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 Curious Ear Audio Christmas Card. Recorded at the Farmleigh House Christmas Market, Dublin. The barbershop singers are: "The Mellowchords". (First Broadcast 2009) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A radio documentary that offers a very intimate portrait of what it is like to be part of an Irish farming family in rural Ireland - like all families, Richie Beirne's is no different - it has its ups and downs (Broadcast 1996) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The modelling scene in 1970s Ireland was tough - work was scarce and pay was variable, models had to provide all their own accessories from shoes to tights and hats - and you had to get to jobs in the midst of a petrol shortage. (first broadcast 1975) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Since 1971, millions have been travelling to Lorient - a town in Brittany to attend its world famous International festival to celebrate Celtic culture, song and dance. (Broadcast 1979) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
His earliest childhood memories were of the Phoenix Park - and Winston Churchill described the years he lived beside the Viceregal Lodge in Dublin as the happiest years of his life. A look at Churchill's relationship with Ireland. (First broadcast 1974) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A profile of Sean Lemass, one of the most prominent Irish Political figures of the 20th Century, and a veteran of the 1916 Easter Rising, the War of Independence and the Civil War. (Broadcast 1971) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Castlecomer in Kilkenny is synonymous with coalmining. In 1802 alone - there was eighteen working pits and the miners who worked there were known as the ‘Moles of Moneenroe.’ (Broadcast 1979) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The story of a group of recovering drug addicts as they prepare to put on a play. We follow them from rehearsals, which are often disruptive, through to the performance on the night. (Broadcast 2007) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The ‘Molly Maguires’ were a 19th century secret society of Irish descent who were accused of kidnappings and other crimes in the rural coalmining areas of Pennsylvania. (Broadcast 1979) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A powerful story about the recipients of donor hearts, by Ireland's longest heart transplant survivor Bill Long. (Broadcast 1995) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Stone mad! Geology meets architecture when Mary Mulvihill takes her tape recorder and bicycle around Dublin to view some little-known stones in buildings and sites around the city (Broadcast 1995) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In 1975, Khmer Rouge forces entered Phnom Penh, Cambodia and defeated the ruling Lon Nol Army. Pol Pot declared 'Year Zero' and began his reign of terror. This documentary looks at how the Cambodians are recovering from the Pol Pot years (Broadcast 1994) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Every day for six months these women must wear a uniform and carry a gun. This documentary follows four women soldiers on duty with the Irish army in the Lebanon (Broadcast 1994) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
"Black in America" tells of the poverty and discrimination affecting American minorities in the late 1980s. At the time, the black community in America faced major conflict in areas of crime, education, drugs, and unemployment. This documentary details racially discriminatory systems that continue to impact America today. (First Broadcast 1989) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
John Scally traces the history of an unmarked children's graveyard in Co. Roscommon, believed to be a burial ground since famine times (Broadcast 1994) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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.
