Off-Air Recordings for Week 18th May to 24th May

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


Saturday 18th May 2013
Face/Off
BBC 3, 9.45pm - 12Midnight
Action thriller in which an FBI agent agrees to have the face of a captured international terrorist grafted onto his own head in order to discover the location of an enormous bomb.
The plan goes awry when the terrorist, having assumed the agent's identity, escapes and destroys all evidence of the switch in a deadly game of cat and mouse.
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Sunday 19th May 2013

The Man Who Shot Beautiful Women

BBC 4, 9.00pm - 10.00pm
Documentary telling the gripping and shocking story of photographer Erwin Blumenfeld, who survived two world wars to become one of the world's most highly-paid fashion photographers and a key influence on the development of photography as an art form. Yet after a mysterious death in Rome in 1969 his name is little-known today, the reasons for which lie in his unconventional lifestyle.
The first ever film about his life and work uses exclusive access to Blumenfeld's extensive archive of stunning photographs, fashion films, home-movies and self-portraits to tell of a man obsessed by the pursuit of beautiful women, but also by the endless possibilities of photography itself.
With contributions from leading photographers Rankin, Nick Knight and Solve Sundsbo and 82-year-old supermodel Carmen Dell'Orefice, it uncovers the richly complex story of one of the 20th century's most original photographic artists.
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Tuesday 21st May 2013

Mary Queen of the High Street

Channel 4, 9.00pm - 10.00pm
In the final episode of the three-part series, Mary travels to Liskeard in Cornwall, where her usual rocket pace and direct approach meets the laid-back Cornish attitude to life.
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Wednesday 22nd May 2013

Bankers

BBC 2, 9.00pm - 10.00pm
The eye-opening story of how Britain's multi-billion pound financial mis-selling scandal came about. With first-hand accounts from bank bosses, sales staff, politicians and customers, the film charts three decades of extraordinary changes inside our high street banks. They brought us convenient free banking services, easy credit and paid their way at the centre of the nation's economy. But as bankers now candidly admit, along the way they abused the trust of their customers, and sacrificed long-term relationships for quick profits. The fallout from mis-selling has driven some small business owners into financial distress. RBS chairman Sir Philip Hampton, Lloyds Group CEO Antonio Horta Osorio, the archbishop of Canterbury and Gillian Tett dissect the causes of this banking crisis and ask how such a dysfunctional system can be rebuilt for the future.

Great Artists In Their Own Words

BBC 4, 9.00pm - 10.00pm

Last of a three-part series which unlocks the BBC archives to tell the story of modern art in the words of the artists themselves looks at how radical late 20th-century artists took on centuries of art history and won - from the notorious 'bricks' of Carl Andre to the 'living sculptures' Gilbert and George, from the shockingly explicit photography of Robert Mapplethorpe to the powerful nudes of Lucian Freud and sensational pickled sharks of Damien Hirst.
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Friday 24th May 2013

Trad Jazz Britannia

BBC 4, 9.00pm - 10.00pm

Documentary exploring the development of Britain's budding jazz scene, which rose to prominence as enthusiasts such as Chris Barber tried to bring the music of 1920s New Orleans to the UK in the wake of the Second World War. The film reveals how some new artists dared to break with established genre tropes, splintering British jazz into two warring factions - the mouldy figs, who appreciated tradition, and the dirty boppers, who were more experimental in their approach to music. Includes contributions by Acker Bilk, and archive interviews with Humphrey Lyttelton and George Melly.