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| Where is Jón? - 02. Jón Bóndi | 03 Feb 2025 | 00:37:44 | |
When Jón left the Bonnington hotel, his partner Jana didn’t initially think too much about him walking away. But, as that day moved on, she began to get worried. And by the morning after, she knew something had gone really wrong for Jón. As Jana begins to raise the alarm, we start searching for clues in Jón’s past, in Iceland, to find out who he was - before he disappeared… - Credits: Where is Jón? / Hvar er Jón? is written, reported and produced by Liam O’Brien and Anna Marsibil Clausen. Original music soundtrack is performed and composed by Úlfur Eldjárn, with special guest Unnur Jónsdóttir on cello. Sound design is by Peadar Carney. Production assistance from Johannes Olafsson, Þorgerður E. Sigurðardóttir and the RTÉ Documentary On One team. Audio Product Support by Nigel Wheatley. Marketing by Amy O’Driscoll, Maria Buckley and Kolbrún Vaka Helgadóttir. Design and creatives by John Kilkenny and Darragh Treacy. Publicity by Jilly McDonough. Sales by Graeme Bailey and Einar Logi. Additional online editorial content by Anna Joyce. Episodes released weekly, each Monday. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Where is Jón? - 01: Without a Trace | 27 Jan 2025 | 00:44:55 | |
A new multi-part true crime series from RTÉ Documentary On One and RÚV. To get free early access to next episodes (one week in advance of here) please subscribe to 'Where is Jón?' podcast feed from wherever you get your podcasts. Episodes released each Monday.
Episode 1: When Icelander Jón Jónsson arrived to Dublin in February 2019, he came for 10 days of fun - to play at the Dublin Poker Festival and to do some sightseeing with his partner, Jana. But within a day of landing in Ireland, Jón disappeared. With unique access into this story, we begin investigating Jón’s disappearance by examining the 48 hours before he was last seen alive. Will we find any clues to indicate what might have happened to him? Credits: Where is Jón? is written, reported and produced by Liam O’Brien and Anna Marsibil Clausen. Original music soundtrack is performed and composed by Úlfur Eldjárn, with special guest Unnur Jónsdóttir on cello. Sound design is by Peadar Carney. Production assistance from Johannes Olafsson, Þorgerður E. Sigurðardóttir and the RTÉ Documentary On One team. Audio Product Support by Nigel Wheatley. Marketing by Amy O’Driscoll, Maria Buckley and Kolbrún Vaka Helgadóttir. Design and creatives by John Kilkenny and Darragh Treacy. Publicity by Jilly McDonough. Additional online editorial content by Anna Joyce.
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| Invisible Men - Ireland's Incels | 25 Oct 2024 | 00:42:33 | |
Paul – not his real name – is in his thirties, and he has never had a sexual or romantic relationship. He goes to work and gets on with his colleagues but nobody knows the life of quiet despair that he lives. Nobody knows that he is an ‘incel’. Incels – or involuntary celibates - are men who define themselves as people who cannot find anybody to have a romantic or sexual relationship with, despite wanting one. Incels hang out on the darker fringes of the Internet, commiserating with each other and venting about women and society. It is a deeply misogynistic space, filled with hate speech. It is also filled with loneliness and sadness. Incels, especially in Ireland, rarely speak to the media but we delve into the world of inceldom and discover what the world looks like through their eyes. Warning: This documentary contains adult themes, discusses offensive themes, violence and suicide that could be upsetting or triggering for some people, so please take care. Narrated by Alan Bradley. Produced by Alan Bradley and Nicoline Greer (2024) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Crossing The Line | 08 Jul 2021 | 00:47:25 | |
(NEW 2021 SEASON) In 1982 the Irish International Rugby Team won the elusive triple crown - beating England, Scotland and Wales for the first time in over three decades. They were national heroes. But just months beforehand they had had to spirit themselves out of the country quietly amidst a storm of controversy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: Don't Shoot the Messenger | 09 Dec 2009 | 00:42:03 | |
A radio documentary about the role of the government press secretary by Niall Doyle (Broadcast 1999) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: Days of the Servant Boy | 09 Dec 2009 | 00:39:32 | |
A radio documentary about hiring fairs, the life of the servant boy and the modern day small farm (Broadcast 1997) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: Mount Street Club | 09 Dec 2009 | 00:39:40 | |
A radio documentary about the Mount Street Club founded in Dublin 1934 (Broadcast 1997) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: Talking to Bricks - A Portrait of Norman Porter | 09 Dec 2009 | 00:40:28 | |
