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107 episodesCome Walk In Mistura's Skin
On Documentary & Drama on Newstalk, producer Mary Lavery Carrig brings you into the life of Mistura Oyebanj, a Muslim woman in her mid-20s. In June 20...
First on Scene, Last To Heal: Emergency Workers and Fatal Collisions
First on Scene, Last to Heal: Emergency Workers and Fatal Collisions goes behind the scenes with the men and women of An Garda Síochána, the National...
In the Swastika's Shadow: Ireland and the Holocaust
Producer James Wilson looks at the darkest chapter in European history - the murder of six million Jews by Nazi Germany.
But what impact did th...
Roving Out
‘Roving Out’ is a radio documentary that celebrates the burgeoning musical culture of Ireland, by focusing on musical artists Mohammad Syfkhan, Varo,...
Can You Hear Me? Dispatches From The World's Forgotten War
It's two years to the week since fighting broke out in Sudan, instigating what is now the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Reporter Sarah Madden vis...
Telegram Tales
Telegram Tales from the Central Telegraph's Office, co-produced by Amandine Devine and Ellen McEvoy tells the story of the 24-hour thriving office tha...
Home or Away - Living the Irish-Australian Dream
Journalist Aisling Moloney brings us along on her move to Australia and tries to find out why thousands of young people from across Ireland are making...
Groundbreaker Mary Crilly
Groundbreakers Series Two: Three documentaries that chart the life and work of older women who did not just live through a changing Ireland but who we...
Groundbreaker Jane Grimson
Groundbreakers Series Two: Three documentaries that chart the life and work of older women who did not just live through a changing Ireland but who we...
Groundbreaker Anita Hayes
Groundbreakers Series Two: Three documentaries that chart the life and work of older women who did not just live through a changing Ireland but who we...
Milk To North Kerry Is Like Oil To The Arabs
'Milk to North Kerry is like Oil to the Arabs’, produced and narrated by Mary Lavery Carrig, tells the story of the early days of Kerry Co-Op, a compa...
Shōgun Seisiún: Irish Music In Japan
A father and his 14-year-old daughter set out on a journey across Japan to discover why Irish traditional and Celtic music have become fused into Japa...
Eirsat 1: Ireland's First Satellite
Eirsat-1: Ireland’s First Satellite is the remarkable story of a group of young Irish scientists and engineers who are determined to make Ireland a sp...
45 Years of Listening: The Story of Dublin Lesbian Line
‘45 Years of Listening’ tells the story of the Dublin Lesbian Line – an essential, landmark community-led resource – through a collection of personal...
Vision: The Story of Sister Margaret Coyne
Vision: The Story of Sister Margaret Coyne tells the remarkable story of Irish nun Sister Margaret Coyne, who ran an eye clinic near the Ethiopian-Er...
Strings
In 2020, a few weeks after Ireland entered one of the longest COVID lockdowns in the world, Patrick Dexter began uploading videos online of him playin...
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 h...
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 ar...
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...
Making Ireland Home with Henry McKean
Making Ireland Home, Henry McKean celebrates becoming an Irish citizen after 30 years with new Irish citizens.
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 fe...
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 wit...
Jewish Ireland
Documentary on Newstalk presents a new documentary by independent producer Bairbre Flood. "Jewish Ireland" is an exploration of Jewish Irish history a...
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 Somal...
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-y...
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+ co...
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 i...
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 mi...
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...
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 t...
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...
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 emot...
Tainted Blood
New radio documentary ‘Tainted Blood’ lays bare the devastating impact of infected blood products on the Irish Haemophilia Community
In 1...
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...
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 y...
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 suffer...
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...
Undocumented
Documentary On Newstalk presents "Undocumented", independent producer Bairbre Flood brings us the stories of those who have been living in Ireland, Un...
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 challeng...
The Fixer
The Fixer, a Newstalk exclusive documentary about Sean Moncrieff’s week in Ukraine.
Presented by Sean Moncrieff, produced by Aisling Moore, wit...