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- Foster and Allen present and perform in their own musical television series.
- In the 1970s, a young trans woman, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving her Irish town for London, in part to look for her mother and in part because her gender identity is beyond the town's understanding.
- A day in the life of the cigarette. A love of nicotine unites all peoples across the globe, regardless of colour, wealth or creed. Where religion and politics have failed, tobacco has succeeded, but at what cost? For over 50 years people have been knowingly paying for the pleasure of tobacco with their lives, making man's fatal tryst with the cigarette one of the weirdest love affairs ever.
- Dublin 1913 was a divided city. For the poor, life in the worst slums in Northern Europe was a daily grind of toil and want, while the well-off lived in comfort and privilege. Social inequality sparked a bitter conflict between employers and the labour movement, led by Jim Larkin. In the centenary year of the Dublin Lockout, a new documentary from the RTÉ TV Documentary Unit, looks at the dispute from the perspective of families on both sides - tram drivers and tenement residents, employers and strike-breakers. Using family history, rare photographs and contemporary newspaper accounts, My Lockout is a personal and revealing insight into the most infamous labour dispute in Irish History. The documentary features five families closely involved on both sides the lockout; Miriam Larkin is the great grand-daughter of Big Jim. Miriam looks at the impact of the lockout on Larkin's wife Elizabeth and their children. Gerry Murphy questions the portrayal of his great grand-father William Martin Murphy as the chief villain of the Lockout. The documentary also features the descendents of tram workers, strikers and scabs. Tom Stokes is the grandson of John Stokes a tram driver who abandoned his tram on the first day of the strike in August 1913. Brendan Murphy is the grand nephew of Thomas Harten, a strike breaker or "scab" from Co. Meath, who was savagely attacked and killed in Dublin during the Lockout. Janine Kyle follows the story Alice Brady, who was fifteen and locked out of her factory job when she was shot by a "scab" delivering coal on Pearse Street in Dublin.
- A mysterious phone call which questions a routine weather report by Lighthouse Keeper Ted Sweeney leads his wife Maureen to question more than just the weather report.
- In the 12th century, the political situation made Ireland ripe for Norman conquest and the beginning of castle-building in Dublin and beyond.
- As Norman influence spread in Ireland in the 13th and 14th centuries, powerful knights sparked a castle-building boom in Kilkenny and beyond.
- As documented in Leap and elsewhere, castle design soon changed when the Irish fought back against the Anglo-Normans in the 15th and 16th centuries.
- In the 17th century, strategically important castles at Limerick, Birr and elsewhere played critical roles in a hundred years of bloody wars.
- With the advent of the cannon in the 18th and 19th centuries, castles such as Tullynally morphed from military strongholds into lordly family homes.
- As political and social unrest swept Ireland in the 20th century, debt-ridden castles fell into disrepair and into the hands of the nouveau riche.
- There is one question above all others to which Irish people seek the answer: who's died. Comedian Ardal O'Hanlon explores Ireland's obsession with death and death notices.
- Breakdancing and bunny hops feature in two of this week's challenges.
- The madcap game show in which the contestants choose the length of time they have to answer questions by selecting bizarre timing methods continues.
- Filmed in the grounds of Kilruddery house in Bray Co. Wicklow, this programme is a tribute to the late Liam Reilly who was the lead singer in the band, Bagatelle.