My Bar Mitzvah in the Holy Land
Jerusalem was a scene of sadness this week. In poignant contrast, a joyful visit to the city: 13-year old Irish boy, Coby Baker, went there to make his Bar Mitzvah....and to get sweets thrown at the b...
23 Mar 201222min
Lanier Phillips - Survivor
How a 'joke' helped free a man from the racism of the U.S. Navy. The remarkable story of Lanier Phillips who survived a shipwreck and prejudice. He died last week and his story is told by Chris Brooke...
22 Mar 201225min
DocArchive (1990): Sisters Under an African Sky
In 1984, the first TV reports from the famine in Ethiopia in Africa aired. They had a profound effect on the nuns of The Little Sisters of the Assumption. As trained nurses, they decided to go and hel...
20 Mar 201243min
Rubber Swords
LARPing is a new 'sport'. Live Action Role-playing. Participants pretend to be mythical creatures the like of which you'd find in 'Lord Of The Rings'. Sounds crazy but suspend your scepticism and enjo...
19 Mar 201222min
000 Ambulance
Irishman, Les Dougan, worked as an emergency operator in Melbourne when, in 2008, radio producer, Kyla Brettle, eavesdropped on the kinds of calls he and his colleagues took. A tense, sometimes distre...
16 Mar 201224min
The Sinking of The Saint Patrick
We go in search of the truth behind one of Ireland's worst maritime disasters, the sinking of the St Patrick Vessel. A cross channel passenger ferry on the Rosslare-Fishguard route which was targeted ...
15 Mar 201232min
Frank X Buckley
He's a former Jesuit, former hotelier, an art lover, gay, contracted HiV - what more can be said? Lots. (A short Irish audio documentary from RTE Radio, Ireland)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...
15 Mar 201228min
Frost is All Over
Pearse Hutchinson was a fiercely interesting man with hundreds of stories to tell. He spent his life as a translator, a poet, a broadcaster and a writer - travelling around the world from the 1950's o...
9 Mar 201242min
