The Rose of Tralee International Festival continues as the remaining Roses strut their stuff at the Dome in Tralee in the convivial company of Dáithi (8.00pm RTÉ One) while Alan Titchmarsh designs a very elaborate horticultural artefact in Love Your Wild Garden (8.00pm, UTV). The hour-long Terror on Everest: Surviving The Nepal Earthquake has previously unseen footage at 9.00pm Channel 4.
The Rose of Tralee International Festival, 8.00pm RTÉ One
Continuing the 56th International Rose of Tralee live from the festival dome. Host Dáithí O Sé presents and chats - as only Dáithí can - to the 32 Roses who have come from near and far to participate in the glittering occasion in this Kerry town. The event will be broadcast on RTÉ from 8.00pm with a break for the Nine O’Clock News. Incidentally, 28-year old Maria Walsh the reigning (Philadelphia) Rose recently revealed that she has visited all the participating 32 countries in the space of her year as the Rose, as well as charity trips to South Africa, India, Chernobyl and Tanzania. You can also keep up with minute-to-minute action from 8.00pm with RTÉ TEN's live Rose of Tralee blog.
Rose of Tralee
Love Your Wild Garden, 8.00pm UTV
Alan Titchmarsh and his team transform a blank outside space at Keech hospice in Luton in the UK into a state of the art wildlife garden. Assembling his trusty team, he designs a space that's modern in style to compliment Keech's modern architecture. They build insect hotels made from giant circular steel gabions that are filled with organic matter, a "bird city" made up of free-standing tables, a pond, a stunning stumpery and an apartment block for solitary bees. Installing cameras that are linked to a room inside the hospice, Alan and his team check the progress of the garden over the year but not all goes to plan, especially when a local set of badgers move in.
Alan gets a real buzz tonight
Terror on Everest: Surviving The Nepal Earthquake, 9.00pm Channel 4
On Saturday 25 April 2015, a powerful earthquake, magnitude 7.8, devastated Nepal, killing more than 8000 people, leaving over a million homeless and causing catastrophic destruction of religious and historic monuments. The quake, which was Nepal's worst in more than 80 years, caused a massive ice avalanche on Everest that killed a further 19 at Base Camp and left dozens more stranded in one of the world's most inhospitable places. Using exclusive interviews and never-before-seen footage, much of it shot by the survivors themselves at the moments the quake and avalanche occurred, the programme documents the terrifying story, hearing from the people who lived through it. With the help of some of the world's leading earthquake experts, it also reveals the science behind the disaster and looks at how such colossal damage and loss of life could be avoided in the future.
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