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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 these aren't just any mid-century Irish immigrants. They're going to Texas, and they're going to become nuns.

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 also named Radio Broadcaster Of The Year.

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, to follow her as she tries to, as she puts it, find her 'way back to normal'.

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 in full below.

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 One presentation.

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 One team.

Documentary On One • 29 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 balustrade on the bridge.

Documentary On One • 21 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 Ireland? Listen to Do No Harm...

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 dangerous countries. Luke Holland writes about the experience.

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 Time To Lose, which was the overall winner in the Radio Documentary category.

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 of this weekend's Documentary on One, Cause of Death.

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 War II, before turning his back on the British Army to become an Irish nationalist.

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 extraordinary success story.

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 the facts of history.

Documentary On One • 21 Aug 17

Celebrating Dublin's most notorious disco - Documentary On One

Jessie Hayden writes about her Documentary On One presentation, a love letter to legendary Dublin disco The Wezz, and her own high heeled coming of age as a 'Wezzer'...

Culture • 11 Aug 17

In Tom Crean's footsteps - Documentary on One

I first heard about Tom Crean in 2001. Someone bought me his book An Unsung Hero, for Christmas. There was a portrait picture of Tom on the front cover, pipe in mouth, hat on head, projecting a calm steeliness.

Documentary On One • 11 Aug 17

Documentary On One: 007, The Irish Connection

What do Sean Connery, Eric Clapton, Christy Brown and the Chieftains have in common? The circus apparently.

Documentary On One • 04 Aug 17

The glory days of Irish cycling revisited - Documentary On One

Donal O'Herlihy writes for Culture about his Documentary On One presentation, The Orwell Wheeler - and listen it in full here.

Documentary On One • 21 Jul 17

The island of Carnananaunachán - coordinates redacted.

Listen now: This documentary will change your life forever

Imagine a place where you could go to completely escape the constant distraction of online life? A remote island where all digital devices are confiscated on arrival and where you are returned to a simpler way of being?

Documentary On One • 11 Apr 17

Could you make Ireland's next top doc?

On April 1st, the internationally acclaimed Documentary On One team will host its fourth-weekend training seminar. Series producer, Liam O'Brien tells us how this initiative began – and what the weekend is all about.

Culture • 09 Mar 17

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