Documentary On One - Rté Documentaries

The brilliant hoaxer Campbell McComas and his 'career' as a bogus after-dinner speaker. He created almost 2,000 fake characters that shocked and tickled Australia for years. From ABC Radio's "Radio Eye" series.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What happens at a Gramaphone Society meeting? In 2007, the Athlone Gramaphone Society met every Tuesday evening. They played music for each other but also, turned out to be a pretty interesting bunch of people.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One of the most provocative and colourful public figures to hit the Irish airwaves in recent decades, who died lately. Even those who clashed with her had a grudging admiration for her tenacity. (Irish audio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland.)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The shortest podcast we've ever published. Yet, it's full of character, tension and sound - just the kind of thing you're looking for in every full-length documentary. Sadly, we don't know the date or who the little girls are. (Irish audio - RTE Radio)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How Ambrose Gordon - a man who claims to have more girlfriends than Rod Stewart ran a profitable but illegal pirating business in London during the eighties. The videos were of the GAA Show 'The Sunday Game.'See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Donegal are in the GAA All-Ireland Football Final. Sound recordist, Guillaume Beauron, who lives in the county, has made an homage in sound to Donegal football - recordings made at a local club game. (Short Irish audio documentary - RTE Radio Ireland).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It could be an insult or a term of endearment; it actually means, 'horseshoe-pitching'. Terry Flanagan is at a league final in Knockananna, Co.Wicklow and discovers it's as much about 'grub' and 'genuine boys'. (Short audio documentary; RTE Radio Ireland)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Last April 42yr old Cathy Durkin went public to campaign for access to the cancer drug Ipilimumab or 'Ippy' - This documentary tracks Cathy's life from then until the end of her life.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Joe Kearney has become lost in his own county, Kilkenny. Up and down lanes and by-roads looking for a man who, he's told, is a local legend, a fiddle player and philosopher: Jimmy Fanning. (Short Irish audio documentary; RTE Radio Ireland)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Joe Kearney has become lost in his own county, Kilkenny. Up and down lanes and by-roads looking for a man who, he's told, is a local legend, a fiddle player and philosopher: Jimmy Fanning. (Short Irish audio documentary; RTE Radio Ireland)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On a small island off the west coast of Ireland, three 13 year old boys are preparing for one of the biggest moments of their lives - leaving home. Inishturk has no secondary school so they must leave home to live on the mainland to get an education.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Eavesdropping on eavesdroppers in Berlin while being eavesdropped upon. (50 Kilometres of Files; Rimini Protokoll). A short audio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

All around Ireland houses lie deserted. Zoë Comyns brings her family back to the cottage they own in Leitrim, where they lived when she was born, to sift through everything they left behind 35 years ago.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Four classical elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water. Producer, Laura Haydon makes a series of programmes from Northern Ireland recording nighttime sounds using the classical elements as themes. This is the first in the series: Nightscapes – Air.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A love story that begins in Iran, then moves to Pakistan, then to Canada - and finally to Limerick - A remarkable tale of love, revolution, persecution and separation.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There are over 1,000 documentaries on the RTE Radio Documentary On One site - Ronan Kelly drops in on a couple. (A short audio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland.)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What's it like to be old? Well, every Wednesday a group of Dublin pensioners meet to enjoy life. Music is supplied by an inhouse band (all aged 80yrs+). They dance, they eat, they drink tea. And all the while they reflect on lives lived and how life is nowSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Achill Island has a new tourist attraction: enormous, brutal and totally illegal. But it has fans: It's fun, healing, artistic, archaeologically-interesting, annoying, a place to write graffiti....anything you want, really. (RTE Radio documentary)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The extraordinary story of Frank and Breda, an American GI and an Irish milk maid who 'met' via a message in a bottle which Frank threw overboard. In the early 1950s this story was a worldwide news sensation. 60 years later we find out what really happened. (2012)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.