Friday TV Tips: Brendan Gleeson protests Nazi regime in Alone in Berlin
Factory foreman Otto Quangel (Brendan Gleeson) and his wife Anna Quangel (Emma Thompson) in Alone in Berlin - RTÉ One, 11.25pm
Day 14 of the Olympic Games, as a new boxing heavyweight gold medallist is crowned at Kokugikan Arena in Tokyo.
Races in the men's track cycling sprint final, plus the women's hockey gold medal match
Cate Blanchett and Gerard McSorley, Ciaran Hinds, and Brenda Fricker star in this fact-based drama about reporter Veronica Guerin, who was murdered while investigating Ireland’s drug lords. Within a week of her death, in an emergency session of the Dáil, work began on altering the Constitution to allow the High Court to separate criminals from the illicit proceeds of their crime.
Three men sell their greyhound, thinking it will never win a race — but soon change their minds and plan to steal it back. Stars Allen Leech, Ciaran Nolan, and Tom Murphy.
A Nazi couple lose their son in the Second World War, and retaliate by distributing cards denouncing the government. Drama, with Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson.
Paul is Dead BBC Radio 4 Extra, 2pm A documentary telling the story of how, in 1969, with The Beatles in financial and creative turmoil, a strange rumour swept the world — Paul McCartney had been killed in a road accident and replaced with a lookalike.
