Past Programs
Identity - 2008
Millionaire
18/10/2008
Roger Dowds was a painfully shy man who lived a quiet, sheltered life until he became a contestant on Ireland's popular version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Over the course of this documentary the difficult twists and turns in Dowd's life are revealed, alongside the inner strength and wit that has helped him survive.
Winner of a 2006 documentary award at the International Third Coast Audio Festival.
Produced by Ronan Kelly, RTE
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No Teeth
Scott Welsh is a playwright and street poet who lost his teeth at an early age. He makes his living selling his poetry to passers-by on the streets of Melbourne and Sydney....but it's not always easy when you're one of The No-Teeth People...
The Lonely Animal - a snorer's memoir
20/09/2008
Two shunned snorers, one a solution-seeking male and the other a woman with severe sleep apnea, reflect upon the impact that their 'terrible night noise' has had on their relationships.
Producer
Natalie Kestecher
Sound Engineer
Andrei Shabunov
Thank you for having me (but I think you've been had)
29/03/2008
The brilliant hoaxer Campbell McComas died a few years ago at the peak of his 'career' as a bogus after-dinner speaker. Gordon Glenn got access to his assiduously preserved tapes, which record his outrageous pranks on the professional class, and has assembled them together with candid interviews with the hoaxer himself.
Out of a total of about 1,800 totally fabricated personalities, McComas recalls some of the more memorable 'visiting professors' and other high achievers he presented to the academic and business groups circuit as genuine experts in various fields. Not everyone got the joke -- the feature includes a walk-out by US diplomats upset by a reference to their Americas Cup defeat. Just the ticket as we prepare our own pranks for April 1.
Sound: Paul Penton
