Synopsis
Multi award winning documentaries from Ireland. With over 1,500 documentaries on offer, the Documentary On One has the largest archive of documentaries available globally. These productions are radio stories about real life and contain documentaries dating as far back as 1954, right up to the present day. A wealth of life, ideas and experiences are on offer - but most importantly - stories. Winner of over 150 national and international awards since 2008, why not immerse yourself in a world of sound, story and character.
Episodes
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Skelligs Calling
02/11/2011 Duration: 52min“We’re perched on this vertiginous rock, out somewhere in the Atlantic in almost total darkness, with some of the strangest sounds you’ll ever hear in Western Europe all around us…” Skelligs Calling is a beautiful sonic portrait of Skellig Michael.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Oisín's Story
28/10/2011 Duration: 38min8 year old Oisín has a rare genetic disorder called Prader Willi Syndrome - this is the moving story of his birth, his life, his family and the people who love him.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Breaded or Battered?
27/10/2011 Duration: 11minThere's no sitting on the fence with the Wexford Town Rissole - the town is divided. Shane Dunphy has the story of the local chipper speciality. 'Delicacy' is too small a word for the lump of potato and herbs - it's a 'food grenade'.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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A Programme For and About You
21/10/2011 Duration: 36minDo you remember life before phone-in radio programmes, texts or godhelpus Twitter? If you do, then you'll remember Frankie Byrne - sage agony aunt on Raidíó Éireann. Colette Kinsella tells the story of Frankie, her listeners, their tears and laughs.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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30,000 ft. for Shane
20/10/2011 Duration: 09minThree years ago, Shane Geoghegan was murdered in Limerick - mistaken identity in a gangland attack. Nothing good comes of a tragedy like that? Not so, listen to Mark Quinn and the Shane Geoghegan Trust. (Go to rte.ie/doconone for the full documentary)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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From a Jack to a King
14/10/2011 Duration: 38minA fantastically entertaining story with Ireland's No.1 Elvis impersonator, Kerryman Mark Leen. Full of humour, charm and lifes ups and downs, Mark's devotion to Elvis knows no bounds. From replica Graceland gates at his home right down to his velvet voiceSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Big Music Docs
13/10/2011 Duration: 11minThe music documentary is a very special type of documentary. To mark Big Music Week 2011, we're bringing you a taster of the selection of music documentaries on the Documentary On One website. (A short radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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From Brooklyn to Banja Luka
07/10/2011 Duration: 29minAn award winning documentary - of an international love story that will make you laugh out loud. He's from New York. She's from Serbia. They meet in Amsterdam and fall in love. They visit each others families - and only then realise how different they are.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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See off the Summer
06/10/2011 Duration: 09minIn Co. Meath they see off the Summer with competitive baking and animal husbandry contests. It all happens at the Oldcastle Show - producers Kate Garry and Derek O'Halloran went along to record the event. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE, Ireland)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Desperately Seeking Sam
30/09/2011 Duration: 37minA brilliant story of one fan's journey through the GAA football championship of 2011. Paddy Joe Burke is the ultimate inter-county fan - and a barber. Beginning in New York and ending in Dublin's victory, this is a story of football and of all things IrishSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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All Those Funny Z's
29/09/2011 Duration: 11minMany of the Polish people who came to work in Ireland during The Boom, have gone back to Poland. They didn't go alone; they took a few Irish people with them. One of those is Liam Nolan, who records his plunge into the Polish language and Warsaw.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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I Can Tell by Looking at You
23/09/2011 Duration: 40minThe story of just how little looks count - an Irish woman gets mixed up in an international identity fraud that involves huge sums of money being laundered.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Maurice - A Final Journey
16/09/2011 Duration: 47minThis is a story of life and death - of a man, his partner and his family. Maurice Sullivan left his home in Galway for Malaysia in August 2010, never to return. His attack and the legal fighting that followed, have since been making headlines in Malaysia.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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One World: The Future of Food
12/09/2011 Duration: 51minFergal Keane explores how closely subsistence farmers live to famine in Ethiopia. In a country of 80 million people and 80% of the population dependant on agriculture, famine has been an almost constant presence in the country. (Made with Irish Aid)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Nancy Wake and Harry Potter
08/09/2011 Duration: 13minThe story of an extraordinary woman: Nancy Wake, WWII spy, French Resistance leader and saboteur who was determined to 'bugger up' the NAZIs. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland. Producer: Ronan Kelly)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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One World: Moving On
05/09/2011 Duration: 51minHilda Kawuki, the Ugandan aid worker who was kidnapped in Darfur along with Irish aid-worker Sharon Commins, has returned to development work. Producer, Elizabeth Laragy follows her during a week in her working life (With Irish Aid).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Victim No. 0001
02/09/2011 Duration: 38min68yr old Fr Mychal Judge was the 1st official victim of the 9/11 attacks. As his true life story began to emerge, many sought to claim his heroic legacy - the Irish American community, the fire department, the Catholic Church and the city's gay communitySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Conversations In The Dark
01/09/2011 Duration: 11minColette Kinsella captures a stunning soundscape: the sounds from Dublin Zoo at night. Most spectacular, the wolves; most endearing, the snuffling elephants. (A short Irish radio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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One World: Groundhog - The Irish In Lebanon
29/08/2011 Duration: 52minAs the Irish army re-deploy to the region, Barry Bracken follows the personal journey of two soldiers from early preparation through to their ultimate destination - Tibnin, South Lebanon. (An RTE Radio documentary made in partnership with Irish Aid.)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Still Waiting for Joe
26/08/2011 Duration: 38minAs we approach the 10th anniversary of 9/11, one Irish-American family still feels the loss of their son - 31 year old firefighter Joseph Hunter. This documentary follows Joe's story from the wilds of Connemara to Ground Zero in Manhattan.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.