The Hook: A People and a Place
In 2004, Wexford Co. Council built new public housing in the villages of Campile and Fethard-on-Sea and to mark this project the Council also commissioned a suite of music.See omnystudio.com/listener ...
19 Sep 201327min
Peter Daly - Good Cop/ Bad Cop?
An incredible story. 80yr old Donegal man Peter Daly was a member of the notoriously corrupt NYPD Special Investigations Unit during the 1970s. Peter received a 10yr jail term for his involvement in a...
13 Sep 201338min
Smashing Pianos
Why people are breaking up pianos, what the keening means at a funeral in South Africa and the boxing barber/hair-cutting boxer - extracts from three stories courtesy of The Dark group in London. You ...
12 Sep 201311min
First Days, Final Days...Revisited
20 years ago the Documentary Unit put a microphone on a small boy starting national school in Dublin. Now, 20 years later, where is everyone? Especially the hysterical child who tried to escape the cl...
6 Sep 201336min
Undue Alarm
The biggest known oil reserve in the world. A tiny community of aboriginal Canadians. And a Limerick GP. How an Irish doctor came face to face with the biggest industrial project on the planet and fou...
30 Aug 201337min
The Dublin Lock-Picking Club
TOG is a hackerspace group. Every other Tuesday they meet to pick locks. They have a table full of padlocks that range from simple 3-pin ones to more challenging 5-pin locks. They all seek that "momen...
29 Aug 201311min
A Very Brief Encounter
It's 1913 and when a Longford woman's engagement to a rich Glasnevin resident is derailed, where does she turn for comfort - the Dublin Courts. Miss Emily Sheeran took Mr Patrick Duignan to court for ...
23 Aug 201339min
Mike Fitz - Drifter
'Drifting' is the 'art' of driving a car sideways. Mike Fitz says he can park better with a handbrake than conventional manoeuvering. It sounds scary and looks chaotic but Mike explains that drifting ...
22 Aug 20139min
