Documentary on One Podcast

RTÉ

Multi award winning documentaries from Ireland and beyond telling real life stories. With over 1,800 documentaries on offer, the Documentary On One Podcast has the largest archive of documentaries available in the world, dating as far back as 1954, right up to the present day. Winner of over 400 national and international awards. Producer of podcast series 'Where is Jón?', ‘The Real Carrie Jade’, 'Runaway Joe', 'Finding Samantha', 'Tiger Roll', 'GunPlot' and 'The Nobody Zone'. Immerse yourself in a world of sound, story and character.

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Jul 8, 2016 · 39 min
Tearoom, Taylor, Saviour, Spy
Margaret Kearney Taylor was a woman who kept many secrets. She was known as the Irishwoman who ran an elegant tearoom in Madrid, Spain for more than fifty years. But she was also was part of a network which helped thousands of Allied servicemen and Jewish refugees escape the Nazi regime in Europe during World War Two. (2016) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 7, 2016 · 39 min
Tearoom, Taylor, Saviour , Spy.
Margaret Kearney Taylor was a woman who kept many secrets. She was known as the Irishwoman who ran an elegant tearoom in Madrid, Spain for more than fifty years . But she was also was part of a network which helped thousands of Allied servicemen and Jewish refugees escape the Nazi regime in Europe during World War 2 (broadcast 2016) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 1, 2016 · 39 min
Waterford, Wimbledon, Monaco, Murder
Vere Goold was Ireland’s first tennis star, winning titles in this new sport in 1879. He was born into an aristocratic family in Waterford and met his wife Marie, who posted an ad for a husband with ‘a title’. Thirty years after triumph at Wimbledon, Goold would commit murder on the French Riviera. (2016) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 24, 2016 · 40 min
High Heels and Horses
Emma Cahill had a dream of representing Ireland at the Olympics on the National Showjumping team. But in 2011 those dreams were ended when Emma suffered an accident when a horse fell on her, paralysing from the waist down. The story of how she pursued her dreams of becoming an athlete and to dance again in high heels. (First Broadcast 2016) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 17, 2016 · 40 min
The Anaconda Road Massacre
In 1916, Thomas Manning left Ireland to work in the copper mines of Butte, Montana. Mining hotspots like West Cork were dying – emigration to America seemed the only choice. However, just 4yrs later, on a union strike mixed in the politics of the day, Thomas was shot and murdered. 95yrs later, we go in search of his forgotten story (Broadcast 2015) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 8, 2016 · 55 min
We've Got a Game to Win
With Euro 2016 about to begin, John Kenny from RTÉ Sport looks back to Euro '88 - when the Republic of Ireland qualified for their first ever major football tournament. The entire country came to a standstill and celebrated like never before. Packie Bonner, Ronnie Whelan, Ray Houghton, Jack Charlton and many more recall that epic journey. (2012) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 3, 2016 · 39 min
The Loudest House on the Street
Cathy Moorehead opens up the door of her home to reveal an exceptional experience shared by just a very, very small group of people. Cathy is a C.O.D.A – a child of deaf adults. In a warm, intimate and often humorous tale, Cathy reveals how growing up with a deaf mother and a deaf father created a unique soundtrack that has shaped her life (2016) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 20, 2016 · 39 min
Bruno the Chimpanzee
In 1988 an accountant came across a tiny chimpanzee tied to a tree in a rural village in the West African state of Sierra Leone. Its mother had been killed by hunters, and the accountant and his wife decided to rescue the Chimpanzee they named Bruno. They had no idea how profoundly this would change their lives. First broadcast May 2016. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 13, 2016 · 39 min
Sinking at Hangman's Point
In 2013, a beautiful 100 year old tall ship; The Astrid was shipwrecked off the coast of Kinsale, Co. Cork. Disaster was averted, as all 30 crew were rescued. Captain and Dutch man Pieter de Kam was the owner of the boat and he lost his beautiful ship and his dream life on the sea. (First Broadcast 2015) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 6, 2016 · 45 min
The Case That Never Was
