Gerry Arnold, a pumpkin farmer from north county Dublin who produces 100,000 pumpkins each year for the Hallowe'en market, is visited by Ear to the Ground (Monday, 8.30 p.m., RTE1).
It also reports on a successful Irish emigrant to Vancouver, Canada, who is now a major producer of organic fruit and vegetables.
On the downside, the catastrophic effect that brucellosis can have on humans as well as herds is illustrated by the experience of Pat Boyle in Co Armagh.
Brand New Bra (Tuesday, 9 p.m., Channel 4) examines one of the most complex engineering problems around. The bra has remained pretty much the same since 1914; now multi-award winning product designers Richard Seymour and Dick Powell have spent £1 million sterling (€1.7 million) coming up with a revolutionary design and are ready to spend another £1 million to get it into production.
The mayhem continues on Attachments (Tuesday, 9 p.m., BBC) with porn cyber-squatters trespassing on the start-ups website.
The Money Programme (Wednesday, 7.30 p.m., BBC2) returns this week with a programme about Huntingdon Life Sciences, which is under siege from animal rights activists. It is one of the world's leading commercial research laboratories and it performs drug safety experiments on animals. For the last 10 months it has been the focus of a massive protest campaign.
sokelly@irish-times.ie
