Monday, October 15, 2012

History on RTE Player

Just a week left to catch the episode of Scannal on the 1988 Gibraltar killings of three unarmed IRA members.
http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/10056675/

Also worth watching is the episode on the 1990 election campaign, when Fianna Fáil candidate Brian Lenihan Sr was embroiled in a controversy about phone calls he was alleged to have made to Áras an Uachtaráin in 1982.
http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/10054243/

RTE Player also allows you to catch up on RTE Radio 1's The History Show. This episode was broadcast on 14th October. The show begins 5 minutes into this.
http://www.rte.ie/radio/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!rii=9%3A3414912%3A5392%3A14%2D10%2D2012%3A

A must for students of social change in Ireland - the life of a man who works in a cotton-making factory, but has a talent as a dowser, or water diviner, and is called on to source supplies in farmers' fields. First broadcast in 1968:
http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/10039219/