I love listening to radio documentaries.
We are blessed in Ireland to have such a well supported, high quality record of making documentaries.
It is no accident that RTE's 'DoconOne' has won so many awards, given the funding, and strategic outlook of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland in this matter.
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| Photo from: IFTN |
I love listening to radio documentaries.
We are blessed in Ireland to have such a well supported, high quality record of making documentaries.
It is no accident that RTE's 'DoconOne' has won so many awards, given the funding, and strategic outlook of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland in this matter.
Many documentary makers around the world look on enviously as documentary makers here avail of the BAI's sound and vision scheme to give them essential finance towards their production, as their hoem country has no such thing.
http://www.bai.ie/en/broadcasting/funding-development-3/sound-vision-3/
I have decided to make a list of the 10 documentaries I really like, and hope you will delve in and listen to some of them, and in the process be wowed and informed as I was when I first discovered them –
Two boys mitxch from school on Dublin's northside and end up in New
York.
Sounds like the plot for a movie, right?
Well this actually happened in real life!
Well this actually happened in real life!
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| Holyhead Port. Photo from: http://www.holyhead.org/ |
How a Galway man made a fortune in London, via the Sunday Game, in pre
DVD and internet 1980’s London.
AND it’s narrated by Micháel o’ Muircheartaigh – do you need anymore reason to listen to it? Thought not!
AND it’s narrated by Micháel o’ Muircheartaigh – do you need anymore reason to listen to it? Thought not!
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| Photo From: Joe.ie |
A powerful documentary on the passing of Ann Lovett in Granard co.
Longford.
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| The gortto in Granard. Photo from: Irish Times |
What happened behind the scenes when Ireland got to the 1990 World Cup? –
This documentary details it all.
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| Photo from: RTE |
Kim Philby was a notorious Soviet spy, who was part of the “Cambridge
trio” who caused a national crisis when they were unmasked, but managed to flee
to Moscow.
This is a recording of a lecture he gave Stasi agents in East Germany in the 1980’s.
This is a recording of a lecture he gave Stasi agents in East Germany in the 1980’s.
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| Kim Philby at tyhe famous press conference where he denies he is a spy - Photo from: Ceylon-Ananda |
An inspiring documentary on the town in Mexico that fought back against
the drugs gangs, and won.
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| Image from: Geo-Mexico |
This documentary speaks to people who endured the secret prisons in
Hoxha’s Albania, and visits the ruins of one such facility.
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| Enver Hoxha speaking at a rally of young railwaymen. Photo from: CIML.250X.com |
This documentary is one that really leaves you numb at times.
How a high school, and it’s teachers, in the middle of a Chicago neighbourhood where murder is ten a plenty, tries to battle in vain to keep its students away from the gangs and drugs.
How a high school, and it’s teachers, in the middle of a Chicago neighbourhood where murder is ten a plenty, tries to battle in vain to keep its students away from the gangs and drugs.
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| Chicago ghetto. Image from: Pinterest |
I plan on putting more documentary suggestions onto
my blog into the future.
Happy listening!
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