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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.

  • 1,959 episodes
  • Updated June 29

Episodes1959

  • Dec 3, 2020 · 36 min

    The Nobody Zone: Episode 3 - The Numbers Game

    Why do claims of the number of Kieran Patrick Kelly's past victims keep on rising? Fresh information is put to the test. A new 8-part podcast series from RTÉ's Documentary On One in Ireland and Third Ear Productions in Denmark. Episode 3/8. (Originally released March 3rd 2020). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Dec 2, 2020 · 38 min

    The Nobody Zone: Episode 2 - A Hidden Truth?

    In 2015, amidst claims by a retired police officer of mass murder and cover up, the British Police reopen the case files of Kieran Patrick Kelly. But is the new evidence to be trusted? A new 8-part podcast series from RTÉ’s Documentary On One in Ireland and Third Ear Productions in Denmark. Episode 2/8. (Originally released February 25th 2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Dec 1, 2020 · 35 min

    The Nobody Zone: Episode 1 - "It Plays On Your Mind"

    A homeless Irishman is arrested on Clapham Common in London for stealing a wedding ring, only to murder another man in his police cell. When interviewed by police, he confesses to multiple murders. A new 8-part podcast series from RTÉ’s Documentary On One in Ireland and Third Ear Productions in Denmark. Episode 1/8. (Originally released Feb 18th 2020) To continue listening to this series, please subscribe to 'The Nobody Zone' podcast feed (Available from wherever you get your podcasts) or visit www.rte.ie/thenobodyzone See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Nov 30, 2020 · 30 sec

    Introducing 'The Nobody Zone' - Trailer

    In 1983 Kieran Patrick Kelly confessed to multiple murders. We enter a dark world where killer and victims mask their identities and where evidence is as hard to find, as it is to trust. A new 6 part true crime podcast from RTÉ in Ireland and Third Ear in Denmark. New episodes every Tuesday morning, beginning February 18th 2020. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Nov 13, 2020 · 45 min

    100 Years, 100 Miles

    On November 21st 1920, British security forces stormed a Gaelic football match in Croke Park Dublin, killing 14 and wounding dozens more. 100 yrs later, Vincent Murphy sets out on a 100 mile cycle as he explores his Grand Uncle Gus McCarthy’s story as one of the Tipperary players involved in what became known as Bloody Sunday (2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Nov 6, 2020 · 51 min

    The Little Shop of Secrets

    Decades ago The Wallace Sisters, Sheila and Nora, ran a small newsagents in Cork city. While many bought their paper and tobacco there, few knew of the secrets it held as an IRA Brigade HQ during the War of Independence. These fearless sisters led a double life from intelligence gathering to spy handling and deciphering codes. (2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Oct 16, 2020 · 48 min

    The Long Run

    In January every year in a small Norwegian town, a race starts. It’s one of the longest, toughest dog sled races in the world and it’s dominated by tough Nordic men. In 2019, someone different turns up at the start with her dogs. She’s a 5’1”, bespectacled, 35-year-old woman & she’s racing for Ireland. Heads are turned then the race starts. (2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Oct 9, 2020 · 44 min

    The Grief of a Nation

    On November 22nd 1963, two shots were taken in Dallas, Texas. One was a gunshot, killing the President of The United States, John F. Kennedy. The other, was a camera shot which changed two families’ lives forever. Those families went their separate ways in life - until decades later, when they were about to have another date with destiny. (2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Oct 2, 2020 · 42 min

    Timor Leste: Coming of Age

    In 1999, Sarah Mac Donald travelled to East Timor as a journalist undercover. Whilst violence erupted around her, Sarah became godmother to a little Timorese boy, Natalizio. But as the years went by, she lost touch with him and his family. 20 years after they last met, Sarah is returning to an independent Timor Leste, in search Natalizio. (2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Sep 25, 2020 · 44 min

    Polonium and the Piano Player (Pt.2)

