The business of management consultancy was worth over $40 billion (€37.36 billion) last year and yet the profession has no set of rules, no governing association, no barriers to entry and no penalties when things go wrong. Masters of the Universe: The Outsiders (Sunday, 8.00 p.m., Channel 4) the first of three programmes, took two years to make, and gives a unique view into some top consultancy firms.
Harry Crosbie visits Leixlip Castle, the spectacular home of the Honourable Desmond Guinness, in the fourth programme of Antiques Watch (Monday, 8.30 p.m., RTE 1). The interior of the Kildare castle and its extensive antiques collection are filmed. Meanwhile, Jim Smyth calls on the well-known salvage collector, Peter Pearson.
Inn 1997, Andrew Bryce a health man in his thirties who played sport for Ireland, took the anti-malarial drug, Larium, before a holiday to Kenya. He has been unable to work since. Streetwise (Wednesday, 7.00 p.m., RTE 1) looks at the increasing number of allegations around this drug. The programme also looks at what is on offer in this age of computer games, and whether parents have any cause for concern.
The new lap-dancing club of former Deutsche Bank analyst Nick Tye has a less than successful opening night in the second last programme of City Stories (Thursday, 11.05 p.m., Channel 4), the documentary series about the institutions of the City of London and the people who work there. Mr Tye has a £350,000 redundancy cheque riding on the club's success, but instead of attracting some of his former colleagues with their fat City salaries, the free beer has brought in a different clientele; scores of men clutching warm bottles, rooted to the spot by the parade of semi-naked dancers.
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