May Day TV tips: We bought a (roofless) castle
The Great House Revival finds out how Liz and Gordon get on making their own bricks and firing their own tiles for Sigginstown Castle
How does TK Maxx keep its products so cheap and apply all manner of psychological tricks to make us buy more? Featuring a cast of buyers, store managers, consumer writers, super-fans and the inimitable Grace Dent and Harry Wallop, this documentary investigates questions that every TK Maxx shopper has asked themselves when snooping for a bargain: Is that bargain too good to be true? And where do those brand names really come from?
RTÉ One, 9.30pm
In the final episode, historic re-enactors Liz and Gordon Jones have travelled from Connecticut in the US to create their retirement home in an Irish castle. It’s roofless and looks like it might be blown down by the next gust of wind, but they buy Sigginstown Castle in Co Wexford and spend three years lovingly restoring it. They enlist the skills of the Irish crafts community to help them fell oak trees for timbers, make their own bricks and fire their own tiles, just as the castle’s original builders would have done. It’s a labour of love and could not be more time consuming, but they revel in the battle of saving a historic building before it falls to the ground.
Premier League: v (ko 2pm, Sky Sports); v (ko 2pm, Premier Sports ROI1); v (ko 4.30pm, Sky Sports).
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