Off-Air Recordings for Week 6th July to 12th July

Please email parkmediaservices@glos.ac.uk if you would like any of the following programmes / series recordings.

Saturday 6th July 2013

Heritage: The Battle for Britain's Past (2/3)

BBC 4, 7.00pm - 8.00pm
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?
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Sunday 7th July 2013

The Muslim Premier League

BBC 1, 12.20pm - 12.50pm
Twenty years ago there were no Muslims in the Premier League. Now there are nearly forty - enough for three football teams. To mark the start of Ramadan this programme, narrated by Colin Murray, speaks to star players and top managers to find out what impact Muslims are having on the English game.

Burma, My Father and the Forgotten Army

BBC 2, 9.00pm - 10.00pm 
Apart from a few fragmentary stories, Griff Rhys Jones' father never talked about his war. Yet as a medical officer to a West African division he travelled 15000 miles from Wales, to Ghana and the jungles of Burma. He and his men were part of an army of a million raised in Africa and Asia to fight the Japanese. To understand their story Griff travels first to Ghana and then accompanied by 90-year-old veteran Joshua he goes to jungles of Burma. It is known as the forgotten war but Griff discovers how it transformed these West Africans from children of the empire into masters of their own destiny.

The Talent Show Story (3/5)

ITV, 11.25pm - 12.20am
Victoria Wood narrates a documentary series looking back at the history of talent shows on British TV. In this edition, the programme examines the changing role of the talent show host. Ant and Dec and Dermot O'Leary describe what it is like presenting some of the biggest shows on TV, and there is a look back at Opportunity Knocks and its larger-than-life presenter Hughie Green. The programme also looks at some unlikely talent show stars, including Jedward, Wagner and the Cheeky Girls.
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Monday 8th July 2013

The Trouble with Trump: Panorama

BBC 1, 8.30pm - 9.00pm 
When Donald Trump offered to bring six thousand jobs and a billion pounds in investment to Scotland with two world class golf courses, a five star hotel and hundreds of homes, it seemed to many an opportunity not to be missed, even though it would mean sacrificing an environmentally protected part of the Scottish coastline.
Five years on from Trump's controversial planning victory, one golf course has been built, the hotel and property build is on hold while the accounts show investment of around £25 million and, according to the Trump Organisation, 200 jobs have been created rather than the thousands promised.
With the land estimated now to be worth around ten times what it was thanks to the outline planning consents, Panorama reporter John Sweeney asks if the Scottish government knew enough about the self-proclaimed billionaire before saying yes and challenges Donald Trump to reveal what is behind the Trump brand.

Undercover Boss

Channel 4, 9.00pm - 10.00pm
After years in the boardroom Geoff Zeidler of Securitas goes undercover, and is shocked by the sacrifices his security officers make and the violence and racial abuse they encounter.

Howzat!  Kerry Packer's War
BBC 4, 9.00pm - 10.30pm 
Two-part fact-based drama centred around Australian media mogul Kerry Packer, who fought a cricket war by signing up 50 of the world's greatest players to form a breakaway tournament.
In 1976, infuriated that ABC had been given the TV broadcasting rights by the Australian Cricket Board without his own Channel 9 being given the chance to bid, Packer is delighted when John Cornell, one of his producers, comes to him with a rough idea about setting up a rival tournament. Amongst great secrecy, Packer and Cornell start signing up some of the best players in Australia, but soon find themselves at war with the established game.

