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Bright Lights Small Village

A candid and often humorous radio documentary which goes behind the scenes of a Limerick amateur drama production to capture the compelling journey from the first readings through to the emotional final performance

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Last Week: The Brady Bunch

A radio documentary that meets with the renowned Irish horse trainer, Oliver Brady, a 'small man' competing in 'the sport of kings'.

Coming up next: Saints Alive

A radio documentary about sainthood, first broadcast in Easter Week 2003.

Song from the Slum : 4 January

This the story of Steo from the northside of Dublin and of Simo, a young homeless man from the streets and slums of Nairobi who find a common language though music.

Generation X-Factor : 14 January

Jedward-mania hit the country in the autumn of 2009. This documentary looks at life inside the pop bubble - and what happens when the bubble bursts.

Dadland : 24 December

A radio documentary about growing up with and being part of a rural farming family in Ireland (First broadcast 1996)...

Mr. Farren goes to Brussels : 29 December

A radio documentary where one family from Donegal travel all the way to the headquarters of the EU in Brussels in search of some help - and answers to their daughters death.

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