TV highlights: Inside the homes of a Cork hurler, baking, and music
A selection of the Belfast singer-songwriter’s performances on Jools Holland’s shows, including a 1995 rendition of Moondance and his take on Frank Sinatra classic That’s Life, plus a 2017 appearance as he was joined by Chris Farlowe. Followed at 10.10pm by the man in concert in 2015 in Van Morrison - Up On Cyprus Avenue.
In the first episode of a new series, Cork hurler and LGBT rights activist Donal Óg Cusack takes Brendan Courtney from his childhood home that literally sat on a hurling pitch in Cloyne, to the time capsule family home that stands as a shrine to his beloved grandmother, and the magnificent architecturally designed harbourside home in East Cork he now shares with partner Nathan.
Second in a three-part series of documentary films by acclaimed Cork film-maker Pat Collins, featuring interviews and intimate conversations with a range of artists and makers from around the globe, based on the annual ‘Making In’ cultural event that takes place each September at Joseph Walsh Studio in Fartha.
Strictly Come Dancing has a Movie Week, now the Sewing Bee is getting in on the act. Judges Patrick Grant and Esme Young set three big screen-inspired challenges for those left - a jacket like the one worn by Tippi Hedren in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, a transformation involving plush red cinema curtains and a made-to-measure outfit inspired by a horror film character.
On the 50th anniversary of the death of The Chief, David McCullagh authors a landmark two-part documentary about his rise and and time in power. For over half a century, he dominated Irish public life, and his reputation was largely uncontested, but since his death in 1975, Dev’s legacy has gradually diminished. Between hagiography and hatchet-job, where lies the history?
The popular property show returns, and this time Maggie Molloy is helping house-hunters on a budget alongside architect Tadhg Casey. They start by meeting writer Pauline Bleach, who is searching for a home near the water in Clare or Galway having recently returned from Australia to search of a rural retreat in Ireland.
Host Fiachna Ó Braonáin is joined by a Women Of Note gathering from Aoife Scott’s series of concerts which open the Tradfest Festival every year. Joining Aoife are Canadian banjo playing Troubadour Kaia Kater, English singer-songwriter Katherine Priddy and fiddle player Áine McGeeney from the band Goitse.
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