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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The Champ
Sports people will tell you it’s not a real sport ...
Sports people will tell you it’s not a real sport and actors will tell you it’s not acting - the world of Irish pro wrestling and the rise of one of its biggest stars 'Sheamus' from small Irish venues to entertaining 50,000 people at Madison Square Garden.
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Heavens Special Children
A beautiful, yet tragic story - of how the lives ...
A beautiful, yet tragic story - of how the lives of two boys born profoundly disabled in 1960's Ireland took incredibly different paths - based entirely on how their families came to grips with the situation (2007)
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Christmas Moments
The Documentary On One team travelled to various parts of ...
The Documentary On One team travelled to various parts of Ireland to record memories of Christmasses past and wishes for this Christmas – in letters to Santa.
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The Reindeer Santa Left Behind
An Exclusive - Recorded over the last year, this is ...
An Exclusive - Recorded over the last year, this is the incredible story which began last Christmas Eve just as Santa arrived into Ireland and Blitzen, one of his reindeers got badly injured.
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Dogs and the City
A tale of puppy love: Ger Philpott with his three ...
A tale of puppy love: Ger Philpott with his three beautiful dogs - Frost, Thunder and Drizzle and his quest to have a litter of puppies.
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Sounds Mad
A story about hearing voices - and learning to live ...
A story about hearing voices - and learning to live with them. About how your past shapes your future, until you begin to understand it. Do you think that people who hear voices are just plain mad? If so, this documentary might make you think twice.
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Sunken Treasures
Diving for buried treasure no longer the story of fairy ...
Diving for buried treasure no longer the story of fairy tales – with over 17,000 shipwrecks recorded in Irish waters, do we think about what lies beneath these seas?
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Lions on Tour - The Jersey Returns !
In 1930 a boat set sail from Southampton carrying 29 ...
In 1930 a boat set sail from Southampton carrying 29 Lions rugby players on a tour of Australia and New Zealand. 83 years later, a woman from New Zealand is delivering a very special relic from that tour to the Dunne family in Dublin.
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Oswald Froze A Moment - Ireland on the day JFK died
If you search 'November 22, 1963', you get lots on ...
If you search 'November 22, 1963', you get lots on the death of JFK, but lots more happened in Ireland that day: births, deaths, dinner in the middle of the day. Even small boys cheting their grannies out of chocolate. Plenty really.
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Pregnant on my Lunchbreak
Angela has always wanted children, but in the absence of ...
Angela has always wanted children, but in the absence of Mr Right, she took an alternative route to motherhood. She chose artificial insemination - and a sperm donor from Denmark. The question is, would it work? Would she finally have a baby of her own?
