes spraying the audience with disinfectant. Matthew Sweet explores the sound-world of cinema's beginnings, from the orchestras of big-budget epics to the small improvising bands of the fleapits - and discovers how their ghosts haunt the modern cinemagoing experience.
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Tuesday 1st October 2013
Sound of Cinema
Radio 3, 11.00am - 12.00pm

Sound of Cinema: John Williams

Radio 3, 12.00pm - 1.00pm

The Essay: Sound of Cinema: You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet

Radio 3, 10.45pm - 11.00pm The novelist Jonathan Coe explores how a joint concert with Arthur Honegger led to the composer Miklós Rózsa writing for film, including the scores for 'Ben-Hur', 'Spellbound' and 'The Lost Weekend'.
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Wednesday 2nd October 2013

The Culture Show: Jon Ronson Meets Malcolm Gladwell - Beware the Underdog

BBC 2, 10.00pm - 10.30pm
Malcolm Gladwell is about to publish a book. He's done it four times before, and whenever it happens huge things occur: Millions of copies get sold, world leaders take note, catchy phrases infiltrate our language and millions of us are moved by his inspiring stories and big powerful ideas.
Jon Ronson goes head to head with The Tipping Point author in his New York home to talk about his latest work. 'David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants' seeks to shake our faith in what it means to have the upper hand. In it Gladwell argues we get advantage and disadvantage the wrong way round. Being dyslexic, losing a parent in childhood, being bombed, shot at, marginalized... can all be turned to good, according to his latest optimistic tome.
In this candid and revealing confrontation, one thing comes clear... Giants beware: underdogs can surprise you when they make good the advantages that stem from a traumatic start.

Unreliable Evidence: Instant Justice

Radio 4, 8.00pm - 8.45pm
 A sharp rise in the use of on the spot fines, penalty notices for disorder, cautioning, and other "out of court disposals" has raised concerns that the criminal justice system is being circumvented and undermined.
More than 50% of all offences are now dealt with outside of the courts. Clive Anderson brings together leading lawyers, a senior magistrate and a chief constable to discuss the developments.
Penalty notices for disorder and fixed penalty notices mean police and other officials can bypass time-consuming and costly court cases for less serious offences, but they are also able to "find people guilty" and mete out punishment without legal checks and balances. According to some critics, criminal offences such as harassment and disorderly conduct are being dealt with "like a parking ticket".
The number of on-the-spot fines issued by public authorities has increased 16-fold in the last decade, for offences such as leafleting and dog-fouling, and the number of fixed penalty notices issued by police, local authorities and schools has also increased dramatically. Meanwhile, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has initiated a consultation about the frequent and inconsistent use of police cautions, often for very serious offences.
What does it mean for justice in Britain when criminal offences which were once tried in a court room are now dealt with on-the-spot, with the "offenders" unable to argue their case, or the public able to see justice done? And to what extent do these untested "crimes" lay on a police computer, accessible during CRB checks?

Sound of Cinema
Radio 3, 11.00am - 12.00pm

Sound of Cinema: John Williams

Radio 3, 12.00pm - 1.00pm

The Essay: Sound of Cinema: You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet

Radio 3, 10.45pm - 11.00pm The American academic and social critic Camille Paglia on the film scores which have inspired her since childhood including the work of Bernard Herrmann, John Dankworth and Max Steiner.
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Thursday 3rd October 2013

Bargains in the Sun: Tonight

ITV, 7.30pm - 8.00pm
 Jonathan Maitland asks whether the time is right to start buying into the seemingly resurgent property markets in Greece, Spain, and other countries that were popular with Brits looking for holiday homes prior to the economic downturn in the Eurozone.

Sound of Cinema
Radio 3, 11.00am - 12.00pm

Sound of Cinema: John Williams

Radio 3, 12.00pm - 1.00pm

The Essay: Sound of Cinema: You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet

Radio 3, 10.45pm - 11.00pm The writer and film critic David Thomson explores how film composers create mood and how the best music evokes a place beyond reality.
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Friday 4th October 2013

Sound of Cinema

Radio 3, 11.00am - 12.00pm

Sound of Cinema: John Williams

Radio 3, 12.00pm - 1.00pm



 

The Essay: Sound of Cinema: You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet

Radio 3, 10.45pm - 11.00pm      

Off-Air Recordings for Week 21st to 27th September

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Monday 23rd September 2013

Dying for a Bargain: Panorama

BBC 1, 8.30pm - 9.00pm
Panorama investigates how our clothes - including those of some big high street brands - are really made. It finds evidence of shocking working conditions and an industry that still puts profit before safety. More than a thousand garment workers died when the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh collapsed in April. But reporter Richard Bilton discovers people working 19-hour days, security guards who lock in the workers and factory owners who hide the truth from western retailers.
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Wednesday 25th September 2013