A radio documentary about Norman Porter, Unionist and winner of the Ewart-Biggs Award (Broadcast 1997) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: To the Island - Mary O'Malley in Inishmore | 09 Dec 2009 | 00:40:14 | |
A radio documentary profiling Galway-based poet Mary O'Malley and her writers workshop on Inishmore. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: A & E - Accident and Emergency | 08 Dec 2009 | 00:41:54 | |
An exciting 'fly on the wall' documentary about the accident and emergency department of the Mater hospital, Dublin (Broadcast 2001) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: Retreat of O'Suilleabhain Beara | 08 Dec 2009 | 00:38:48 | |
The story of the epic historical march of O'Suilleabhain Beara from West Cork to Leitrim through the counties of Limerick, Tipperary, Offaly, Galway, Roscommon and Sligo in 1603 (Broadcast 1980) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: Vanished and the Banished | 08 Dec 2009 | 00:42:56 | |
Northern Ireland was plagued by civil unrest from the late 1960s until the Good Friday agreement of 1998. During a period which became known as the troubles, many people either vanished or were forced into exile. This is their story (Broadcast 1996) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: Ripples in the Teacup | 08 Dec 2009 | 00:41:24 | |
From a different era - an insight into the changing role of women in the Japanese workforce (Broadcast 1992) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: All Things Bright and Beautiful | 07 Dec 2009 | 00:44:58 | |
The story of the acclaimed 19th-century hymn writer, Mrs Cecil Frances Alexander (Broadcast 1995) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| The Script of Hurt | 30 Jun 2021 | 00:41:51 | |
Back in 2009, when this doc was first broadcast, Mayo footballers had lost 5 All Ireland finals since their last win in 1951. They’ve since lost another 5 All Ireland finals. Looking back at the previous c.60 years of hurt wasn’t easy. But that could all change in September 2021 when Mayo get another chance to finally find success after 69 years of striving to become All Ireland senior football champions. (First broadcast 2009) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: A Butcher's Tale | 07 Dec 2009 | 00:38:25 | |
A radio documentary telling the story of the changing world of Eugene Kierans, Master Butcher (Broadcast 1989) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: The Story of Woodbrook (David Thompson's Book) | 07 Dec 2009 | 00:43:23 | |
A radio documentary inspired by the novel 'Woodbrook' by David Thompson (Broadcast 1986) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: Bulls Wool Coats and Nail Boots | 07 Dec 2009 | 00:42:31 | |
Fifty years of the Forsa Cosanta Aitiuil, or FCA, is commerated in this documentary (Broadcast 1996) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: St. Patrick's Purgatory Lough Derg Pilgrimage | 07 Dec 2009 | 00:37:20 | |
In this documentary we hear the sounds and words that tell the story of the Lough Derg Pilgrimage, Co Donegal (Broadcast 1991) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: Voices from a Vanishing World | 07 Dec 2009 | 00:39:44 | |
Jim Fahy recalls some memorable encounters with people from big houses in the west of Ireland (Broadcast 1991) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: On the Earth Below | 07 Dec 2009 | 00:41:39 | |
A radio documentary on the life of Irish folk singer songwriter Liam Weldon, presented and produced by Julian Vignoles (Broadcast 1994) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: Scenes from a Return Journey | 07 Dec 2009 | 00:39:48 | |
In this radio documentary, writer Anne Kennedy takes a glimpse at the past, present and future through encounters in a Californian summer (Broadcast 1992) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: Flying for the Silver Screen | 07 Dec 2009 | 00:41:50 | |
A radio documentary about the Irish Air Corps officers who flew for films shot in Ireland during the 1960s (Broadcast 1997) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: Glen and Me - Lifeline and Death Row Prisoner | 07 Dec 2009 | 00:41:47 | |
In this radio documentary Hilary Huges shares her experience of letter-writing and visits to Glen, a prisoner on death row (Broadcast 1997) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: In the Shadow of Death | 06 Dec 2009 | 00:43:15 | |
Countess Mary de Galway O'Kelly was born Mary Cummins in Dublin in April 1905. She was teaching in Brussels during the German invasion of May 1940 and soon became involved with the Belgian resistance in World War II. (Broadcast 1993) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| GunPlot: Episode 1 - The Spark that Lit the Flame | 12 Apr 2021 | 00:31:33 | |
