Television and Radio Recordings 5th to 11th March 2012

Here are a selection of the relevant television and radio programmes the Learning Centres have recorded over the past week:

Aircrash Investigation, National Geographic
Documentary series investigating flight disasters.
Helicopter Down: In 1995, a helicopter was struck by lightning: the investigation uncovered a design flaw which made it particularly susceptible to being hit by lightning

Tim Marlow on Picasso and Modern British Art, Sky Arts 2
The critic examines the Tate Britain's Picasso exhibition.

The Tube, BBC Two
3/6. Meet the crews of the Tube’s specialised emergency response units as they are scrambled to deal with any eventuality on the Underground. Plus, find out how the Tube copes with the demands of the Notting Hill Carnival

Nazi Titanic: Revealed, Five
This week sees the bizarre tale of a forgotten propaganda film made by the Nazis about the sinking of the Titanic.

Horizon: Solar Storms - The Threat to Planet Earth, BBC Two
Horizon meets the space weathermen who are trying to predict whats coming our way, and organistions like the National Grid who are preparing for the impending solar storms

Nightwaves: Landmarks- Dracula, BBC Radio 3
Ahead of the centenary of Bram Stoker’s death, Philip Dodd presents a Landmark edition of the programme devoted to the Victorian gothic horror novel Dracula.

Aircrash Confidential: Systems Failure, Discovery
Documentary series investigating air-disasters from around the world

Megafactories, National Geographic
Documentary series revealing the biggest and most famous factories on the planet.
Guinness: Exploring the Guinness factory in Dublin, as the staff prepare for their busiest months of production
Porsche Panamera: Exploring Porsche’s hi-tech plant, where the Panamera is made on one assembly line. There are 14 deliveries a day and not a single warehouse or forklift truck

Seconds from Disaster: Fukushima, National Geographic
A look at the worst nuclear incident since the Chernobyl meltdown. As the 2011 Japan tsunami hit the Fukushima power plant, explosions tore the site apart, releasing lethal radiation

If you would like us to record a particular television or radio programme, please contact your information adviser.

Television and Radio Recordings 27th February to 4th March 2012

Here are a selection of the relevant television and radio programmes the Learning Centres have recorded over the past week:

David Hockney: The Art of Seeing- a Culture Show Special, BBC Two
Andrew Marr, a friend of David Hockney’s, is in conversation with the artist, talking about Hockney’s exhibition A Bigger Picture.

Costing the Earth: Nuclear Power without the Nasties, BBC Radio 4
The Fukushima disaster in Japan brought the nuclear revival to a halt. But could there be a cheaper, safer way to create nuclear energy?

Law in Action: Internet Privacy and Copyright, BBC Radio 4
How the law on privacy and copyright, with different features in different countries, should be adapted for the global internet age.

Apollo 13: The True Story, Five
Apollo 13 was one of the most successful films of the 1990s.But how much of the movie was fact, and how much was fiction?

Tim Marlow on Lucian Freud Portraits, Sky Arts 2
A look at the National Portrait Gallery exhibition.

How Do They Do It?, Five
The science and technology behind satellite navigation and the mass production of aluminium

Megafactories: EA Sports- FIFA, National Geographic
An insightful look inside the EA factory, where experts created football video game best-seller FIFA 12

Archive on 4: Playing Doctors and Nurses, BBC Radio 4
From Emergency Ward 10 to Casualty by way of the Radio Doctor, Mark Lawson surveys the rich history of factual and fictional programmes about the medical profession on radio and TV

If you would like us to record a particular television or radio programme, please contact your information adviser.

Television and Radio Recordings 20th to 26th February 2012

Here are a selection of the relevant television and radio programmes the Learning Centres have recorded over the past week:

The Tube, BBC Two
1/6. Going behind the scenes of the world’s oldest, biggest and busiest underground train network. This is the story of how the tube copes with the public’s changing expectations of the weekend and the problems it faces during this time.

The Essay: Men Only- an Informal History of the Male Nude, BBC Radio 3
Series of essays on the meaning of the male nude in the visual arts
1: From Myron’s bronze Discobolus to the marble form of the Emperor Hadrian’s lover, Antinous.
2: The meaning and power of the male nude in the visual art of the Indian subcontinent.
3: The meaning of the male nude in African art.
4: The male nude in Renaissance and Victorian art
5: The male nude in contemporary art, from the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe to Sam Taylor-Wood’s video of David Beckham

Aircrash Confidential, Discovery
Documentary series investigating air-disasters from around the world

The Universe of Keith Haring, Sky Arts
Yoko Ono and David Lachappelle explore the street art artist’s work, social activism and Pop Arts shops. Keith Haring bridged the gap between high and low art, but sadly died aged 31

Air Crash Investigation, National Geographic
Documentary series investigating flight disasters.
Dead Weight: A look at how investigators uncovered a string of errors and false assumptions that put millions of passengers at risk after a small commuter plane plummeted just moments after take-off, killing everyone on board
Ghost Plane: When air traffic controllers at Athens airport lost all communication with Helios Airways Flight 522, their initial suspicion was that the plane had been hijacked, but it transpired that all the passengers and most of the crew were unconscious. What caused the people on board to lose consciousness?

