Kitchen Hero: Dónal’s Irish Feast (8.30pm RTÉ One) visits Baronscourt Venison in Omagh and directly after catch the first instalment in the six-part drama The Syndicate (9.00pm BBC One). It’s all hands on deck for the staff of Hazelwood Manor in Scarborough as the Americans arrive for the annual shoot.The Hidden Killers of the Tudor Home is at 10.00pm on BBC 4.
Kitchen Hero: Dónal’s Irish Feast
8.30pm RTÉ One
In the second programme of this new seven-part series Donal Skehan visits Baronscourt Venison in Omagh, where the venison is produced from wild Japanese Sika deer. He also visits Ticketymoo Ice Cream, in Irvinestown, Co Fermanagh and then enjoys a Boxty demonstration in the Kissin’ Crust. Dishes this week include Crispy Golden Eggs with Black Pudding, Pan-fried Boxty and Crisp Apple Salsa; Glazed Spiced Venison with Sweet Potato Mash; and Affogato Alcaffe with Dark Chocolate and Hazelnut Biscotti at the delightful Feast location of Belle Isle Castle in Lisbellow, Enniskillen. Below, Dónal meets Sammy Pollack of Baronscourt Venison.
The Syndicate
9.00pm BBC One
Part one of this new six-part drama series. It’s all hands on deck for the staff of Hazelwood Manor in Scarborough as the Americans arrive for the annual shoot. But with Lord Hazelwood’s health failing and mounting debts of £6.5 million and counting, is there more to the visit that first meets the eye? The future of Hazelwood and jobs appear to be under threat as the staff discover that the Americans are there for business rather than pleasure.
The Hidden Killers of the Tudor Home
10.00pm BBC 4
Dr Suzannah Lipscomb (pictured below) takes us back to Tudor times in search of the household killers of the era when for was a new level of disposable income for luxuries and consumer goods, many of which contained hidden dangers. For the likes of Tudor merchants, their houses became multi-room structures instead of the single-room habitations that had been the norm for anyone who wasn't an aristocrat. This forced the homebuilders of the day to engineer new designs, some of which were lethal. Dr Lipscomb discovers that in Tudor houses the threat of an unpleasant death was never far away in a home not far removed the medieval period . Moreover, we still live with the legacy of some of these killers today.
