Documentary on One - RTÉ Documentaries
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Multi award winning documentaries from Ireland. With almost 1,000 documentaries on offer it has the largest archive of documentaries available anywhere. The productions are radio stories about real life and contain productions dating as far back as 1954. A wealth of life, ideas, experiences, events and perspectives is on offer - but most importantly - stories. Download the Documentary on One iphone app from the App store.
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Ber vs The Big Wheel | Ber O'Sullivan wanted new kitchen presses. She bought a scratchcard. Three stars came up and she was drawn to go on Winning Streak. A good day out on TV? You bet. Money for new presses? Listen to find out.(An audio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland | 6/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wexford Huskies | Imagine being pulled by a dog across a truck-busy road. You don't have to imagine it, listen to this story from the RTE Radio Archives from 2003, in Oylegate, Co. Wexford. (A short Irish audio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland). | 5/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Messing About on the River | The Shannon – Ireland’s largest river is the centre of booming boating holiday industry which attracts thousands of tourists who get the opportunity to chart their way through the waterways on a break they will never to forget. (Broadcast 1980) | 5/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: One Man's Century | Dubliner Alf McKenzie was born in 1897 and offers a unique perspective on the 21st century. It’s a life that takes in the 1916 rising, depression era Chicago, the Blitz in London and India under British rule. (Broadcast 1980) | 5/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Tour of Duty | The British government sent army troops into Northern Ireland during the summer of 1969. Eleven years on - this documentary talks to disenchanted British soldiers stationed in Derry on their ‘Tour of Duty’. (Broadcast 1980) | 5/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Welcome to Holland | A story of hope, hard work, love and courage. In 2004, Grace Harper was born a healthy baby but within a year, her life, and the lives of her family changed dramatically. What happens when your expectations of life change forever? You adjust - over time. | 5/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joyce not Jedward | Ged Walsh is a housepainter with an odd-looking van. At first it looks like it's covered in gobbledegook words but when you look closer you see it's a rolling lesson in Irish literature. (A short Irish audio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland). | 5/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Some Rain Later | It began in very primitive circumstances centuries ago but meteorology - the science of weather forecasting has evolved over the years into a highly sophisticated operation. (Broadcast 1980) | 5/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: When You're Old and Grey | The Nazareth Home is a retirement home that caters for senior citizens in Malahide. It’s a friendly and close community that lives side by side as they grow old and grey together. (Broadcast 1980) | 5/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Elvis and the Most Miserable Woman in Meath | Whatever the weather, the Irish summer starts with the first country fairs. Last week, the Dunderry Country Fair took place in Co. Meath. Animals, fairground rides, stalls and one laugh after another. (Short audio documentary RTE Radio Ireland) | 5/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Letter to Ann | In 1984, Irish women wrote letters to Ann. She was a schoolgirl who had died giving birth in Granard, Co. Longford. The letters were read The Gay Byrne Show. 12 years after Ann's death, Lorelei Harris, a producer on the show, revisited the story. | 5/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Two Boxes | One story is unbelievable, the other poignant: Two boxes, belonging to an English lord, Morpeth and an Irish orphan, Barbara McDonough. Two different boxes but both serving the same purpose - remembering. (Short Irish documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland. | 5/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: What's Another Inch. | Plastic surgery is a now a billion dollar industry but is this a symptom of a society that has lost the run of itself and its obsession with beauty and perfection? (Broadcast 1980) | 5/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Rose - A Day in The Life | Rose Aherne is many things to many people. A general legend around the Camden Street area. She is a practical joker, cleaning lady and the star of this charming documentary. (Broadcast 1987) | 5/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: On the Street Where they Sell | For generations, especially on market days, Irish towns the breadth and length of the country would be taken over by street traders or hawkers as they were known who would set up their stalls to bargain with locals. (Broadcast 1977) | 5/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Secret Chicken Society | All around Ireland people keep show chickens - and with each one comes a dream - to become a National Champion. This is a glimpse inside the wonderful world of Irish show chickens - and their keepers - in the run up to the 2012 National Poultry Competiti | 5/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Litter Pickers | The Celtic Tiger wasn't all about making money and looking after No.1. There were some Irish people who made it their business to go around picking up other people's litter, as this report by Ronan Kelly from 2009 shows. (Short audio RTE Radio, Ireland | 5/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: This Man Had Kept a School | A bilingual documentary on Scoil Eanna - the boy’s school founded by 1916 leader Padraig Pearse. The school would prove to be a success but would never escape the shadow of its founder, its financial woes, relocations and police raids. (Broadcast 1979) | 5/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Birth of The Express | ‘The Express’ was a regional tabloid set up in Louth in 1978 and this bilingual documentary charts the creation of the publication; from the initial idea, to the very first edition and its delivery throughout the region. (Broadcast 1978) | 5/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Pighouse at Cornafean | Mrs Phyllis Faris opened a museum in 1968 in a disused pighouse at her home in Cornafean, Cavan after receiving an inheritance and was to build it up over the years to become one of the biggest tourist attractions in the North East. | 5/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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You Can Stick Your World Cup... | Are the Irish still going on about Saipan 10 yrs later? Of course we are. Go down any street, into any pub and the whole Mick McCarthy vs Roy Keane row is ready to be debated. They may have moved on but have we? Ten years is a bit soon. A humourous liste | 5/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Silly Scully | A spoof caller, "Mr. Scully" with Gay Byrne on holidaying at home and why Brazil's soccer team were 'ballerinos'. We think this may be from 1973, Prescott's sponsored programme. (An audio short from RTE Radio, Ireland.) | 5/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Father Cares - The Last Days of Jonestown | In 1978 the deaths of 909 Americans in a forced group suicide and the murder of five people including a congressman in Guyana focussed the world’s attention on the cult of the People’s Temple and their shadowy leader the Reverend Jim Jones (Broadcast | 5/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive:Sister Has Gone to the Races | An enclosed order of Carmelite nuns in Tallow, Waterford have to raise four hundred thousand pounds to build a new monastry. A task many people thought would be impossible. (Broadcast 1997) | 5/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Globetrotter | A documentary by Dick Warner on an incident packed bus trip from London to Kathmandu. The five thousand mile journey includes stops in Greece, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. (Broadcast in 1979) | 4/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Our Women's Hearts | 20 years after the release of Ireland's best selling home-grown album 'A Woman's Heart', Kiara Murphy explores the effect this one album had on three generations of Irish women. | 4/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Irish Hospital in Baghdad | The Ibn al-bitar Hospital was run solely by Irish medical staff for the Government of Iraq during the 1980's. A combination of tragedy and comedy, the hospital provided a high standard of care to Iraqi citizens during the Iran Iraq War. (Broadcast 1985) | 4/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: History on Wheels | Wolsley, Silver Stream, Lanchester, Model T - collectors of veteran and vintage cars share their passion for their motors. Enthusiastic members of motor clubs around the country organise events throughout the year to showcase their cars (Broadcast 1985). | 4/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Jews of the East End | After the assassination of Alexander II in 1881 there was a wave of pogroms in southern Russia against the Jewish community. This led to a large increase in Jews leaving Russia. Many fled to England and settled in the East End of London (Broadcast 1980) | 4/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Horse Handler Horse Healer | A portrait of 72 year old horse breaker from Limerick, Davy Hogan, who was known far and wide in equestrian circles for his 'sixth sense' for training and taming horses (Broadcast 1978). | 4/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Don't Hang Up: Nightlines | In the deep night a public phone box rings. It could be Margate in England, the Florida Everglades or a tiny town in New Zealand. But who will pick up? And will this complete stranger share their life under the cloak of darkness? (A BBC Radio 4 productio | 4/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Finer Points of W's | A Whimsy of W's: shooting Weirs, Watching grass grow, Writing in stone, hanging out the Washing and Whistling. A series of random activities joined by only by the letter W. (A short audio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland.) | 4/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Appleby Horse Fair | [Download the all new DocOnOne app for iphone and Android] Each year the town of Appleby is filled with the sound of hooves and the sight of bow top caravans as it plays host to one of the biggest and oldest horse fairs in Europe (Broadcast 1978) | 4/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: In a Strange Land | [Download the all new DocOnOne app for iphone and Android] A Finn, an American, a French man, and a Greek tell of their experience as immigrants to Ireland in the early 1980's (Broadcast 1981). | 4/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Jame Gandon's Dublin | [Download the all new DocOnOne app for iphone and Android] Some of Ireland’s finest building such as the Custom House and the Four Courts were designed by architect James Gandon, who worked in a classical, Palladian style in the late 1700s (Broadcast 19 | 4/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Old School, New School | 15 retired teachers from Ireland embark on a trip of a lifetime, as they travel to West Africa to bring over 500 years of teaching experience into the classrooms of The Gambia. A story of old life and new life, of hope, experience and a shared education. | 4/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ballroom Belles | Brian Gallagher's mother, Mona, loves dancing. Her heydey was during The Emergency. It was a time of clothes rationing and when a man could complain if you refused a dance. Then, there's the great music. (A short radio documentary from RTE, Ireland) | 4/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Congo Chronicle | [Download the all new DocOnOne app for iphone and Android] A chronicle of the Irish army's first major peacekeeping deployment in June 1960 when the U.N. requested an Irish force to be sent to the fledgling country of The Congo (Broadcast 1984). | 4/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Wine, Women and Turnips | [Download the all new DocOnOne app for iphone and Android] The skill, the kit and the enthusiasts behind the craft of homemade wine (Broadcast 1983). | 4/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Man of Commitment - Sean Mac Entee | [Download the all new DocOnOne app for iphone and Android] A tribute to Seán Mac Entee (1889-1984), politician and moving force in the Irish Government from independence until the 1960s (Broadcast 1984). | 4/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Unsinkable - Ireland's Titanic Village | [Download the all new DocOnOne app for iPhone and Android.] Will it sink? 100 years after 14 villagers left to travel on The Titanic, Lahardane, Co. Mayo, gets ready to commemorate the disaster. (An Irish audio documentary for RTE Radio, Ireland.) | 4/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dracula was Irish | [Download the all new DocOnOne app for iPhone and Android.] 