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Documentary on Newstalk episodes:

04.24.2024
Low Emissions, High Price: Climate Change in Malawi
Here on Documentary and Drama on Newstalk, Ben Finnegan has travelled to the African country of Malawi to look at the effects of climate change, and how organisations like Trócaire are helping them in 'Low Emissions, High Price: Climate Change...
04.19.2024
Citadel: Building Bridges Through Music
Citadel is a group of musicians formed at the Kinsale Road Accommodation centre in Cork city in 2018, who refuse to be put down by the system. They are from different countries, such as Burundi, South Africa, DR Congo, Angola...
04.19.2024
Laurence Carroll's Mindful Anarchy: U Dhammaloka, The Irish Buddhist of Rangoon
Documentary and Drama on Newstalk brings you the almost forgotten true tale of Laurence Carroll, a working-class Dubliner turned sailor, who embarked on a journey that traversed continents, identities, and cultures.  This documentary, titled Laurence Carroll’s Mindful Anarchy: U Dhammaloka,...
03.19.2024
Making Ireland Home with Henry McKean
Making Ireland Home, Henry McKean celebrates becoming an Irish citizen after 30 years with new Irish citizens.
03.10.2024
Another Love Story
Documentary on Newstalk presents a new documentary by producers Alan Meaney and Amanda Gunning go behind the scenes at the Another Love Story music festival in Co. Meath. One of Ireland’s premier small festivals, Another Love Story has been running...
02.02.2024
Is it me or my OCD?
This documentary was produced by Valerie McHugh, with interviewee Aisling Smith and voiceover artist Jessica Bourke. It highlights Aisling's story with OCD, and her journey to recovery. It also includes a voiceover dramatisation of other people's experiences with OCD who...
01.21.2024
Jewish Ireland
Documentary on Newstalk presents a new documentary by independent producer Bairbre Flood. "Jewish Ireland" is an exploration of Jewish Irish history and culture - from Deli 613, to the Irish Jewish Museum: historians, musicians and Jewish groups and individuals share...
01.07.2024
Somalia: the complicated business of helping people
Climate change, civil war in the south, a breakaway region in the north, hunger, internal displacement: these are just some of the issues facing Somalia. Presenter Sean Moncrieff reports from the Horn of Africa in: Somalia: the complicated business...
12.11.2023
The Iveagh Trust: How Ireland’s Richest Man Housed Dublin’s Poor
Documentary on Newstalk presents “The Iveagh Trust: How Ireland’s Richest Man Housed Dublin’s Poor”, in which producer Sarah Stacey explores the 133-year history of Ireland’s oldest housing charity. The Iveagh Trust was founded in 1890 by Edward Cecil Guinness, head...
11.12.2023
35 Years of GCN - Gay Community News
A new radio documentary, 35 Years of GCN, produced by Shaun & Maurice for Documentary and Drama on Newstalk, explores the story of Ireland’s LGBTQ+ community through the pages of Ireland's longest-running free LGBTQ+ publication and press. The story of...
11.05.2023
The White Line
Documentary on Newstalk presents ‘The White Line’, a new documentary that reveals the shocking truth about how Irish Traveller children were treated in Irish schools and the unacknowledged apartheid that existed in the Irish education system for over 5 decades....
09.17.2023
Cloud City
Documentary On Newstalk presents a new documentary by producer Pavel Barter. Telling the forgotten story of how Irish immigrants built a Wild West mining town two miles high in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado in Cloud City. This portrait...
09.12.2023
The First Hundred Years: Albert Dryer and the Irish National Association
In “The First Hundred Years: Albert Dryer and the Irish National Association” producer J.J. O'Shea explores the aims and achievements of an important Irish Cultural organisation founded in 1915 in Sydney, Australia, and the life of the man who was...
08.27.2023
Know It All
Producer Michael Cullen introduces us to some of Ireland's most successful quizzers. "Know It All" looks at the quizzing scene in Ireland, and talks to some of its most successful participants, including two winners of Mastermind, and a winner of the million on Who...
08.20.2023
Dead White Men
Producer Patricia Baker of Curious Broadcast takes a walk past the many famous and infamous statues and monuments in Dublin, in the radio documentary Dead White Men, and considers who and how we commemorate. By talking with academics and arts...
08.07.2023
Unbeatable Together
Unbeatable Together presented by Henry McKean is a documentary which celebrates the Special Olympics in Berlin, with all the success and tears of emotion as Special Olympics Ireland brought home 75 medals.
08.06.2023
Tainted Blood
New radio documentary ‘Tainted Blood’ lays bare the devastating impact of infected blood products on the Irish Haemophilia Community In 1982 the first case of HIV was recorded in Ireland. By 1985 all people with haemophilia were being tested for the...
07.30.2023
Pulling Together: Big Danny, Clonmany…and the World
Clonmany is a small village in rural Donegal. On the edge of the village is a long, narrow single-story building with a tin roof. This plain building is home to World Champions. This is the home of Clonmany Tug of...
06.26.2023
The Irish Divorce - Episode One
Documentary On Newstalk presents "‘The Irish Divorce” an original radio series by Jonathan Farrelly. "The Irish Divorce - ‘When you and your spouse over time start leading completely separate lives and sleeping in different rooms, but don't divorce because you're Irish...
05.31.2023
Fighting on Two Fronts
During a recent period of unrest in the troubled Palestinian territories producer Brian Kenny travelled to meet those Palestinian women who are suffering both under the Israeli occupation and in a deeply patriarchal society. In the Hebron hills, we hear from...
05.22.2023
Citizen Science
Across Ireland, people are doing exciting and important science, even though they didn’t train as scientists. They are documenting sightings of birds and insects, of lizards and newts. They are playing games that improve our understanding of the human mind,...
04.23.2023
Undocumented
Documentary On Newstalk presents "Undocumented", independent producer Bairbre Flood brings us the stories of those who have been living in Ireland, Undocumented, and the impact the groundbreaking regularisation scheme has had. Last year saw the start of a groundbreaking regularisation scheme...
04.17.2023
Mission Possible
The fascinating stories of five religious Irish women who worked in the missions abroad; why these women chose the life that they did and the challenges they faced not only on their missionary posting but also the difficulties encountered on...
04.10.2023
The Fixer
The Fixer, a Newstalk exclusive documentary about Sean Moncrieff’s week in Ukraine. Presented by Sean Moncrieff, produced by Aisling Moore, with additional audio production by Lochlainn Harte.
04.02.2023
A Roma Girl in Dublin
To coincide with International Roma Day on April 8th 2023, Newstalk present a new radio documentary. Produced by independent radio producer Susan Dennehy, ‘A Roma Girl in Dublin’ reveals the personal experiences of four women from the Roma community living...
