DocArchive: Markets Without Middlemen
The battle between market stall holders and big business and how the tide of business has obliterated the small man, the donkey and cart and the street singer whose music is drowned out by the sound o...
14 Des 200939min
DocArchive: World of Women
In this documentary from 1980, Marian Finucane travelled to Copenhagen for the second United Nations World Conference on Women where delegates gathered to assess the progress in women’s rights and equ...
13 Des 200941min
DocArchive: Baby on the Way
In this revealing documentary we go behind the scenes at the Coombe Women's Hospital in Dublin to explore the world of pregnancy, from the anti-natal clinic to the birth of a child in the delivery roo...
13 Des 200939min
DocArchive: Priests Leaving
In the 1970s numbers of priests were declining in their thousands. Former priests discuss their reasons for leaving - often the isolation and lonliness that they felt as a result of celibacy. (First b...
13 Des 200938min
DocArchive: InterchurchMarriages
In 1975 the 'mixed marriage problem' was such a divisive issue in Ireland that a conference was held to try to figure out what should be done if a Catholic and a Protestant wanted to get married (firs...
12 Des 200958min
DocArchive: Meltdown
The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown which occurred at the Harrisburg power plant in Pennsylvania on March 28th, 1979. It was the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear pow...
12 Des 200942min
DocArchive: Stargazers
Patrick Moore boasted to friends that he was the only man to interview Orville Wright, Neil Armstrong and Yuri Gagarin but to his fans he was much more than a broadcaster. (Broadcast 2001)See omnystud...
11 Des 200942min
DocArchive: Wicked Old Children of George Fitzmaurice
A look at the life of the Irish dramatist and short story writer George Fitzmaurice, with accounts from those who knew him personally. (Broadcast 1972) A look at the life of the Irish dramatist and sh...
11 Des 200943min