100 years after Bram Stoker's death, DIT graduate, Fergal Browne finds the Irish influences on the "Dracula" story. (A short Irish audio documentary for RTE Radio Ireland.) | 4/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Vanishing Bookshops | [Download the all new DocOnOne app for iphone and Android.] Visiting a bookshop is a cultural experience, like visiting an art gallery than the local green grocer. A documentary made during the last recession about bookshops under threat (Broadcast 1982) | 4/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Dam-burst of Dreams | The extraordinary story of Irish poet and novelist Christy Nolan, who made a remarkable career despite being unable to walk, talk, or use his hands (Broadcast 1981). | 4/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Pigeon Fanciers | The joy behind the hobby of pigeon keeping. We meet the dedicated pigeon fanciers who are keeping the ancient sport of pigeon racing alive, hear why they do it, and how they do it (Broadcast 1982). | 4/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Checking in at the Central Hotel | Have you ever thought about what goes on behind the scenes when you stay at a hotel? This is the story of a day in the life of one Irish hotel - the Central Hotel in Dublin - now in its 125th year. Stories of poker bets, memorable guests and lots lots mo | 3/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dan Joe's TV Station | 50 years ago, Cork farmer, Dan Joe Kelleher, was helping RTE erect a TV transmitter on a nearby mountain. It gave him an idea: Why not erect his own transmitter and set up his own local station? Welcome to LTV Macroom. (From 2006 on RTE Radio, Ireland | 3/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Heaven's Reflex | In the mid-1700’s, driven by the 4th Viscount of Kenmare, Killarney began to develop as a town and simultaneously as Ireland's first visitor destination. The Killarney Valley has since been recognised far and wide as “Heaven’s Reflex” (Broadcast | 3/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Curtain Up | Oliver Goldsmith’s comedy ‘She Stoops to Conquer’ is one of the few 18th century plays to have an enduring appeal, and is still regularly performed today. We go behind the scenes of a performance at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin (Broadcast 1982) | 3/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docarchive: The National Concert Hall | In 1981 the long-standing dream of many Irish music lovers was realised with the opening of the National Concert Hall on Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin. Ian Fox looks at the history of the building and talks to those involved in setting it up. (Broadcast 1981 | 3/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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My Bar Mitzvah in the Holy Land | Jerusalem was a scene of sadness this week. In poignant contrast, a joyful visit to the city: 13-year old Irish boy, Coby Baker, went there to make his Bar Mitzvah....and to get sweets thrown at the back of his head. (RTE Radio Ireland documentary) | 3/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lanier Phillips - Survivor | How a 'joke' helped free a man from the racism of the U.S. Navy. The remarkable story of Lanier Phillips who survived a shipwreck and prejudice. He died last week and his story is told by Chris Brookes. (Battery Radio documentary for RTE, Ireland.) | 3/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Bantus, The Boers and The British | Rodney Rice gives a snapshot of apartheid in South Africa - a time when the system of separation denied some 22 million South Africans the right to vote, and a host of other human rights in the land of their birth. (Broadcast 1981) | 3/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Smelter for Ireland | Ireland is the largest producer of zinc in Europe, and among the top ten producers in the world. The opening of Tynagh Mines in 1965 and Tara Mines in 1970 prompted a debate about the need for a national zinc refining plant or ‘smelter’. (Broadcast 19 | 3/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rubber Swords | LARPing is a new 'sport'. Live Action Role-playing. Participants pretend to be mythical creatures the like of which you'd find in 'Lord Of The Rings'. Sounds crazy but suspend your scepticism and enjoy Robert McDonald's feature. (Audio documentary RTE | 3/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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000 Ambulance | Irishman, Les Dougan, worked as an emergency operator in Melbourne when, in 2008, radio producer, Kyla Brettle, eavesdropped on the kinds of calls he and his colleagues took. A tense, sometimes distressing listen. (ABC Radio on RTE Radio Ireland) | 3/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Frank X Buckley | He's a former Jesuit, former hotelier, an art lover, gay, contracted HiV - what more can be said? Lots. (A short Irish audio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland) | 3/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Personal Approach | As Ireland became firmly embedded within the EEC, in the late 1970's Terry Stewart moved his family from Ireland to Brussels. This story is a personal approach to their life in Brussels - a new life - an EEC political working life (Broadcast 1980) | 3/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The sinking of the Graf Spee | Irishmen serving in the British Navy recount the sinking of The 'Graf Spee' - a German battleship at the helm of the German fleet in WW2. Weighing in at over 16,000 tonnes, she was a feared predator - until the British Navy sunk her (Broadcast 1980) | 3/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: There's still coal in Coalisland | Coal has been mined in Tyrone since the mid 1600's and when it comes to the town of 'Coalisland' in East Tyrone, its name tells the story. Travel into the past, present and future of coal mining in N. Ireland - through generations of time (Broadcast 1979 | 3/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Frost is All Over | Pearse Hutchinson was a fiercely interesting man with hundreds of stories to tell. He spent his life as a translator, a poet, a broadcaster and a writer - travelling around the world from the 1950's onwards. He passed away on January 14th 2012. | 3/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Radio Broccoli | An Irishman in San Francisco who relaxes from selling broccoli by going out and recording ordinary people with extraordinary stories: like the woman who makes erotic Barbies or the man who was the Naughty Santa. (An audio documentary - RTE Radio Ireland | 3/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Sunlight in the Garden | Louis MacNeice CBE (1907–'63), an Irish poet and playwright, was part of the generation of "thirties poets" which included W. H. Auden. His work recieved wide public praise during his lifetime due to his relaxed, but socially aware style (Broadcast 1973 | 3/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Zimbabwe | In 1976, Dick Warner travelled to Rhodesia to witness the last days of white rule. After a plan was initiated by the US and UK governments, Zimbabwe was born with a new name, a new identity and with a black majority rule. White Mans rule had come to an e | 3/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Dismissal of Fr Michael O'Hickey | Fr O'Hickey was an Irish Catholic priest and a Professor of Irish at Maynooth College. In 1909 he clashed with the Bishops and establishment over his belief in Irish and duly dismissed. However, Fr O'Hickey didn't go down without a fight.. (Broadcast 197 | 3/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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On a Cape Clear Day | Why move to a rock in the ocean? Cape Clear Island, the most southerly inhabited part of Ireland, is home to Chuck and Nell Kruger. 20 yrs ago they moved to the island to write, to host a storytelling festival and to become part of one pretty large famil | 3/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Batman Pyjamas | Dublin poet, Colm Keegan, lived in a Ballymun tower block until he was 5 years of age. Despite that young age, he has vivid memories of the place. While the towers were being demolished, Colm brought reporter Daniel Carroll along for a visit to his past. | 3/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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"We've got your picture; now what's your name?" | In 2006, three people died tragically in the Dublin suburb of Firhouse. The media were criticised for distressing the local people with its behaviour; what actually happened was more nuanced. (A short Irish documentary from Ronan Kelly, RTE Radio Ireland | 2/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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"No One Shouted Stop" - 40 years on | In 1968, writer John Healy published a work that made Charlestown, Co. Mayo famous: "No One Shouted Stop: Death of an Irish Town". In 2007, to gauge the economic life of the town, RTE Radio reported on a day in the life of a local petrol station. | 2/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wedding Bus | The priest who married a man to his dead fiancée....and other stories on the wedding bus from Manchester to Galway. (A short Irish documentary from RTE Radio Ireland - 2006) | 2/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clearing the Killing Fields | The story of an unsung hero. Today, Irishman Carson Harte still battles the legacy of the Vietnam War and the Khmer Rouge Regime years after the wars are over. His aim? To get the wounded back on their feet in the most mined country in the world, Cambodi | 2/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Satnav Rage | They're just little computers that sit on the dashboard to tell you where you're going. Except there's more: they have voices and irritating, intimidating 'personalities'. (A short Irish documentary from RTE Radio Ireland and ABC Radio Australia) | 2/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Little Molly O'Neill | 1922, Alice O'Neill