x

75% of people globally want unbiased news (Pew Research) but are concerned they're not getting that.

Get balanced coverage with Symby. See how stories are covered across diverse outlets and spot when one side covers a story the other skips.

PODCAST

Documentary on One Podcast

Multi award winning documentaries from Ireland and beyond telling real life stories. With over 1,800 documentaries on offer, the Documentary On One Podcast has the largest archive of documentaries available in the world, dating as far back as 1954, right up to the present day. Winner of over 400 national and international awards. Producer of podcast series "Where is Jón?", ‘The Real Carrie Jade’, "Runaway Joe", "Finding Samantha", "Tiger Roll", "GunPlot" and "The Nobody Zone"

society & culture documentary

All Episodes

44:34

Polonium and the Piano Player (Pt.2)

Documentary on One Podcast ·

2020/09/25

Part 2 of 2. As Derek Conlon finds out he’s been poisoned and dragged into a world of Russian espionage, he realises that’s just the start of his problems. With relations between UK and Moscow deteriorating, Derek escapes to a new life. But the nuclear poisonPolonium-210 appears to have decided his fate.(Originally produced by Sky News Storycast) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

en-ie

43:33

Polonium and the Piano Player (Pt.1)

Documentary on One Podcast ·

2020/09/18

Ep 1 of 2. When ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko was murdered in a nuclear poisoning in London in 2006, an Irish man got caught up in the crossfire. Derek Conlon accidentally drank from the same radioactive cup used to poison Litvinenko – dragging him into a Russian world of espionage, murder and deceit. (Originally produced by Sky News Storycast) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

en-ie

44:55

Age, Sex, Location

Documentary on One Podcast ·

2020/09/11

The amount of children being targeted by online predators is increasing every year. The strange man on the street used to be the person we warned our children about. Now, that stranger can be in your house, via an online device. We meet the people who police the internet, a survivor, and the Garda unit focused on stopping online child abuse. (2020) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

en-ie

46:06

The Hospital the Irish Shipped to France

Documentary on One Podcast ·

2020/09/04

A pioneering adventure in overseas aid, when the Irish Red Cross assembled a 100-bed hospital and shipped it to bombed-out Normandy post-World War II. A group of young Irish doctors, nurses and support staff followed, bringing hope and healing to the shattered town of St-Lô as the survivors struggled to rebuild their lives among the ruins. (2020) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

en-ie

40:54

A Very Irish Coup

Documentary on One Podcast ·

2020/08/28

On a wet October Saturday over forty years ago a greyhound finished a race at Mullingar race track. The event was to turn Irish gambling upside down. Based in the small Irish towns of Listowel and Abbeyfeale, a quiet local betting coup in the days leading up the race saw bookies faced with paying out odds of almost a thousand to one. (2020) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

en-ie

44:04

The Seven Million Dollar Man

Documentary on One Podcast ·

2020/08/21

Sam Millar’s life reads like pure fiction. After joining the IRA as a teenager, he spent years on the notorious blanket protest in Northern Ireland. He later admitted to taking part in a massive, seven million dollar armed robbery in the US before starting a new life as a writer of award winning crime novels. (2020) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

en-ie

41:41

Substantial Helen

Documentary on One Podcast ·

2020/08/14

Helen Oxenham is getting a medal from the Queen of England – although Helen doesn’t have much time for the Queen. It’s for her work with victims of domestic violence in Australia. How did a woman, born in Cork and raised in Crumlin, Dublin end up there? Partly because of two men – both German – one she loved and one she came to despise. (2020) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

en-ie

45:48

The Deadly Saris

Documentary on One Podcast ·

2020/08/07

Two 15-year old Dublin girls were mitching, drinking and shoplifting. Then they hear a group of handsome men singing - with shaved heads and saffron robes. Hare Krishnas. The girls decide to join them – for the men and the free food - but soon they are hooked on the strict life and become Hare Krishna nuns. But the dream sours. (2020) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

en-ie

46:04

Shane Healy - Back On Track

Documentary on One Podcast ·

2020/07/31

Shane Healy has gone the distance in life. After spending years in an orphanage as a child, he travelled widely before hitch-hiking around the US, where he discovered he was a naturally talented athlete. It took more than that to get him to the 1996 Olympics where he ran for Ireland. Now after years away from the sport, Shane is back. (2020) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