The Culture Show: Northern Soul - Keep the Faith

BBC 2,  10.00pm - 10.30pm
Northern Soul marked the birth of late-night dance culture in Britain. Paul Mason, economics journalist and once a regular at the famous 'all-nighters' at Wigan Casino, discovers the origin of this underground music scene and why it continues to inspire such devotion.
Many of the songs that eventually became Northern Soul classics were once rejected or unreleased. Recorded in the 1960s by African-American artists attempting to replicate the successful Motown sound, these discarded tracks would later be rediscovered and revered by white working-class dancers and music fans in the north of England.
Paul Mason tells the extraordinary story of Northern Soul and the dance culture that sprang up around it, influencing musicians, choreographers and filmmakers and growing into a global phenomenon.

Unreliable Evidence
Radio 4, 8.00pm - 8.45pm

Taking the Government to Court

Is our legal right to challenge the power of government under threat? Clive Anderson and guests discuss concerns that Government proposals to limit the use of judicial review could result in unlawful decisions by government and other public bodies going unchecked.

The number of applications for judicial review have increased rapidly in recent years, at great financial cost, but very few are ultimately successful. Is judicial review a "lawyers' charter" or an essential check on the way government and other public bodies exercise power?

A quadrupling of legal fees and tighter restrictions on time limits for lodging applications will choke off the "soaring number of judicial review" cases brought before the courts, according to Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling. He says these measures will prevent claims being used as a "cheap delaying tactic" in planning and immigration appeals. But lawyers have warned that the changes will restrict legal challenges to local authority decisions, creating the risk that vulnerable teenagers will be deprived of care and safe accommodation.

And Labour's justice spokesman, Sadiq Khan, says, "Recent history has shown the importance of judicial reviews in exposing shoddy and unlawful government decision-making - from the disastrous west coast mainline franchising to the botched cancelling of Building Schools for the Future".

Senior lawyers, judges and politicians discuss the strengths and weakness of judicial review, look at landmark cases, and argue about whether such legal challenges undermine good government.

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Thursday 26th September 2013

Accents Speak Louder than Words: Tonight

ITV, 7.30pm - 8.00pm
 Penny Marshall examines whether there is still a social stigma and snobbery attached to particular regional accents in Britain. A special poll reveals the accents we find most friendly and those we love to hate. Does how we sound and where we come from affect our employability, potential for promotion and success in life?

Sound of Cinema:  The Music That Made The Movies

BBC 4, 9.00pm - 10.00pm
In the last of three programmes in which composer Neil Brand celebrates the art of cinema music, Neil explores how changing technology has taken soundtracks in bold new directions and even altered our very idea of how a film should sound.
Neil tells the story of how the 1956 science fiction film Forbidden Planet ended up with a ground-breaking electronic score that blurred the line between music and sound effects, and explains why Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds has one of the most effective soundtracks of any of his films - despite having no music. He shows how electronic music crossed over from pop into cinema with Midnight Express and Chariots of Fire, while films like Apocalypse Now pioneered the concept of sound design - that sound effects could be used for storytelling and emotional impact.
Neil tracks down some of the key composers behind these innovations to talk about their work, such as Vangelis (Chariots of Fire, Blade Runner), Carter Burwell (Twilight, No Country for Old Men) and Clint Mansell (Requiem for a Dream, Moon).
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Friday 27th September 2013

Rock 'n' Roll Britannia

BBC 4, 9.00pm - 10.00pm
Long before the Beatles there was British rock 'n' roll. Between 1956 and 1960 British youth created a unique copy of a distant and scarce American original whilst most parents, professional jazz men and even the BBC did their level best to snuff it out.
From its first faltering steps as a facsimile of Bill Haley's swing style to the sophistication of self-penned landmarks such as Shakin' All Over and The Sound of Fury, this is the story of how the likes of Lord Rockingham's XI, Vince Taylor and Cliff Richard and the Shadows laid the foundations for an enduring 50-year culture of rock 'n' roll.
Now well into their seventies, the flame still burns strong in the hearts of the original young ones. Featuring Sir Cliff Richard, Marty Wilde, Joe Brown, Bruce Welch, Cherry Wainer and the Quarrymen.

Off-Air Recordings for Week 14th to 20th September

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Monday 16th September 2013

Tax, Lies and Videotape: Panorama

BBC 1, 8.30pm - 9.00pm
The government says it is cracking down on tax avoidance and evasion, but does the tough talk really stand up to scrutiny? Panorama goes undercover in the City to investigate the truth about UK tax policy. The programme discovers how London is still home to the tax avoidance industry and how new laws could allow big companies to avoid billions in tax.
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Thursday 19th September 2013

The Truth about Fracking: Tonight

ITV, 7.30pm - 8.00pm
Fuel companies say drilling for gas and oil using a process known as fracking is clean, safe and could meet the UK's energy needs. Recent exploratory drilling in Sussex has sparked high profile anti-fracking protests amid fears about its impact on the environment. So what exactly is fracking - and why are people so concerned about it? Fiona Foster travels to a town in Pennsylvania in the US where fracking is dividing the community, despite the fact that it is cutting domestic fuel bills by up to a third.
 