and seven of her children are killed by a suspicious fire in their home. One child survives, 8yr old 'Little Molly'. Now, 90 years later, Molly's family finally tell the story of that night - as we discover what really happened. | 2/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lessons in Love: the Breakup | Hate Valentine's Day? You'll love this: a student doc. on romantic break-ups. Ice-cream and a duvet...or laughing it off with the lads? Find out how the Irish like to leave a lover. (A short Irish documentary from Domhnall Marnell for RTE Radio Ireland) | 2/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Royal Irish | In recent years, record numbers from the Republic of Ireland have joined the British army. Why? We join the 'Royal Irish' as they fight the 'War on Terror' against the Taliban - in one of the most dangerous places on earth - Helmand Province, Afghanistan | 2/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Happened to Baby Peggy | At 19 months old, Diana Serra became a child film star in silent movies. She made $2 million in 1924. Her family lost it all and she had to go back to work again. The story of a bizarre childhood and the remarkable woman who emerged from it. (Jan 2006) | 2/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Beginnings | A horrible topic: Female circumcision. But it's part of a joyful community ritual. How do you change one without losing the other. In Londiani, Kenya they're trying. It's not straightforward, especially with the men. (Producer: Mairead Cullen) | 2/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Continentals | A really uplifting and feel good story. In the 1950s this Australian cabaret band were hugely popular at weddings/parties. They eventually split up. Now, 36 years on, aged in their 70s and 80s, the band has re-formed. However, not everything goes to plan | 2/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wetsuits in Athlone? | May 2005, producer, Ronan Kelly, came across three 13-year olds walking along the street in Athlone wearing wetsuits. Wetsuits!? In a town miles from the sea?! At the time, Irish Rail said that this report glorified crime. See what you think. | 2/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rita Ann and Mitzie Got Married | A picnic in the woods, a walk on the beach - and a dream wedding. In the first year that civil partnerships for same sex couples were legalised, over 500 gay and lesbian couples tied the knot. Rita Ann Burke and Mitzie Murphy were one of those couples. | 1/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Busiest Month | For the Houlihan family in Nurney, Co.Kildare, January is the busiest month. They make a centuries-old Irish traditional favourite. What is it? The clue is in their location and the fact that they have to have it ready for February 1st. | 1/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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My Dear Cousin | A charming and simple tale of life told through letters written over 50 years between two cousins - Marie Rutledge from Dublin and her cousin in America. The letters are a personal history of time passing for two friends on opposite sides of the Atlantic | 1/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Don't try to tell Irish schoolboy jokes to a Nigerian woman | Ronan Kelly attempts a bit of intercultural exchange on the streets of Dublin with a Nigerian woman, Majupe. She tells him about a time she had a boil on her bum - he counters with a joke about boils. Disaster. (Short radio feature from RTE Ireland) | 1/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Bullet for the General | For 4 decades, Major General Hugh Tudor, scrupulously avoided publicity whilst living a careful quiet life in the shadows. But he lived in fear all his life - for during Ireland's most troubled period, he was the boss of the infamous Black and Tans outfi | 1/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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"The Flying Enterprise" | The dramatic story of a sinking ship, the captain who wouldn't leave her and the 8-year old schoolboy, Pól Ó Duibhir, who followed the saga on radio. (A short Irish documentary, presented by Ronan Kelly on RTE Radio, Ireland) | 1/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Sinking of the Saint Patrick | We go in search of the truth behind one of Ireland's worst Maritime disasters - the sinking of the St Patrick, a cross channel passenger ferry on the Rosslare-Fishguard route targeted by the German Air Force during WW2, resulting in the deaths of 30 peop | 1/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Because You Can't Smell Someone On Skype | Ciarán got himself a new phone. On it he found a dating website. On that he found Kelly. Only problem - he's in Ireland, she's in the US. So, not much hope of romance then? Liam Nolan tells the story. (Short Irish radio documentary - RTE Radio Irelan | 1/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Not Bill Gates | Freddie Stapleton and Graham Hickey look at windows rather than through them. Producer: Colette Kinsella. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland) | 12/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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One World: Catastrophe Level One | What's it like to live in a place where it hasn't rained in nearly 5 years? Welcome to Turkana, Northern Kenya, population 500,000. In 1961 the same thing happened and Irish nuns were amongst the first to arrive to help. 50 yrs on, nothing much has chang | 12/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ballymitty Drive-in Bingo | Possibly the oldest drive-in bingo in Ireland - definitely the most fun. Sure, you can play in your slippers and not miss Corrie! (A feature from the mid-90's in Wexford by Ronan Kelly for 'Today with Pat Kenny') | 12/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Reindeer Santa Left Behind | On Christmas Eve night 2010, the most incredible set of circumstances led Santa to leave his injured reindeer, Blitzen, behind him in Wexford in the care of the Mulready family. This is the amazing story of how one Irish family saved Christmas. | 12/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sing Kilcormac! | Lift up your hearts! Hear a village perform a cantata written just for them by composer, Vincent Kennedy and then there's an incredible story about two women and a statue. From Kilcormac, Co.Offaly, a short Irish audio documentary from RTE Radio, Irelan | 12/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Long Goodbye | The award winning tender and loving story of a husband, Matt, and his wife, Mai, whose lives have changed entirely since Mai was diagnosed with alzheimers. This is a story of a solemn promise made in marraige 'In sickness and health, till death do we par | 12/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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"Moscow" Joe's Weird TV | 'Moscow' Joe McKinley was eccentric. His Co. Antrim house, inside and out, was bizarre. His appearance was eye-catching. He was, simply, fascinating. In this extract from "Morning Glory" in 2001, presented by Kay Sheehy, you can hear why. | 12/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sound Matters | A journey into sound and how it plays such an influential, yet often undervalued role in our lives - we explore the many ways sound interacts with us, and how we interact with it. | 12/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kobe Luminarie | At the end of a dreadful year for Japan, Julien Clancy has found the people of Kobe have a most unusual way of remembering their tragedies and lifting their spirits. (A short Irish documentary from RTE Radio Ireland.) | 12/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This is it, Kiddo | The complex and emotional journey of one couple trying to complete their family and their ten-year dream. John and Mary are trying to have a baby through IVF and after many years, this is their last chance. A delicate story of life and hope | 12/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dave Time | You've heard of Greenwich Mean Time and Daylight Saving Time...but, Dave Time? It's an invention of one Dublin man. Actually, it's not, it's just that he's late all the time. Then there's the story of his granny checking out who he's sleeping with... | 12/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Three Rivers - One Summer | One man's extraordinary promise to his dying father: that he would race in the Cork Lee Swim. Ger Philpott had swum competitively in pools but not in open water - he hated the idea. So, why did his father make this strange deathbed request? | 11/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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See, what you wrote? | A group of 10 and 11-year olds quiz author, Brian Gallagher, at the ILAC Library, Dublin: how he writes, keeping tension, the characters' names and, yes, how much he makes from them. Producer, Ronan Kelly (Short Irish documentary, RTE Radio Ireland.) | 11/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Last Summer in Grand Bruit | A personal story from rural Canada, about a community under threat in an increasingly urbanized world and a tender story about the meaning of home. | 11/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Millionaire | A painfully-shy Irishman plucks up enough courage to go on a TV quiz show: he wins £250,000. This incredible award winning documentary from 2006 tells the story of Roger Dowds and the gameshow "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? | 11/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Letter to Olive | In 2001, John and Olive Quinn went for a trip to Rosslare. Olive went for a swim in the sea and as John watched from the shore - it was the last time he would see her alive. This is a powerful story told through a letter written from a husband to his wif | 11/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Now, That's What I Call Local Radio! | The incomparable local radio presenter, John 'The Man' Frawley. The 1980s had Top 40 music and mid-Atlantic accents; he understood the value of conversational radio to the people of Limerick. (A short documentary from 1994 by Curious Ear's Ronan Kelly.) | 11/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wanted: Kidney | Regina Hennelly wants a kidney. She has been on the transplant list for over two years since being diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease in 2008. This is the story of the reality of life suspended on the transplant list and what happens in between. | 11/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Slow Shopping | A woman selling 'redneck wallets', a man selling marshmallow guns and an Irishman, in his 80s, selling Tayto. It's a day shopping in Portland Maine. Slow shopping. Drop into Mike Furey and have a chat - doesn't matter if you don't buy anything. | 11/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Skelligs Calling | “We’re perched on this vertiginous rock, out somewhere in the Atlantic in almost total darkness, with some of the strangest sounds you’ll ever hear in Western Europe all around us…” Skelligs Calling is a beautiful sonic portrait of Skellig Mich | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Oisín's Story | 8 year old Oisín has a rare genetic disorder called Prader Willi Syndrome - this is the moving story of his birth, his life, his family and the people who love him. | 10/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Breaded or Battered? | There's no sitting on the fence with the Wexford Town Rissole - the town is divided. Shane Dunphy has the story of the local chipper speciality. 