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Counting Bashō | Culture File
Translator and poet, Andrew Fitzsimons on translating the complete haikus of Basho, the 17th century master of the form, and on the work of one unfortunate contemporary follower, The Haiku Killer.
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Fictions: The South | Culture File
Culture File launches a summer reading club on the fictions of Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges. Each week, Luke and Colm welcome a special guest to explore a story from Borges' collection, Fictions. First up, The South, a dream-like mystery tale of a man held somewhere between life, death and B…
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Do Bugs Need a Glow-Up? | The Culture File Debate
Luke Clancy and panel make the case for loving some teeming critters of the invertebrate kingdom. Advocating for their favourites are: Rachel McKenna (shieldbugs); Liam Lysaght (wasps); Cassia Gaden Gilmartin (earwigs); and Nessa Darcy (woodlice). Recorded live at National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevi…
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Beau Travail: with Caroline Mac Cathmhaoil
The Comfort Zone: artist, writer and filmmaker Caroline Mac Cathmhaoil leads Colm and Luke into Claire Denis’s 1999 film Beau Travail, a kind of waking dream of a movie about jealousy and justice and the wages of colonialism, explored, in part, through the medium of contemporary dance.
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Comfort Zone Pick of The Week | CFDS
Something for the weekend? Colm Tóibín inserts the Kanneh-Mason sibling's take on Fauré's Après Un Rêve into his dinosaur (car); Caroline Mac Cathmhaoil plugs the poetry and YouTube performances of Joelle Taylor, while Luke Clancy suggests a trio of compilations from Swedish label, XKatedral, on wh…
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Irish Wake Amusements; Danh Vo; Paddy Woodworth; and Patrick O'Laoghaire | Culture File
Lots of fun at fun at Rob Heaslip's Irish Wake Amusements; floral action from Amsterdam with Danh Vo's show at the Stedelijk Museum; Paddy Woodworth's Naturalist's Bookshelf too turns to flowers; and Patrick O'Laoghaire holds a wildflower in his hand.
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Irish Wake Amusements; Danh Vo; Paddy Woodworth; and Patrick O'Laoghaire | Culture File
Lots of fun at fun at Rob Heaslip's Irish Wake Amusements; floral action from Amsterdam with Danh Vo's show at the Stedelijk Museum; Paddy Woodworth's Naturalist's Bookshelf too turns to flowers; and Patrick O'Laoghaire holds a wildflower in his hand.
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The Shape of Jazz to Come: with Olesya Zdorovetska
The Comfort Zone: musician, composer and improviser, Olesya Zdorovetska encourages Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy to encounter the many freedoms offered in Ornette Coleman's 1959 free jazz throwdown/manifesto album, The Shape of Jazz To Come.
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Still In A Dream with Simon Reynolds | Culture File
Simon Reynolds has made a habit of writing books that offer to rethink the histories of popular music, such as Rip It Up and Start Again, his keywork on Post-Punk, and his story of electronic dance music, Energy Flash. Now, he's back with a highly personal history of the shapes of music from 1984 t…
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The Comfort Zone: writer, Emma Dabiri invites Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy to get with the subversive allure of Carl Anderson's Judas, and other hidden treasures in the 1973 film version of the Rice and Lloyd Webber musical, Jesus Christ Superstar.
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