The RTÉ Doc on One.

I listened to 149 Days in the Life of JG Farrell last night, I thought it was interesting.

JG Farrell - the booker prize winning author moved to Kilcrohane, Sheep's Head Peninsula in West Cork in March 1979 but only lived there for 149 days before he tragically died. He was only 44 years of age.

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2010/1207/646580-radio-documentary-jg-farrell-booker-author-drowned/

In Shame, Love, In Shame

I heard this documentary on Saturday afternoon and I thought it was excellent. It’s well worth listening to IMO.

Documentary On One: In Shame, Love, In Shame looks at the events behind this story, of Peggy's life, of her daughter Breda's life, of how the people of Listowel rallied round and defended Peggy - and of what happened before and since those Church gates were rammed open in 1946.

Narrated by Conor Keane

https://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2018/0807/983666-shame-love-in-shame/

There's a stand alone Doc On One app. I've not used it in a while but it used to work perfectly.

Why? Just curious.

Also, some that I've enjoyed:
The battle of baltinglass - about a post office being awarded to a political crony in baltinglass and the dramatic fallout after

The 3 funerals of frank stagg

Quiet as a mouse - about introversion

Clouds in harrys coffee - about an Irish merchant sailor who ended up in a concentration camp in germany

The Garda who limped - very interesting in the context of the McCabe controversy that followed. It's the initial doc that went out regarding penalty points and prompted Martin Callinan to call the whistle blowers disgusting individuals in front of the government committee

Dan Jaman wrote: »

I think it's just an illustration of lazy programming by RTE - "Oh, it's easier to do this with iTunes, so feck everyone else."

That's not just RTE though everybody is going with Itunes

99% of recent podcasts I subscribed to has only had a Itunes link and I have had to use http://picklemonkey.net/feedflipper-home/ to get a RSS feed link

bobbyss wrote: »

I'm not great at technology but a query.
Sometimes if I go to download an app, doc on one for example, it asks to have access to my contacts, files, photos etc. So I don't install them for that reason.
What will happen if I agreed to all that? What do they need access to thst stuff?

Good question. In the early days of apps you would just install an app and God knows what it was doing, so Google brought in this functionality to alert you as to what it was capable of doing so there would be more transparency. In the case of the "doc on one" app it might be harmless, they could have included something in their code that could *potentially* access that data, which creates the alert even if the app never actually does. In the worst case scenario, they are trying to steal your data and do something with it.

I just checked the Google podcasts app (which has all the "doc on one" podcasts) and there are no special permissions required so you might be able to download that if you wanted an app - I use it and it's fairly good

elperello wrote: »

batgoat wrote: »

Actually found that doc to be highly enjoyable.

A fascinating insight.
Just what a radio doc should be.
Kudos to all involved.

Ah sure il have to have a look at it when I'm in form

Listened to this detailed embellished tale about a Sydney street over 100+ years. Has RTÉ done anything like this on an Irish street?

or download MP3