'Delicacy' is too small a word for the lump of potato and herbs - it's a 'food grenade'. | 10/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Programme For and About You | Do you remember life before phone-in radio programmes, texts or godhelpus Twitter? If you do, then you'll remember Frankie Byrne - sage agony aunt on Raidíó Éireann. Colette Kinsella tells the story of Frankie, her listeners, their tears and laughs. | 10/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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30,000 ft. for Shane | Three years ago, Shane Geoghegan was murdered in Limerick - mistaken identity in a gangland attack. Nothing good comes of a tragedy like that? Not so, listen to Mark Quinn and the Shane Geoghegan Trust. (Go to rte.ie/doconone for the full documentary) | 10/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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From a Jack to a King | A fantastically entertaining story with Ireland's No.1 Elvis impersonator, Kerryman Mark Leen. Full of humour, charm and lifes ups and downs, Mark's devotion to Elvis knows no bounds. From replica Graceland gates at his home right down to his velvet voic | 10/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Big Music Docs | The music documentary is a very special type of documentary. To mark Big Music Week 2011, we're bringing you a taster of the selection of music documentaries on the Documentary On One website. (A short radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland) | 10/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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From Brooklyn to Banja Luka | An award winning documentary - of an international love story that will make you laugh out loud. He's from New York. She's from Serbia. They meet in Amsterdam and fall in love. They visit each others families - and only then realise how different they ar | 10/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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See off the Summer | In Co. Meath they see off the Summer with competitive baking and animal husbandry contests. It all happens at the Oldcastle Show - producers Kate Garry and Derek O'Halloran went along to record the event. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE, Irelan | 10/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Desperately Seeking Sam | A brilliant story of one fan's journey through the GAA football championship of 2011. Paddy Joe Burke is the ultimate inter-county fan - and a barber. Beginning in New York and ending in Dublin's victory, this is a story of football and of all things Iri | 9/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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All Those Funny Z's | Many of the Polish people who came to work in Ireland during The Boom, have gone back to Poland. They didn't go alone; they took a few Irish people with them. One of those is Liam Nolan, who records his plunge into the Polish language and Warsaw. | 9/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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I Can Tell by Looking at You | The story of just how little looks count - an Irish woman gets mixed up in an international identity fraud that involves huge sums of money being laundered. | 9/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Maurice - A Final Journey | This is a story of life and death - of a man, his partner and his family. Maurice Sullivan left his home in Galway for Malaysia in August 2010, never to return. His attack and the legal fighting that followed, have since been making headlines in Malaysia | 9/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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One World: The Future of Food | Fergal Keane explores how closely subsistence farmers live to famine in Ethiopia. In a country of 80 million people and 80% of the population dependant on agriculture, famine has been an almost constant presence in the country. (Made with Irish Aid) | 9/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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My Dad's Depression | A really honest, tender, open and brave story. Much gets talked about depression and its sufferers. But what about the family that live with that person? This is Conor McGinnity's personal story of how his father's depression has affected the whole famil | 9/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nancy Wake and Harry Potter | The story of an extraordinary woman: Nancy Wake, WWII spy, French Resistance leader and saboteur who was determined to 'bugger up' the NAZIs. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland. Producer: Ronan Kelly) | 9/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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One World: Moving On | Hilda Kawuki, the Ugandan aid worker who was kidnapped in Darfur along with Irish aid-worker Sharon Commins, has returned to development work. Producer, Elizabeth Laragy follows her during a week in her working life (With Irish Aid). | 9/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Victim No. 0001 | 68yr old Fr Mychal Judge was the 1st official victim of the 9/11 attacks. As his true life story began to emerge, many sought to claim his heroic legacy - the Irish American community, the fire department, the Catholic Church and the city's gay community | 9/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Conversations In The Dark | Colette Kinsella captures a stunning soundscape: the sounds from Dublin Zoo at night. Most spectacular, the wolves; most endearing, the snuffling elephants. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland). | 9/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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One World: Groundhog - The Irish In Lebanon | As the Irish army re-deploy to the region, Barry Bracken follows the personal journey of two soldiers from early preparation through to their ultimate destination - Tibnin, South Lebanon. (An RTE Radio documentary made in partnership with Irish Aid.) | 8/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Still Waiting for Joe | As we approach the 10th anniversary of 9/11, one Irish-American family still feels the loss of their son - 31 year old firefighter Joseph Hunter. This documentary follows Joe's story from the wilds of Connemara to Ground Zero in Manhattan. | 8/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joy of Afternoon Tea | A luxury, necessity, ritual, habit? Carla Simpson evokes the divine pleasures of afternoon tea through sound, music and words. (A short Irish radio documentary made as part of the degree in Media Arts, Dublin Institute of Technology). | 8/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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One World: One City, One Day, Two Lives | Ann-Marie Green tells the incredible story of two boys in Rio de Janeiro: Jonathan and Patrick, one rescued, one at risk. The story of anti-poverty programme designed to leaven the huge social disparities that exist there. (Made with Irish Aid) | 8/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Logan Way - The Story of the Bulgers | An exclusive interview with William Bulger, who for the first time since 1992, speaks out about his political career and his brother - notorious gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger. | 8/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cork City Memory Map | Imagine being able to go up and touch the wall of a building and hear the stories associated with it. The Cork City Memory Map will be something like that for smartphones. Cliona O'Carroll of UCC Folklore Dept. and The Northside Folklore Project explain | 8/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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One World: Malaria 2.0 | Microsoft's Bill Gates dreams of eradicating malaria; he's given millions to those working on the problem. In this fascinating story, Elizabeth O'Neill meets people receiving Gates' money, including a Dublin man with an invention inspired by spy movies. | 8/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Breaking Records | Can anything good come of riots? Maybe music. In the summer of the London riots, a new documentary from Delaney Hall on the New York riots of 1977 and their impact on hip-hop music. (Short radio documentary from inthedarkradio.org on RTE Radio Ireland | 8/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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One World: Oil in Uganda - The trickle down effect | The largest onshore oilfield in sub-Saharan Africa has been discovered in Uganda with the involvement of Irish-founded company, Tullow Oil. Tim Desmond asks who benefits from this discovery and will it change the lives of Ugandans? (Funded by Irish Aid) | 8/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Through A Chink Too Wide... | ...there comes no wonder. Kavanagh's line applied to story-telling, well-illustrated by two radio students': Diane McSweeney's story of a flamboyant funeral and Bernard Reilly's of a train passenger who listens in on others' conversations. | 8/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An Irishman Chained to the Truth | Delving into his family history, Allan Smith finds himself on a journey to Hollyood - his great great uncle Brian Desmond Hurst was the most prolific Irish film director of the 20th century - and Allan uncovers his adventures in Tinseltown. | 8/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Star Boy | An adventure without words - go on a magical audio journey with Joe Brennan's "Star Boy" and children in An Grianán Theatre, Letterkenny during the 2011 Earagail Arts Festival. Music by Christofer Walker. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Ireland | 8/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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One World: "Part of the Family?" | Philippinas are prized as the "BMW" of domestic workers in Ireland. What's their experience? One woman's story of work in Ireland to build a small empire back home. Producer, Kay Sheehy. Part of the "One World" series in partnership with Irish Aid. | 8/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mat the Goalie | Mat Greg loves a group of footballers he says are 'neglected': goalies. They get the blame, rarely credit and have one chance to be a hero: penalties. He talks of smells and mistakes. Learn about goalies and you learn about life. (Terry Flanagan reports) | 7/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ring Girls | Their uniform is a bikini; their workplace is the boxing ring - the life of the 'Ring Girls'. | 7/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Walk Around The Village | Manchán Magann wanted to experience a different Africa so he went to a small village and stayed in a guesthouse. The night's entertainment included a tour around the village in the company of two boys who filled him in on all the gossip and characters. | 7/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kerry and the Tramp | The untold story of Charlie Chaplin and how he found shelter and solace from the world on the edge of Europe, and why the locals of Waterville, Co. Kerry felt the need to honour his presence with a permanent statue on the sea front. | 7/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mine's A Pint | The journey of a pint of blood from donation to patient - from vein to vein. Orla Rogers tells the fascinating story and hears from Susan who has every reason to be grateful to blood donors - so much so that her husband has made a particular pledge. | 7/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cork's Hidden Village | A fabulously witty and charming journey into Cork City's English Market. Recorded over a