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The Curious Ear: Under Stands

November 16th, 2009 by Steve Bowbrick

The Curious Ear is Ronan Kelly's feature strand for RTE Radio 1 in Ireland. Kelly wins awards all over the place for this stuff. It's always playful, often very moving (maybe sometimes a bit too arch). This one's lovely. It's about the people you'll find under the stands at Dublin's legendary GAA venue Croke Park while there's a game on (some of them praying).

The Curious Ear goes out in the Doc on 1 slot on RTE Radio 1 and there's an excellent podcast. Here's the programme's web page and the MP3.

Presenter: Ronan Kelly
Producer: Ronan Kelly
Production Company: RTE
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Me, Putin and Judo

February 17th, 2009 by Russell Davies

BBC Wales seem to have made a slew of good programmes recently. Here's another one. Once you realise that the scary Russian leader is a top judo man, then the premise of this programme follows naturally. You get Neil Adams, a top British judo champion, and use that perspective to try and get an insight into Putin's character. And it works really well. Top stuff. (MP3 here)

Presenter: Neil Adams
Producer: Martin Kurzik
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The Clare Champions

September 16th, 2008 by Steve Bowbrick

Another documentary masterclass from the Irish. I'm not going to go on about it because I've said all this before but over at RTE Radio One they have a strand called Documentary on One: a long-running series of handsome, entirely artless 45-minute features on different aspects of Irish life. Here's the latest show, which is about the legendary 1995 All Ireland Hurling champions from County Clare in the West of Ireland. Ther'e nothing fancy about this: the only voices you'll hear are those of the documentary's subjects and the only other sounds are the match commentaries of the day and some gorgeous, evocative wild tracks fom the blustery West. Pure pleasure.

Presenter: John Scally
Producer: John Scally
Production Company: RTE
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The Medal Makers

July 8th, 2008 by Russell Davies

More great behind the scenes stuff from Radio 4. This time looking at the world of Olympic judges and adjudicators. I love the contrasts between the passions and angsts of the athletes and the calm, necessary pernicketiness of the judges. Nicely presented by Allison Curbishley. MP3 here.

Presenter: Allison Curbishley
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Adebayor Returns Home

June 28th, 2008 by Steve Bowbrick

A really vivid and exciting half-hour about the journey of Togo and Arsenal footballer Emmanuel Adebayor to Ghana and Togo. He's 24 but so mature and comfortable with his fame and the quite awesome responsibility that goes with it. A remarkable man (MP3).

Presenter: Farayi Mungazi
Producer: Mark Burman
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Papal Ball

June 11th, 2008 by Russell Davies

It's all gone quiet over here hasn't it? Maybe all the speechification contributers are glued to Euro2008. Probably. Well this'll be right up their street. Danny Robins investigates the Clericus Cup, a football tournament for Catholic priests, particularly interesting in the wake of recent Italian football tragedies and scandals. And their trouncing by the Dutch this week. MP3 here.

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Analysis: African football

January 19th, 2008 by Steve Bowbrick

Is African football any good? How much does a Ghanaian Premiership player earn? Will a team from the continent ever win the World Cup? The World Service is going large on the Africa Cup of Nations that kicks off in Ghana this weekend. Here's 8:14 of the kind of stuff only the World Service can do: wide-ranging, authoritative commentary on stuff that happens in foreign places. (MP3).

Presenter: Richard Knight
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