Megafactories: Williams F1, National Geographic
With unprecedented access to the Williams F1 factory, discover some of the most advanced engineering in the world, and the ins and outs of the FW33 F1 car

This World: Inside the Meltdown, BBC Two
With unique footage and eyewitness testimony- from the engineers in the plant, firemen, soldiers, pilots, tsunami survivors, the Japanese prime minister and even the MD of the company operating the plant - Inside the Meltdown reveals what really happened when a disaster unfolded that Japan’s nuclear industry said would never happen.

Jeremy Deller: Middle Class Hero- a Culture Show Special, BBC Two
Turner Prize-winner Jeremy Deller is best known for his collaborative projects with everyone from striking miners to The Manic Street Preachers. As he prepares for a major exhibition, The Culture Show meets up with him to look back at the creative process behind some of his major works.

Archive of 4: The Politics of Art, BBC Radio 4
Tim Marlow argues that Ways of Seeing, John Berger’s radical 1972 BBC TV series, transformed ideas about art.

If you would like us to record a particular television or radio programme, please contact your information adviser.

Television and Radio Recordings 13th to 19th February 2012

Here are a selection of the relevant television and radio programmes the Learning Centres have recorded over the past two weeks:

Visionaries: Inside the Creative Mind, Sky Atlantic
1. Tom Ford. A journey into the world of fashion and filmmaking, following Tom Ford as he prepares to launch his own brand and make his first movie.
2. James Cameron. James Cameron offers a unique look at his remarkable career as a writer, director, producer and innovator
3. Annie Leibovitz. Photographer Annie Leibovitz reveals her creative passion and drive for perfection.

The Essay: On Directing, BBC Radio 3
Film and theatre directors reflect on their craft.
1/5: Roger Michell, whose work includes The Buddha of Suburbia, Notting Hill and Changing Lanes, reflects on the mix of emotion he feels on the first day of any production.
2/5: Theatre director Emma Rice explores the role of the director as storyteller.
3/5: Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher explores how a director must search for the play’s ’inward sound’ when creating theatre
4/5: Josie Rourke explores what happens when disaster strikes and things go wrong.
5/5: Mike Figgis, known for Leaving Las Vegas, Timecode and Internal Affairs, reflects on the lessons he learned while working on big studio films in Hollywood.

Seconds from Disaster, National Geographic
Comet Air Crash: This edition investigates the mysterious circumstances surrounding two of the world’s first passenger jet crashes. What could have caused these fledgling flights to crash?
New York Air Crash: November 2001 saw another New York plane disaster, killing 260 people. Was the cause terrorism or engine failure?
Crash Landing at Sioux City: After the failure of one of its tail-mounted engines, a DC10-10 aircraft became uncontrollable.

Air Crash Investigation, National Geographic
Behind Closed Doors: A look at how a tragedy could have been prevented after a similar design fault led to an explosion on a DC-10 two years previously. Why were necessary lessons not learnt?

Lucian Freud: Painted Life, BBC Two
Shortly before his death, Freud gave his full backing to the documentary. The film shows how Freud never swam with the flow and only achieved celebrity in older age.

Megafactories: Lotus Evora, National Geographic
A look inside Lotus’ 66-year-old home in the heart of rural Norfolk, where CEO Dany Bahar reveals the engineering and design behind the Evora sports car

If you would like us to record a particular television or radio programme, please contact your information adviser.

Redevelopment work in Adsetts Learning Centre this summer

As you may be aware, there are plans for further building work in the Adsetts Learning Centre over the summer, to bring the remaining floors into line with the floors that have already been redeveloped. You can find more information about the plans on the staff intranet.

Olympic Resources

A section on information, resources and images for the 2012 Olympic Games has been added to the Sport subject guide. It will be maintained and updated in the run up to the Olympic Games.

Document Supply Services requests now wholly online

The way people can submit their Document Supply Services requests has changed so that requests can be sent in a single electronic transaction.

The online submission form no longer requires a handwritten signature to be sent to Document Supply Services.

As long as the requester has typed their name in the *YOUR NAME box and ticked the online form to state that they agree to the copyright declaration statement, we will be able to process their requests.

You can still submit using the paper forms on the helpdesks, although we would encourage you to submit online.

In addition, students no longer need to pay the £1 copyright fee per item. Please note that while the items are effectively free to the students, the learning centres still have to pay the full charge of around £9-10 per item. So please encourage students not to go crazy with the number of requests they submit.

If you have any queries about the new system, please email or phone Document Supply Services at Adsetts or Collegiate learning centres.