Documentary on One Podcast

John Skehan talks to women who have suffered domestic abuse and looks at some of the relief schemes available. (1975)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

12 Mar 200939min

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,...

12 Mar 200929min

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)See omnystudio.com/listener...

12 Mar 200942min

Theresa was given up for adoption by her mother Terry. This tells the story of how Terry felt about the birth and giving her daugher up for adoption. We also hear how Terry and Theresa’s adoptive pare...

11 Mar 200942min

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 abou...

11 Mar 200939min

In the early 1990’s, vicious inter-clan fighting in Somalia led to the deaths of 30,000 Somalis, in addition to an estimated 200,000 who died as a result of famine. This is the story of the Irish sold...

10 Mar 200951min

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 pai...

9 Mar 200939min

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 volu...

9 Mar 200943min