    Part 2 of 2. As Derek Conlon finds out he’s been poisoned and dragged into a world of Russian espionage, he realises that’s just the start of his problems. With relations between UK and Moscow deteriorating, Derek escapes to a new life. But the nuclear poison Polonium-210 appears to have decided his fate. (Originally produced by Sky News Storycast) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Sep 18, 2020 · 43 min

    Polonium and the Piano Player (Pt.1)

    Ep 1 of 2. When ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko was murdered in a nuclear poisoning in London in 2006, an Irish man got caught up in the crossfire. Derek Conlon accidentally drank from the same radioactive cup used to poison Litvinenko – dragging him into a Russian world of espionage, murder and deceit. (Originally produced by Sky News Storycast) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Sep 11, 2020 · 44 min

    Age, Sex, Location

    The amount of children being targeted by online predators is increasing every year. The strange man on the street used to be the person we warned our children about. Now, that stranger can be in your house, via an online device. We meet the people who police the internet, a survivor, and the Garda unit focused on stopping online child abuse. (2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Sep 4, 2020 · 46 min

    The Hospital the Irish Shipped to France

    A pioneering adventure in overseas aid, when the Irish Red Cross assembled a 100-bed hospital and shipped it to bombed-out Normandy post-World War II. A group of young Irish doctors, nurses and support staff followed, bringing hope and healing to the shattered town of St-Lô as the survivors struggled to rebuild their lives among the ruins. (2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Aug 28, 2020 · 40 min

    A Very Irish Coup

    On a wet October Saturday over forty years ago a greyhound finished a race at Mullingar race track. The event was to turn Irish gambling upside down. Based in the small Irish towns of Listowel and Abbeyfeale, a quiet local betting coup in the days leading up the race saw bookies faced with paying out odds of almost a thousand to one. (2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Aug 21, 2020 · 44 min

    The Seven Million Dollar Man

    Sam Millar’s life reads like pure fiction. After joining the IRA as a teenager, he spent years on the notorious blanket protest in Northern Ireland. He later admitted to taking part in a massive, seven million dollar armed robbery in the US before starting a new life as a writer of award winning crime novels. (2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Aug 14, 2020 · 41 min

    Substantial Helen

    Helen Oxenham is getting a medal from the Queen of England – although Helen doesn’t have much time for the Queen. It’s for her work with victims of domestic violence in Australia. How did a woman, born in Cork and raised in Crumlin, Dublin end up there? Partly because of two men – both German – one she loved and one she came to despise. (2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Aug 7, 2020 · 45 min

    The Deadly Saris

    Two 15-year old Dublin girls were mitching, drinking and shoplifting. Then they hear a group of handsome men singing - with shaved heads and saffron robes. Hare Krishnas. The girls decide to join them – for the men and the free food - but soon they are hooked on the strict life and become Hare Krishna nuns. But the dream sours. (2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Jul 31, 2020 · 46 min

    Shane Healy - Back On Track

    Shane Healy has gone the distance in life. After spending years in an orphanage as a child, he travelled widely before hitch-hiking around the US, where he discovered he was a naturally talented athlete. It took more than that to get him to the 1996 Olympics where he ran for Ireland. Now after years away from the sport, Shane is back. (2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Jul 24, 2020 · 42 min

    Green and Gold

    In 1972, a group of Irish protest riders gate crashed the Olympic Games road cycling race in Munich, Germany. They’d hatched a secret plan to scupper the official Irish Olympic cycling team. But events at the Games threw their own plans into chaos. Almost 50 years later a family is still trying to recapture a lost Olympic dream. (2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Jul 10, 2020 · 53 min

    We Say You Have To Go

    In 1981, heroin took hold of certain parts of Dublin. It changed everything for the communities it was affected by. The impact of addiction on the people there was devastating. But these communities weren’t going to just take it and the people decided to fight back against the dealers. (2020) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.