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Our round-up of the week's most desirable things - now go out there and get them... LOVE thIS It seems ceramicist Emma Bridgewater isn't the only artistic one in her family -- her mother-in-law, Pat Albeck, has designs on her own tea towels, EUR 13, www.emmabridgewater.co.uk.

The Life Cycle of an 11-Year-Old Boy's Summer ; Fiona Looney's Kitchen Sink Drama [Eire Region]

Here's what usually happens on The Boy's birthday. In the morning, we present him with cards, creased from spending too long in a suitcase, and whatever tat I have managed to scrape together from the on-site shop. Last year, he got an Italy T-shirt and a Volkswagen key ring. Then we spend the day at the swimming pool, before reconvening at the mobile home for a celebratory Viennetta with a handful of candles in it. If, say, Elton John is at one end of the birthday extravagance scale, then it'...

Movie Choice [Eire Region]

Is Anybody There? (2008) 12 8PM, BBC2 *** A sleepy seaside town provides a suitably drab home for bookish tyke Edward, who lives in the Lark Hall retirement home run by his parents. Fascinated with the afterlife, he secretly records the residents on his cassette player, hoping to capture the moment a soul leaves the body.

Pick of the Day [Eire Region]

Tonight's The Night 8PM, BBC1 *** Barrowman's back! In fact, it seems as if he's never been away. Telly bosses are certainly getting their money's worth out of the frighteningly talented actor/presenter/singer (pictured), who recently finished a stint as a baddie on Desperate Housewives. Although he did a decent enough job of convincing viewers he was evil through and through, it's as a host that he really shines - maybe it's something to do with those permanently dazzling perfect white teeth...

Today's Sport [Eire Region]

Satellite Films [Eire Region]

Wayne's World (1992) PG 6.20PM, SKY COMEDY **** One of the more successful spin-offs from america's Saturday Night Live, capturing the mtV counterculture of the 1990s - in such a way as to laugh with it, not just at it.

Satellite, Digital and Cable Channels [Eire Region]

BEST DOCUMENTARY John Sergeant On Tracks Of Empire 9PM, BBC4 ***

Movie Choice [Eire Region]

Darby O'Gill And The Little People (1959) U 11.35AM, RTE TWO *** A poor caretaker is granted three wishes after stumbling upon the kingdom of the leprechauns, and decides to use them all to guarantee his daughter's future. Disney comedy remembered for an early appearance by a young Sean Connery.

Pick of the Day [Eire Region]

Between Life And Death 10.35PM, BBC1 *** Between Life And Death tells the stories of three people who should all be dead - and for whom there is still that choice. Victims of road accidents, they have each suffered horrendous injuries, but state-of-the-art equipment is keeping them alive. The question is, what to do next. The film begins with doctors preparing to withdraw lifesustaining treatment from Richard (43). He'd had a motorcycle accident and was showing no signs of life. His life supp...

Today's Sport [Eire Region]

Satellite, Digital and Cable Channels [Eire Region]

FOR ART-LOVERS Tim Marlow Meets... Ian Rankin

Movie Choice [Eire Region]

The Witches (1990) PG 11.15AM, RTE TWO **** In Norway, young Luke Evershim is told stories about witches by his grandmother, who spins tales of a Grand High Witch who rules over the others. When Luke clashes with the evil Eva Ernst, who plans to kill all the tots in Britain, he realises this is no fairy story. Anjelica Huston co-stars.

Pick of the Day [Eire Region]

Victorian Pharmacy 9PM, BBC2 **** Blists Hill in Shropshire is an open-air museum that re-creates the sights, sounds and smells of a Victorian town in minute detail. At its heart stands the pharmacy, an Aladdin's cave of potions and remedies from 150 years ago, when the majority of the population relied on the pharmacy for their healthcare. In this fascinating new series, historian Ruth Goodman, pharmacy professor Nick Barber and Tom Quick, a PhD scholar in the history of medicine who takes t...