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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Kid Nation: with Beulah Ezeugo | The Culture File Presents The Comfort Zone
Culture File Presents The Comfort Zone: writer and curator, Beulah Ezeugo leads TCZ's first journey into reality tv, with a 2007 US show that brought together 40 children on a ranch in New Mexico, and, as much as possible when their every moment was being filmed 24 hours a day, left them to create …
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Moose Pedals, musikprotokoll, Sophie Calle | Culture File
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Cat Power's Jukebox: with Emily LaBarge | The Comfort Zone
The Comfort Zone: writer, critic and author of Dog Days, Emily LaBarge arrives to assert the unexpected magic of Cat Power's Jukebox, the 2008 covers album taking on Hank Williams, Billie Holiday and Joni Mitchell among others.
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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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