Today’s first recording starts with the end of another episode of Bamzooki.
Then, another episode of SMart. Kirsten makes a kaleidoscope.
Morph and Chaz have a dinner party.
Kirsten visits Portland Bill and makes a collage picture.
Mark makes a wolfy collage.
There’s a big floor picture of fireworks.
Kirsten makes some stained glass.
Mark shows a technique of lighting effects by erasing pencil.
The programme is cut off before the end, with a piece about an artist who creates pictures with coloured glass and an overhead projector.
Media Centre Description: The programme that turns everyday objects into exciting and easy-to-make pictures, as well as answering art queries.
BBC Genome: CBBC Channel Monday 10 July 2006 08:45 (Yes, still broken)
The next recording starts immediately after the last one, so we get the end of SMart. Mark and Kirsten try their own glass painting.
After SMart there’s a trailer for Sport Relief gets Sub’d.
Basil Brush answers some questions.
Then, there’s (most of) an episode of Pinky and the Brain which we’ve already seen before. TV or Not TV. It cuts off before the end,
Media Centre Description: Cartoon chaos with the anarchic duo, who in this edition try and get their own sitcom in order to utilise the power of celebrity.
BBC Genome: CBBC Channel Monday 10 July 2006 09:10
The next recording starts with the end of The Catherine Tate Show. Then there’s a trailer for a Celebrities Learning French show called Excuse My French, featuring (among others) Marcus Brigstocke and Esther Rantzen.
There’s a trailer for Sport Relief, and then a trailer for The Kumars at No 42.
Then a trailer for Rob Brydon’s Annually Retentive.
Then, the next episode of Saxondale. Tommy’s daughter is visiting, and she’s brought her new man Matt, played by James Lance. He works in some kind of corporate promotions, and bangs on a lot about free climbing.
Morwenna Banks’ Vicky seems to exist only to test Tommy’s anger management.
She gives him a job in one of the town’s more dodgy areas. The flat is occupied by “Gay Mancunian Heroin Addict”, also played by Steve Coogan.
After a misunderstanding, when Tommy assumed that Matt’s frequent visits to the toilet were so he could snort drugs, rather than, as Matt says, because of his irritable bowel syndrome, Tommy gives him a peace offering. “It’s a leopard on a log. Ritchie Blackmore gave it to me. Now I’m giving it to you.”
Media Centre Description: Comedy series about Tom Saxondale, an ex-roadie who’s settled in suburbia.
BBC Genome: BBC TWO Monday 10 July 2006 22:00
After this, there’s a trailers for Tribe, Sinchronicity and Cricket.
Then Gavin Esler presents an episode of Newsnight leading with criticism of the Intelligence and Security committee.
The last recording today starts with a trailer for Excuse My French, and a trailer for the brand new Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe.
Then, Volcano Night continues with an episode of Horizon – Volcano Hell. It’s a documentary about the attempts to predict a volcanic eruption, and how failure can have tragic consequences.
It talks to Bernard Chouet, who studied the seismographs of recent eruptions looking for any kinds of signals which might tell us when a volcano is about to erupt.
These efforts were spurred on by tragedies like the town of Armero, which was in Colombia, forty miles from an active volcano. Scientists knew that magma inside the volcano was building up, but they had no way of knowing how soon it might erupt – days, weeks or years. So they were unable to evacuate the town when the volcano did finally erupt, and melting glacier ice buried the town 40 miles away in mud.
Chouet found that a particular signal in the seismographs might indicate increasing pressure in the volcano, and therefore more likelihood of an eruption. He called these signals Long Period Events.
But there was another possible way of predicting eruptions. Stanley Williams studied the release of gases from the crater of volcano, gases like sulphur dioxide.
Larry Malinconico shows us a fumarole, a vent where the volcanic gases escape. It was thought that monitoring the escape of gases would give clues to forthcoming eruptions.
Another volcano in Colombia, Galeras, was being studied, near a town called Pasto, home to 300,000 people. It was showing possible signs of an eruption.
Stanley Williams and his colleagues, including John Stix, went to measure the emissions of gas from the crater.
This volcano had another warning sign – a lava dome. Pressure can build under lava domes, and they often get blown out as a result. So the scientists were sure that an eruption would happen. Bernard Chouet was also studying the volcano, and he went further, positing that they would know when the lava dome had sealed, by the appearance of more long period events on the seismographs.
For a while, things carried on as normal, but soon, they started seeing the ominous Long Period Events on the seismographs. This was a sign that the lava dome had sealed, and pressure was building to an eruption. So the area was evacuated, and four days after the Long Period Events had appeared, the dome erupted. Nobody was hurt.
So it looked like both methods for prediction had been proved right – the gas measurement and the seismology. Six months later, Stanley Williams was back in Pasto, hosting an international conference on volcanoes. Part of the conference was a field trip to the crater. Williams had checked the has emissions in the crater before the conference, and they were low. But the seismographs were showing the same Long Period events for the last few days. So the two methods for predicting an eruption seemed to contradict each other. But the main proponent of using seismology, Chouet, wasn’t at the conference, so the scientists went with the science they were familiar with – and the gas levels were very low. So the trip went ahead.
One of Williams’ colleagues, Andrew Macfarlane, went on the trip, and describes what happened when, unexpectedly, the volcano erupted violently. Nine people died in the eruption.
The programme ends with the example of another eruption, the volcano Popocatepetl. Scientists monitoring it began to notice the Long Period events, and consulted Chouet about their significance. With his advice, they were able to track the rate of events, and when it reached a particular rate, they knew they had to evacuate the area quickly. 30,000 people were evacuated in 24 hours. Popocatepetl erupted, exactly as predicted. The biggest eruption for a thousand years. Nobody was hurt in the eruption.
Media Centre Description: Series exploring scientific issues. This edition looks at the work of two scientists who, following an eruption in Colombia that killed 23,000 people, set out to establish what causes these cataclysmic events. Using totally different methods, each thought they had worked out how to predict imminent disasters, until, years later, they tested their theories at another volcano – with catastrophic results.
BBC Genome: BBC FOUR Monday 10 July 2006 23:30
After this, there’s a trailer for Journeys into the Ring of Fire, a trail for BBC Four in general, and another trailer for Screenwipe.
Then the recording ends after a few minutes of the Ingrid Bergman movie Stromboli.
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