Brush up your business skills by setting your video to 5.00 a.m. from Sunday to Thursday for Business and Training on the BBC's Learning Zone. Computers, management, skills for work, career moves, steps to better management and improving numeracy are among the subjects explored.
Individuals are working ever harder, despite increased productivity, and on Big Ideas (BBC2, Sunday, 7.30 p.m.) Michael Jacobs, economist and Fabian Society Secretary calls for an end to the treadmill and a reduction in working hours.
"We're living in a society which has become very good at, and puts a lot of effort into, getting rich. We consume more and more things every year - new cars, new washing machines; we redecorate our homes; we go on great holidays; and yet, if you look at the evidence, it doesn't seem that people are actually getting any happier," says Mr Jacobs.
Show me the Money continues on Channel 4 from Monday to Thursday at 1.00 p.m., when ordinary folk play the City whizz kids at their own game.
In Britain alone £1 billion (€1.52 billion) worth of property is stolen from a million homes reports Burgled (Monday, 9.30 p.m., BBC 1).
Our Century (Tuesday, 11.15 p.m., RTE 1) this week covers 1968-1980 and the beginnings of the technological revolution caused by the ever-increasing development of electronics, the oil crisis and the subsequent economic recession and high unemployment.
