RTÉ Radio 1: Documentary on One
The main weekly documentary slot on RTÉ Radio 1 and the largest arena for radio documentaries in Ireland.
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Streets in San Francisco
Duncan McNiff is an Irishman who's an amateur podcaster. He ...
Duncan McNiff is an Irishman who's an amateur podcaster. He wanders the streets of San Francisco meeting and recording people with interesting stories. Like the old woman with the police car, the veteran with 'summer' teeth and the man with seven degrees.
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A Talent for Life: The Fergus O'Farrell Story
The story of a gifted musician battling muscular dystrophy, which ...
The story of a gifted musician battling muscular dystrophy, which has robbed him of the ability to play guitar and piano but has never made him give up on his musical journey. A journey that has taken his songs from Kildare to Hollywood to Broadway. The story of a gifted musician battling muscular dystrophy, which has robbed him of the ability to play guitar and piano but has never made him give up on his musical journey. A journey that has taken his songs from Kildare to Hollywood to Broadway.
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A Knock On The Door
The story of the kidnapping of German industrialist Thomas Niedermayer ...
The story of the kidnapping of German industrialist Thomas Niedermayer by the IRA in the 1970s faded from public memory – but affected one family for generations to come, with tragic consequences.
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Dads, Lads & Nicole
Would you go along at 60mph, your backside millimetres from ...
Would you go along at 60mph, your backside millimetres from the road surface? This 13-year old girl would: Nicole aims to be a Formula 1 driver; but first, she has to make her way to the top of the go-kart drivers' table. At the moment, she's at No. 2....
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Blue Cross Van
Every Thursday night in a Dublin suburb, people form a ...
Every Thursday night in a Dublin suburb, people form a queue on an empty footpath. The only clue to what they're doing is the line of pets at their feet. They are waiting on the Blue Cross mobile animal clinic. They have their pets and their stories.
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Our Man in Westminster
Enter the world of parliamentary plots, rumours and conspiracy. Paul ...
Enter the world of parliamentary plots, rumours and conspiracy. Paul Staines - aka Guido Fawkes - is the number 1 political blogger in the British Isles. Paul is viewed by some as a scourge, and by others as 'new media'. Paul is also an Irish citizen.
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Agape
Every year, on the last Sunday in June, hundreds of ...
Every year, on the last Sunday in June, hundreds of people head out to the deserted island of Inchagoill on Lough Corrib in Co. Galway. They go for a Mass on the old monastic site and also for ‘Agape’, feasting. (2006)
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Oiled: A Portrait of Henrietta
She was muse to artists like Francis Bacon and Lucien ...
She was muse to artists like Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud, she was known as the 'Queen of Soho', she toured with Marianne Faithfull and she lived for a time in a mansion in Laois - Henrietta Moraes lived a decadent but fiercely tragic life.
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Mag
Mag lived in Wexford in the 1990s. She started to ...
Mag lived in Wexford in the 1990s. She started to get pains in her stomach. She was assured she was not seriously ill and continued to work - including pulling a plough for her father. Then, the pains got worse... Presented by Ann Marie Duffin
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The Voices of Vern Nash
A multi award winning portrait of an elderly jazz man ...
A multi award winning portrait of an elderly jazz man and his long battle with schizophrenia. Vern has multiple voices that speak to him - and he talks right back. And then there's his accordian - and his humour - and the friendships he had and lost