en-ie

42:26

Green and Gold

Documentary on One Podcast ·

2020/07/24

In 1972, a group of Irish protest riders gate crashed the Olympic Games road cycling race in Munich, Germany. They’d hatched a secret plan to scupper the official Irish Olympic cycling team. But events at the Games threw their own plans into chaos. Almost 50 years later a family is still trying to recapture a lost Olympic dream. (2020) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

en-ie

53:21

We Say You Have To Go

Documentary on One Podcast ·

2020/07/10

In 1981, heroin took hold of certain parts of Dublin. It changed everything for the communities it was affected by. The impact of addiction on the people there was devastating. But these communities weren’t going to just take it and the people decided to fight back against the dealers. (2020) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

en-ie

46:26

Nicolás Cruz Hernandez - Still Fighting

Documentary on One Podcast ·

2020/07/03

He was cheered on an open-topped bus through Dublin. Then he was homeless and jobless. He swept floors and slept on a campbed in the National Stadium. He stole his passport to flee Cuba - had a lucky meeting with a Shaolin monk, who saved him – met three Mayomen, who helped keep him safe - and now he teaches yoga to prisoners. Some life. (2020) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

en-ie

43:35

Felix

Documentary on One Podcast ·

2020/06/26

Felix Gretarsson lost both his arms in a work accident in Iceland in 1998. In the years that followed, his life spiralled into an abyss as he lost his health, status, relationship and sense of identity. After turning his life around, Felix now lives in France, where he’s waiting to receive the world’s first full double arm transplant. (2020) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

en-ie

45:11

Conor Walsh - Passing Through

Documentary on One Podcast ·

2020/06/19

Conor Walsh was a minimalist piano composer from Co. Mayo, whose musical career was just beginning when he died suddenly of a heart attack in 2016 aged 36. Within days of his burial, Conor's sister found 37 unpublished tracks on his laptop, and so began his family’s journey to release his posthumous debut album, The Lucid. (2020) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

en-ie

40:44

A Fight To The End

Documentary on One Podcast ·

2019/10/04

In December 2016, Eileen Kenny lost a long battle with cancer. It was not the only battle that Eileen fought in the previous years. Dissatisfied with her treatment, and seeking answers, she had been through a struggle with both her treating doctor and the Irish Medical Council. A struggle that has left her family without closure. (2019) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

en-ie

40:35

Return To The Green Line

Documentary on One Podcast ·

2019/09/26

In 1996, Gardaí deployed on UN peacekeeping duties in Cyprus saw two men killed. Unarmed, and caught up in the violence within the UN buffer zone, Garda Frank Flood witnessed both killings at close hand. Now, for the first time in almost a quarter-of-a-century, Frank is returning to Cyprus to revisit those events and find out more (2019) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

en-ie

39:59

The Undetectables

Documentary on One Podcast ·

2019/09/20

Thousands of Irish people live with HIV today. You can’t see it in their face. Many of them are living in the shadows, fearful of judgement. The numbers of people being diagnosed with HIV are higher than they have ever been. We meet four people affected by HIV and find out what it is really like to be HIV positive in Ireland today. (2019) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

en-ie

41:23

Death: Don’t Leave It To The Last Minute

Documentary on One Podcast ·

2019/09/13

When an 81 year old woman, in good health, pitched an idea into us about death and dying, we had to find out more. So in early 2019, we began following Gray Cahill as she put a plan in place for when she dies. In planning ahead, she's also looking back over her life. As Gray says, “Dying is part of living, and living is part of dying.” (2019) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

en-ie

39:06

Brendan Behan in Paris

Documentary on One Podcast ·

2019/08/29

Brendan Behan is one of Ireland's greatest writers. Some of his most important work was influenced by time he spent in Paris just after World War II where he mixed with some of the most important writers of the 20th century. In an interview never previously broadcast, Behan reveals the influence Paris had on him as a writer. (2019) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

en-ie

41:17

Reprisals

Documentary on One Podcast ·

2019/08/29

Set in South Galway against the backdrop of one of the bloodiest months of the Irish War of Independence, th dramatic story the short life and tragic death of 24-year-old Eileen Quinn who was shot by uniformed men outside her home in 1920. Almost 100 years later Eileen’s grand-niece pieces together events from that fateful day (2019) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

en-ie

1,941 results

Similar Podcasts

Voices of Life

APG Mannheim

Promo Estereo Podcast

Promo Estereo

Talking Timelines Podcast

Talkingtimelines

גיקונומי

ראם שרמן ודורון ניר

Drømmefanger

Drømmefanger