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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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    The Visit

    Joe Kearney has become lost in his own county, Kilkenny. ...

    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)

    Sep 6, 2012 Read more
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    The Visit

    Joe Kearney has become lost in his own county, Kilkenny. ...

    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)

    Sep 6, 2012 Read more
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    A Farther Education

    On a small island off the west coast of Ireland, ...

    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.

    Aug 31, 2012 Read more
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    Stasi & Google Maps

    Eavesdropping on eavesdroppers in Berlin while being eavesdropped upon. (50 ...

    Eavesdropping on eavesdroppers in Berlin while being eavesdropped upon. (50 Kilometres of Files; Rimini Protokoll). A short audio documentary from RTE Radio Ireland.

    Aug 30, 2012 Read more
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    Seen from a Distance

    All around Ireland houses lie deserted. Zoë Comyns brings her ...

    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.

    Aug 24, 2012 Read more
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    Nightscapes - Air

    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 first in the series: Nightscapes – Air.

    Aug 23, 2012 Read more
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    A Love That Slowly Grows - Tehran to Thomond

    A love story that begins in Iran, then moves to ...

    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.

    Aug 17, 2012 Read more
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    Drop Into The Archives

    There are over 1,000 documentaries on the RTE Radio Documentary ...

    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.)

    Aug 16, 2012 Read more
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    The Wednesday Club

    What's it like to be old? Well, every Wednesday a ...

    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 now

    Aug 10, 2012 Read more
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    Clonehenge

    Achill Island has a new tourist attraction: enormous, brutal and ...

    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)

    Aug 9, 2012 Read more
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