DocArchive: Messing About on the River
The Shannon – Ireland’s largest river is the centre of booming boating holiday industry which attracts thousands of tourists who get the opportunity to chart their way through the waterways on a break...
30 Touko 200942min
DocArchive:A Strange Blessing
The joy that heralds the arrival of a Hijra is a regular part of India's special occasions. The sight of their masculine features wrapped in a female sari surprises many. Even more surprising is that ...
29 Touko 200940min
DocArchive: Ireland takes Wing - 21 years of Aer Lingus
As Aer Lingus celebrates its 75th birthday in May 2011, we travel back 54yrs to hear a story which told of its more youthful 21st birthday! Different times, a different era, different planes and diffe...
29 Touko 200959min
The Curious Ear (2009): Falling Slowly Is Banned
Every Saturday afternoon, Dublin teenagers crowd into the back room of Walton's music shop in Georges Street, Dublin to play the musical instruments. However, staff in the shop are so fed up listening...
29 Touko 200914min
DocArchive: The Burning of Ennistymon
A look at the ambush of the County Clare town of Ennistymon in September 1920. (Broadcast 1985)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
29 Touko 200935min
DocArchive: One Man's Century
Dubliner Alf McKenzie was born in 1897 and offers a unique perspective on the 21st century. It’s a life that takes in the 1916 rising, depression era Chicago, the Blitz in London and India under Briti...
29 Touko 200943min
DocArchive: Gillie
Two men in a boat - Frank Reilly and Conn McCool - go trout fishing on Lough Mask. Frank is the angler, deciding the method of fishing and taking advice from Conn - the Gillie, supplying the knowledge...
28 Touko 200943min
DocArchive: Transocean Airway history of Aer Lingus
As Aer Lingus celebrates its 75th anniversary in May 2011, we return to 1983 to a time when the Irish American transatlantic routes were critised for their loss making. But the Irish American link is ...
28 Touko 200943min
