Business On Television

Despite much talk of European integration and harmonisation, the process of importing a car from the Continent is still fraught with obstacles. Quentin Willson untangles the red tape in Top Gear, BBC 2, Thursday, 8.30 p.m.9 p.m.

Meanwhile, in Co Clare, the founder of Rural Resource Development, Father Harry Bohan, looks at how small dairy farmers are facing increased pressure by way of EU quotas and cessation schemes to move out of production. How important is dairy farming to the region, and could a new research project throw fresh light on small-farm viability? The Last Resource reports on RTE 1, 8.30 p.m.9 p.m., Tuesday.

Uninsurable, that's what you are once the insurance companies have labelled you as such.

Watchdog: On The House reports on the problems facing people once they've been categorised by the industry, BBC 1, Thursday, 7 p.m.7.30 p.m.

The economic turmoil engulfing Malaysia is taking its toll on migrant workers. Some 17,000 have been rounded up for deportation from the area, many of them Indonesians who fear persecution under President Suharto's regime on return home. But even as they are being expelled, many more are queueing up to take their place. John Sweeney reports on the tide of human misery in the region in Correspondent, BBC 2, tomorrow, 7.15 p.m.-8 p.m.

Finally, The Sex Trade A Money Programme Special Report charts the growth in the sex industry in Western Europe generally, and Britain specifically, where annual turnover is estimated at more than £1 billion sterling a year. Janet Heaney investigates how this often dangerous and exploitative trade has become an increasingly sophisticated business, while still confined largely to the black economy, BBC 2, Wednesday, 11.15 p.m.-midnight.