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: Mama's Baby
Four year old Charlotte was born with Rett's Syndrome - ...
Four year old Charlotte was born with Rett's Syndrome - a rare neurological disorder resulting in physical and intellectual disability. It occurs in girls almost exclusively, and affects one in ten thousand births. (Broadcast 1997)
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DocArchive: Somalia - River of Hope
In the early 1990's, a devasting famine that claimed up ...
In the early 1990's, a devasting famine that claimed up to 300,000 lives in Somalia. In this documentary Roisin Boyd travelled to Somalia with the then Minister for Foreign Affairs David Andrews to see the aid operation first hand (Broadcast 1992)
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DocArchive: Voices in the Air
Orla Burke meets some of the people who ring into ...
Orla Burke meets some of the people who ring into radio talk shows and asks what it is that turns some people into "serial callers" (Broadcast 1997)
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DocArchive: Priests Leaving
In the 1970s numbers of priests were declining in their ...
In the 1970s numbers of priests were declining in their thousands. Former priests discuss their reasons for leaving - often the isolation and lonliness that they felt as a result of celibacy. (First broadcast 1974)
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DocArchive: World of Women
In this documentary from 1980, Marian Finucane travelled to Copenhagen ...
In this documentary from 1980, Marian Finucane travelled to Copenhagen for the second United Nations World Conference on Women where delegates gathered to assess the progress in women’s rights and equality.
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DocArchive: Baby on the Way
In this revealing documentary we go behind the scenes at ...
In this revealing documentary we go behind the scenes at the Coombe Women's Hospital in Dublin to explore the world of pregnancy, from the anti-natal clinic to the birth of a child in the delivery room. (Broadcast 1977)
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DocArchive: Meltdown
The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown ...
The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown which occurred at the Harrisburg power plant in Pennsylvania on March 28th, 1979. It was the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. (Broadcast 1979)
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DocArchive: InterchurchMarriages
In 1975 the 'mixed marriage problem' was such a divisive ...
In 1975 the 'mixed marriage problem' was such a divisive issue in Ireland that a conference was held to try to figure out what should be done if a Catholic and a Protestant wanted to get married (first broadcast 1975).
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DocArchive: Wicked Old Children of George Fitzmaurice
A look at the life of the Irish dramatist and ...
A look at the life of the Irish dramatist and short story writer George Fitzmaurice, with accounts from those who knew him personally. (Broadcast 1972) A look at the life of the Irish dramatist and short story writer George Fitzmaurice, with accounts from those who knew him personally. (Broadcast 1972)
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DocArchive: Stargazers
Patrick Moore boasted to friends that he was the only ...
Patrick Moore boasted to friends that he was the only man to interview Orville Wright, Neil Armstrong and Yuri Gagarin but to his fans he was much more than a broadcaster. (Broadcast 2001)