An Irish Army Captain goes on holidays – a strange kind of holiday. To a city where he knows there is likely to be ‘trouble’. He arrives as a three-day street battle, now known as 'the Battle of the Bogside', begins. And it changes everything (Ep1/8). To continue listening to this series, please subscribe to the 'GunPlot' podcast feed (Available from wherever you get your podcasts). Or visit visit www.rte.ie/gunplot Credits: GunPlot was written, recorded and produced by Ronan Kelly and Nicoline Greer. Sound Design by Damian Chennells Production assistance from the RTÉ Documentary On One Team. Special thanks to all our contributors, and to the RTÉ Design, Marketing, Online and Creative Audio departments. For further information, and articles by Anna Joyce to accompany each episode, See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: Orange The Purple and The Blue | 06 Dec 2009 | 00:39:15 | |
Proinsias O'Conluain delves into the world of the Orange Order, its history and its role into the future (Broadcast 1973) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: Neccessitys Child | 06 Dec 2009 | 00:43:55 | |
This documentary tells the story of inventors and their inventions in Ireland in the early 1980's. Made and broadcast in an era of huge emigration and unemployment, it's a story of challenge, creativeness and sheer stuborness sometimes (Broadcast 1983) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: The Burning of Bridget Cleary - Witch Burning 1895 | 06 Dec 2009 | 00:42:01 | |
A grisly story about the torture and murder of Bridget Cleary in Tipperary in 1895, whose husband believed her to be a witch or possessed by the fairies (Broadcast 1995). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: Shamrock Bar - The Irish in Moscow | 06 Dec 2009 | 00:39:18 | |
Moscow might not be the most obvious spot for an Irish pub - especially back in the early 1990's. This is the story of Moscow's transition to a market economy and the Irish involvement in the city at that time. (Broadcast 1993) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: Unwritten Ireland | 06 Dec 2009 | 00:48:20 | |
The rich oral history of Ireland could have been lost had the Irish Folklore Commission not preserved them for generations to come. From 1935-1971 they collected a treasure trove of photos, music and stories from all over Ireland (First broadcast 1974) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: A Question of Faith | 06 Dec 2009 | 00:36:59 | |
This is the story of a family's reaction to the news that their daughter has chosen to become a Catholic nun. In entering a convent, she has chosen to enter into an enclosed order - virtually shutting herself off from the outside world. (Broadcast 1993) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: Knowth, Dowth and Newgrange | 06 Dec 2009 | 00:39:00 | |
The Boyne Valley Mounds at Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth in Co. Meath in Ireland were built around 3200BC - making them older than Stonehenge in England and the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt. This documentary tells the story of them (Broadcast 1982) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: To End It All | 05 Dec 2009 | 00:42:56 | |
Ireland has one of the highest rates of suicide in Western Europe. It’s one of the major issues affecting Irish society but why is this and what can be done? (Broadcast 1979) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: Gordon Bennett Race | 05 Dec 2009 | 00:49:04 | |
The Gordon Bennett Cup Race was the biggest annual motor race in the world in the early 1900s. Automobile clubs around the world competed. In 1903, in unusual circumstances, it became the first ever international motor race held in Ireland (Broadcast 1974) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: After the Plays are Over | 05 Dec 2009 | 00:58:11 | |
A look at the 13th Dublin Theatre Festival with Sean MacReamoinn. The two week event showcased the Irish premiere of Muderous Angels by Conor Cruise O'Brien. (First Broadcast 1971) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Trailer: Introducing 'Tiger Roll: The People's Horse' | 04 Mar 2021 | 00:01:11 | |
In 2021, Tiger Roll aims to create unique sporting history by winning a third Grand National in a row. We follow his unlikely path to glory, from the very beginning, through the people and places that have made him the horse of a lifetime. A new 6-part podcast series from RTÉ Documentary On One in Ireland. New episodes every Monday morning, beginning February 22nd 2021.Subscribe via iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tiger-roll-the-peoples-horse/id1553770463Subscribe via Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/16MSgK6vAWVfc18Y52BewqSubscribe via Acast: https://play.acast.com/s/tiger-roll-the-peoples-horse/Homepage: https://rte.ie/tigerroll See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: With the Irish in the Middle East | 04 Dec 2009 | 00:43:00 | |
30,000 Irish soldiers have been deployed since 1978 as peacekeepers for the UN in the Lebanon attempting to keep the peace in one of the most volatile regions on the planet. (Broadcast 1978) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: The Last Cattle Drive | 04 Dec 2009 | 00:41:10 | |
