Eamonn Lawlor examines the origins and development of the European Union and the pressures for and against closer union in State of Europe: Europe's Enduring Drama (Saturday, 8.50 a.m., RTE 1). Prof Desmond Dinan, of the European College in Bruges, is a guest on the programme.
A one-off documentary presented by Jon Snow and Kate Garraway, Beef Encounter (Sunday, 8 p.m., Channel 4), looks at the public inquiry set up in 1997 to investigate the scandal of BSE. The programme reveals how science was manipulated to convince the public that British beef was safe to eat.
It's here, a sit-com about a dot.com. The entertaining Attachments (Tuesday, 9 p.m, BBC2) this week finds out there's no such thing as a free lunch - when getting into bed with a venture capitalist.
Tomorrow's World Webwise Special (Wednesday, 7 p.m., BBC1) looks at the effect of the Web on the lives of more than 300 million cybersurfers worldwide. It also previews an Internet-enabled kitchen where everything from the cooker to the cookbook is connected to the Web.
Nationbuilding (Thursday, 11.15 p.m., RTE 1) examines the radical impact architecture has made on the Irish landscape.
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