Sound of Cinema:  The Music That Made The Movies

BBC 4, 9.00pm - 10.00pm
Composer Neil Brand explores how in the second half of the 20th century, composers and film-makers embraced jazz, pop and rock to bring fresh energy and relevance to film scores.
He shows how in the 1960s, films as diverse as the James Bond movies, Italy's spaghetti westerns and Disney's musicals drew on the talents of pop arrangers and composers like John Barry, Ennio Morricone and the Sherman Brothers to create unforgettable soundtracks. But the role of the film composer would subsequently be challenged by directors like Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino, who showed that a soundtrack consisting of carefully chosen pop songs could be as effective as a specially written one.
Neil's journey sees him meet leading film-makers and composers including Martin Scorsese and composers Richard Sherman (Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book), Lalo Schifrin (Bullitt) and David Arnold (Casino Royale).

Off-Air Recordings for Week 7th to 13th September

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Monday 9th September 2013
Locked Up and Ill: Panorama
BBC 1, 8.30pm - 9.00pm
There is a crisis in police cells across the country, and it is not to do with crime, according to senior officers. The police say they regularly have to detain mental health patients who should be dealt with by psychiatric professionals. The problem is so bad that police estimate it takes twenty five per cent of their time.
With exclusive access to police custody, reporter Paul Kenyon discovers a world of self-harm and suicide attempts which is stretching police to their limits. But he also spends time in a mental health unit, where they say police are dealing with fewer mental health patients than they used to.
Nevertheless, one of the UK's most senior police officers tells Panorama that enough is enough: it is time the police refused to detain any at all, and got on with their job of tackling crime.
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Tuesday 10th September 2013
The Culture Show: The People's Palace
BBC 2, 10.00pm - 10.30pm
At a time when many libraries across Britain face budget cuts and closure, Birmingham is opening the biggest public library in Europe. Is this new breed of super library the future?
Architecture critic Tom Dyckhoff explores the new cutting-edge building to discover what a 21st-century library looks like, how it functions and why it still has a vital role to play in the digital age. Along the way, he meets artists, photographers and musicians from the local community, who are coming together to celebrate Britain's biggest and boldest new public building.
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Wednesday 11th September 2013
Pixar: 25 Magic Moments
BBC 3, 7.20pm - 8.20pm
Through 25 key moments, this programme takes a look at the highs and lows of the multi award-winning animation studio Pixar as it celebrates its 25th birthday, and discovers the secrets of how to make a Pixar movie. With unique access to Pixar HQ and the creative team, it features memorable moments from hits such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo and Monsters Inc, as well as exclusive interviews with Billy Crystal, Tim Allen, Holly Hunter, Kelsey Grammer, Michael Keaton, George Lucas and others.
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Thursday 12th September 2013
Fear and Loathing Online: Tonight
ITV, 7.30pm - 8.00pm
Millions of us spend our lives online thanks to social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Through them we are able to share our thoughts, experiences, photos and opinions. However, a growing number of people using sites like these are being targeted by online trolls - people who seek to cause offence by sending extreme, abusive or disruptive messages, often for their own amusement. Jonathan Maitland examines what might make a troll tick, meets the victims of online abuse and asks what can be done to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made The Movies (1/3)
BBC 4, 9.00pm - 10.00pm

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Friday 13th September 2013
In Tune: Sound of Cinema
Radio 3, 4.30pm - 6.30pm



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Off-Air Recordings for Week 31st August to 6th September

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Saturday 31st August 2013

Proms Extra

BBC 2, 7.00pm - 7.40pm
As Proms 2013 gears up for its final week of concerts, Katie Derham presents the last episode of Proms Extra.
Featured highlights include the sparkling John Wilson Orchestra and Wagner's epic love story Tristan and Isolde with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. David Owen Norris unlocks the secrets of music's most famous chord, the 'Tristan Chord', and Katie is joined in the studio by conductor Simone Young, violinist Janine Jensen and jazz pianist and composer Julian Joseph.

9/11: 102 Minutes That Changed America

Channel 4, 7.25pm - 9.20pm
A seamless historical record of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, from the perspective of the people of New York, including never-before-seen footage.
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Sunday 1st September 2013

Rebuilding the World Trade Center

Channel 4, 7.40pm - 9.00pm
Marcus Robinson has been at the World Trade Center site since 2006, filming, photographing and painting as part of an artistic project about reconstruction, ambition and humanity.
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Wednesday 4th September 2013

The Many Faces of Michael Crawford

BBC 2, 9.00pm - 10.00pm

The Culture Show: YouTube - the Future  of TV?

