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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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    Wrong Way Across The Atlantic

    They went against the flow. Tom McDonough and Ned Hammell ...

    They went against the flow. Tom McDonough and Ned Hammell immigrated to Ireland from the US in the early years of the last century - they left America as children to settle in Ireland. Tom left before WWI, Ned during the Depression. How did they get on?

    Nov 8, 2012 Read more
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    No Place Like Home

    Life inside a 'wet' hostel - where residents are allowed ...

    Life inside a 'wet' hostel - where residents are allowed bring in alcohol. Sundial House, run by DePaul Ireland, a long-term housing project in Dublin for men and women who have lived for long periods of time on the streets and have alcohol problems.

    Nov 2, 2012 Read more
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    Shellacked!

    It used to be that you could varnish your nails ...

    It used to be that you could varnish your nails - now you can have 'shellac nails'. It's a hard protection that makes the colour last. However, it's applied by a nail technician which sounds like a drawback, but it's not, there's a hidden benefit...

    Nov 1, 2012 Read more
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    Daft Horror Movies

    Horror movies that are so bad, they're good. Erik Threlfall ...

    Horror movies that are so bad, they're good. Erik Threlfall is an expert on horror movies, trashy ones: 'Bloody Moon', 'Pieces', 'Slumber Party Massacre'. They scare you but they just make him laugh. Although, there is one thing that frightens him...

    Oct 31, 2012 Read more
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    One World: Team Vietnam - Let the games begin!

    Everyone got behind the Irish Paralympic team at the London ...

    Everyone got behind the Irish Paralympic team at the London 2012 games but we also had good reason to be cheering on another team - Vietnam. Irish Aid took the Vietnam team under its wing and brought them to Ireland for training (Funded by Irish Aid)

    Oct 29, 2012 Read more
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    One World: Under the Mango Tree

    Kiliwa is a community living with the aftermath of violence ...

    Kiliwa is a community living with the aftermath of violence and child abduction by Joseph Kony’s Lord's Resistance Army. Della Kilroy records stories of survival in the Democratic Republic of Congo (This documentary was funded by Irish Aid)

    Oct 26, 2012 Read more
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    German Soup Kitchen

    In the week in which Angela Merkel put the frighteners ...

    In the week in which Angela Merkel put the frighteners on Ireland, The Curious Ear visits a place in Germany you may imagine didn't exist: a soup kitchen for hungry Germans, the Bahnhofsmission - the 'Railway Station Mission' in Berlin.

    Oct 25, 2012 Read more
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    If Music Be the Food of Life, Play On

    Three professional musicians go on the wards of Ireland's hospitals ...

    Three professional musicians go on the wards of Ireland's hospitals to make live music part of the healthcare experience, but for one, a tragic accident shows just how fragile life can be. (Part of RTÉ Big Music Week)

    Oct 19, 2012 Read more
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    Nightscapes - Fire

    Four classical elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water. Producer, Laura ...

    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 second in the series: Nightscapes – Fire.

    Oct 18, 2012 Read more
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    From Belief to Unbelief

    In September 1980, twenty young religious men entered a seminary ...

    In September 1980, twenty young religious men entered a seminary in Milltown in Dublin. Thirty years later, three of them tell their personal stories of a a journey from believer to unbeliever.

    Oct 12, 2012 Read more
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