03.28.2023
Looking Up
Documentary on Newstalk, presents a new documentary by producers Shaun O’Boyle and Maurice Kelliher. In 'Looking Up' we meet the astronomers working in an historic observatory in Castleknock Co Dublin. DIAS Dunsink Observatory is a beautiful building, located in Castleknock in...
03.17.2023
Devastation To Hope
Newstalk reporter Josh Crosbie travels to Somalia with Trócaire to see the impact the worst drought in over 40 years is having on the country. He met with those who are providing supports on the ground and also with the...
02.20.2023
Ground Breakers - Dervilla Donnelly
Documentary on Newstalk presents - a new three part series, produced and narrated by Patricia Baker. Each documentary charts the life and work of one extraordinary woman who broke the ground for the next generation of women. Ground Breakers: Dervilla...
02.12.2023
Ground Breakers - Catherine McGuinness
As part of a series of three programs, Producer Patricia Baker looks at the life and work of three women, who broke ground for future generations. In this episode, a former Supreme Court Judge and member of the Council of...
01.23.2023
The Good Samaritans
Documentary On Newstalk presents "The Good Samaritans" - Produced by Bairbre Flood, made with the support of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Sound and Vision Scheme. What motivates us to help others, and why should we help others? What does...
12.16.2022
Blue Carbon, A Sea Story
The beauty, power and wonder of the sea as told by ex-fishermen, marine ecologists and environmental activists. Producer Bairbre Flood takes to the sea with Colin Barnes, Cork Whale Watch, on an ethical whale and wildlife tour, and meets with volunteers...
12.11.2022
The Southern Cross – The Irish Argentine Connection
In ‘The Southern Cross – The Irish Argentine Connection’, radio producer Ciarán Ryan travels to Buenos Aires, Argentina to find out more about The Southern Cross, a newspaper that was launched in 1875 by an Irish priest. The Southern Cross has...
11.27.2022
A Man from Cork
‘A Man From Cork’ tells the fascinating true story of Dermot Fenton who made national headlines in 1998 following a rare heart and lung transplant operation which involved a race against the clock and a ‘mercy dash’ to London on...
10.16.2022
Black and Irish, Navigating Racism In Ireland
In ‘Black and Irish, Navigating Racism In Ireland’, Producer Caroline Mudingo Dipanda examines institutional racism in Ireland within the Irish industrial care system and the education system. We talk to Bukky Adebowale, born in Ireland, President of the student life at...
10.08.2022
Eoin Hand, A Life in Football and More
“Eoin Hand, A Life in Football and More”. Former Republic of Ireland Senior Soccer Manager, Eoin Hand, reflects on a career at the top of Irish soccer, as a player and as a manager in the international limelight. Produced by...
09.04.2022
The Sea Is My Sky
From quiet full-moon swims to high energy races, cups of tea on the beach to glasses of prosecco by the Liffey, The Sea Is My Sky captures the community, competition, and joy of sea swimming on Ireland’s east coast. The...
08.28.2022
Equalization
Producer Alan Meaney explores the disparity between male and female and female identifying musicians in Ireland in ‘Equalization’. The programme features music and interviews with Karan Casey, Pauline Scanlon, Ellll, LOLZ, Renn, Ódú and Aoife from Alien She. It is narrated...
08.15.2022
Sisters in GAA - Episode 2
Producer Jonathan Farrelly talks to some famous sporting sisters about what it's like to play on the same teams in football and camogie. In episode two, we meet with Mary and Mena Sheridan, who lined out for both club and...
08.07.2022
Sisters in GAA - Episode 1
Producer Jonathan Farrelly talks to some famous sporting sisters about what it's like to play on the same teams in football and camogie. In episode one we meet camogie greats, past and present; Kate, Niamh and Joanne O’Gorman in Clare...
08.03.2022
The Shamrock and the Star
As part of Documentary on Newstalk producer J.J. O`Shea looks at the ways in which the Irish in America were able to assist the flood of Jewish immigrants escaping the pogroms of Eastern Europe and Russia in the nineteenth century...
07.17.2022
When Rain Fails
Reporter Laura Donnelly travels to Kenya to document how the communities and aid workers are responding to the worst drought in 40 years. "When Rain Fails" is presented by Laura Donnelly and edited by Lochlainn Harte. The programme was made...
07.03.2022
Trinity by Brian Gallagher
This weekend, Documentary on Newstalk airs the premiere of TRINITY, in which IMRO-nominated producer Brian Gallagher looks at the lives of the many people who live, work study, and play in Trinity College. Using a lively mix of interviews, location recordings, sound...
06.06.2022
Extraordinary Eire Episode 2 - Up in the Eire
Documentary On Newstalk presents "Extraordinary Éire" a fast paced dash through the history books. A two-part documentary series focusing on the discoveries, inventions and successes attributed to Irish people throughout history, many of which are largely forgotten by today’s society....
05.30.2022
Extraordinary Eire Episode 1 – Our Land
Documentary On Newstalk presents "Extraordinary Éire" a fast paced dash through the history books. A two-part documentary series focusing on the discoveries, inventions and successes attributed to Irish people throughout history, many of which are largely forgotten by today’s society. From...
05.15.2022
Kila: Suas Síos - In and Out of Lockdown
‘Kila: Suas Síos - In and Out of Lockdown’ tells the story of how trad/indie band Kila traversed almost two full years of COVID-19 restrictions within the live music sector. The life blood of Kila is playing live; and while in...
05.02.2022
Rebel Prisoner
Documentary On Newstalk presents 'Rebel Prisoner', the story of Seamus Cavanagh, a British army soldier turned Irish Volunteer who was interned in multiple prisons and camps between 1916-24 including Wormwood Scrubs, Frongoch internment camp and the prison ship Argenta. Contributors: Colm Toland,...
04.25.2022
A Gift to The Nation
As part of Documentary on Newstalk a new programme by producer JJ O'Shea, telling the story of the development of 19th century mansion, Muckross House in “A Gift to The Nation”. “A Gift to The Nation”, tells the story of the...
04.18.2022
To Radio With Love
Documentary on Newstalk, Producer Patricia Baker celebrates the medium of the wireless in: To Radio With Love. Every day in Ireland over three million people listen to the radio. As we go about our day, more often than not, it is...
04.03.2022
Water Of Life
This is not a story just about whiskey but one about identity, emigration, politics and life told through the water of life itself! The fact that the word whiskey comes from the Irish word uisce speaks volumes about the history our...
03.27.2022
A Sea of Sound
Exploring the harmful effect of man-made noise pollution on the whales and dolphins inhabiting Irish waters in a new radio documentary by producer John Higgins: A Sea of Sound Over 90% of Ireland’s territory is under the sea and this vast...

