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: The sinking of the Graf Spee
Irishmen serving in the British Navy recount the sinking of ...
Irishmen serving in the British Navy recount the sinking of The 'Graf Spee' - a German battleship at the helm of the German fleet in WW2. Weighing in at over 16,000 tonnes, she was a feared predator - until the British Navy sunk her (Broadcast 1980)
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DocArchive: Battered Wives
John Skehan talks to women who have suffered domestic abuse ...
John Skehan talks to women who have suffered domestic abuse and looks at some of the relief schemes available. (1975)
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DocArchive: The Marvellous Adventures of Cabeza De Vaca
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish Explorer of ...
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish Explorer of the New World, and one of only four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition. This account of his life tells an incredible tale of many adventures, and indeed misadventures. (First Broadcast 1982)
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DocArchive: There's still coal in Coalisland
Coal has been mined in Tyrone since the mid 1600's ...
Coal has been mined in Tyrone since the mid 1600's and when it comes to the town of 'Coalisland' in East Tyrone, its name tells the story. Travel into the past, present and future of coal mining in N. Ireland - through generations of time (Broadcast 1979)
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DocArchive: Factory Lives - Ferenka
Ferenka was once a factory in Limerick - a stable ...
Ferenka was once a factory in Limerick - a stable resource of employment. But in 1977 it closed down leaving in its wake a depressed and mournful workforce. (Broadcast 2004)
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DocArchive: Inner City Island
In 1973, RTE Radio One Producer Seán Mac Reamoinn set ...
In 1973, RTE Radio One Producer Seán Mac Reamoinn set out to capture life in the North Wall and Sherriff Street area of Dublin city.
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DocArchive: Bees and Their Keepers
An account of the long history Ireland has with beekeeping ...
An account of the long history Ireland has with beekeeping and how bees are so important to the farmers of Ireland .From the financial gain, to every sting, we hear from people who are passionate about beekeeping in Ireland. (Broadcast 1982)
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DocArchive: Irish Brent Goose Expedition
Every October, 90% of the entire world population of Brent ...
Every October, 90% of the entire world population of Brent Geese fly into Dublin Bay on their annual migration. In this documentary, we follow them on their 4,000km journey from Bathurst Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago to Dublin (Broadcast 1985)
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DocArchive: It happens silently in the night
It took Ireland generations to fully open up to the ...
It took Ireland generations to fully open up to the sexual abuse of children within the state. Before the lid was blown open on this area in the late 1990s, this documentary made ten years earlier paints the full circle of child sex abuse (Broadcast 1991)
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DocArchive: Far Cry
Mary Benson was a South African writer and antiapartheid activist. ...
Mary Benson was a South African writer and antiapartheid activist. She rejected her privileged upbringing as a white in South Africa to campaign against her country’s racial policies and lived in voluntary exile in London from the 1960s (Broadcast 1991)
