Documentary On One - Rté Documentaries

One day three people in different parts of the world went online, the meet in a chat room, they talk with each other, it will change their lives forever. (2013)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Adrian Vernon Fish has twin preoccupations: composing contemporary music and the country of Greenland. From his home in Co. Mayo, he travels around Irish national schools telling the children wintry stories about the country while wearing a traditional Greenland costume and displaying handcrafted items from there. (First Broadcast 2013)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The music and stories of a young Northern Irish jazz singer, Victoria Geelan. She's neither fully Catholic nor Protestant; neither blind nor partially-sighted. She sings jazz and blues in Derry where she is fondly referred to as a 'Fenian Jaffa'.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Maurice Brennan has always wanted to visit America. As a child he loved the literature of Mark Twain. On his first visit headed to the Mark Twain Forest Park, Missouri, where he spent a day fly-fishing on Mill Creek, a small river in the Mississippi system. (First Broadcast 2013)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Writer Eugene O’Brien takes a trip on a barge through the heart of the midlands, experiencing his home county in a different – and much slower – way than usual.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The secretary of a Dublin boys' secondary school, Moyle Park College, was diagnosed with breast cancer. Since then, the teenagers at the Clondalkin school, have held an annual 'Pink Day' a 'no uniform' day with a difference, where the students come into school dressed in pink and the event raises money for cancer research. (First Broadcast 2013)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Originally from Cashel, Frank McNamara's songs and poems were spread through convict Australia by his fellow prisoners. Today a new generation of musicians regard him as giving Australia a tradition akin to the Mississippi blues.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Michael Whelan's museum in a huge hangar at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel stores hundreds of artefacts but also thousands of stories behind those objects.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's tough enough being a teenager, trying to work out who you are. But, say you're a teenager with African parents but you've grown up in Ireland. What are you? African? Irish? Or, a bit of both? And where is 'home'? Where you holiday or where you live?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The joy of milkshakes, driving ranges and just 'chattin' '. Big Brother Big Sister is a programme where young adults meet up with young teenagers once a week for a year. How does it work and what are the benefits for both the adults and teenagers?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pomp rock's classical pretensions come under scrutiny in this palyful reconstruction of Queen's pop classic 'Bohemian Rhapsody'.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Back in 2006, card clubs and casinos were becoming popular. At the time, the government were making noises about regulating them and even closing them down. What was it like behind the closed doors? James Bond in a white dinner jacket? Eh...no.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Becoming a father for the first time is daunting to many men to say the least, as it’s not only mothers who find new parenting challenging. Fathers recall the challenges of access to maternity wards while unmarried, the importance of the son for the family farm and the pressures of life as this new chapter begins. (1986)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duncan McNiff is an Irishman who's an amateur podcaster. He wanders the streets of San Francisco meeting and recording people with interesting stories. Like the old woman with the police car, the veteran with 'summer' teeth and the man with seven degrees.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The story of the kidnapping of German industrialist Thomas Niedermayer by the IRA in the 1970s faded from public memory – but affected one family for generations to come, with tragic consequences.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Would you go along at 60mph, your backside millimetres from the road surface? This 13-year old girl would: Nicole aims to be a Formula 1 driver; but first, she has to make her way to the top of the go-kart drivers' table. At the moment, she's at No. 2....See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On February 23rd 1943, a fire in St Joseph's industrial school in Cavan Town, an orphanage run by an enclosed order nuns caught fire. 35 orphans and one elderly woman died that night. After the fire, attention turned to the role played by the Poor Clares, the order of nuns who ran the orphanage, and the local fire service and what could have been done differently... (First published 2013)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Every Thursday night in a Dublin suburb, people form a queue on an empty footpath. The only clue to what they're doing is the line of pets at their feet. They are waiting on the Blue Cross mobile animal clinic. They have their pets and their stories.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Enter the world of parliamentary plots, rumours and conspiracy. Paul Staines - aka Guido Fawkes - is the number 1 political blogger in the British Isles. Paul is viewed by some as a scourge, and by others as 'new media'. Paul is also an Irish citizen.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Every year, on the last Sunday in June, hundreds of people head out to the deserted island of Inchagoill on Lough Corrib in Co. Galway. They go for a Mass on the old monastic site and also for ‘Agape’, feasting. (2006)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.