Multi award winning documentaries from Ireland and beyond telling real life stories. With over 1,800 documentaries on offer, the Documentary On One Podcast has the largest archive of documentaries available in the world, dating as far back as 1954, right up to the present day. Winner of over 400 national and international awards. Producer of podcast series 'Where is Jón?', ‘The Real Carrie Jade’, 'Runaway Joe', 'Finding Samantha', 'Tiger Roll', 'GunPlot' and 'The Nobody Zone'. Immerse yourself in a world of sound, story and character.
The battle between market stall holders and big business and how the tide of business has obliterated the small man, the donkey and cart and the street singer whose music is drowned out by the sound of the delivery lorries. (first broadcast 1975) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The life and works of Limerick born novelist and playwright Kate O’Brien (1897-1974) featuring dramatised excerptsof the works of O'Brien (Broadcast 1997) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ann-Marie Power visits Cordoba in Andalusia Southern Spain in search of the core of flamenco and its influences (Broadcast 1997) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dick Warner visits the wild west to discover bunkhouses, poets and other aspects of cowboy culture (Broadcast 1997) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Annie Maguire was jailed in 1976 with five members of her family and a family friend. She was alleged to have passed nitro-glycerine to the IRA in the seventies to make bombs. She talks about the events that changed her life (Broadcast 1996) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Four year old Charlotte was born with Rett's Syndrome - a rare neurological disorder resulting in physical and intellectual disability. It occurs in girls almost exclusively, and affects one in ten thousand births. (Broadcast 1997) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Orla Burke meets some of the people who ring into radio talk shows and asks what it is that turns some people into "serial callers" (Broadcast 1997) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In the early 1990's, a devasting famine that claimed up to 300,000 lives in Somalia. In this documentary Roisin Boyd travelled to Somalia with the then Minister for Foreign Affairs David Andrews to see the aid operation first hand (Broadcast 1992) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In the 1970s numbers of priests were declining in their thousands. Former priests discuss their reasons for leaving - often the isolation and lonliness that they felt as a result of celibacy. (First broadcast 1974) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this documentary from 1980, Marian Finucane travelled to Copenhagen for the second United Nations World Conference on Women where delegates gathered to assess the progress in women’s rights and equality. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this revealing documentary we go behind the scenes at the Coombe Women's Hospital in Dublin to explore the world of pregnancy, from the anti-natal clinic to the birth of a child in the delivery room. (Broadcast 1977) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown which occurred at the Harrisburg power plant in Pennsylvania on March 28th, 1979. It was the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. (Broadcast 1979) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In 1975 the 'mixed marriage problem' was such a divisive issue in Ireland that a conference was held to try to figure out what should be done if a Catholic and a Protestant wanted to get married (first broadcast 1975). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A look at the life of the Irish dramatist and short story writer George Fitzmaurice, with accounts from those who knew him personally. (Broadcast 1972) A look at the life of the Irish dramatist and short story writer George Fitzmaurice, with accounts from those who knew him personally. (Broadcast 1972) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Patrick Moore boasted to friends that he was the only man to interview Orville Wright, Neil Armstrong and Yuri Gagarin but to his fans he was much more than a broadcaster. (Broadcast 2001) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A look at the career of the Irish traditional musician and TV producer, Tony McMahon. His contribution to Irish music worldwide over the decades has been remarkable, due in part to his uncomprimising approach to his work. (Broadcast 2005) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thirty years ago, nuns played a prominent role in Irish society especially in the education and the medical sectors but what was daily life like for these women? (Broadcast 1979) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A radio documentary about the Strawboy tradition in County Sligo (Broadcast 1998) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A radio documentary about Norman Porter, Unionist and winner of the Ewart-Biggs Award (Broadcast 1997) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A radio documentary about hiring fairs, the life of the servant boy and the modern day small farm (Broadcast 1997) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A radio documentary about Donegal Herring Gutters (Broadcast 1997) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A radio documentary about the Mount Street Club founded in Dublin 1934 (Broadcast 1997) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A radio documentary about the effects of M.E. on sufferers (Broadcast 1998) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A radio documentary about the role of the government press secretary by Niall Doyle (Broadcast 1999) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A radio documentary profiling Galway-based poet Mary O'Malley and her writers workshop on Inishmore. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this radio documentary, we hear the story of Brid Manifold, who discovered that her mother Deirdre had a romantic involvement with poet Patrick Kavanagh before marrying Brid’s father (Broadcast 1993) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Northern Ireland was plagued by civil unrest from the late 1960s until the Good Friday agreement of 1998. During a period which became known as the troubles, many people either vanished or were forced into exile. This is their story (Broadcast 1996) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
From a different era - an insight into the changing role of women in the Japanese workforce (Broadcast 1992) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The story of the epic historical march of O'Suilleabhain Beara from West Cork to Leitrim through the counties of Limerick, Tipperary, Offaly, Galway, Roscommon and Sligo in 1603 (Broadcast 1980) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
An exciting 'fly on the wall' documentary about the accident and emergency department of the Mater hospital, Dublin (Broadcast 2001) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