year, this a story that weaves its way through two centuries - overcoming fires, famine, rebellion and war - culminating with a royal visit by the Queen of England. | 7/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Made In Temple Bar | Give some artists and producers a topic and ask them to come up with a Curious Ear - then sit back and enjoy. Temple Bar Cultural Trust commissioned 7 programmes for the Made In Temple Bar Festival - here are a few wonderful extracts. | 7/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The House That Ronald Built | The Ronald McDonald House on the grounds of Crumlin Childrens Hospital in Dublin, provides a home from home for families of seriously ill children, as they attempt to create a semblance of a normal life in extremely abnormal circumstances. | 7/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sinking of Asgard II | The incredible minute-by-minute story of the sinking of a tall ship. On Sept. 11, 2008, the "Asgard II" sank in the Bay of Biscay. Student radio producer, Stephen Long of DCU, tells the story of that night through eyewitness interviews. | 7/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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My Name is Lydia Foy | Lydia Foy was born in 1947 and registered as a baby boy. When she realised her true identity, as a woman, she discovered something missing - a birth certificate. This is the story of a woman who has fought for her identity in life and in the legal system | 7/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Two Ears | A wonderful tale of good farming, good radio and a voice from the past. Radio producer Tim Lehane found an old tape in his attic. It was the favourite piece of RTE agriculture journalist Joe Murray, about the early harvest in 1992. Joe died in May 2011. | 6/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cocaine Diaries: Story of a Drug Mule | August 2008, Dubliner Paul agrees with a local gang to conceal 6kg of cocaine in his luggage. He thought it'd be the easiest 15k he'd ever make. But not everything went to plan- landing him in the deadly and violent compound of Los Teques prison, Venezue | 6/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hidden Sounds of Temple Bar | Wildlife sound recordist, Tom Lawrence, takes his microphones into Dublin City Centre and the Temple Bar area to find some of the weirdest and creepiest sounds you're going to hear. (A short Irish documentary commissioned by Made In Temple Bar Festival) | 6/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Don't go far - Grand Winner@ 2011 New York Festivals | ..... Your Dinner's nearly ready! The mad adventure of two Dublin children in August 1985 who bunked off school, chanced a free ride on the DART and ended in New York. | 6/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Long Walk of Brother Benedict - Gold Award Winner at 2011 New York Festivals | A Catholic brother walks out of monastic life in Sydney leaving behind him 25 years of religious service and a pot burning on the stove. Linda Neil tries to solve the mystery of Brother Benedict and tells the story of a daughter's search for her father | 6/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Heroes of the Caribbean - Award Winner at 2011 New York Festivals | John Kenny (RTE Sport) tells the story of Irish Cricket. In particular, he looks back at the 2007 Cricket World Cup. After 150 years of being bowled out, the Irish cricket team bowled everyone over with incredible performances at CWC07 - A new era was bo | 6/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dogfight: Conor and Charlie - Award Winner at 2011 New York Festivals | When the 2011 Irish General Election was called, Conor Lenihan and Charlie O'Connor were sitting TD's in Government. Battling through their 4 week campaign trail to retain their seats, the mood they faced was grim, the anger palpable and the outlook blea | 6/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Caretaker - Bronze Award Winner at 2011 New York Festivals | This is a classic who dunnit story? It was only in 1991 when priceless Islamic manuscripts came up for private sale around Europe - that questions began to arise. Those questions led a path back to the Chester Beatty library in Dublin to an insider theft | 6/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Age of Attraction - Gold Award Winner at 2011 New York Festivals | Bill and Tom are two 'ordinary' men battling a sexual attraction to children they've never understood. They defy the stereotype of paedophiles as predatory monsters. This documentary goes behind the hysteria to tackle a very difficult subject - paedophil | 6/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Searching for Answers - Gold Award Winner at 2011 New York Festivals | In 1975 and 1976 two fishing trawlers sank at the exact same spot off the coast of West Donegal with the loss of 11 lives. Over 35 yrs later, Helena Gallagher, a daughter of one of the men who drowned, goes 'Searching of answers'. | 6/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Los Preciosos - Gold Award Winner at 2011 New York Festivals | A beautiful story of adoption from rural East Cork. Two children from Guatemala, Jacobo aged 4 and Natalie aged 5. Their father, Vittorio, is Italian. Their mother, Jools, is English. A family from three countries - making their home in a fourth, Ireland | 6/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In The Same Boat - Gold Award Winner at 2011 New York Festivals | This documentary has just won a coveted Gracie Award from Beverly Hills, LA! We tell the story of forty women and two dragons who take to the water for the launch of a unique project for breast cancer survivors, Ireland's first dragon boat racing team. | 6/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Never No More: Maura Laverty Remembered | Celebrity chef, agony aunt, novelist and the author of Ireland's first television soap Tolka Row: the remarkable life story of Maura Laverty who was a household name 50 years ago, one of very few women in Irish public life at that time. | 6/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Good Day At Blackrock | A man fulfills a promise to his 13-year old self by visiting the place his grandfather died, Blackrock island, Co.Mayo. (A short radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland.) | 6/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Survival of an Island | On Arranmore - one of the few inhabited islands off the Donegal coast - fishing has sustained a population for generations. Now, as the fishing industry there collapses under EU and Irish fishing laws, with it goes the life and community of the island. | 6/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Amazing 'James Barry' | Margaret Bulkeley wanted to become a doctor. It was the early 1800s and she didn't stand a chance. Unless.... she became a man..... And James Barry was one of the most brilliant doctors at the time..... (Extract of a Breege Brennan documentary) | 6/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Walsh Cassidys at Lissadell House | This doc just won top radio prize at the 2011 National Justice Media Awards. In 2003, Edward Walsh and Constance Cassidy bought Lissadell House, Sligo to make the estate into a flagship for tourism - but after an 18 month legal battle, their dream is ove | 6/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Heel Toe Step Together | A beautiful story. Forget your celebrity 'Strictly Come Dancing' - this is the real deal. A chance meeting in East London leads to an unlikely friendship through dance as 86yr old Bob teaches 28yr year old Katie to waltz. Gold Award Winner @ UK Sony awar | 6/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fryeburg Fair | You don't think of America for pilgrimages but, every year, thousands of 'pilgrims' head for the Fryeburg Fair in Maine. They go for the racing, the rides, the farm animals and the fast food. The sounds are fantastic and the sight of the draught horses. | 6/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Diary of Leanne Wolfe | A multi-award winning documentary. In 2007, schoolgirl Leanne Wolfe committed suicide. The morning of her funeral, her older sister discovered Leanne's diaries and to her horror, she discovered that her sister was bullied by 6 girls for the last 5 years | 6/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Catacombs | 'The Catacombs' was a night club that operated from the basement of 13 Fitzwilliam Place, in the centre of Dublin, in the late 1940's. It attracted a bohmemian crowd. This is a snap shot of being young and talented in the Dublin of the 1940's. | 6/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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12 Steps on Abbey Street | Over 2,000 people visit the Dublin Central Mission every week. Some are dancing, some are praying, others are battling drug/drink/gambling/sex addiction and the list goes on - with a total of 56 groups meeting weekly. Come inside with us to find out more | 5/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lost In Holland | Getting lost can be fun. If you do it in HIlversum, Holland, you may come across a house with "Céad Míle Fáilte" on the front. It's owned by a Dutch couple who have fallen for Ireland so much, they want to move here. (Short radio documentary Ireland) | 5/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Foley | The story of Jack Foley, a former dock worker who, when working at Universal Pictures, created a method of adding sounds to films, known now as the 'Art of Foley'. Every film now has sound dubbed in - yet the real sources of these sounds are unimaginable | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Moneyless Mark | What would compel someone give away all of their material possessions, empty their bank account and commit to living a life with no money? Thrity-two year old Donegal man Mark Boyle has been living completely without money for over two years - by choice. | 5/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bray Roadshow | Before package holidays, Bray, Co.Wicklow was the Blackpool of Ireland for holidaymakers. Sea, amusements and "Roadshows" - variety shows put on in temporary, 'fit-up' theatres in the town of music, dancing and one-act plays. Oooh, the memories and craic | 5/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The 1916 Room with Dr. Garret Fitzgerald | The 1916 room was set up with the premise of bringing 4 people back in time, and in their memories, to where they were in 1966, 50yrs after the Easter Rising, asking them what 1916 meant and what effect it had on their lives and families subsequently? | 5/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Annotated Jack | This doc has just won a 2011 Prix Marulic award from Croatia. A tale of two "Jacks": one a hero of traditional folktales: the other a retired fisherman passing the time in his fishing stage spinning tales of his youth. You'll find them both in Newfoundla | 5/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Obama on 145th Street | The night President Obama got elected 145th Street in Harlem, NY city rocked. It was a night of talk, memory, partying and singing with the local community, some of whom could trace their roots back just a few generations to slavery in the Southern State | 5/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Olivia's Farm | Ireland - a Farming Nation. But in the 21st century what's it like to be a single female farmer running a 200 acre farm? We follow 35-year-old Olivia Hynes, a beef and sheep farmer from Roscommon, as new life comes to her farm over the busy Spring period | 5/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Eulogy For A Sound | January 2011, foghorns went silent on Irish lighthouses. Student radio producer, Jason