Culture File's summer reading club continues with Funes, His Memory, Jorge Luis Borges' tale of a man benefiting and suffering from total recall. Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy are joined by Joseph Rizzo Naudi, a blind writer and researcher who works on making art and exhibitions engaging through the creative use of blindness.

Culture File's summer reading club continues with Funes, His Memory, Jorge Luis Borges' tale of a man benefiting and suffering from total recall. Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy are joined by Joseph Rizzo Naudi, a blind writer and researcher who works on making art and exhibitions engaging through the creative use of blindness.

Luke Clancy's culture come-all-ye, featuring bright spots in music, performance, film, tv and art from Ireland and the world. Broadcast Saturdays at 6.30pm, repeated Wednesdays at 9pm on RTÉ lyric fm.

Luke Clancy's culture come-all-ye, featuring bright spots in music, performance, film, tv and art from Ireland and the world. Broadcast Saturdays at 6.30pm, repeated Wednesdays at 9pm on RT&Eacute; lyric fm.

Luke Clancy's culture come-all-ye, featuring bright spots in music, performance, film, tv and art from Ireland and the world. Broadcast weekdays on Lorcan Murray's Classic Drive and Saturdays at 6.30pm on RTÉ lyric fm.

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Luke Clancy's culture come-all-ye, featuring bright spots in music, performance, film, tv and art from Ireland and the world. Broadcast Saturdays at 6.30pm and Wednesdays at 9pm on RTÉ lyric fm.

Luke Clancy's culture come-all-ye, featuring bright spots in music, performance, film, tv and art from Ireland and the world. Broadcast Saturdays at 6.30pm and Wednesdays at 9pm on RTÉ lyric fm.

Culture File Presents Fictions: Funes the Memorious

The full interview with Meghan O'Gieblyn from this week's Culture File. 

The full interview with Meghan O'Gieblyn from this week's Culture File.&nbsp;

Meghan O’Gieblyn Full Interview | Culture File

"We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will,” a thought from French mystic Simone Weil, inspires Meghan O’Gieblyn's new book, Will and Attention, a probing philosophical examination of addiction, recovery, beauty and grace.  As the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir heads to Ireland for the NCH's ECM 2026 festival, their conductor and Estonian musical mainstay, Tõnu Kaljuste talks language, Arvo Pärt and the musicking of their homeland. Paddy Woodworth finds some space on The Naturalist's Bookshelf for Juilian Hoffeman's Irreplaceable.

"We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will,” a thought from French mystic Simone Weil, inspires Meghan O’Gieblyn's new book, Will and Attention, a probing philosophical examination of addiction, recovery, beauty and grace. As the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir heads to Ireland for the NCH's ECM 2026 festival, their conductor and Estonian musical mainstay, Tõnu Kaljuste talks language, Arvo Pärt and the musicking of their homeland. Paddy Woodworth finds some space on The Naturalist's Bookshelf for Juilian Hoffeman's Irreplaceable.

Culture File Presents Fictions: Funes the Memorious

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