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Documentary on Newstalk episodes:

Low Emissions, High Price: Climate Change in Malawi

Citadel: Building Bridges Through Music

Laurence Carroll's Mindful Anarchy: U Dhammaloka, The Irish Buddhist of Rangoon

Making Ireland Home with Henry McKean

Another Love Story

Is it me or my OCD?

Jewish Ireland

Somalia: the complicated business of helping people

The Iveagh Trust: How Ireland’s Richest Man Housed Dublin’s Poor

35 Years of GCN - Gay Community News

The White Line

Cloud City

The First Hundred Years: Albert Dryer and the Irish National Association

Know It All

Dead White Men

Unbeatable Together

Tainted Blood

Pulling Together: Big Danny, Clonmany…and the World

The Irish Divorce - Episode One

Fighting on Two Fronts

Citizen Science

Undocumented

Mission Possible

The Fixer

A Roma Girl in Dublin

Looking Up

Devastation To Hope

Ground Breakers - Dervilla Donnelly

Ground Breakers - Catherine McGuinness

The Good Samaritans

Blue Carbon, A Sea Story

The Southern Cross – The Irish Argentine Connection

A Man from Cork

Black and Irish, Navigating Racism In Ireland

Eoin Hand, A Life in Football and More

The Sea Is My Sky

Equalization

Sisters in GAA - Episode 2

Sisters in GAA - Episode 1

The Shamrock and the Star

When Rain Fails

Trinity by Brian Gallagher

Extraordinary Eire Episode 2 - Up in the Eire

Extraordinary Eire Episode 1 – Our Land

Kila: Suas Síos - In and Out of Lockdown

Rebel Prisoner

A Gift to The Nation

To Radio With Love

Water Of Life

A Sea of Sound