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Dan Joe's TV Station
Episode 1
50 years ago, Cork farmer, Dan Joe Kelleher, was helping RTE erect a TV transmitter on a nearby mountain. It gave him an idea: Why not erect his own …
14 years, 7 months ago
My Bar Mitzvah in the Holy Land
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Jerusalem was a scene of sadness this week. In poignant contrast, a joyful visit to the city: 13-year old Irish boy, Coby Baker, went there to make h…
14 years, 7 months ago
Lanier Phillips - Survivor
Episode 1
How a 'joke' helped free a man from the racism of the U.S. Navy. The remarkable story of Lanier Phillips who survived a shipwreck and prejudice. He d…
14 years, 7 months ago
DocArchive (1990): Sisters Under an African Sky
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In 1984, the first TV reports from the famine in Ethiopia in Africa aired. They had a profound effect on the nuns of The Little Sisters of the Assump…
14 years, 7 months ago
Rubber Swords
Episode 1
LARPing is a new 'sport'. Live Action Role-playing. Participants pretend to be mythical creatures the like of which you'd find in 'Lord Of The Rings'…
14 years, 7 months ago
000 Ambulance
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Irishman, Les Dougan, worked as an emergency operator in Melbourne when, in 2008, radio producer, Kyla Brettle, eavesdropped on the kinds of calls he…
14 years, 7 months ago
Frank X Buckley
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He's a former Jesuit, former hotelier, an art lover, gay, contracted HiV - what more can be said? Lots. (A short Irish audio documentary from RTE Rad…
14 years, 7 months ago
The Sinking of The Saint Patrick
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We go in search of the truth behind one of Ireland's worst maritime disasters, the sinking of the St Patrick Vessel. A cross channel passenger ferry …
14 years, 7 months ago
Frost is All Over
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Pearse Hutchinson was a fiercely interesting man with hundreds of stories to tell. He spent his life as a translator, a poet, a broadcaster and a wri…
14 years, 7 months ago
Radio Broccoli
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An Irishman in San Francisco who relaxes from selling broccoli by going out and recording ordinary people with extraordinary stories: like the woman …
14 years, 7 months ago