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 16, 2015 · 39 min
Seamus Darby and the Goal That Made Champions
Séamus Darby was the Offaly hero who scored a late goal in the All-Ireland football final of 1982 depriving Kerry of their historic 5-in-a-row. He tells the story of how one of the most famous goals in GAA history impacted on his life and family and a journey which took him from Ireland to the UK and back to Tipperary where he now lives. (2015) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 10, 2015 · 40 min
Band of Gold
With over 25,000 weddings taking place every year in Ireland, it’s a very competitive industry for wedding bands. We follow bands from Dublin, Cork and Limerick whose full time job it is to give newlyweds in love a night they’ll never forget – and keep the dance floor moving, despite all the different tastes in music! (First Broadcast 2015) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 26, 2015 · 38 min
Living Outside The Box
Rachel Breslin is desperate to find a way around the spiralling rents that are being charged for Dublin property.And she thinks she has hit on the perfect solution - acting as a guardian for properties that need to be protected from robbers and squatters. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 12, 2015 · 40 min
Seven Years And Nine Months
After seven years of trying to have a baby, Dublin couple Rachel and Daniel have decided to try to complete their family through the emotionally turbulent and expensive surrogacy route. We follow them as they go to America and find a surrogate mother, a donor egg and hopefully, a baby. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 12, 2015 · 40 min
The Man Who Played Offside
Patrick O’Connell was a superstar and a cheat. He was a superstar of soccer in Ireland, Britain and Spain and cheated on his family. He married two women with the same name and same appearance. Patrick, or Paddy O'Connell, played for Ireland in the early days of the national game; he led the country to its first Home Championships title in 1914. He was tall, broad-shouldered, good-looking and robust: he played the final game against Scotland with a broken arm. Narrated by Flor MacCarthy and Richard Fitzpatrick. Additional recording by Fergal McGuire and Colm O'Connor. Produced by Richard Fitzpatrick with Ronan Kelly. (2015) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 5, 2015 · 42 min
And A Bit Off The Top
Galway barber, Michael 'Chick' Gillen of Dominick Street is known as one of Galway's most famous characters. A man with a larger than life personality, an accomplished boxing trainer and barber. Two decades ago, we spent time with both Chick and his clientele as they talk their through the world of hair and life. (2000) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 29, 2015 · 41 min
With These Hands
This multi award winning documentary is about Tralee man, Eric Roche - a world class virtuosic guitarist - and his younger brother Bryan. Considered by many as Ireland's greatest ever guitarists, this is a story of love, music, life and brotherhood. (2009) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 22, 2015 · 38 min
In Tom Crean's Footsteps
In 1916, Tom Crean was part of one of the greatest stories ever told when he joined Ernest Shackleton's Expedition to the Antarctic. 100 years later, in October 2016, his Granddaughter Aileen, travelled thousands of miles to try and retrace her grandfathers footsteps. (2017) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 8, 2015 · 47 min
The Secret Chicken Society
All around Ireland, people keep show chickens and with each one comes a dream, to become the next National Champion. This award winning documentary is a glimpse inside the wonderful world of Irish show chickens and their keepers, as producer Liam O'Brien, follows them in the run up to the 2012 National Poultry Competition. (2012) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 9, 2015 · 38 min
DocArchive: River of Dreams
An evocation of the River Sullane in West Cork through the music of Peadar Ó Riada. The River Sullane runs from the mountains between County Cork and County Kerry. Peadar and Julian Vignoles trace the route of the river from its source to the sea. (1994) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 26, 2015 · 43 min
DocArchive (1991): What Will We Do When The Taxpayer Goes
Ireland has a long link with Africa after allocated millions of euro in foreign-aid over the past decades. Rodney Rice travels to one region that is being developed with help from the Irish Government, professionals and trades people. We hear from those living and working in Tanzania, who speak of the challenges and benefits of foreign-aid. (1991) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 24, 2015 · 42 min
DocArchive: Sowing The Seeds, Horace Plunkett & Co-op movement
Sir Curzon Horace Plunkett was an Anglo-Irish man who set up the agricultural co-operation in Ireland. This Co-Op encouraged farmers to process and market their own produce, to standards suitable for the British market. This enabled farmers to establish themselves. (1994) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 20, 2015 · 39 min
Searching for Answers - Gold Award Winner at 2011 New York Festivals
In 1975 and 1976 two fishing trawlers sank at the exact same spot off the coast of Donegal with the loss of 11 lives. Over 35 years later, Helena Gallagher, a daughter of one of the men who drowned, goes ‘Searching for Answers’. (2011) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 13, 2015 · 41 min
Come on Brigids
Damien O'Reilly charts the progress of the St. Brigid’s Senior Football team through the 2004 AIB club campaign, through the eyes of a supporter and includes interviews with players and supporters and footage from training sessions and matches.(2004) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 6, 2015 · 37 min
The Caretaker - Bronze Award Winner at 2011 New York Festivals
This is a classic who dunnit story? When Islamic manuscripts came up for private sale around Europe in 1991 - that questions began to arise. Those questions led a path back to the Chester Beatty library in Dublin and to an insider theft. (2011) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 11, 2015 · 38 min
DocArchive (1980): Creel The Scrubber And The Knife
‘Once you got landed you where as healthy as a trout’ is the memory of life on board for one Donegal fisherman. Skilled workers and fishermen speak of their experience of working in the fishing industry and why hundreds from Burtonport in County Donegal left for Scotland and the Shetlands to catch and gut Herring. (1980) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 6, 2015 · 39 min
The Boys of Foley Street
This award winning documentary begins in 1975 when Pat Kenny recorded with a group of young men from inner city Dublin. Pat returned again in 1988 and then in 2008, Ciaran Cassidy revisited them to find out how their lives turned out. (2008) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 23, 2015 · 41 min
Siege at Jadotville
An award winning documentary telling the story of a company of Irish troops who in 1961 came under siege at the isolated post of Jadotville, Congo and were forced to surrender to authorities in the province of Katanga. (2010) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 16, 2015 · 38 min
An Extraordinary Affair
The story of a scandalous liaison between two Irish women - Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby. Long before the civil partnership bill, were these lovers - two upper-class Anglo-Irish women from Kilkenny - the first ever lesbians to 'come out' in Ireland? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 24, 2014 · 39 min
The Bells of St.Mels
Christmas morning 2009, a devastating fire destroys St. Mel's Cathedral in the heart of Longford town. 5yrs later, on December 24th 2014, after one of Europe's biggest restoration projects, the Cathedral opens its doors again, just in time for Christmas. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.