20:20 Kerry is an exciting project that KCM is currently developing with Radio Kerry. In a series of twenty short documentaries, Curator Helen O’Carroll takes listeners behind the scenes of the Museum into the purpose built store room. This store contains a great number and variety of artefacts, all of which are housed in identical storage boxes. Most have never been on public display. In each program Helen opens a storage box at random and sets out to explore more about its contents. The result is part detective story, part scientific research, part philosophy, but always a thoroughly engaging journey of discovery as she travels the country chatting to a whole variety of characters that help her, and the listener, to understand the lives and times of the people connected with these objects.

Listen to some of the documentaries here by clicking on each link:

1: Tricorn Hat

2: Wilson Watercolours

3: Ballycarthy Fossils

4: Viking Spindle Whorls

5: Blennerhasset Bone Saw

6: Medieval Hurling Ball

7: Stone Age Axe Head

8: Tom Jones Cup

9: Bronze Age Spear Head

10: Iron Pulley