Documentary on One Podcast

The Irish News Agency was set up in 1949 to channel Irish news worldwide, particularly on the issue of partition. However, foreign editors would not buy what they perceived as government propaganda an...

5 Apr 200949min

Producer John Kenny departed from Dublin with one man and eight women to Morocco in Africa to take part in the ISPCC High Atlas Mountain challenge. Hiking up to seven and a half hours a day and scalin...

5 Apr 200929min

It was 1920s America when crosswords became the latest craze to sweep libraries across the country. Initially some hoped that it would be a short-lived fad. But the crossword was here to stay (first b...

5 Apr 200939min

Visiting a bookshop is a cultural experience, like visiting an art gallery than the local green grocer. A documentary made during the last recession about bookshops under threat (Broadcast 1982).See o...

4 Apr 200939min

The extraordinary story of Irish poet and novelist Christy Nolan, who made a remarkable career despite being unable to walk, talk, or use his hands (Broadcast 1981).See omnystudio.com/listener for pri...

3 Apr 200934min

Rosie Guihen left Tarmon in Co Leitrim for Manchester in 1946. Her sister Teresa followed her two years later. 'The Things We Remember' tells their story. Rosie Guihen left Tarmon in Co Leitrim for Ma...

3 Apr 200940min

This is the story of a remarkable building, which was home to a number of remarkable people - the Mercers Hospital in Dublin. (Broadcast 1983)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

3 Apr 200944min

Owen Nestor is the toast of many Galway parishes for his poems and ballads. He lost the sight of one eye when a sod of turf fell off a cart and hit him. The explanation for his self deprecating soubri...

2 Apr 200942min