Radio Broccoli
An Irishman in San Francisco who relaxes from selling broccoli by going out and recording ordinary people with extraordinary stories: like the woman who makes erotic Barbies or the man who was the Nau...
8 Mars 201211min
On a Cape Clear Day
Why move to a rock in the ocean? Cape Clear Island, the most southerly inhabited part of Ireland, is home to Chuck and Nell Kruger. 20 yrs ago they moved to the island to write, to host a storytelling...
2 Mars 201239min
Batman Pyjamas
Dublin poet, Colm Keegan, lived in a Ballymun tower block until he was 5 years of age. Despite that young age, he has vivid memories of the place. While the towers were being demolished, Colm brought ...
1 Mars 20129min
"We've got your picture; now what's your name?"
In 2006, three people died tragically in the Dublin suburb of Firhouse. The media were criticised for distressing the local people with its behaviour; what actually happened was more nuanced. (A short...
28 Feb 201229min
"No One Shouted Stop" - 40 years on
In 1968, writer John Healy published a work that made Charlestown, Co. Mayo famous: "No One Shouted Stop: Death of an Irish Town". In 2007, to gauge the economic life of the town, RTE Radio reported o...
28 Feb 201229min
Wedding Bus
The priest who married a man to his dead fiancée....and other stories on the wedding bus from Manchester to Galway. (A short Irish documentary from RTE Radio Ireland - 2006)See omnystudio.com/listener...
27 Feb 201226min
Clearing the Killing Fields
The story of an unsung hero. Today, Irishman Carson Harte still battles the legacy of the Vietnam War and the Khmer Rouge Regime years after the wars are over. His aim? To get the wounded back on thei...
24 Feb 201236min
Satnav Rage
They're just little computers that sit on the dashboard to tell you where you're going. Except there's more: they have voices and irritating, intimidating 'personalities'. (A short Irish documentary f...
23 Feb 201211min
