13Apr
"Bobby Cockle's Loved the Pope" , a short story written for Radio , Bobby Cockles , a fourth generation Chimney Sweep living in the Dublin's Liberties. The back drop to the story is set in 1979 , when Pope John Paul ll was visiting the Phoenix park in Dublin , Ireland.
Written & Produced By Duncan McNiff ( April 2013 )
All Rights Reserved 2013
CREDITS & MUSIC USED.
One Potato , Two Potato , Three - RTE RADIO "Documentary On One" Compiled by Pat Ingoldsby and Produced By Kevin O'Conner
RTE 1 Various Audio Clips from Pope John Paul's Mass and Commentary from Brian Farrell RTE
Music Mozart "the best of Mozart" Various used as backing track .
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7Mar
"It's the Hard knock life"
Meet Craig, Peter, Chris ,Randy and a cat lady who share some of their life's stories of working as can and bottle recyclers on the streets of San Francisco . Recorded March 6th, 2013 .
Produced By Duncan McNiff
Music Credit "hard knock life" Artist : jay z
All Rights Reserved 2013 .
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10Feb
"My First Fairy Tooth" is an enchanting story composed of reality, fantasy and drama. . "My First Fairy Tooth" follows the story of
a six year old girl along side her father, her four year old brother and other family members in the weeks before and up to the day after her first tooth is carried away by the Fairies.
The Story captures in minute detail her joy, fear and insecurities that she faces before and after the event of losing her first tooth.
The purpose of the story is to educate, entertain and gather a recorded memory of a very important and emotional event in a young child's life.
The audience is aimed at parents,children,childcare professionals and anyone who has memory of this time in their life or for anyone is awaiting this event be they parents , guardians or children. The documentary maker captures beautifully the moment when the tooth comes out and also the drama that followed that, when the six year old girl loses her first tooth, literally for the second time but help is on hand to try and find it.
Written and Produced by Duncan McNiff in February 2013 .
Copyright 2013 .
Credits.
Tad Sargent . Bodhran "Billy Jean"
Howard Shore , Tin Whistle , a Rendition of the Shire Theme for the "King of the Fairies"
Joe Harris , Director of Short movie , "Tooth Fairy" Extract sound effect used coins and music.
Isisip, Composed, arranged and performed "Sad Violin music"
Enya , "Fairy Tale"
Inchadney , sound effect "Morning time, forest, birds"
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14Jan
An Aging mother tries to sell her sons under cover police car to raise his bail.
Recorded and produced by Duncan McNiff Jan 2013 .
music credit Pink Floyd "Mother"
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12Jan
Summer Teeth in China Town.
Recorder by Duncan McNiff
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10Jan
Warf , Jazz and a Tourist from Fresno .
Recorded by Duncan McNiff
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5Dec
People of San Francisco in the Street in and around Union Square on the run up to Christmas.
Recorded and produced by Duncan McNiff
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20Nov
On the Road Radio Series meets and talks with David Meltzer and his wife Julie Rogers at their home in Northern California .
Julie Rogers (Born 1957 ) is an American, North West Poet , Julie has been writing Poetry for over 40 years and her most recent book of poems "House of the unexpected" was published in 2012 .
David Meltzer (Born 1937) is an American poet and musician of the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance. Meltzer is also a jazz guitarist and Cabalist Scholar and the author of more than 50 books of poetry and prose. Meltzer Born is Rochester , NY and grew up in Brooklyn before coming to the west coast in the late 1950's.
Recorded and produced by Duncan McNiff
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12Nov
Macy's Santa in San Francisco gets the Sack after 20 years .
PC GONE MAD . You decide.
Produced by Duncan McNiff
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29Oct
"BLITZED" - A San Francisco Street Chess Story .
For over thirty years the people of San Francisco having been hosting Street Chess , thirty years on some of the Original Street players are still playing today and every day. Over the years some the battles on the board have moved into the street impacting on the lives of some of the longtime players.
"BLITZED" was Recorded & Produced by Duncan McNiff in October 2012
COPYRIGHT 2012 .
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24Oct
Set in Ireland in the eighties a young farm hand remembers his time working on Dairy , Cattle and sheep farms .
Written and Produced by Duncan McNiff
Copyright Oct 2012.
Music Credits.
Pecker Dunne - Sullivan's John, Fiddle & Miximatosis
Mary Coughlan- Hallelujah Written BY Leonard Cohen, Ride On Written by Jimmy MacCarty
Big Tom - Four Country Roads , Brendan Shine - Rose of Castlerea
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12Sep
In loving Memory of Terry Willers . Who was one of Ireland's greatest cartoonists. (1935 – 9 November 2011) .
