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TV guide: 22 of the best shows to watch this week, beginning tonight Keys to My Life, Too Close, Naked Attraction, Uimhir a 6, Frank of Ireland, Leonardo
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Sunday, RTÉ One, 6.30pm The mystic landscape of the Burren has fascinated folk for centuries, and filmmaker Katrina Costello has spent the past 13 years’ filming and photographing in this unique geological wonder in Co Clare. In her two-part documentary, Costello explores the karst limestone formations, the flora and fauna, the underground cave systems and the Burren’s mysterious turloughs (disappearing lakes). As well as capturing the stunning, evocative beauty of the Burren, Costello looks back in time to the early Irish hunter-gatherers, and asks the question: are we
It’s the stuff of classic crime fiction. In a region torn apart by crime, one man stands up for what’s right and takes down the criminals terrorising the innocent. But
Cacciatore: The Hunter is based on actual events in 1990s Sicily, where prosecutor Alfonso Sabella (who’s book
Cacciatore di Mafiosi is the basis for the series) waged a real-life war on the local Mafia. Like they used to say, the names have been changed to protect the innocent – not that you’ll find too many of the innocent here.
Prosecutor Saverio Barone (Francesco Montanari) isn’t an easy man to get along with. When we first meet him, he’s about to turn his boss in for corruption, and it’s hard to tell just how much it’s about integrity and how much it’s about taking his boss’s job. But in the 1990s Italy needs that kind of ruthlessness: after a recent attack left two high profile anti-Mafia prosecutors dead, the government is newly determined to face down organised crime and bring eve