Love Letters From The Front
To mark Armistice Day 2012 - A story of love and war - based on a collection of letters written by Eric Appleby from the trenchs of WW1 to Phyllis, an Irishwoman, who waited and waited for Eric to ret...
9 Nov 201243min
Wrong Way Across The Atlantic
They went against the flow. Tom McDonough and Ned Hammell immigrated to Ireland from the US in the early years of the last century - they left America as children to settle in Ireland. Tom left before...
8 Nov 201228min
No Place Like Home
Life inside a 'wet' hostel - where residents are allowed bring in alcohol. Sundial House, run by DePaul Ireland, a long-term housing project in Dublin for men and women who have lived for long periods...
2 Nov 201230min
Shellacked!
It used to be that you could varnish your nails - now you can have 'shellac nails'. It's a hard protection that makes the colour last. However, it's applied by a nail technician which sounds like a dr...
1 Nov 201217min
Daft Horror Movies
Horror movies that are so bad, they're good. Erik Threlfall is an expert on horror movies, trashy ones: 'Bloody Moon', 'Pieces', 'Slumber Party Massacre'. They scare you but they just make him laugh. ...
31 Okt 201214min
One World: Team Vietnam - Let the games begin!
Everyone got behind the Irish Paralympic team at the London 2012 games but we also had good reason to be cheering on another team - Vietnam. Irish Aid took the Vietnam team under its wing and brought ...
29 Okt 201233min
One World: Under the Mango Tree
Kiliwa is a community living with the aftermath of violence and child abduction by Joseph Kony’s Lord's Resistance Army. Della Kilroy records stories of survival in the Democratic Republic of Congo (T...
26 Okt 201238min
German Soup Kitchen
In the week in which Angela Merkel put the frighteners on Ireland, The Curious Ear visits a place in Germany you may imagine didn't exist: a soup kitchen for hungry Germans, the Bahnhofsmission - the ...
25 Okt 201215min
