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Multi award winning documentaries from Ireland and beyond telling real life stories. With over 1,800 documentaries on offer, the Documentary On One Podcast has the largest archive of documentaries available in the world, dating as far back as 1954, right up to the present day. Winner of over 400 national and international awards. Producer of podcast series 'Where is Jón?', ‘The Real Carrie Jade’, 'Runaway Joe', 'Finding Samantha', 'Tiger Roll', 'GunPlot' and 'The Nobody Zone'. Immerse yourself in a world of sound, story and character.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Personal archives, patient reporting and dramatic invention reveal how public history settles inside families and individual lives.
Documentary on One Podcast turns personal records and close reporting into social history with a human scale. Family cassette tapes preserve the texture of emigration, while a journey through Jamaican archives confronts an Irish family's connection to slavery.
A family cassette crosses oceans; a ghost-estate horse tests where your curiosity draws the line.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A missing-person case told through place, memory, and careful reporting.
Elizabeth Plunkett's disappearance is tied to one summer night in Brutus Bay, and the episode is at its best when it stays with ordinary places: McDaniel's Pub, the road, the woods, and the family kitchen.
A witness-led account that keeps dates, places, and testimony doing the work.
An account of Elizabeth Plunkett's disappearance, this episode stays close to the first days after she went missing and lets the testimony, dates, and small physical details carry the weight.
A measured wrongful-conviction story that keeps its focus on the human cost after the verdict.
The episode follows a wrongful conviction case in which Saeed and Halawa were accused of an act of FGM on their daughter Aisha, even though medical experts on both sides later said it never happened.
A small parish turns a world-record GAA challenge into lasting local memory.
The episode frames a small parish in County Limerick as the backdrop for a nearly 40-year story about a world-record GAA challenge, and it treats the feat as both endurance test and shared memory.
A rural Irish property scheme becomes a sharp mix of investigation, local tension, and dark comedy.
30 Acres Says No treats a rural Irish development scheme as a story about salesmanship, local friction, and clashing ideas about what the place should become.
A ghost estate story where eviction, drink, and darts collide.
This episode follows a failed government housing project as it hardens into a ghost estate story about who gets to stay when the future never quite shows up.
A warm portrait of a performer family where memory, comedy, and road life share the stage.
Ireland's Fit-up Family follows a traveling performer line through road life, homegrown melodramas, and Shane's present-day work as a circus clown, where family history is part of the act. The best moments come when Agnes, Patricia, and the others speak for themselves.
A ghost-estate Christmas story where family feuding and housing collapse keep colliding.
Episode 4, List of Demands sets its Christmas story inside 30 Acres, a failed government housing project turned ghost estate, where a liquidator is pushing eviction and a long-running family mess comes to a head.
Ira Glass frames weekly theme-driven segments spanning family secrets to Portland's protest conflict.
Shankar Vedantam unpacks the psychology behind relationships, careers, and money through researcher interviews.
David McRaney interviews researchers on cognitive bias, motivated reasoning, and why minds change.
Ryan Holiday pairs daily Stoic lessons with long-form guest conversations at his Texas bookstore.
NHPR's Jason Moon investigates the Bear Brook barrel murders and a New Hampshire wrongful-conviction case.
Russ Roberts interviews authors and economists on ideas from classical liberalism to AI.
Bernie and Kathleen Plunkett describe how they emailed Documentary on One as a “last resort” after appeals to the DPP, the Garda Commissioner, and the State Solicitor’s Office failed.
John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans were long described in the press as convicted serial killers, but the Plunkett family later learned that Elizabeth Plunkett’s case was recorded differently in state files.
The story opens on Sean Granite and 30 Acres.
Ros Purcell's Documentary on One episode follows Elizabeth Plunkett's last night in Brutus Bay on 28 August 1976, when she left McDaniel's Pub and never returned.
Saeed and Halawa are confronted by Gardaí on September 22nd, 2016, at their Dublin home, where officers arrest Saeed and question Halawa while their seven-week-old baby is being breastfed.
Aoife Hegarty of RT Investigates brings together Pamela Frayer, Philip Gallagher, Liam O'Brien, David Dorn, and Tim Desmond to explain how First Conviction was built across podcast and television.
Nicolene Greer opens this Stolen Sister bonus episode with a petition push from Bernie and Kathleen Plunkett, who direct listeners to change.org slash justice for Elizabeth Plunkett.
Final episode of 'First Conviction' investigative series documenting Saeed and Halawa's wrongful FGM conviction and ultimate exoneration.
Documentary on One’s "Voice Notes Before Voice Notes" follows Austin Kenny through RTÉ archives and family cassette tapes that go back to the 1920s.
December 2009, and Colm arrives to investigate 30 Acres, a would-be town in rural Ireland that was sold as a modern Celtic utopia.
Ros Purcell narrates 'Stolen Sister: 04 - Confessions,' which tracks the Garda search for 23-year-old Mary Duffy in Castlebar and the still-missing Elizabeth Plunkett from Ringsend, Dublin.
Documentary on One Podcast's "Where is Jón?
Ruth Naga's Documentary on One episode follows Saeed and Halawa, a married East African couple in Dublin, after their 21-month-old daughter Aisha is taken to Crumlin Children's Hospital on Friday 16 September 2016 with bleeding after a nappy change.
By late afternoon on November 28th, 2019, Saeed and Halawa leave the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin after the first conviction in Ireland for female genital mutilation, and Halawa is taken toward the Docus Centre in Dublin while still breastfeeding her youngest child.
Sean Granat’s kidnapping, meant as a protest stunt around the 30 Acres ghost estate, starts with a fake shooting in a jeep and turns into a hidden detainment in Glenn’s bomb shelter.
Sean O'McGreevy travels to Kilcoranin, County Limerick, to meet Terry Madigan, a man known for his big dreams and big ideas.
Meg Daly and her friend Dymphna Fahy travel from New Zealand and Ireland to Jamaica to trace Meg’s great-great-great-grandfather, Peter Daly, who bought a coffee plantation in 1799.
Elizabeth Plunkett has been missing for two days.
Ireland's Fit-up Family follows a travelling Irish show family across generations.
Christmas has settled over 30 Acres, the failed government housing project now looking like a ghost estate.
Fifth episode of investigative podcast about Jón, who disappeared in Dublin in 2018.
Ireland's first and only FGM trial: a couple faces 14 years in prison and says they're innocent.