Bruno the Chimpanzee
In 1988 an accountant came across a tiny chimpanzee tied to a tree in a rural village in the West African state of Sierra Leone. Its mother had been killed by hunters, and the accountant and his wife ...
20 Maj 201639min
Sinking at Hangman's Point
In 2013, a beautiful 100 year old tall ship; The Astrid was shipwrecked off the coast of Kinsale, Co. Cork. Disaster was averted, as all 30 crew were rescued. Captain and Dutch man Pieter de Kam was t...
13 Maj 201639min
The Case That Never Was
In the most in-depth and far-reaching investigation RTÉ Radio has ever undertaken, an international recruitment company is taken to court by one of its workers. Referred to the European Court of Justi...
6 Maj 201645min
Sand, Sea and Smugglers
Amas and Ammar Al-Kadry are two Syrian brothers who put themselves in the hands of ruthless people-smugglers to escape their war-torn country. From the deserts of Algeria to lawless Libyan towns and r...
29 Apr 201640min
My Uncle Jack
A story of emigration and sport. Jack Dowling survived an orphanage in Waterford and an industrial school in Cork. He moved to the UK to work in the mines and went on to become an international race w...
22 Apr 201639min
The Brits, The Blitz and The Bedwarmer
Leeanne O’Donnell was browsing a market when she saw a bedwarmer from a Big House in North Cork, between Mallow and Mitchelstown. The landlady who owned it was successful author, Elizabeth Bowen who, ...
15 Apr 201639min
An Easter Re-Rising
Astonishing and largely unknown, this is the story of how the Irish 1916 Rising provided a blue print for one of the first armed uprisings of its kind in India, Britain's largest colony, bringing clos...
1 Apr 201641min
Roger Casement's 'Apocalypse Now' - Africa & 1916
In August 1916, the British executed a very unusual rebel figure: a knight-cum-Irish rebel who honed his nationalism in ‘Belgian’ Congo in Africa - Sir Roger Casement. From Dublin and Ballycastle, Co....
25 Mars 201639min
