In Latvia, economic hardship and a desire to "go west" have brought many women into contact with unscrupulous "businessmen" who lure women into forced prostitution. Correspondent - No Experience Necessary (Saturday, 6.50 p.m., BBC2) tells the story of two young Latvian women desperate to go overseas to the promise of waitressing work in Ireland. However, the "employment agency" arouses their suspicion when it seeks an AIDS test.
Piers Gough's exploration of architecture comes up to date in the final film in The Shock of The Old - The White Stuff (Sunday, 8 p.m., Channel 4). The introduction of the suburb as an alternative to living in the countryside or the inner-city slums is documented.
The National Development Plan will affect 7,000 landowners and Ear to the Ground (Monday, 8.30 p.m., RTE1) meets some of the 91 farmers in the town of Ballacolla, Co Laois, who talk about their anger at the lack of public consultation in what they feel is an unfair process.
In the 1990s Indonesia opened its doors to the forces of international capitalism, but as Unreported World - Indonesia (Friday, 7.30 p.m., Channel 4) reports, the experiment has backfired horribly.
sokelly@irish-times.ie
