Off-Air Recordings for Week 25th May to 31st May

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

Saturday 25th May 2013
David Bowie - Five Years
BBC 2, 9.20pm - 10.50pm
An intimate portrait of five key years in David Bowie's career. Featuring a wealth of previously unseen archive this film looks at how Bowie continually evolved, from Ziggy Stardust, to the Soul Star of Young Americans, to the 'Thin White Duke'. It explores his regeneration in Berlin with the critically acclaimed album Heroes, his triumph with Scary Monsters and his global success with Let's Dance. With interviews with all his closest collaborators, this film investigates how Bowie has become an 'icon of our times'.
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Monday 27th May 2013
Legends: Roy Orbison
BBC 4, 9.00pm - 10.00pm
Roy Orbison was the best singer in the world. That's what Elvis Presley said, and he should know.
To mark the 20th anniversary of Orbison's death, this programme celebrates the extraordinary talent of 'The Big O' and his relationship with his most loyal and enduring fans, British musicians and the British public. Through a combination of interview and archive, it charts Orbison's career in Britain, from the sell-out tour with the Beatles that sky-rocketed him to international superstardom, right up to the collaboration with lifelong friend George Harrison on the Travelling Wilburys project in the late 1980s. Effortlessly cool, musically sophisticated, Orbison was a rock and roll legend, whose legacy continues to captivate both the listeners and performers of today.

The Story of Now
ITV, 10.00pm - 11.00pm
2013 marks the 30th anniversary of a phenomenon that has become the compendium to everyone's musical memories. Currently on its 84th edition, Now That's What I Call Music! is one of the British pop music's biggest success stories. This documentary special tells the story of how Now grew from a one-off punt by Virgin Records and EMI to become the most enduring brand in pop music. We hear from those who created it, the artists who appeared on it, and from some well-known faces who went out and bought it. There are contributions from Sir Richard Branson, Dermot O'Leary, Dom Joly, Mark Wright, Jason Donovan, Limahl, Pete Waterman, Brian McFadden, Liz McClarnon, Gordon Smart and others.

Britain On Film
BBC 4, 8.00pm - 8.30pm
In 1959 Britain's biggest cinema company, the Rank Organisation, decided to replace its newsreels with a series of short, quirky, topical documentaries that examined all aspects of life in Britain. During the 1960s - a decade that witnessed profound shifts across Britain's political, economic and cultural landscapes - many felt anxiety about the dizzying pace of change.
Look at Life reflected the increasing social and moral unease in films that tackled subjects ranging from contraception to immigration; from increasing stress at work to the preservation of the Sabbath; and from the environmental implications of waste management to the threat of nuclear weapons. Through these films, we can glimpse many of the seismic societal transformations of the Sixties developments that polarised the nation and changed life in Britain forever.
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Wednesday 29th May 2013
The Iraq War
BBC 2, 9.00pm - 10.00pm
The people at the top of the CIA and Saddam's Foreign Minister describe just how the US and Britain got it so wrong about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction before the invasion.
Tony Blair recounts how he flew to President Bush's private retreat at Camp David to go head-to-head with Vice President Dick Cheney. Colin Powell explains how he came to make his disastrous presentation to the United Nations. Foreign Secretary Jack Straw describes how he - and even President Bush himself - tried to persuade Tony Blair that to join in the invasion was political suicide.

Unreliable Evidence
Radio 4, 8.00pm - 8.45pm
Are laws designed to protect individuals and minority groups from offence, inhibiting free speech?
Recent court decisions, including that of a woman found guilty of a public order offence for telling David Cameron he had "blood on his hands", have raised concerns that courts are more inclined to protect the sensitivities of groups and individuals than to preserve the right of free speech.
In the words of Lord Justice Sedley, "Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having." So is our freedom to express our opinions - in public or through social media - under threat?
Clive Anderson and his guests discuss laws aimed at suppressing "hate speech" - incitement to racial or religious hatred - and also wide-ranging powers of the police and courts under Section 5 of the Public Order Act, to decide if words, posters or ideas are abusive. Is the law too restrictive, creating a chilling effect on free speech? Should such matters be subject to criminal law at all? How does our law compare with elsewhere in the world?
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Friday 31st May 2013
Otis Redding: Soul Ambassador
BBC 4, 9.00pm - 10.00pm
Profile of the soul singer, documenting his childhood and career, including unseen home movies that reveal how his 1967 tour of Britain dramatically changed his life and music. Plus, footage of rare performances and intimate interviews with Redding's widow, daughter and previous band members Steve Cropper and Booker T.


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