What to watch on RTÉ Player this week? The RTÉ Player team share their top picks to watch on RTÉ Player this week.
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After eight weeks on Operation Transformation the five leaders took on the 5K in Phoenix Park and their transformation to the catwalk in the double bill grand finale, presented by Kathryn Thomas.
After being on the Operation Transformation plan for eight weeks, their health and fitness transformation has well and truly begun.
We find out how far they’ve come in this short space of time and see Dublin Fire Brigade present their silver pin to the Leader who impressed them most over the eight weeks. The journey doesn’t end here, however!
If you missed any of this series Operation Transformation, be sure to catch up on RTÉ Player and follow the leaders progress. Try out fitness coach, Karl Henry’s workouts or cook up a healthy storm with Operation Transformation recipes and find out the core ingredients for your cupboard with dietician and Healthy Ireland Council Member, Aoife Hearne. Available now on RTÉ Player.
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The Works Presents: Fiona Shaw
In the fourth episode of the series, host John Kelly meets actor and director Fiona Shaw to discuss her successful career in theatre and film.
The interview focuses on Fiona Shaw’s famed work in the theatre. While she is known on screen for her roles in Harry Potter and True Blood, it is the world of theatre to which Fiona has dedicated most of her life.
Fiona discusses her childhood in Cork and making the big move to London to study at RADA in her early twenties. After graduating from there, she was lucky enough to immediately become a working actor – first with the National Theatre, and later with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Luckily, there were no years waiting tables and hoping for a big break. However she reveals that tragedy entered her life in her mid-twenties with the death of her younger brother, Peter, in a car crash. This moment had a profound impact on Fiona’s family as well as her acting career.
Until then, she had mostly been known as a comedy actor but after Peter’s death she delved into more serious roles and innovated greatly in the theatre, becoming one of the leading talents of her generation.
John discusses her most famous parts and what they taught her about life and the craft of acting. Watch The Works Presents now on RTÉ Player.
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Last weeks’ Room to Improve saw Dermot extend a 1960's suburban house in Sutton, North Dublin, changing a beloved childhood home into a sumptuous new one for Hannah, James and their twin sons.
With so many family memories tied up in the place, their architect will have to tread very carefully. To give the couple the ‘wow factor’ they’ve asked for, Dermot designed a large L-shaped extension at the rear of the house with a soaring mezzanine level but, even before the plan goes out to tender, QS Lisa and the site engineer Keith realize that Dermot’s ‘piece of magic’ will add 20 grand to the €200,000 budget.
Determined to retain the feature, Dermot is forced to scale back his designs, but it’s the first of many compromises…
Can he bring this 1960s house into the 21st century and still maintain a precious family legacy for its new owners? Catch up with Room to Improve now on RTÉ Player.
Meet new QS Lisa in an exclusive Room to Improve Extra available only on RTÉ Player and take some time to browse some of Dermot Bannon’s most memorable moments from Room to Improve over the years.
Last year, Mark Crosbie, a street cleaner with Dublin City Council, swapped the cobbled stone streets of Temple Bar to work in Manila one of the most polluted and densely populated cities in the world.
This year an Irish A&E nurse and a driver with Dublin Bus have agreed to experience life at the extreme end of their profession as they immerse themselves into a new family and community, while doing their job in some of the most unforgiving and difficult conditions on the planet.
In Episode Two of Toughest Place To Be, proud Dubliner Christy Carey is going on the ultimate busman’s holiday. Christy, a larger than life bus driver with Dublin Bus, is swapping his number 27 route and the Walkinstown roundabout for the chaos and colour of Kathmandu.
He will learn to drive a bus in one of the world’s most polluted and congested cities. He has just one week to get to grips with driving in a country where the rules of the road are flexible, the roads are terrible and the buses are literally held together with prayers.
Can he get the bus and himself back in one piece? And on his return to Ireland, what will Christy have learned and will the experience leave a lasting impression on the big hearted bus driver? Watch Toughest Place to Be now on RTÉ Player.
