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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DocArchive: In Your Face
Lia Mills is an Irish writer. She writes novels, short ...
Lia Mills is an Irish writer. She writes novels, short stories and literary non-fiction. This is the story of her experience with oral cancer
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DocArchive: How Far Have They Travelled?
The Donovan family are members of the travelling community and ...
The Donovan family are members of the travelling community and ten years on from a documentary where they moved into a house, the family describe why they have decided to go back on the road again. (Broadcast 1979)
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DocArchive: Martha Graham - Mother of us all
Martha Graham, an American dancer/choreographer, was regarded as one of ...
Martha Graham, an American dancer/choreographer, was regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance. She invented a new language of movement and used it to reveal the passion, the rage and the ecstasy common to human experience. (Broadcast 1991)
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The appeal of the midnight court
The Appeal of the Midnight Court is a special documentary ...
The Appeal of the Midnight Court is a special documentary made by Cathal Póirtéir for RTÉ Radio 1 to mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Clare poet Brian Merriman.
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Stories from the black republic
Through the stories of the people who lived through the ...
Through the stories of the people who lived through the regimes of Papa Doc and Baby Doc Duvalier, 'Stories from the Black' Republic traces the horrors of the Dubaliers' private army the Ton Ton Macoutes on the island of Haiti. (Broadcast 2005)
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Changing Faces
Clarie Taylor was born in his grandmother's caravan during an ...
Clarie Taylor was born in his grandmother's caravan during an afternoon circus show. His family moved the day after and since that time he's travelled from village to village with his family's variety act as the circus clown, "Fiery Daniels".
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Hitler's Nemesis - Georgi Zhukov
May 1st 2005, marked the 60th anniversary of Marshal Georgi ...
May 1st 2005, marked the 60th anniversary of Marshal Georgi Zhukov's victory in the Battle of Berlin in the Second World War. This is the story of a Russian man, a now largely neglected figure in the West, who brought about Hitler's downfall.
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Songmakers
A radio documentary on contemporary comic songmakers in the traditional ...
A radio documentary on contemporary comic songmakers in the traditional idiom featuring the songs of Michael Marrinan, Sean Mone, Robbie McMahon, Tim Lyons, Con O'Drisceoil and Brian O'Rourke. (Broadcast 2005)
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DocArchive: The children at the bottom of the garden
An amazing documentary by John McKenna about being told by ...
An amazing documentary by John McKenna about being told by his mother on her deathbed that the children she lost at birth were buried at the bottom of their garden. This is a story of 1950s Catholic Ireland and the burial of the unbaptised (broadcast 1995)
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DocArchive: Wake me when I'm dead
A documentary about the dead, dying and death - told ...
A documentary about the dead, dying and death - told by the undertaker Thomas Lynch who is is an essayist, poet and funeral director of Lynch & Sons funeral home in Milford, Michigan. (Broadcast 2002)
