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Riverchapel Ladies On Tour: Pauline (left), Imelda (middle) and Bernie (right)

Riverchapel Ladies On Tour - Documentary On One

Documentary maker Nathan Walsh writes about his Documentary On One production, Riverchapel Ladies On Tour - listen to it in full above.

Documentary On One • 20 Jul 18

Johnny Cash at the Crystal Ballroom, Dublin in 1963

Johnny Cash's Lost Tour Of Ireland - Documentary On One

This week's Documentary On One, Johnny Cash's Lost Tour Of Ireland came from a listener, David Shortall sharing a recording his father Enda had for ...

Documentary On One • 16 Jul 18

The blonde haired, blue-eyed Roma child known as 'Maria', the subject of this week's Documentary On One

The Roma child with blonde hair & blue eyes - Documentary On One

In October, 2013, a four year old blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl named Maria was discovered peeping out from underneath a blanket on a Roma camp in ...

Documentary On One • 07 Jul 18

Orla Higgins' new documentary White Noise wonders: can we solve the mystery of tinnitus?

Living with tinnitus - Documentary On One

What happens when sounds exist only inside your head? How do you cope with an internal soundtrack from which you can't escape, without it driving ...

Documentary On One • 29 Jun 18

Irish Nuns in Texas - Documentary On One

It's 1951. Jo Murray is 18 years old and stands at the railing of a westbound transatlantic ship with four other teenage Irish girls. But ...

Documentary On One • 22 Jun 18

Documentary On One Gold - listen to a trio of award-winning docs

Congratulations to the RTÉ Documentary On One team, who scooped three gold medals at the 2018 New York Festivals International Radio Awards, where RTÉ was ...

Documentary On One • 21 Jun 18

Listen to Doc on One's 'Does My Bum Sound Big in This?' now

Documentary on One: Does My Bum Sound Big in This?

When Joyce got a place on a HSE weight management programme, after years on the waiting list, she said she'd let me record with her, ...

Documentary On One • 11 Jun 18

Documentary On One - one woman's struggle to become A New Niamh

Documentary maker Angie Mezzetti tells the story behind this week's remarkable Documentary On One production, A New Niamh - you can listen to the programme ...

Documentary On One • 11 Dec 17

Documentary On One - speaking up about being quiet

Are you fed up being that 'little mouse'? Pauline Dunne writes about life as an introvert, and the inspiration behind this week's RTÉ Documentary On ...

Documentary On One • 01 Dec 17

Learn the art of storytelling with the Documentary On One team

RTÉ Radio 1 has announced the return of its two-day weekend training seminar in all things documentary, to be hosted by the internationally-acclaimed Documentary on ...

Documentary On One • 29 Nov 17

The Occupation presenter Micheal Bradley, with Derry Anti-War Movement member Eamonn McCann and producer Declan McGrath, on location in Derry

Documentary On One - moral warfare on the streets of Derry

Declan McGrath reflects on the making of this weekend's Documentary on One production, 'The Occupation'. Documentary On One: The 9 Derry men who took on ...

Documentary On One • 24 Nov 17

Documentary On One: Fr Pat Noise and the doomed Millennium Clock

On the Western side of O'Connell bridge in the heart of Dublin city, there's a little 8x6 inch space. It's a cavity cut into the ...

Documentary On One • 21 Nov 17

Documentary On One: The Tattooed Irishman

Shipwrecked on a Pacific island, Dubliner James O'Connell was captured by natives and heavily tattooed. Years later, he escaped on a passing ship and arrived ...

Culture • 10 Nov 17

How did one Irishman have three funerals? - Doc on One

How did one Irishman have three funerals? That's the question I set out to answer with this week's Documentary On One.

RTÉ Radio 1 • 20 Dec 18

Euthanasia, and the Irish way of dying - Documentary On One

In this weekend's Documentary On One, Dr. Luke Dillon explores the controversial subject of euthanasia and asks how can we do end-of-life care best in ...

Documentary On One • 27 Oct 17

Nazi codebreaker Richard Hayes, the subject of this weekend's gripping RTÉ Documentary On One.

The Irishman who broke the Nazi code - Documentary on One

Marc Mc Menamin, producer of this weekend's RTÉ Documentary on One, Richard Hayes, Nazi Codebreaker, reflects on honouring Ireland's role in World War Two.

Documentary On One • 23 Oct 17

Maria Brigida Gonzales, founding member of the San Jose De Apartado Peace community. She talks to the Documentary On One team for Colombia: Making the Peace.

Colombia's fragile peace - Documentary On One

This weekend's Documentary On One takes us into the heart of Colombia to examine the fragile peace in what was one of the world's most ...

Documentary On One • 14 Oct 17

Celebrating the Documentary On One Prix Italia victory: (l-r) Tim Desmond (RTÉ Radio 1 Producer) Jason Murphy (Freelance Producer), Ann Marie Power (Editor, RTÉ Radio 1), Noel Curran (Director General of E.B.U)

RTÉ Radio 1's Documentary on One wins prestigious Prix Italia

RTÉ Radio 1's Documentary on One was honoured at the prestigious Prix Italia international media awards in Milan on Sunday for its 2016 production No ...

Documentary On One • 04 Oct 17

Sixty-six years on, actress Clare Mullen returns to Achill Island to revisit the scene of one of the worst film accidents of all time resulting in the death of four talented and extraordinary people working on a film called "Shark Island".

Return to Shark Island - Documentary on One

Documentary maker David Mullen writes about this weekend's Documentary on One - Return to Shark Island.

Documentary On One • 02 Oct 17

Ireland and the KGB - Documentary On One

Documentary maker Robert Mulhern writes about this weekend's Documentary On One production, Ireland and the KGB.

Documentary On One • 22 Sep 17

Ireland's Coroners on the Cause Of Death - Documentary on One

The role of the Coroner becomes important only when tragedy strikes with the sudden and unexplained death of a loved one. Tim Desmond is co-producer ...

RTÉ Radio 1 • 15 Sep 17

On the battlefront (l-r): Winston Churchill, Eric Dorman-Smith, William Gott and John Auchinleck

The Irish general who stopped Rommel - Documentary On One

Pavel Barter, documentary maker, writes about Eric Dorman O'Gowan, an Irish general who played a decisive role in stopping Rommel in North Africa during World ...

Documentary On One • 12 Sep 17

Belfast man and Inuit scholar Mick Mallon, and his wife Alexina - the subject of this weekend's Documentary On One.

The Irishman living at the top of the world - Documentary On One

Documentary maker Janna Graham writes about this weekend's remarkable Documentary On One production, Pisusuuq, The One Who Walks, and its subject, Belfast man Mick Mallon.

Radio 1 • 01 Sep 17

Slaughtneil GAA, the little club that did - Documentary On One

Documentary maker Ronan Kelly writes about this week's remarkable Documentary On One production, an intimate portrait of Slaughtneil GAA club, and the people behind their ...

Documentary On One • 25 Aug 17

A tale of murder and intrigue in Leitrim - Documentary on One

Tim Desmond, producer of this weekend's Documentary on One, An Unholy Trinity, reflects of the value of archive material to help sort the fiction from ...

Documentary On One • 21 Aug 17