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If you missed the biggest TV event of the year, where were you?! Don’t worry, RTÉ Player has got you covered as The Late Late Toy Show is available to watch now on RTÉ Player! Watch the entire event or browse through a selection of the best bits from this years’ show. And if that’s not enough, RTÉ Player has also gathered the golden moments from The Late Late Toy Show through the years. Reacquaint yourself with some of the famous faces who have stopped by over the years such as Ed Sheeran and Robbie Keane. Reminisce on some of the young stars and show-stopping opening numbers from the tremendously talented children who take part year after year or catch some of the true heroes of the show (remember John Joe?) and what they thought of their appearance in Toyshow Talkback.
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Your Mum loved him. Your Mum’s Mum loved him. Your Aunties loved him. Learn more about the magic that is Joe Dolan in on RTÉ Player. Featuring interviews with Al Porter, Nathan Carter, Larry Gogan, Rory Cowan and Albert Hammond, Classic Joe Dolan, is an archive rich documentary shot over the summer that captures the very special recording of some of Joe Dolan’s biggest hits with The RTE Concert Orchestra for his brand new album, “Orchestrated By Joe”. Watch now on RTÉ Player
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Tastes Like Home With Catherine Fulvio
We all know someone who lives abroad and misses Mammy dinners and Sunday roasts. In Tastes Like Home, Catherine Fulvio visits families across Ireland who teach her how to make their favourite family dishes, before travelling to locations around the world to recreate these ‘tastes like home’ for family members now living abroad. Catherine meets the Irish diaspora in Europe, America and The Middle East, bringing a sprinkling of enthusiasm and a large dollop of expertise to this travel cookery show. Tastes like Home is more than a food show with a dash of travel, this is a format that will strike a chord with every Irish family as it takes you on a whistle-stop tour of 6 Irish families and their loved one’s home away from home. Watch now on RTÉ Player.
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In this personal and moving documentary TV presenter, Colm Flynn, sets out to track down the little boy his family tried to adopt from Belarus 16 years ago. The Flynns had fostered Banni for a year and half and, although he had become part of the family, the Belarusian authorities vetoed their attempts to keep him and Banni had to return to the special needs orphanage from where he came. Banni was one of the many children abandoned by their families in the years after the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl and put into orphanages dotted all over Belarus, institutionalised in facilities with awful conditions. In this very personal and moving Reality Bites documentary Colm travels to Minsk to track down Banni and find out how he’s doing now and what the future holds for him. Colm also travels to nearby Chernobyl to see first-hand the fallout that impacted on Banni and, ultimately, on his family. Watch now on RTÉ Player.
