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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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    DocArchive: Heart of Grace

    A powerful story about the recipients of donor hearts, by ...

    A powerful story about the recipients of donor hearts, by Ireland's longest heart transplant survivor Bill Long. (Broadcast 1995)

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    DocArchive: Back from the Brink

    In 1975, Khmer Rouge forces entered Phnom Penh, Cambodia and ...

    In 1975, Khmer Rouge forces entered Phnom Penh, Cambodia and defeated the ruling Lon Nol Army. Pol Pot declared 'Year Zero' and began his reign of terror. This documentary looks at how the Cambodians are recovering from the Pol Pot years (Broadcast 1994)

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    DocArchive: Guns and Roses

    Every day for six months these women must wear a ...

    Every day for six months these women must wear a uniform and carry a gun. This documentary follows four women soldiers on duty with the Irish army in the Lebanon (Broadcast 1994)

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    DocArchive: Gerry's Left Leg

    A personal story of disability with an honest and lively ...

    A personal story of disability with an honest and lively portrait of a man named Gerry O'Brien - a teacher in CBS Monkstown in Dublin who has no arms and just one leg. (Broadcast 1992)

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    DocArchive: Ferns in Gorthaganny

    John Scally traces the history of an unmarked children's graveyard ...

    John Scally traces the history of an unmarked children's graveyard in Co. Roscommon, believed to be a burial ground since famine times (Broadcast 1994)

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    DocArchive: Markets Without Middlemen

    The battle between market stall holders and big business and ...

    The battle between market stall holders and big business and how the tide of business has obliterated the small man, the donkey and cart and the street singer whose music is drowned out by the sound of the delivery lorries. (first broadcast 1975)

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    DocArchive: Darkness of the Soul

    Ann-Marie Power visits Cordoba in Andalusia Southern Spain in search ...

    Ann-Marie Power visits Cordoba in Andalusia Southern Spain in search of the core of flamenco and its influences (Broadcast 1997)

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    DocArchive: That Lady

    The life and works of Limerick born novelist and playwright ...

    The life and works of Limerick born novelist and playwright Kate O’Brien (1897-1974) featuring dramatised excerptsof the works of O'Brien (Broadcast 1997)

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    DocArchive: Lost Innocence

    Annie Maguire was jailed in 1976 with five members of ...

    Annie Maguire was jailed in 1976 with five members of her family and a family friend. She was alleged to have passed nitro-glycerine to the IRA in the seventies to make bombs. She talks about the events that changed her life (Broadcast 1996)

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    DocArchive: Yeee Haaa

    Dick Warner visits the wild west to discover bunkhouses, poets ...

    Dick Warner visits the wild west to discover bunkhouses, poets and other aspects of cowboy culture (Broadcast 1997)

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