TV3 takes on RTE on Agenda (Sunday, noon) this week when David McWilliams will ask Bob Collins, RTE director-general, how RTE can justify its proposed licence fee increase of £50 (€63.48) a year.
Trafficking in human beings in Sudan is big business, as The Dangerous Adventures of Baroness Cox - Everyman (Monday,
11.05 p.m., BBC1) discovers. Baroness Caroline Cox, a deputy speaker at the House of Lords, sets out on a daring undercover mission to a civilwar zone.
Leargas (Tuesday, 7 p.m., RTE 1) looks beyond the statistics of being a refugee in Ireland and discovers what it calls "the silent scream" at the heart of three refugees' lives. These people have lost the luxury of daily life with their families and going out to work and earning a living. They also face the after-effects of the harrowing experiences that forced them to flee their countries in the first place.
The series on boardroom battles and dastardly doings in the world of big business Blood On The Carpet - A Very Bitter Pill (Tuesday, 9.50 p.m., BBC2) continues with a story of corporate skulduggery involving a potential cure for cancer and hundreds of millions of pounds.
Is road rage a trendy new fad brought on by the cocky confidence of the Celtic feline or just plain bad manners? Drive! (Friday, 7.30 p.m., RTE1) tries to find out what makes normal people turn into monsters behind the wheel.
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