Just 20 years ago, there were plans to evacuate Tory Island but now 200-foot cranes proclaim economic success. Leargas (Tuesday, 7.00 p.m., RTE 1) visited the island and found fields full of concrete blocks about to be worked into a cafe or house extension. The programme asks if it will be a pollution or salvation?
America's Silicon Valley produces 64 millionaires a day but money does not always bring bliss. What it does bring is Affluenza, as this Modern Times (Thursday, 9 p.m., BBC 2) feature reports when it follows five millionaires as they come to terms with their wealth.
The Science of Secrecy (Thursday, 9.30 p.m., Channel 4) a new five-part series offers a sweeping history of encryption from the breakthroughs that helped make Internet commerce possible to The Cipher of Mary Queen of Scots.
Nick Thomson, an executive at family firm Blackpool Pleasure Beach, takes on the challenge: Can You Live Without. . . Your Secretary (Friday, 8.30 p.m., Channel 4), and of course finds that all that administration is a bit beyond him.
sokelly@irish-times.ie
