The Great Pottery Throw Down: The Final
Sunday, Channel 4, 7.45pm
Just three potters are still in the running, and as you’d expect, they’re facing their toughest challenges yet. First up, they must create a garden totem sculpture that tells their own life story, followed by a regal devil’s work challenge set by Rich Miller. However, he and fellow judge Keith Brymer Jones aren’t getting off easily either: they have the difficult job of picking the winner.
Céad Seans – Na Cruacha
Sunday, TG4, 10pm
This documentary explores the rich musical landscape of Na Cruacha, a remote valley nestled in the Blue Stack Mountains of southwest Donegal. Despite its rugged and mountainous terrain, a community of some 200 people once lived here. This community spoke only the Irish language, had no electricity or running water, and relied on their music, song and dance for entertainment. The famous collector Sean Ó hEochaidh visited Na Cruacha in 1947 to record what was left of its dying heritage. With the help of Ó hEochaidh’s diaries, presenter Iarfhlaith Ó Domhnaill, uncovers what happened to Na Cruacha.
The Ipcress File
Sunday, ITV, 9pm
Len Deighton’s 1962 spy thriller sold more than 10 million copies worldwide and spawned a hit 1965 film starring Michael Caine as a wide-boy secret agent. Joe Cole now takes on the mantle – and the mackintosh and NHS specs – of Deighton’s iconic Harry Palmer in a new six-part series set during the height of the cold war. Palmer is a British army sergeant doing a nice sideline in smuggling and other illegal activities, until the top brass catch him and throw him into military…