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.
1995 was the first ever Ireland hurling success for Co. Clare. This documentary tracks both the success of that year and all that went before it - the curse of Biddy Early, Ger Loughnane's training methods and the irrepresible Anthony Daly. (2005) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Augustine Martin takes a look back at 50 years of radio drama in this commemorative programme from 1976. Augustine Martin takes a look back at 50 years of radio drama in this commemorative programme from 1976. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The story of Ireland's National Circus - Fossetts Circus - We examine its history, the highs and lows of working and living in a travelling circus and of course the wanderlust! (Broadcast 1975) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The 2007 World Draughts Championships in Buncrana, Co. Donegal. Among those there: a man paid by his government to teach draughts to children and a man who was blown up in Scotland. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Peggy is on holiday - her first in 39 years. Well, it's not a holiday; it's retirement. Since the late 1960's, Peggy Moloney's been the postmistress in O'Callaghan's Mills, Co. Clare. (2008) (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Four twenty-something women recall the good and bad of an Irish convent secondary school which they left in 2001. (Broadcast in 2008) (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
How do you get a bunch of teenagers to jump into freezing cold water? Well, you tell them some outrageous lies; that's what outdoor education instructor, John "Ports" Porter does. (2007) (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Three unusual stories from the Netherlands: A restaurant with beds...a museum where they lock you in a shipping container...and students whose homes are containers. (2007) (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Weafer St. (pronounced 'wafer') in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford and Rahel–Varnhagen-Promenade in Berlin, Germany share similar geography. They are both on 52 degrees 30 minutes north of the Equator. Both run East-West. This programme wanders along each street meeting passersby. (First Broadcast 2010) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It's like an Ann Summers or Tupperware party, in that you have a group of people around to your place. Except, with gold parties; it’s about money; they come to sell and not to buy. (First Broadcast 2009) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Dodder Valley Partnership in Tallaght, Dublin, organises volunteers to work in the local Social Welfare Office. They 'signpost': they give out leaflets on local services like deals at sports centres for the unemployed. (First Broadcast 2009) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The story of the man who, anonymously, hid Lotto scratchcards in books in Waterford Library and why. Followed by the story of 13 college students from Leeds who blew a grant they'd been given for an exhibition on a sun holiday instead. Or did they? (First Broadcast 2009) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On Easter Monday 1916 Patrick Pearse stood on the steps of the GPO and read the Proclamation. John Cunningham questions how our view of Pearse has evolved from the adulation of the early years to his relevance today (Broadcast 2005). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This documentary tells the incredible story of a young girl's gaelic football team from Dublin's inner city Sheriff Street, during the run-up to a Cumann na mBunscoil semi-final during the month of November. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
When Helen Townsend was researching her family history, she found a series of letters written to her great grandfather in Australia from his family in Co. Tyrone. The letters date from 1852 to 1892 and tell the story of those left behind in Ireland (2009) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A documentary with Tommy McKearney, a 1980's Provisional IRA prisoner - and John Nixon - a then member of the INLA - A story of two men's experience of their years on the blanket and the inevitability of hunger strike. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In 2006, we gained exclusive and first time access to record the highs and lows of a platoon of young men as they try to make it through their basic Irish army training over a period of four months. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Lough Swilly Bus offers a network of services to some of the most remote parts of Donegal. Departing Derry City, the route travels along the old railway route of the Lough Swilly Railway Company. This is the story of the people who use the Swilly bus. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Donovan family are members of the travelling community and ten years on from a documentary where they moved into a house, the family describe why they have decided to go back on the road again. (Broadcast 1979) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Donovan family are members of the travelling community and ten years on from a documentary where they moved into a house, the family describe why they have decided to go back on the road again. (Broadcast 1979) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Lia Mills is an Irish writer. She writes novels, short stories and literary non-fiction. This is the story of her experience with oral cancer See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Martha Graham, an American dancer/choreographer, was regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance. She invented a new language of movement and used it to reveal the passion, the rage and the ecstasy common to human experience. (Broadcast 1991) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Clarie Taylor was born in his grandmother's caravan during an afternoon circus show. His family moved the day after and since that time he's travelled from village to village with his family's variety act as the circus clown, "Fiery Daniels". See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Appeal of the Midnight Court is a special documentary made by Cathal Póirtéir for RTÉ Radio 1 to mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Clare poet Brian Merriman. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Through the stories of the people who lived through the regimes of Papa Doc and Baby Doc Duvalier, 'Stories from the Black' Republic traces the horrors of the Dubaliers' private army the Ton Ton Macoutes on the island of Haiti. (Broadcast 2005) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 1st 2005, marked the 60th anniversary of Marshal Georgi Zhukov's victory in the Battle of Berlin in the Second World War. This is the story of a Russian man, a now largely neglected figure in the West, who brought about Hitler's downfall. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A radio documentary on contemporary comic songmakers in the traditional idiom featuring the songs of Michael Marrinan, Sean Mone, Robbie McMahon, Tim Lyons, Con O'Drisceoil and Brian O'Rourke. (Broadcast 2005) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
An amazing documentary by John McKenna about being told by his mother on her deathbed that the children she lost at birth were buried at the bottom of their garden. This is a story of 1950s Catholic Ireland and the burial of the unbaptised (broadcast 1995) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A documentary about the dead, dying and death - told by the undertaker Thomas Lynch who is is an essayist, poet and funeral director of Lynch & Sons funeral home in Milford, Michigan. (Broadcast 2002) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