Murphy (www.boreenbroadcasts.com )weaves a lament with sounds, music and comments from Cork coastal people. See the amazing photo from photographer, 2c, on the websit | 5/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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TwitterOnTrial | A unique documentary experiment that, with the help of five experienced Twitterers and one complete Twitter newbie, attempts to put the much talked about social networking service through its paces - #Twitterontrial by @patomahony1 and @RTEDocOnOne | 5/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Obama '08 | As Ireland becomes gripped by 'Obama mania' ahead of a visit by the 44th President of the United States, RTE's Fergal Keane travels back to 2008 when Barrack H. Obama went on the campaign trail - from the early primaries right through to the inauguration | 5/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mitchin' With Dylan | Kevin Dolan, DCU student, tells the great story of Bob Dylan's 1965 song, "Like A Rolling Stone" and its impact on him as a teenager. (Radio people spend years trying to sound as laid back as Kevin does - something to do with listening to Dylan, perhaps. | 4/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An Extraordinary Affair | The story of a scandalous liaison between two Irish women - Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby. Long before the civil partnership bill, were these lovers - two upper-class Anglo-Irish women from Kilkenny - the first ever lesbians to 'come out' in Ireland? | 4/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Convict of the Road | One of our most popular docs ever with multiple awards, this doc tells the story of Mick Murphy, winner of the 1958 Rás - a cycle race around Ireland. It's an unbelieveable story - broken collarbone, body-snatchers, stealing a bike, drinking cow's blood. | 4/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Boys of Foley Street | This award winning documentary began in 1975 when Pat Kenny made a documentary about a group of young men from inner city Dublin. It was a subject Pat returned to again in 1988. In 2008, Ciaran Cassidy attempts to find out how these boys lives ended up. | 4/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reluctant Comedienne | Alison Spittle tells audiences that she's half-Traveller, half-English. She hates that - not her background, the fact that she uses it in her act - she feels she's stabbing her family in the back. A comedienne with a very Irish background. | 4/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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House | In the early 1990's, dance music in Ireland was a strictly word-of-mouth thing with virtually no 'rave' music played on the radio. It was a scene based on insider knowledge of clubs and music. This story looks at the birth of the rave culture in Ireland | 4/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr. Slotover Remembers The Rising | One of Max Leonard Slotover's earliest memory is of being stopped by an IRA man in St.Stephen's Green on Easter Monday 1916. His later memories are only slightly less exciting including a stint on The Gate stage with Orson Welles and lessons in drinking. | 4/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reflections on a Window | Fr.Colm Kilcoyne is a retired priest living in his home town of Castlebar. Over the years he has returned again and again to the stained glass window in his local church; seeking answers in the stories there. (Short Irish radio documentary on RTE Irelan | 4/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hidden Heroes of the Belfast Blitz | 70 yrs ago, on Apr 15th 1941, Germany rained down bombs on Belfast - part of their WW2 offensive on Britain. The hidden story of that night is how the Republic of Ireland put its neutrality at risk by sending its firemen to help their northern brethern. | 4/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Open FM | Summer 2010, 70 people got together in a hotel. They thought they were running a gay radio station until a man in a brown suit with great hair came into the room and said they would communicate with The Universe. Not just a gay station but a joyful one | 4/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mighty Mac - Prix Europa Winner 2009 | This doc won Best Radio Documentary in Europe for 2009. One of our all time great listens - this story has everything. Limerick man, Ger MacNamara ia master upholsterer and world champion power lifter, and we join him as he embarks on two challenges. | 4/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ballyfin - A boarding school memory | An award winning intimate, poignant and beautiful documentary from John Quinn as he remembers back to his 5 years at boarding school in the Patrician College, Ballyfin, Laois in the 1950's. A window into the Ireland that once was and largely dissappeared | 4/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Vinyl Fantasy | No-one ever says "Come around and listen to my latest download". D.I.T. student, Robert McDonald marks the passing of vinyl - its decline began when he was still a child. Featuring Irish radio legend, Pat James. (The Curious Ear - short Irish radio docs | 4/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Did Michael Keogh Save Hitler? | Irish man Michael Keogh claims to have saved Hitler's life before he became 'Führer'. Could this be true? Could a Carlow man, who left home at 16 and lived a life of pseudonyms, disguise, conspiracy and war have had such an impact on modern history? | 4/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beneath the pfffff... | Nick Coleman, Guardian music journalist, loses his ability to hear music. He tells producer, Yvonne Nolan. "I can hear beneath the pfffff a drowning choir, accompanied by a tiny monkey playing a teeny pipe organ..." (The Curious Ear, Broadcast 2008) | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curios Here | At the International Art and Antiques Fair in Dublin, dealers talk about the business: Stupid mistakes they made, clever deals they pulled and whether or not you can persuade anyone to buy anything. This is amusing, from the inside out (The Curious Ear) | 3/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Raving Loons vs Northside Nightjars (The Curious Ear) | Forget your Formula 1 or the All-Ireland - these guys chase around looking for half a bird. The annual Dublin Bird Race for birdspotters. Terry Flanagan goes along. Guess how many they spot in a day, 10, 30, 50? No, much much more. (Radio documentary | 3/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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My Dad | What is to be a single dad: by getting unique access to the intimate relationships between three single fathers and their children, this documentary is delves into the personal and emotional side to single or separated fatherhood. | 3/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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To Love Two Countries | St. Patrick's Day, New York: A story of four witnesses to history; the adventures of leaving Ireland on ships, the friendships and matches, the Irish dancehalls and Saint Patrick's Day in the city where it probably has most resonance: New York. | 3/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Julie's Patrick's Day (The Curious Ear) | St. Patrick's Day Parade 2011, Monaghan Town (A short Irish documentary from RTE Radio Ireland) | 3/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Licking King: Oscars Well (for Today with PK) | Mick Malone, widower, 87, has a dream....Jessica and Oscars are part of it. (A short feature from the home of radio documentaries in Ireland) | 3/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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More Irish than the Irish Themselves | In the last 100 years, we Irish have struggled with our native language. Now in 2011, less than 5% of us speak it on a daily basis. This is a story of passion - from 'non-Irish' people who see the beauty in the language and have been inspired to learn it | 3/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Groundhog & Mirror (The Curious Ear) | Jane O'Connor's story of her final years with her mother. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland.) | 3/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Statuesque (The Curious Ear) | Maeve Taylor can be seen standing outside the Custom House, Dublin for the past 60 years. (A short Irish documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland.) | 3/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bonesetter TD (The Curious Ear) | Thomas Burke's strange pact with the people of Clare. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland) | 2/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Meat Factory Ear Worms (The Curious Ear) | An award winning documentary from Richie Beirne as he reveals the techniques he used for dealing with a mind-numbing job on the killing lines. (A short radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland) | 2/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Nobody ever went to America to learn how to kill a pig | This is an absolute must listen - a window into the Ireland that once was - and is perhaps gone forever? One of our real oldies but goldies - a documentary about how to kill a pig in rural Galway in the late 1970's. (Broadcast 1978) | 2/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Soundtory | Electroacoustic composer, Guillaume Beauron's take on Tory Island off the coast of North West Ireland. It's a very remote island, just two and a half miles long and three quarters of a mile wide. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland.) | 2/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Delaney's Bikes | An Irish bike shop that's nearly as old as the bicycle itself... Producer: Nancy Previs (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland) | 2/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Election 2011 - The Count Day | At the end of the 1st count day - As Ireland prepares for a new government, this is a mix of the highs and lows of a day that saw a seismic shift in the political landscape of Ireland. A new era has begun - Compiled from RTE Radio 1's election coverage | 1/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sex Slave: A Survivor's Story | Iris is a 32yr old woman with a difficult past - a number of years ago, she was kidnapped and trafficked into the enforced world of prostitution. This documentary tells her harrowing story. | 1/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: What Can You See? | Look out over the rooftops of Cairo with Colette Kinsella. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland) | 1/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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On the beach at Banna | Recorded over five days at Banna Beach in Kerry, this story follows 9yr old Brian Spillane as he takes part in a surf camp for autistic children. Trying new things can be extremely difficult for children with autism. Surely this will be a challenge too f | 1/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Junction 16 | Farmer turned church minister, Trevor Stevenson, looks down on a motorway junction and reminisces. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland). | 1/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Gleeless | What are US High Schools really like? (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland.) | 1/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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City of Tents | January 12th 2010, an earthquake hits Haiti killing over 230,000 and making 1 million homeless. 