Not Cricket: the Basil D'Oliveira Conspiracy

BBC 4, 10.30pm - 11.50pm 
With explosive new evidence this film tells the full story of the D'Oliveira scandal, explaining the critical political role that cricket played in bringing about the fall of apartheid in South Africa.
In 1968, Basil D'Oliveira, a brilliant 'coloured' cricketer from South Africa who had made his home in the UK, found himself at the centre of a row that rocked the English political and sporting establishment. Excluded from the England team to tour South Africa - apparently because of his race - the 'D'Oliveira Affair' led directly to the sporting isolation of South Africa, which became crucial in bringing about the fall of the apartheid system of white rule in South Africa.
Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous events of 1968, this documentary tells the story of Basil D'Oliveira and his betrayal by the English establishment, as D'Oliveira himself speaks out for the first time.
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Tuesday 9th July 2013

Football's Suicide Secret

BBC 3, 9.00pm - 10.00pm 
Since the tragic suicide of Gary Speed in 2011, football has had to face up to a stigma in the game - mental illness. But is there a still taboo in the game? Footballer and chairman of the PFA Clarke Carlisle investigates depression - and even suicide - in British football and speaks to young players, managers and Gary Speed's family to find out why footballers are suffering in silence.

Robson Green: How the North Was Built (1/2)

ITV, 9.00pm - 10.00pm 
The first of two programmes in which Robson Green journeys across the north of England and into its past, to a time when what happened in the north shaped both Britain and the world. He starts by telling the story of coal mining in the north over the course of two centuries and hears from members of his own family what it was like to go underground every day of your working life. Robson then looks at the great Lancashire industry of cotton and how the hard work of the mill workers created the profits that built Manchester. He also describes the transport revolution that changed the face of the north, with canals and railways criss-crossing the land, linking cities, factories and ports.
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Friday 12th July 2013

When Albums Ruled the World

BBC 4, 9.00pm - 10.30pm
Between the mid 1960s and the late 1970s, the long-playing record and the albums that graced its grooves changed popular music for ever. For the first time, musicians could escape the confines of the three-minute pop single and express themselves as never before across the expanded artistic canvas of the album. The LP allowed popular music become an art form - from the glorious artwork adorning gatefold sleeves, to the ideas and concepts that bound the songs together, to the unforgettable music itself.
Built on stratospheric sales of albums, these were the years when the music industry exploded to become bigger than Hollywood. From pop to rock, from country to soul, from jazz to punk, all of music embraced what 'the album' could offer. But with the collapse of vinyl sales at the end of the 70s and the arrival of new technologies and formats, the golden era of the album couldn't last forever.
With contributions from Roger Taylor, Ray Manzarek, Noel Gallagher, Guy Garvey, Nile Rodgers, Grace Slick, Mike Oldfield, Slash and a host of others, this is the story of When Albums Ruled the World.

The Joy of the Single
BBC 4, 10.30pm - 11.30pm
Do you remember buying your first single? Where you bought it? What it was? The thrill of playing it for the first time? What it sounded like? How it maybe changed your life? Lots of us do. Lots of us still have that single somewhere in a dusty box in the attic, along with other treasured memorabilia of an adolescence lost in music and romance. The attic of our youth.
The Joy of the Single is a documentary packed with startling memories, vivid images and penetrating insights into the power of pop and rock's first and most abiding artefact - the seven inch, vinyl 45 rpm record; a small, perfectly formed object that seems to miraculously contain the hopes, fears, sounds and experiences of our different generations - all within the spiralling groove etched on its shiny black surface, labelled and gift-wrapped by an industry also in its thrall.
In the confident hands of a star-studded cast, the film spins a tale of obsession, addiction, dedication and desire. The viewer is invited on a journey of celebration from the 1950s rock n roll generation to the download kids of today, taking in classic singles from all manner of artists in each decade - from the smell of vinyl to the delights of the record label; from the importance of the record shop to the bittersweet brevity of the song itself; from stacking singles on a Dansette spindle to dropping the needle and thrilling to the intro.
Featuring contributions from Noddy Holder, Jack White, Richard Hawley, Suzi Quatro, Holly Johnson, Jimmy Webb, Pete Waterman, Norah Jones, Mike Batt, Graham Gouldman, Miranda Sawyer, Norman Cook, Trevor Horn, Neil Sedaka, Paul Morley, Rob Davies, Lavinia Greenlaw, Brian Wilson and Mike Love.