A video and audio recording apparatus includes: a reservation inputting unit to which a recording reservation is inputted; an area ensuring unit adapted to ensure a preferential recording area in an information recording medium; and a reserved-recording performing unit adapted to record a broadcast program on the ensured preferential recording area, wherein: the reservation inputting unit is adapted to prompt a user to input the number of times of broadcasting a recording-reserved broadcast program; the area ensuring unit is adapted to ensure a preferential recording area whose size is obtained by multiplying the size of a recording area needed to record one part of the recording-reserved program, which part is to be broadcasted one time, by the number of times; and the reserved-recording performing unit performs the recording of the recording-reserved broadcast program on the preferential recording area the inputted number of times.