Work In Progress (RTE 1, Wednesday, 7 p.m.) is the first in a four-part series produced by RTE with the ICTU and the European Commission. This episode looks at what a partnership in the workplace scheme at Galtee Meats has meant for the company and particularly for employee Seamus O'Brien, a life-long union member and ex-militant shop steward: now, he is a maintenance-team leader.
Holiday: Fasten Your Seatbelt (BBC 1, Wednesday, 7 p.m.) sends programme presenters off to try out jobs in the travel industry. One becomes a steward on the Orient Express, another becomes a gondolier.
Continuing to provide cautionary viewing, Your Money And Your Life (Channel 4, Sunday, 8 p.m.) meets Terry Boyd. Terry has lost his car-sales business, the bank has applied to repossess his home and he owes an elderly neighbour £26,000. He blames the receivers. Now, he is trying to start up again, but there is also the possibility of a regular job.
Glaoch Na Mara (Wednesday, TnaG, 9.30 p.m.) is a new series about working with the sea. This programme features a family from west Kerry and asks how their future can be assured if stocks continue to dwindle and EU quotas to tighten.
Anyone with an interest in genetic science will want to catch World In Action: Eat Up Your Genes (ITV, Monday, 8 p.m.) and QED: Quest For The Quagga (BBC 1, Wednesday, 9.30 p.m.). The first is an investigation into genetically-modified foods; the second is about an attempt to rebreed an extinct African horse.
A new series of Riding The Tiger begins (Channel 4, Sunday August 9th, 7.30 p.m.) with a look at how the people of Hong Kong have taken to Chinese rule.
