Synopsis
Multi award winning documentaries from Ireland. With over 1,500 documentaries on offer, the Documentary On One has the largest archive of documentaries available globally. These productions are radio stories about real life and contain documentaries dating as far back as 1954, right up to the present day. A wealth of life, ideas and experiences are on offer - but most importantly - stories. Winner of over 150 national and international awards since 2008, why not immerse yourself in a world of sound, story and character.
Episodes
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DocArchive: Love letters from the front
26/06/2009 Duration: 41minA documentary telling a beautiful story of love and war based on a collection of letters writtern to an Irishwoman during World War I. (Broadcast 2001)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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DocArchive: The Road to Polnagollum
26/06/2009 Duration: 41minThis documentary takes an underground journey in the Polnagollum cave system beneath the Burren, Co. Clare. The system has been carved out of limestone by a series of underground rivers. What is life really like in the Irish underworld (Broadcast 2004)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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DocArchive: Classmates of Pinochet
26/06/2009 Duration: 41minA documentary about Chile during the period of the military junta. Producer, Jan Diego Spoerer, lived for many years as a refugee in Chile. He came from a prominent Chilean family and went to the same school as Pinochet. (Broadcast 2004)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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DocArchive: When the bloom was on the flax
26/06/2009 Duration: 41minThis documentary focuses on the tradition and history of flax growing and the linen industry in Ireland. The contributors include the late poet John Hewitt on the rhyming weavers of Co. Antrim. (Broadcast 1978)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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DocArchive: The two sides of Dolly's Brae
26/06/2009 Duration: 41minOn the morning, of July 12th 1849, the Protestant Orange order peacefully marched thorugh Dolly's Brae, an exclusively Catholic village in Co. Down.However, on their return journey home that evening, a fight ensued. (Broadcast 1985)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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DocArchive: Mucho Corazon
26/06/2009 Duration: 41minA Dutch man visiting Havana falls in love with a Cuban woman, but their path is blocked at every turn. Recorded in Amsterdam, The Hague, The Netherlands and Havana and Holguin in Cuba. This is a story of love and European Immigration (Broadcast 1998)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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DocArchive: D Day 60 years on - The forgotten heros
26/06/2009 Duration: 40minTo mark the 60th anniversary of D-Day, Derek Davis visits the Normandy Beaches where the Allies stormed ashore on June 6th 1944. He talks with some of the survivors, the Irish, who were part of the massive seaborne assault. (Broadcast 2004)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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DocArchive: Ithaca
26/06/2009 Duration: 40minA documentary about the island of Ithaca in myth and reality. Ithaca is an island located in the Ionian Sea, Greece, with an area of 45 sq. miles and a little more than three thousand inhabitants. (Broadcast 1999)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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DocArchive: On the street
26/06/2009 Duration: 41minAn impression of street life in one area of Paris from the award winning documentary maker Kaye Mortley. (Broadcast 2004)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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DocArchive: The Story of Knock
25/06/2009 Duration: 42minIt was the brainchild of Monsignor James Horan - Knock Airport. This is the story of how an idea became reality, despite the objections from those who thought the idea was a crazy one, and what the airport has brought to the West (Broadcast 1985)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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DocArchive: Beacon on the Sands (1990)
25/06/2009 Duration: 43minBill Long travels to the Kish Lighthouse off the coast of Dublin, on the occasion of it's 25th anniversary (Broadcast 1990).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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DocArchive: A century of learning in Kerry
24/06/2009 Duration: 41minA story that documents over 100 years of eduction whilst traceing the evolution of the VEC in Kerry from its origins in Technical Instruction (Broadcast 2004)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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DocArchive: In search of Paddy Finucane
24/06/2009 Duration: 41minThe story of Brendan "Paddy" Finucane - the Dublin born RAF wing commander pilot. By 21, Finucane was the youngest Wing Commander at war, a highly decorated WW2 RAF pilot, the scourge of the German Air Force and a hero in the Britain (Broadcast 2004)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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DocArchive: Primrose and blue
24/06/2009 Duration: 41minPrimrose and Blue tells the story of John Scally as he vivdly recalls memories of his childhood in 1960's Roscommon in Ireland. This is a window into the Ireland gone by - into a different time in an almost different country (Broadcast 1995)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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DocArchive: Children on the Veranda
24/06/2009 Duration: 41minThe story of Rosemary Conry, who as a little girl spent 3 years lying bound and strapped to a bed, a victim of the TB epidemic that was then rife in Ireland. (First Broadcast 2009) The story of Rosemary Conry, who as a little girl spent 3 years lying bound and strapped to a bed, a victim of the TB epidemic that was then rife in Ireland. (First Broadcast 2009)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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DocArchive: Constant present
24/06/2009 Duration: 41minMore than one-in-eight people in Ireland suffer from a condition that causes frustration, withdrawal, anger and suffering and yet it is hidden, invisible. In Constant Present, Michael Carolan talks to people with chronic pain. (Broadcast 2003)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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DocArchive: Battle of the Somme
24/06/2009 Duration: 43minLasting from July 1st to Novemeber 18th 1916, The Battle of the Somme was to become one of the defining moments of the First World War. The first day of battle alone saw the British Forces sustain some 60,000 casualties, including Irishmen (Broadcast 1989)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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DocArchive: The Stonies
23/06/2009 Duration: 44minA documentary on Irish stonemasons, stonecutters and sculptors. (Broadcast 1978)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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DocArchive: No surrender
23/06/2009 Duration: 41minLorelei Harris goes marching with the York Road No Surrender Band on the 12th July and speaks with band members. (Broadcast 1997)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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DocArchive: Fallow deer
23/06/2009 Duration: 40minIn this documentary from the Mooney Goes Wild team, biologist and Secondary schoolteacher, Terry Flanagan looks at that most majestic of animals that roams the Phoenix Park in Dublin, the Fallow Deer. (Broadcast 2004)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.