Planning a home office? Then hold on to your seat as three young designers take up the challenge of creating the ideal ambience for work at home. One of them combines contemporary and second-hand furniture; another gets inspiration from a painting of Saint Jerome; and the third takes recycling to its limits, in Beyond the Hall Door, RTE 1, next Friday, 8 p.m.-8.30 p.m.
Home mortgages come under scrutiny in Mrs Cohen's Money, which reports how extra charges and penalty fines may be on the cards for mortgagees even if they're not mentioned in the fine print, on Channel 4, Thursday, 8 p.m.-8.30 p.m.
World in Action, UTV, Monday, 8 p.m.8.30 p.m., leaves few sods unturned in an investigation into the world's biggest funeral company, a Texan conglomerate which has just moved into the British market.
Meanwhile, Classic Plant, a new series on the history and influences of plant machinery, unearths the role of the digger in the construction and mining industries, Channel 4, Monday, 8.30 p.m.-9 p.m.
Also delving deep underground is a new three-part series, The Tunnel, which follows the story of the Channel Tunnel's construction, from the time it was a glint in Napoleon's eye, to its completion, with the political support of Mrs Thatcher and Mr Mitterrand, many years and billions of pounds later, BBC 2, Sunday, 7.40 p.m.-8.30 p.m.
Compass charts the progress of current economic policy in France, where the state still owns many of the biggest industries and the minimum wage sometimes increases at twice the rate of inflation, on BBC 2, Monday, 7.30 p.m.-8 p.m.
Finally, the first part of The Ship, a new six-part documentary series on the conflict between modern management techniques and the traditional views of Britain's ship-building workers, is launched on Monday, Channel 4, 8 p.m.-8.30 p.m.