A 75 year old man re-enacts and remembers a time when cattle were herding through the streets and lanes of Dublin. (2006) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: Mengistu's shadow | 04 Dec 2009 | 00:42:58 | |
From 1990 through to 1995, Ethopia journeyed from dictatorship to democracy. Helen Shaw visited Ethopia in 1990 when the country was under the dictatorship of Mengistu Haile Mariamand. 5 years later she returns to see how life has changed (Broadcast 1995) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: The Summer of the Moving Statues (2007) | 03 Dec 2009 | 00:41:10 | |
A look back at the summer of 1985, when Ireland was in the grip of the phenomenon of 'moving statues'. Eyewitnesses give there accounts of what they saw in Ballinspittle, Co,Cork and Carns, Co. Sligo. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: Flight of the Enola Gay | 03 Dec 2009 | 00:42:14 | |
The 'Enola Gay' was the bomber plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945. This documentary meets the navigator of that deadly journey - Theodore 'Dutch' Van Kirk. 50 yrs, has he any doubts on their catastophic actions? (Broadcast 1995) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: Every man an Einstein | 03 Dec 2009 | 00:42:15 | |
In 1978, John Skehan set out to capture how the young people of Ireland view the scientific future of the world. Did anyone predict that the world would be such a difference place by 2010? (Broadcast 1978) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: Church and State | 03 Dec 2009 | 00:39:11 | |
In 1978, Karol Wojtyla, a Pole was elected Pope John Paul II despite the fact that that at the time his homeland was under communist rule and an aesthetic state. (Broadcast 1978) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: Fish Culture | 02 Dec 2009 | 00:38:31 | |
As an island nation and for time immemorial, fishing has been part and parcel of Irish life. As times changed and needs changed, fishing and fishermen have changed too. The 'iasc' as we call them are hugely important for many communities (Broadcast 1985) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive (2003):The Thebes Road Movie | 01 Dec 2009 | 00:43:58 | |
In ‘The Thebes Road Movie’, Documentary-Maker Kaye Mortley makes a journey across Europe, to Thebes in Greece. Kaye tells the story of her transcontinental travel and the varieties of mystery she encounters along the way. (First Broadcast 2003) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: No Meadows in Manhattan | 30 Nov 2009 | 00:37:48 | |
An award winning documentary by the writer Brian Leyden, inspired by a short story of rural decline, produced by Julian Vignoles. (Broadcast 1991) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| Perfume From America | 06 Jan 2021 | 00:41:40 | |
Peggy O'Connell's strange isolation was something resembling quarantine. Peggy, a elderly woman from Cavan, combines her half-century-old memories with extracts from her diary to tell a vivid, sometimes painful, more often amusing story of seven years with tuberculosis (TB). The garden shed was only the culmination of a strange period of tough treatments and a form of social alienation that was sometimes as bad as being a patient in Sir Patrick Dunn's hospital. "All my teenager years I had to watch my sister going out." Even then, the name of her illness was rarely spoken, TB being firmly associated with dirt and poverty. Eventually, "the doctor just wrote me off", and Peggy was sent home to die. This was 1949, and it was time for the bed in the garden shed. Then her boyfriend, Harry, saw an article in Reader's Digest about streptomycin. The wonder drug wasn't available in Ireland, but with the help of her father's friends in the post office, he managed to get Peggy a package of "perfume from America" - past the customs inspectors and into her bloodstream. The drug, streptomycin, was to be administered by injection, and Peggy's diary reflects the stoic stiff-upper-lip with which she and the family faced the ordeal. Peggy remembers this period in her life, in particular her time living in a garden shed, in vivid detail. Produced by Ann Walsh. First broadcast March 2001 on RTÉ Radio 1. An Irish radio documentary from RTÉ Radio 1, Ireland - Documentary on One - the home of Irish radio documentaries See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: Soviet Voices | 30 Nov 2009 | 00:48:38 | |
In 1973, Sean MacReamoinn travelled to the Soviet Union to view everyday life. He looked at places of cultural significance, thriving communities, religion, sports, hard working conditions, peoples rights and a state coming to terms with its warfare past See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||
| DocArchive: Satellite to Nenagh | 30 Nov 2009 | 00:39:54 | |
In this radio documentary, Ronan Kelly takes us behind the scenes of RTÉ's coverage of the 1992 General Election. (Broadcast 1994) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | |||