Curious Broadcast

‘Returning Home’ tells the story of the lives of six extraordinary women. These women have spent most of their lives working overseas and have now returned home. They are all in their 70s and they are all Missionary Sisters. Their stories go from living in shacks in Chile, to working in orphanages in India and prisons in Sao Paulo. These Missionary Sisters left Ireland in the 1950s and 60s with their long habits and rosary beads. They lived through wars, genocides, and natural disasters.They established institutions, lobbied governments, and they set up medical centres and support structures. After decades overseas these women are now returning home, where they continue to work fiercely for the rights of others.

First Broadcast: Sunday, 5th August 2018

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Bitter Sweet tells the story of native Irish apples. How they have existed in Ireland for thousands of years. How they once flourished and then were destroyed and now through the work of a handful of individuals have begun to flourish again.

First Broadcast: 7th May 2018

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A Taste of Two Cities is a foraging walk through Belfast and Dublin with two foragers, Miceál Murray and Dermot Hughes, to taste the edible wild food that grow there, and hear the myths and folklore surrounding these wild plants.

First Broadcast: 22nd April 2018

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“By the year 2050 there will be more tons of plastic in the ocean then there will be fish, it is really a horrifying statistic to think that we will be swimming in a sea of plastic…”

Patricia Baker joins a group of an Irish fisherman who, along with their daily catch, are also working to clean up our oceans in our radio documentary “Fishing For Litter”.

“Fishing for Litter,” tells the story of a simple community-based initiative that is working to address the global issue of marine litter; a project that supports fishermen who along with their daily catch are also fishing for litter.

Marine Litter is a global issue. Between 2010 and 2025, some 155 million tons of plastic could be dumped into the ocean. Around the world, an estimated one million birds and 100,000 marine mammals and sea turtles die each year when they become trapped in plastic or eat it.

First Broadcast: September 2017

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“A City Feast” is a celebration of the bounty created from the waste of our city. This is a simple story about the gathering and sharing of food, harvested from wasteland around Dublin, land that has been transformed into community gardens.

“A City Feast” is about a group of creative people who grow food in an inner-city setting repurposing wasteland and unused ground between city buildings to grow vegetables and herbs. We meet with these urban gardeners to create a meal that begins to illustrate the vast range of food that is grown in places we wouldn’t even consider. Throughout our cities communities are formed to reclaim urban wastelands, and turn what has been discarded into a productive community space; a space that produces the best of food, bringing people together to grow and share, to create something beautiful and bountiful.

First Broadcast: 7th August 2017

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Another Way, tells the story of the unique community of 260 people living on Inis Oirr: a tiny rocky outcrop out in the Atlantic Ocean. 

This story began with a currach race, a race that never happened. What unfolded instead is an insight into the reality of island life and how the islanders due to their environment have learned to overcome many challenges, from storms to their services being under threat.  What we hear from the islanders it that to live here, you must always be prepared to change your plans, and to see the beauty and freedom that this way of life can bring.

First Broadcast: July 2017

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Ireland’s horology heritage is rich and diverse, but it is often unconsidered.  Keeping Time asks us to stop for a moment and consider Ireland’s unique way of dealing with time. One of the most precious things I own is my father’s watch. I have never worn it but it lives in my jewellery drawer in a black velvet pouch.  It has not worked since his death. This watch holds a lot of my father.  It is not an uncommon story.  Many of us can share memories of a watch, be it our own first watch, worn with the pride of being all grown up. Or like me, a parent’s watch inherited when they have passed away. 

This story started with my dad’s watch and my quest to get the watch working again. But when I met the custodians of Ireland’s watches and clocks I became enthralled in the story of these timepieces and how they have evolved. It then became the story of Irish clocks that keep time in our cities and towns, the people who made them, wind them and fix them. This is a story about keeping time.  

First Broadcast: Saturday, 15th April 2017

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Law Lines is the story of courtroom artists, who are the public’s eyes for some of the most important moments in history. Artists that for centuries have huddled on wooden benches, pencils and pens dashing across blank sheets of paper, capturing the drama in one of the few places cameras still cannot go. Law Lines is told both in the present and past. Anchoring the story is the study of the most renowned courtroom scene, High Treason, The Appeal of Roger Casement by Sir John Lavery. A painting that documents Roger Casement’s failed appeal against his death sentence for his role in the Easter Rising. The documentary reflects on the changes in media coverage of court cases. The tradition of the Court Artist has given Ireland one of its most important historical documents – a tradition that still continues today, but we don’t know for how long.

Law Lines was funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, with the Television License Fee.

First Broadcast: 16th July 2016

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Marching On is the story of the restoration of Richmond Barracks, a Dublin City Council Community Partnership project for the 1916 centenary. Marching On follows this project that commemorates the heritage of Richmond Barracks as the lost chapter of our history, with its forgotten stories of soldiers, prisoners and families that lived within and around the barracks. Marching On traces the many stages of Richmond Barracks from military barracks, to a Christian Brothers School, from Keogh Square and St Michael’s Estate. This is the story of the people living in the community of St Michael’s Estate who have fought for decades to rebuild their neighbourhood from a deteriorating place to a place of pride.

Marching On is a Curious Broadcast production, funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, with the Television License Fee.

First Broadcast: 2nd July 2016

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This is the story of unmarked grave in Co Kilkenny rumoured to be that of a British solider who was killed during the War of Independence. Our Unquiet Dead recounts a journey to uncover that story whilst reflecting on the difficulty of dealing with our troubled past.

First Broadcas: 28th March 2016This is the story of unmarked grave in Co Kilkenny rumoured to be that of a British solider who was killed during the War of Independence. Our Unquiet Dead recounts a journey to uncover that story whilst reflecting on the difficulty of dealing with our troubled past.

First Broadcas: 28th March 2016

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