Channel Hopping

SALAMANDER Today, 9pm - BBC4

FOUR years ago, the first series of Salamander followed the adventures of a Belgian police detective, Inspector Paul Gerardi (Filip Peeters), as he investigated the theft of more than 60 safety deposit boxes belonging to prominent individuals. As the second season begins, a political refugee is murdered when an African warlord tries to finance a coup using blood diamonds smuggled into Europe.

PETER GREEN: MAN OF THE WORLD Today, 9pm Sky Arts

ONLY a few short days have passed since Lindsey Buckingham left Fleetwood Mac in surprising circumstances. Which, frankly, makes this profile of Peter Green – the group’s founder and original guitarist – all the more timely. Now 71, Londoner Green was responsible for brilliant hits such as Albatross and Oh Well. He then spent years in the wilderness because of mental illness, before making a late comeback.

BACK TO THE JOY Monday, 9.35pm - RTÉ1

IT is 21 years since documentarymaker Donald Taylor Black’s groundbreaking series on Mountjoy Jail was first shown. According to the RTÉ website, he now returns ‘to see how the prison has changed for staff, the prisoners and their families’.

THE REAL WINNIE MANDELA Wednesday, 9pm - BBC4

WINNIE Mandela, who died a fortnight ago, aged 81, is a divisive character in a way that was never the case with her late exhusband Nelson, who, of course, spent almost three decades in prison. The BBC blurb for this hour-long documentary says that apartheid rulers targeted her with ‘harassment, torture and banishment’, but that she responded with ‘bravery and defiance bordering on recklessness’. It adds that the film ‘charts the role that Winnie, pictured, played in the struggle and shows why she continues to divide opinion’.