In the most in-depth and far-reaching investigation RTÉ Radio has ever undertaken, an international recruitment company is taken to court by one of its workers. Referred to the European Court of Justice, the outcome could change EU labour law for millions of people. The only problem? The worker at the heart of the case knows nothing about it(2015) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 29, 2016 · 40 min
Sand, Sea and Smugglers
Amas and Ammar Al-Kadry are two Syrian brothers who put themselves in the hands of ruthless people-smugglers to escape their war-torn country. From the deserts of Algeria to lawless Libyan towns and rickety over-crowded boats, it’s a long way from Damascus to Mayo. (First broadcast 2015) Themes: Adventure, Conflict, Development, Foreign See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 22, 2016 · 39 min
My Uncle Jack
A story of emigration and sport. Jack Dowling survived an orphanage in Waterford and an industrial school in Cork. He moved to the UK to work in the mines and went on to become an international race walker. Jack was good enough to represent Ireland, but never got the chance. He did set many records, some of which still stand (Broadcast 2015) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 15, 2016 · 39 min
The Brits, The Blitz and The Bedwarmer
Leeanne O’Donnell was browsing a market when she saw a bedwarmer from a Big House in North Cork, between Mallow and Mitchelstown. The landlady who owned it was successful author, Elizabeth Bowen who, according to the stallholder, was hated because she spied for Churchill during The Emergency. Was that true? Leeanne set off to find out. (2015) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 1, 2016 · 41 min
An Easter Re-Rising
Astonishing and largely unknown, this is the story of how the Irish 1916 Rising provided a blue print for one of the first armed uprisings of its kind in India, Britain's largest colony, bringing closer than ever the inevitable demise of the British Empire. (First Broadcast 2016) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 25, 2016 · 39 min
Roger Casement's 'Apocalypse Now' - Africa & 1916
In August 1916, the British executed a very unusual rebel figure: a knight-cum-Irish rebel who honed his nationalism in ‘Belgian’ Congo in Africa - Sir Roger Casement. From Dublin and Ballycastle, Co. Antrim, he was captured in Kerry. Then, imprisoned in the Tower of London, he was, as the saying goes, “hanged on a comma”.(Broadcast 2016) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 24, 2016 · 40 min
The All-Ireland Behind Barbed Wire
In 1916, a GAA match between Kerry and Louth footballers took place on a pitch named Croke Park, at a prisoner of war camp in Frongoch, Wales. 100 years on, three relations of men who played in that 1916 match retrace their forbearer’s footsteps. In the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, Frongoch became home to 1,800 Irish volunteer prisoners. (2016) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 14, 2016 · 41 min
The Ballad of Patrick Folen
With a sung narration performed by Mick Flannery, this documentary delves into the life of an Irishman who lived in England. In 2006, Patrick Folens remains were discovered in Horton Woods in Kent. He disappeared mysteriously in 1995. (2007) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 4, 2016 · 40 min
Sandbags not Handbags?
Longford/Westmeath was a controversial constituency in General Election 2016. Why? For two reasons. The count took a full six days – and before the election was even called, gender quota caused uproar. Behind the scenes, what were the politics at play from a woman’s perspective? We follow two female candidates as they battle their way to the Dail. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 26, 2016 · 44 min
Once Were Champions
In 1985, Kerry club Castleisland Desmonds won their first and only men’s Senior Football All Ireland club title. 30 years on, clubman Dan Kearney examines the David and Goliath journey that his local team embarked on - and tells a story that encapsulates everything about club GAA - and a legacy that his small town is proud to have. (Broadcast 2015) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 5, 2016 · 36 min
12 Miles
12 Miles tells the story of Guillermo Rigondeux and his Irish manager, Gary Hyde. Gary was a boxing manager from Cork, who risked over 20 years in prison to smuggle amateur Olympic and world champion boxers out of Fidel Castro’s Cuba. (First Broadcast 2015) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.