Monday TV Tips: Searching for a link between two baby girls abandoned in the late 80s
Foundling Helen Knox reunited with her half sister Jess. Picture ITV
Rory highlights the importance of using the best quality culinary knives this week, featuring the craftsmanship of Fingal Ferguson of Gubbeen, Schull, Co Cork.
And Rory prepares soups featuring green vegetables and wild garlic, as well as a warm salad of Gubbeen cheese and bacon, with spiced cranberries and a hot orange soufflé.
The third series of this spin-off from the regular programme sees Davina McCall, Nicky Campbell and their researchers doing their best to find the birth families of people who were abandoned as babies. The participants have never known anything about their biological parents and long to discover the circumstances surrounding what happened. The opening episode (the other two editions are being broadcast on Tuesday and Wednesday) focuses on two baby girls — Helen Knox and Victoria Vardy — found in Chesterfield in the late 1980s. After delving into their stories, the team wonders if there could be a link between them — and what they uncover leaves all involved astonished.
On a cold, frosty morning in December 1988 Helen Knox, then just a few hours old, was discovered in a box outside a hospital. Her parents saw her story on the local news and agreed to adopt her. She had a happy upbringing and is now engaged with two children of her own. But she's always struggled with not knowing anything about her very beginnings. The only keepsakes Helen has to hold onto are the hospital name tag she was given as a baby for 'Gill Scarsdale' — named after the nurse who looked after her and the hospital where she was left, and some photos of her taken with the maternity nurses. The search team traces two of these nurses, Gill and Susan, and Helen is reunited with them for the first time in more than 30 years. It's an emotional meeting and they share their memories of her first days.
Starring Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, and Eric Bana. A 16-year-old girl who was raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe, tracked by a ruthlessintelligence agent and her operatives.
Final episode of this three-part series: former State pathologist, Dr Marie Cassidy, reflects on the issues and cases which shaped her career. A look at cases involving exhumation or applying 21st-century science to cold cases.
European Aquatics Championships — highlights from Budapest, Hungary. RTÉ2, 7pm
A cruel social media game spirals out of control in this tale of sex, drugs. and cyber-bullying. Similar territory to and the recent remake of . Following the murder of a star athlete in the wake of an assault allegation, a masked killer targets students across the campus of Whiton University.
UCC 98.3fm, 5pm: Another dip into uplifting sounds. summed up by presenter and former Orange Fettishes man Conor O'Toole as 'the alternative to the alternative'.
RTÉ 1, 7pm: A Bob Dylan special, with author Sean Latham — coming from the US Residence in the Phoenix Park, where writers and musicians will gather to celebrate The Bard's birthday.
RTÉ 2XM, 9pm: Cork-based musician and composer Patrick Hatchett chats with Peter Curtin about his new solo project, KƷːLU (pronounced 'curlew').
