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.
Imagine being the daughter of one of the world's most experimental and famous writers. Lucia Joyce was the troubled and talented daughter of James Joyce. Surrounded by bohemian life, he fragile mental health led to a long battle to regain her life. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
There's more to one Connemara beach than sunbathing. Omey Island is off the coast of Galway. At every low tide you can travel to the island across a magnificent, broad strand. Once a year, this strand is the location of one of Ireland's beach races. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Invasions, battles, romance - centuries of history brought to life in 15 huge embroidered panels telling the epic story of the founding of New Ross, Co. Wexford in 1207. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Why is this man Ireland's No.1 "Who" fan?… Why is this man Ireland's No.1 "Who" fan?… See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A story of co-parenting, of a parenting contract and the creation of a 21st century modern day family. Brian Kelly is from North Cork, Phoenix, the mother of his child is Chinese - and their daughter, Ever Elizabeth Jade Kelly is Australian. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In July 2011, Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people in Norway - 8 died in a bombing and 69 were subsequently shot in one of Norway's worst human atrocities. Here, we meet the police investigator who was charged with bringing Anders Breivik to justice. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This is a documentary about travelling theatre, about a childhood trauma, about a place on the border, and about a 70-something man's search for his father. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Two men with Irish connections on opposite sides in the Falklands War. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A 'documentary novel' by Chris Brookes about war brides – women, including Chris's own mother, who married allied servicemen during World War II. A 'documentary novel' by Chris Brookes about war brides – women, including Chris's own mother, who married allied servicemen during World War II. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A day out with the cooks, drivers and customers of the Meals on Wheels in Dalkey, Co. Dublin. (First Broadcast March 2006) A day out with the cooks, drivers and customers of the Meals on Wheels in Dalkey, Co. Dublin. (First Broadcast March 2006) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A London taxi tour around the stories of the Irish in London, including the more recently-arrived. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Now that the weather's picking up, you may be thinking about going for a swim. But, no matter how hardy you think you are, you'll have to go a long way to match the Banna Polar Bears who swim every month of the year - even when the sand is frozen. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The London Underground has The District Line, The Circle Line and so on. "The Green Line" is a notional Tube line that Robert Mulhern has taken to find Irish stories in the UK capital: the "Mammy" away from home, the ex-prisoner, the retired drinkers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The artist who burns his art See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
'Hark' takes our modern ears on a sound-rich journey through the acoustic world of Elizabethan England. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Cullintra House, Co. Kilkenny: a 250 year old farmhouse set amid 230 acres of farm and woodland, has been the home of Patricia Cantlon's family since the early 1900's.; She speaks about the history of the place, and the work of running it as guesthouse. She doesn't do it on her own, though, she has the help of 5 cats. (First Broadcast 2013) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This is the life of 83 year old George Redmond from West Cork. He spent his lifetime tuning pianos for the great and good of Ireland, meeting many seasoned performers such as John MacCormack, Beniamo Gigli and Margaret Burke Sheridan. (1990) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Like most places, Kerry had a tradition of 'rambling' houses or 'visiting' houses. This was where neighbours would gather in one house on winter evenings for story-telling, card-playing, singing and music. In the village of Glenflesk, the 'rambling house' is open twice a year and the programme is loose. (First Broadcast 2013) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Story of the Jihad Jane. 3 people go online, they meet in a chat room and their lives change forever. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
One day three people in different parts of the world went online, the meet in a chat room, they talk with each other, it will change their lives forever. (2013) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Adrian Vernon Fish has twin preoccupations: composing contemporary music and the country of Greenland. From his home in Co. Mayo, he travels around Irish national schools telling the children wintry stories about the country while wearing a traditional Greenland costume and displaying handcrafted items from there. (First Broadcast 2013) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The music and stories of a young Northern Irish jazz singer, Victoria Geelan. She's neither fully Catholic nor Protestant; neither blind nor partially-sighted. She sings jazz and blues in Derry where she is fondly referred to as a 'Fenian Jaffa'. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Maurice Brennan has always wanted to visit America. As a child he loved the literature of Mark Twain. On his first visit headed to the Mark Twain Forest Park, Missouri, where he spent a day fly-fishing on Mill Creek, a small river in the Mississippi system. (First Broadcast 2013) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Writer Eugene O’Brien takes a trip on a barge through the heart of the midlands, experiencing his home county in a different – and much slower – way than usual. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The secretary of a Dublin boys' secondary school, Moyle Park College, was diagnosed with breast cancer. Since then, the teenagers at the Clondalkin school, have held an annual 'Pink Day' a 'no uniform' day with a difference, where the students come into school dressed in pink and the event raises money for cancer research. (First Broadcast 2013) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Originally from Cashel, Frank McNamara's songs and poems were spread through convict Australia by his fellow prisoners. Today a new generation of musicians regard him as giving Australia a tradition akin to the Mississippi blues. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Michael Whelan's museum in a huge hangar at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel stores hundreds of artefacts but also thousands of stories behind those objects. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It's tough enough being a teenager, trying to work out who you are. But, say you're a teenager with African parents but you've grown up in Ireland. What are you? African? Irish? Or, a bit of both? And where is 'home'? Where you holiday or where you live? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The joy of milkshakes, driving ranges and just 'chattin' '. Big Brother Big Sister is a programme where young adults meet up with young teenagers once a week for a year. How does it work and what are the benefits for both the adults and teenagers? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Pomp rock's classical pretensions come under scrutiny in this palyful reconstruction of Queen's pop classic 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