BBC 2, 10.00pm - 10.30pm


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Off-Air Recordings for Week 20th July to 26th July

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Saturday 20th July 2013

David Starkey's Music and Monarchy (1/4)

BBC 2, 8.10pm - 9.10pm
Dr David Starkey reveals how the story of British music was shaped by its monarchy. In this first episode he begins with kings who were also composers - Henry V and Henry VIII - and the golden age of English music they presided over. He discovers how the military and religious ambitions of England's monarchy made its music the envy of Europe - and then brought it to the brink of destruction - and why British music still owes a huge debt to Queen Elizabeth I.
Featuring specially recorded music performances from King's College Cambridge, Canterbury Cathedral and Eton College, and early music ensemble Alamire; and the music of Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, John Dunstable and John Dowland.
Dr Starkey reveals why Henry V took a choir with him to the Battle of Agincourt, and hears the music the king wrote to keep God on-side in his crusade against the French - rarely performed in the centuries since, and now sung by the choir at Canterbury Cathedral. He visits Eton College, founded by Henry VI, where today's choristers sing from a hand-illuminated choir-book which would have been used by their 16th-century predecessors; King's College, Cambridge, built by successive generations of monarchs and still world-famous for its choir; and the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace, where Henry VIII and Elizabeth I heard works created especially for their worship by some of the greatest composers in British history.
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Sunday 21st July 2013

The Secret Life  of Uri Geller

BBC 2, 9.00pm - 10.00pm
Uri Geller, the controversial mentalist, paranormal expert and spoon bender, has had a life in front of the cameras, a life surrounded by controversy, a life dotted with amazing psychic demonstrations. But most people didn't know that, away from the bent cutlery and broken watches, he had been leading a second, covert, life as a 'psychic spy', working secretly, and without recognition for nearly thirty years. This 'secret life' has included work for the military and intelligence agencies on three continents - indeed, the scientists who first did rigorous research on Geller more than forty years ago (and concluded that he has a phenomenal gift) were funded by the CIA.
Now, for the first time, this incredible story is going to be explored in a new television documentary, with unique and compelling interviews from Uri himself as well as those who knew and worked closely with him.

The Talent Show Story (5/5)

ITV, 10.15pm - 11.15pm
Victoria Wood narrates the documentary series looking back at the history of talent shows on British TV. This final episode lifts the lid on the talent show judges, including the roles they play in creating stars and the sometimes bitter rivalry between members of the panel. Some of the most famous names on television - including Gary Barlow, Amanda Holden, Piers Morgan, Tulisa Contostavlos, Pete Waterman, Dannii Minogue and Louis Walsh - reveal what it is really like to be a judge. There is also a look at how Britain's Got Talent helped bring dance back to the country's screens, and the story behind Pop Idol and its BBC rival Fame Academy.
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Monday 22nd July 2013

Jungle Outlaws: the Chainsaw Trail - Panorama

BBC 1, 8.30pm - 9.00pm
Panorama investigates illegal logging in the rainforest and the timber trail from Africa to West Europe. It's a lucrative trade from the stump to the checkout - that's leading to the destruction of new swathes of vital rainforest and begins with the loggers who risk their lives cutting down hundred-year-old trees for just £2.50 a day.
Reporter Raphael Rowe spent six months tracking logs from Congo's jungle, and discovers that new timber regulations are failing to stop illegally-felled wood getting into European stores and on to the consumer.

Undercover Boss (4/6)

Channel 4, 9.00pm - 10.00pm

Eleanor Kelly, Chief Executive of London's Southwark Council, examines how slashed budgets are affecting the borough's round-the-clock services, residents and staff.

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Tuesday 23rd July 2013

Woody Allen: a Documentary - Imagine (1/2)

BBC 1, 10.35pm - 12.30am
imagine... presents Robert B Weide's intimate two-part study of the multi-Oscar winning New York auteur.
In this first part, Woody Allen talks candidly about his childhood in Brooklyn, his early fame as a stand-up in New York City and his first forays into screenwriting and filmmaking. He discusses his prolific body of work, which includes some of the most memorable cinematic moments of all time.
With unprecedented access to the director, Weide reveals the man behind the trademark glasses.

Cleopatra: the Film That Changed Hollywood

BBC 4, 9.00pm - 11.00pm

Feature-length documentary recounting the making of Cleopatra, which starred Liz Taylor and Richard Burton. The 20th Century Fox's 1963 epic film has been called the most expensive film of all time, the biggest ever flop and the film that nearly bankrupted a Hollywood studio, while the scandal of the on-set romance between its two stars caused a media storm. Featuring rare footage, the film's original uncut trailer and interviews with those involved.