1yr on, this documentary focuses on the life of St.Gerard's, a Haitian school run by the Redemptorist Priests and funded by the Irish charity Misean Cara. | 1/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: They're Not All Gone | Paula Carroll's stories of traditional musicians in Co.Clare (Funded by the BAI Sound and Vision Fund). A short radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland. | 1/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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8 Years On | A multi award winning documentary telling the story of a mother and son after a life seperated by drug addiction. Lynda Barton was born into 1960's Ballymun in Dublin, tried drugs at 13 and soon after had 2 babies. Her son Chris finally re-unites with he | 1/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Nightsingers of Brighton | Every year, villagers in a tiny village in Newfoundland ring in the New Year with an 18th century New Year's carol brought over from Europe with the first Irish and English settlers. This is a story of keeping beautiful old traditions alive and kicking. | 12/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Lumps of Coal | Stories of bold children and vindictive Santys. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland.) | 12/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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JG Farrell: 149 Days in the Life Of | JG Farrell - the 2 time Booker winning author moved to West Cork in March 1979. Shortly after, he drowned while fishing. Using interviews of neighbours, family and friends - this documentary tells the story of those 149 days in the life of JG Farrell. | 12/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Planespo...Aviation Enthusiasts | A view from the layby beside the runway at Dublin Airport by Sarah Jane and Keith Redmond. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland.) | 12/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Turn Right At Colorado Springs | Two miles high in the thin air of the Rocky Mountains, a group of Irish people arrive on a volunteer mission to repair the legendary Colorado Trail. This is a tale of high adventure, generosity of spirit and selfless gallantry. | 12/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Ice Road Trucker | Dave Miller's CBC Canada programme about Alex Debogorski who drives trucks across Northern Canada's frozen lakes making deliveries to diamond mines. (A short radio documentary from Canada on Irish Radio, RTE Ireland) | 12/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fr. Paddy - A Young Man on a Mission | A documentary about 36-year-old Fr. Paddy Byrne, exploring one man's view on the challenges and complexities of life as a priest in 2010. | 11/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Girls On Wax | The story of female DJs as told by Louise Noone. (Made as part of the Media Arts Course in the Dublin Institute of Technology.) A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland. | 11/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Making My Coffin | Winifred Thompson is cutting willow to weave her own coffin. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland.) | 11/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Yola - Lost for Words | The search for a lost language called Yola takes Shane Dunphy from a sunken island in Wexford harbour to the heart of rural Dorset and the ancient pathways of Cornwall. | 11/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: The Sound of Science | The science club from Moyle Park College, Dublin visit a science lab for Science Week 2010. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland) | 11/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: "World's First Programme on an iPhone (Possibly)" | A gimmick? Yes, but worth a try - this entire programme was recorded, edited and sent for transmission on a smartphone. (A short Irish documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland.) | 11/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Little Cross of Bronze | Every county in Ireland, except one, has at least one winner of the Victoria Cross. This radio documentary delves into this little known aspect of Irish history to find out who these men were and how they won the most prized award for gallantry. | 11/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: We're told they're bad for us.... | We're told they're bad for us.... but they're worth the price of beauty - right? (Shorter Irish audio documentaries from radio in Ireland and abroad) | 11/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Who Is Izzy Baia? | This radio documentary won a prestigious Prix Italia - a story giving an insight into the world of Kevin Whelan and his relationship with Brian, an autistic teenager in Galway (First broadcast 1997) | 11/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Winter | Evelyn McClafferty uses voices, music and sounds to evoke the meaning of Winter. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland) | 11/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Runners - Prix Europa Winner 2010 | This radio documentary has just won a coveted Prix Europa - voted Best Radio Documentary in Europe for 2010. This is the story of a 'runner' - a child who escaped from industrial schools - Christy Fagan and the man - Jemmy Gunnery - who helped him escape | 11/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Blue Door | The story of a man who kept the front door of his cottage open for 30 years... (A short radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland.) | 10/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Littoral Living | Rachel Ní Chuinn's audio essay on the inter-tidal zone. (A short Irish documentary from RTE Radio Ireland) | 10/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Royal Canal | Six miles of stories from the newly-reopened canal. (A short Irish documentary from RTE Radio Ireland) | 10/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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From Baltimore to Barbary - The Village That Disappeared | A radio documentary about the pirates who raided a quiet coastal village in West Cork and sold villagers into slavery in the Ottoman Empire in 1631. | 10/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Love Notes | A radio documentary celebrating 40 years of the National Youth Orchestra and all it has brought to its members: a passion for music; enduring friendships, first loves and marriages, great pieces of music, hard work and hard play. | 10/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Rebel Angel | This award winning doc tells the story of heroin - a highly addictive drug - and one addicts fight against it. Its abuse has repercussions that extend far beyond the individual user - sometimes having a devastating impact on society (Broadcast 2001) | 10/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Big Music | There was a time people whistled on the street.... (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland) | 10/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stuart Rosenblatt - The Keeper of the Faith | This radio documentary maps and explores Jewish Ireland, and our guide is Dubliner Stuart Rosenblatt author of the 16-volume Rosenblatt Series. | 10/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Forgotten Visit | The US presidential visit that seems to have faded in collective memory, despite the fact that it had people lining the streets - Richard Nixon's trip to Ireland in 1970 is remembered in this radio documentary. | 9/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Ten Tiny Audio Bombs - Part 2 | Artists making radio during the Dublin Fringe Festival 2010... (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland.) | 9/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Ten Tiny Audio Bombs - Part 1 | Artists making radio during the Dublin Fringe Festival 2010... (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland.) | 9/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Tom Shaw | The life and thoughts of retired farmer and uranium miner, Tom Shaw | 9/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Your Long Journey | The story of the unique bond between a father and son - Danny and Connor Hughes in County Louth who run two shops side by side is told in this radio documentary. | 9/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Unknown Nomad | The life of Meme, a nomad in the Himalayas, as he witnesses modernisation coming to the mountains, is explored in this radio documentary, recorded over four years. | 9/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Crom Regatta 2010 | For the first time in 97 years, a regatta on Lough Erne with a poignant history. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland) | 9/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bullfight at Inchicore1 | What lengths will a parent go to relieve their child's suffering? In this radio documentary, Eddie 'the Bull' O'Connor has has decided to offer himself as the headline event in a cage-fight in order to raise money for his sick daughter. | 9/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No Stuntman Is An Island | In this radio documentary - the story of Paschal Whelan, the only full time resident of Omey Island and one-time professional wrestler and a stuntman. | 9/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Little Star | A really great story. In the 1930s, when film was going from silent to speech - Jean Darling was one of the biggest child stars of the era. A member of Hal Roach's Little Rascals and star of Laurel and Hardy, Jean now leads a very different life in Dubli | 9/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lives Less Lived | In 1950's Ireland a young woman entered a psychiatric institution. Two years earlier she had been raped. Almost 60 years later, she is an elderly woman and still in a psychiatric institution - in fact she never left. This radio documentary is her story. | 9/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Love Spectrum | From first kiss to a long marriage - extracts from Caroline Foran's and Hannah Quinn's documentaries. (A short Irish documentary from RTE Radio Ireland). | 9/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Death of a Farmer | This award winning documentary tells the story of farmer Tom Oliver from Riverstown, Cooley, Co.Louth who, in July 1991, was murdered by the IRA. On July 18th that year, Tom aged 37, went out to tend to a cow calving. He never came back (Broadcast 1992) | 9/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Birdy | A radio documentary about a German paragliding champion who survived being sucked into a storm that pulled her higher than Mount Everest. | 8/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Waiting for... | Two stories of women waiting for men: a soldier at war and Bono from U2. (A short radio documentary from RTE Ireland.) | 8/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: The Lonely Funeral | An edited extract from Michele Ernsting's documentary for Radio Netherlands Worldwide about municipal funerals in Amsterdam. (An short Irish documentary series from RTE Radio Ireland.) | 8/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Songs from the Inside | This award winning documentary gained exclusive access to inside the confines of Cork Prison to meet with guitar teacher Noel Shine and his students who are all serving prisoners. This is an unexpected story of talent from a teacher and his prisoners | 8/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Agatha Christie's Final Mystery | A radio documentary about how Dubliner John Curran's fascination with Agatha Christie has changed his life - and brought a new Hercule Poirot story to the