Culture File

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.

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Crate-crawling and gum-chewing | Culture File
Deep in the crate-crawling world of Conor Guilfoyle on mission is to save the lost recordings of the Irish jazz scene. The music of gum-chewing, with composer Andy Igamels, whose new album includes a measure of that mundane mastication; plus, a moment of pause as Patrick O'Laoghaire sails by with t…
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Crate-crawling and gum-chewing | Culture File
Deep in the crate-crawling world of Conor Guilfoyle on mission is to save the lost recordings of the Irish jazz scene. The music of gum-chewing, with composer Andy Igamels, whose new album includes a measure of that mundane mastication; plus, a moment of pause as Patrick O'Laoghaire sails by with t…
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The Screwtape Letters: with Day Magee
Culture File Presents The Comfort Zone: artist and performer Day Magee comes to unpack the enduring value of C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters, the 1942 epistolary satire of memos from a senior devil to his nephew, still green in the ways of evil. Inspo for a conversation that seeks to answer ques…
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The Screwtape Letters: with Day Magee
Culture File Presents The Comfort Zone: artist and performer Day Magee comes to unpack the enduring value of C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters, the 1942 epistolary satire of memos from a senior devil to his nephew, still green in the ways of evil. Inspo for a conversation that seeks to answer ques…
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Meghan O’Gieblyn Full Interview | Culture File
The full interview with Meghan O'Gieblyn from this week's Culture File.
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Meghan O'Gieblyn, Tõnu Kaljuste, Paddy Woodworth | 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 Ir…
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Les Twins: with Favour Odusola
The Comfort Zone: dancer and choreographer, Favour "Official PAK" Odusola brings the choreographic art of Les Twins for appreciation, and also creates a Comfort Zone Choreo (seated) for celebrated non-dancer Colm Tóibín.
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Samba Yonga, Mariano Llinás, Ernesto Montequin | Culture File
An epic trilogy of documentaries dedicated to a cinematic biography of Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges, premiered at this year's Venice Film Festival. Its director, Mariano Llinás and its main character, archivist and translator, Ernesto Montequin unfurl their completist life of Borges. An awar…
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The Comfort Zone: Anechoic Chambers with Beatie Wolfe
Musician, conceptual artist and regular Eno collaborator, Beatie Wolfe encourages The Comfort Zone crew to contemplate the not-quite-natural silence of an anechoic chamber.
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Culture File Presents Fictions: Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
Culture File's summer reading club concludes with Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, Jorge Luis Borges' story of a possibly lost, possibly never-existing civilisation, hunted down by a literary flatfoot called Borges and his BFF, Adolfo Bioy Casares. Writer and critic Orit Gat helps Luke Clancy and Colm T…
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