Can I get this clear in my mind? Are you saying that you view the EPG, find the name of the programme you wish to record, highlight it, press OK and that page is lacking info about the programme? Have you got the Aura set to show the CRID values? (if not, goto settings, freeview play preferences, system information, then red green yellow blue blue, and select "DetailInfo crid show" and set to true). The info page should have crid values at the top of page. Are there any values there for the "going to fail" recordings?
If I've got that wrong, and you mean the info page accessed via recordings, schedule, (name of programme), OK has no programme info, then what about the crids?