world for the first time in 30 years. | 8/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Nobody's Child | Wexford town's answer to Molly Malone...Maggie Hurley. (A short radio documentary from Irish radio, RTE Radio 1, Ireland.) | 8/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Biking Viking | An almost unbelievable documentary about the life journey of Peter O'Connor who has transformed himself from outlaw biker into a Celtic clan leader, film star and perhaps... just perhaps, the last High King of Ireland. | 8/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Bundoran Express | A radio documentary about a journey along the much-loved old Clones to Bundoran railway line that ferried holiday makers and pilgrims to the west. | 8/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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I Could Have Danced All Night | One of the last great characters of Co Clare, for decades Michael Tierney could be seen walking the streets of Ennis delivering newspapers on his daily round recognised by his wigs, hats, his choice of jewellery, or the smell of perfume as he walked by. | 7/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Release | In the aftermath of homicide, what happens to those left behind? And what happens when the families of victim and perpetrator are separated by only a field? In 1997, 20-year old Marc O'Keeffe was stabbed on the field outside his home in Tallaght, Dublin. | 7/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Close Call | Featuring an extract from Kate O'Flynn's documentary about two climbers who got into difficulty in Co. Wicklow (made for the DIT Media Arts course). Shorter Irish audio documentaries from radio in Ireland and abroad. | 7/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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One Hundred Years of Names | Every personal name has a story. Behind the top 100 Irish baby names list is a fascinating portrait of a changing country.This fascinating and beautiful documentary looks at the names we give our children and what our names say about all of us. | 7/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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One Evening in July | A radio documentary about how a swim on a summer's evening at Dublin's Forty Foot changed one man's life forever. | 7/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Bus Stories | Extracts from two documentaries on Dublin Bus - 20 years apart. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland) | 7/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Better than Harry Potter | The magical relationship of Theresa and Ron MacMillan. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland) | 7/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Carlow's Rowdy Pensioners | OAPs in Carlow waking the neighbours for the Bealtaine Festival. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland) | 7/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Lough Neagh Speaks | The remarkable underwater recording of Dr. Tom Lawrence of DCU. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland) | 7/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Double D and a C | This is a glimpse into the lives of three women still mourning their husbands deaths - but they refuse to live their lives as widows, and together, strengthened by their friendship, they aim to live their lives to the full. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad | 7/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Shoes Fit For Dancing | Natalia McCarthy's charming documentary on 87-year old Michael Yeates who has run a shoe repair shop in Clontarf for the past 50 years. Shorter Irish audio documentaries from radio in Ireland and abroad. | 7/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Foes Reunited | Northern Irish teenagers are spreading sectarian hatred using social networking sites like Bebo. Produced at the BBC in Belfast for Radio 4 by Rachel Hooper; reporter, Andy Martin. Shorter Irish audio documentaries from radio in Ireland and abroad. | 7/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Are You Tony Sheridan? | A radio documentary about a self-confessed 'Irish Vagabond' Tony Sheridan. In his turbulent and rich life he has worked with the Beatles, entertained the troops in Vietnam, played with Elvis Presley's backing band - all that and far more. | 7/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: A Particular Love | Sara Paul's short documentary from the Salt Institute - "A Stop Along The Way". (Short radio documentarires from RTE Ireland.) | 7/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Orangeman in Dublin | A radio documentary about three members of the Dublin and Wicklow Loyal Orange Lodge | 7/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Man You're Green | Extracts from Nancy Previs' and Derek O'Halloran's programmes about alternative approaches to food. Full shows on rte.ie/doconone. (Irish radio documentary) | 7/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Looking for Fairytale Castles | This award winning doc tells the story of Jenny Tyrell who was adopted in 1972. But, Jenny was almost 9 before she found out she was adopted. In this story, Jenny and her birth mother reunite and speak candidly about the hurt and pain and the love. | 7/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The day they became men - How the story changes | For years Leinster rugby has been overshadowed by its stronger, more successful country brother, Munster. May 2009, Leinster beat semi-finalists Munster and go on to win the Heineken cup. But does Leinster rugby have what it takes to move beyond the pale | 7/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Rare 'Oul Times | The memories of one Dublin family, by Louise Kenny of IADT, Dun Laoire (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Ireland.) | 7/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gentle Genius, Forgotten Poet | A radio documentary about Cork singer songwriter Ger Wolfe. Described by others as a genius, a poet, and even a prophet, Ger Wolfe possesses a rare ability to capture the hearts and minds of his listeners. | 7/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Letter to Ann | This award winning doc tells the story of Anne Lovett, a 15yr old schoolgirl from Granard, Longford, who died giving birth beside a grotto in 1984. Her baby son also died. Her death began a national debate about unmarried mothers (Broadcast 1996) | 6/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Siege at Jadotville | An award winning documentary telling the story of a company of Irish troops who in 1961 came under siege at the isolated post of Jadotville, Congo and were forced to surrender to authorities in the province of Katanga. | 6/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bachelor's Last Waltz | Jimmy Fleming was never meant to dance again. The 72-year-old bachelor farmer had a heart attack on the dance floor a couple of years back and the doctor warned him to take it easy. This is a story of dancing at the crossroads. | 6/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Suburban hideaway | An award winning documentary that gives an insight into how a family copes after they discover their son sexually assaulted and raped two young school girls. He is now currently serving a ten year sentence in Arbour Hill Prison, Dublin. | 6/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Novena | A Limerick tradition that stops the traffic once a year. Producer Ronan Kelly. (A short Irish documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland) | 6/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Achill Island Mobile Bank (The Curious Ear) | Jim Foody, driver and Anne McKnight, teller, take the Ulster Bank Mobile Bank around Achill Island twice a week. (2007) (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland) | 6/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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There Was Love | A radio documentary about two friends going through divorce in Ireland. Ann and Trish record their experience of divorce over a year. | 6/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: A Taught Sound | The sound of tension during exam time at Ardscoil na Trionóide, Athy, Co. Kildare. (A short Irish documentary from RTE Radio Ireland.) | 6/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mad About Ned | A radio documentary about 80 year old Traveller man Ned McDonagh whose passion for singing lifts spirits wherever he goes. Ned has not had an easy life but he can still rise above hardship and grief to sing his heart out. | 6/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Fair Exchange? | A radio documentary telling the story of a group of Irish businesspeople who are trying to bring clean water to the village of Illili Darartu - where the low price of coffee has led to many farmers switching instead to growing a narcotic plant called kha | 6/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Harpie | The remarkable story of a woman who braved intimidation to spread the word about harp music. (A short Irish documentary from RTE Radio Ireland.) | 6/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Deadly Sleeper | This award winning documentary tells the story of 54-year-old Ray. Ray's family have suspected for a long time that something is wrong. Could it be that he suffers from Sleep Apnoea, a disorder where the sufferer frequently stops breathing during sleep? | 6/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Obsession | Erica Mills meets four people who are obsessed about "Supernatural", gaming, tattoos and Liverpool. (An Irish radio documentary from the MAIJ course in DIT.) | 6/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Curious Ear: Flower War | Gerald Flower bailed out of an RAF bomber over liberated Holland in 1944 - the wind blew him back over German lines and into the hands of the Gestapo. | 6/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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With These Hands | This multi award winning documentary tells the story of the world class virtuosic guitarist Eric Roche and his younger brother Bryan. It documents their relationship and brotherly bond. This is a story of love, music, life and brotherhood. | 6/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Loneliness of the Goalkeeper | An award winning documentary about the pressurised life of a goalkeeper, the one member of the football team who spends ninety minutes looking at the backs of his teammates, where one mistake can send him from hero to zero in a matter of seconds. | 6/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 301 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
A gem, worth it if you can get past the accents and audio
This has become a very personal joy for me. Not polished, sometimes the audio is frustratingly low. But the people and stories are sometimes powerful and always very real. Actually when "production" appears it takes away for me. It's certainly not "This American Life" - thankfully. Highlights for me are the "Drugs, liver.." etc. episode about a '60s band in the mode of the commitments.
This Irish Life
This is the best podcast I've heard so far. I love the different narrators and the stories are intriguing and touching. It feels like Ireland's version of, "This American Life".
Documentary on One
I stumbled across this podcast site accidently and now I am a devoted listener.Each podcast is different but everyone has been riveting. "Soul wings" and the "The Orphans That Never Were" have not left my mind. For anyone who loves listening to real people tell wonderful stories of their lives and local history, I highly recommend Documentary On One.
