Business On TV

On Sunday, Money Box (Network 2, 9.35 p.m.) includes an item on preparing financially for retirement. It's an area that needs to be overhauled especially since people are now living longer and there are fewer jobs for life.

German companies which imposed slavery conditions on their workers during the second World War are featured in The Money Programme (Sunday, BBC 2, 7.30 p.m.). Survivors are now demanding compensation. Plus there's an interview with Wim Duisenberg, President of the European Central Bank and Europe's most powerful moneyman.

Divided World (Sunday, RTE 1, 11.10 p.m.) has a special on world debt, focusing in particular on Mozambique. Myles Dungan, with an RTE crew, visits the country - one of the poorest in the world - to see the valiant efforts of the people to overcome the destruction of the recent war and rebuild the economy. This is made almost impossible by the huge debt owed to international banks. Servicing the debt costs in excess of $100 million (€87 million) a year, more than the entire health budget of the country.

Julianne Gillen spends a day with Liam Grier, a young, deaf fashion designer from Donegal who works from a studio in Limerick in Hands On, (Sunday, RTE 1, 1 p.m.). Grier recently established his own label and sells in the Design Centre, Dublin.

In Monday's Panorama (BBC 1, 10 p.m.), Vivian White investigates how the euro is working out and asks whether British eurosceptics will ever be convinced that the time is right for Britain to join the single currency market.

Hard graft, literally, is the secret of the successful business run by Chris and Gwen Byrne in Kildare. Ear to the Ground (Tuesday, RTE 1, 8.30 p.m.) visits the couple who own a nursery and who were the first in the world to successfully graft a surrogate root to a sapling using a hot-pipe callousing method.

Blood on the Carpet, the series that goes behind the scenes of boardroom battles and business bust-ups, continues on BBC 2, Wednesday, 9.50 p.m. This week's episode, Nightmare on Wall Street, tells the tale of Joseph Jett, the golden-boy bond trader for one of Wall Street's most established banks, who was accused of a $350-million fraud in April, 1994. It was a case that combined race issues and bond dealing - Jett was black - and stood Wall Street on its head.