Thursday TV Tips: Hector welcomes folk from all over to Ireland
Hector Éire Nua: with Fabu D who moved from Nigeria to Kildare
BBC2, 8pm
Virgin Media One, 9pm
Season 2. Episode 1: Martin Clunes is DCI Colin Sutton in this tense, gripping true-life crime drama which profiles search for a serial rapist known as The Nightstalker who terrorised elderly people across London in the 1990s
TG4, 9.30pm
Hector begins his travels around Ireland in his hometown of Navan where he meets Nigerian radio star Yemi Adenuga. He meets the Kislinas from Latvia who came here for work and New Yorker Jeaic who came for the language. Hector then goes fishing with a French fisherman that has made county Clare his home. He meets Victor, a Russian man that learnt his impeccable Irish in Moscow. He discusses the daily struggles that radio presenter Ola Majekodunmi experiences when trying to work with the Irish language and hears a heartwarming tale of nurse Patricia's first time arriving in Ireland.
UEFA Champions League: v , 5.30pm. Europa League Group Stage: v , 8pm, BT Sport
Comedian and activist, Jon Stewart, deep dives into important topics in the US, bringing those impacted by issues together with people with a hand in creating them in the hope of finding a solution.
, RTÉ Jr, 7pm: Julie and Phil slip into the Critter Shed with snake expert Collie Ennis to ask the question — why don’t we have any native snakes in Ireland?
, 2FM, 10pm: The Upsetter, Lee “Scratch” Perry, was an inestimable source of inspiration and innovation in a production and artist career that ran from reggae’s beginnings, through dub and electronica, to the post-genre picture, before his passing in August. Dan Hegarty presents highlights from a 2005 performance originally recorded for RTS Couleurs 3 in Switzerland.