"Terry Willers - Cartoon Man" is an essay which was written by Bennet McNiff in 2009 which has been adapted for Radio.
The story is of a young boys fond childhood memories of Terry , Valarie , Julie and Steven Willers.
Written By Bennet McNiff in 2009.
Narrated and Produced in 2012 By Duncan McNiff
Copyright 2012 .
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4Sep
Ireland's Quest for Nuclear Power started in the 60's. Planning permission was applied for by the ESB(The electricity Supply Board) around 1974 to build 4 nuclear reactors at Carnsore point in Co. Wexford , Ireland . The reactors were never built and were met with huge public and political objection and eventually the idea of Ireland as a producer of Nuclear Power was scuppered. Finally the Irish government signed a bill in 1999 banning the production of Nuclear power in Ireland . A new lobby group called "Better Environment from Nuclear Energy" or BENE.IE was formed and they continue to try and educate and persuade the Irish Government and people of Ireland why Ireland should consider becoming a Nuclear Energy producer. With Chernobyl moving to distance of our minds the Pro Nuclear lobby in Ireland were gaining some traction debating the climate change argument and clean air Option Nuclear power offers and Dwindling supply of fossil fuels and pressing the Irish public to re think the possibility of becoming a Nuclaer generating country . In 2011 the Fukushima meltdown is another major set back to the Irish Pro Nuclear lobbyists and fresh reminder to the Irish public as to why the country rejected the idea in the first place back in Ireland in the 1970's
Produced by Duncan McNiff
Copyright 2012
Music & Source Credits
Christy Moore "The House Down in Carne"
Christy Moore "The Sun is Burning"
Content & Source credits
RTE News www.rte.ie , RTE "The Late Late Show" FRONTIERS OF PHYSICS 2011 TEACHERS' CONFERENCE Department of Life and Physical Sciences ,GMIT Galway Professor Philip Walton NUI Galway by DOCUMENTAViCamera: Marek Bogacki Sound: Naoise Pye Produced by DOCUMENTAVI 2012. Dennis Duff of BENE.IE , Gary Fitgerald (formerly Green Party Ireland & Activist) and produced by Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, Karl Grossman reporter interview Dr. Janette Sherman Inviro Source, Lecture Professor John McInerney Head of Physics Dept UCC Ireland , Professor Philip Walton NUI Galway & BENE.IE Member produced by Camera: Marek Bogacki, Sound: Naoise Pye and Produced by DOCUMENTAVI 2012. pennylittlesavage's channel lecture by Dr. Helen Caldicott @ http://www.helencaldicott.com/ , www. BENIE.ie
Other Sources extracts used to compile this Documentary sourced from The Nuclear Syndrome "Victory for the Irish Anti-nuclear Power Movement" a Thesis written By Prof Gary Dalby in 1982 .
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26Aug
A short Radio Documentary about the Skunk Train "All Board" Whew Whew !! , Fort Bragg ,Mendocino County. Put on your head phones and take a trip on nostalgic old Skunk Train Steam Engine Number 45 and meet some of the people that make the journey possible 127 years after the California Western Railway was born.
Special Thanks to Carol in Ticket office , Greg Schindel AKA "Train Singer" and to Dennis Balassi the Conductor , Fireman, Engineer, motor man and Historian.
For More information on the Skunk Train visit their website @ http://www.skunktrain.com.
Produced By Duncan McNiff August 2012.
Copyright All rights reserved 2012
Music Credits
Jim Croce "Railroad Song"
Greg Schindel AKA "The Train Singer" http://www.trainsinger.com/
Various songs from Greg's Schindel's collection of songs .
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9Aug
A melancholic story about an Irish Carpenter living in Montauk and of the Bonackers or Baymen of the East End of Long Island.The name Bonacker traditionally refers specifically to the working class families who live in an area called Springs in the north of the Town of East Hampton, New York . Many of the original Bonac families in Springs were among the very early settlers of the town, having come from England in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Duration 11 mins 52 secs. Copyright 2012 .
Produced by Duncan McNiff
Music Credits :
Raimond Lap , Dreaming sounds of Sea, Sleepy Seaside Piano 3
Sinead O' Connor "Paddy's Lament"
Theatrical Credits :
“Men’s Lives,” by Joe Pintauro, Performed @ Bay Street Theater, Long Wharf, Sag Harbor adapted for theater from a book "Mens Lives" written by Peter Matthiessen in 1986, the players Victor Slezak, Mark Coffin, Deborah Hedwall, Peter McRobbie, Rob DiSario, Brian Hutchinson , Scott Thomas Hinson, Myles Stokowski. Directed by Harris Yulin , Sound Design by David Bullard.
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