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On culture file, it’s Christmas…in Kerala, as we enjoy good old fashioned Southern Indian Christmas celebration, with plenty of rice pancakes, fish curry and beetroot wine.

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Culture File finds a rare point of agreement with hipster music website, Pitchfork.com, about dubstep star, James Blake.

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Culture File sees about acquiring the mark of the beast at one of the studios leading tattooing’s new wave.

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Culture File talks to Maximilian Reidel about a revolution in glass design, and his family’s four hundred year history in glass making.

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Caroline Hennessy talks to Marjorie Quarton about the place of chocolate in the Irish Kitchen of the 1700s

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Louise Williams rides shotgun with one of Port au Prince’s most prolific graffiti artists, Jerry Rosambert. Louise’s reporting from Haiti received support from the Simon Cumbers Media Challenge Fund.

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Laoise O’Brien of the early music group, Morisca, fills her lungs to play some medieval instruments for Luke Clancy.

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In the second part of Culture File’s interview with Frank Cotrell Boyce, the screenwriter tells Luke Clancy about his new script on the Homeless World Cup.

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In the first of a two part interview, Luke Clancy talks to Frank Cottrell Boyce, the screenwriter behind films such 24 Hour Party People, The Claim and A Cock and Bull Story.

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Luke Clancy visits a Limerick exhibition by Philippe Chancel featuring photographs of civic life in North Korea, with the show’s curator, Marian Lovett.

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Luke Clancy travels to Berlin to meet artist, Susan Philipsz, one of the shortlisted artists for this year’s Turner Prize.

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Luke Clancy talks to Susie Jones, whose new documentary tells the story of Rudely Interrupted, an Australian indie rock band that grew out of a Melbourne music therapy group.

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On this episode of Culture File, journalist Louise Williams travels to Haiti to meet some remarkable survivors — human and architectural — of the most recent quake.

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Blánaid Murphy tells Luke Clancy about the Palestrina Choir remarkable founder, Edward Martyn.

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Luke Clancy talks to song collector, Desmond Cahalan and performance poet, Raven, about why they chose to relocate their arts to Ireland.

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Is a poem march more powerful than a protest? Luke Clancy talks to The Unholy Trinity, a gathering of a rock musician, a composer and a poet who’ve come together to see.

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Rhob Cunningham, the songwriter behind Our Little Secrets, talks to Luke Clancy about why his band prefers to have stand up comedians as support acts.

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Luke Clancy discovers the enduring educational value of Kylie Minogue with Sir Mark Jones, director of the V&A.

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Luke Clancy meets up with Mary Coll, who has written Anything But Love, the play that will open the newly refurbished Belltable Arts Centre in Limerick.

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Luke Clancy talks to Kila kingpin Ronan O’Snodaigh about singing his way out of a depression.

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Culture File chows down with the crowd at a special eatin’ ‘n drinkin’ screening of a new file about restaurant life, Today’s Special, starring Aasif Mandvi.

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Culture File talks to woodturner, Roger Bennett, about the new wave of Irish crafts.

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Luke Clancy talks to Capt Patrick O’Connor about the Defence Forces’ forays into social networking.

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Luke Clancy hears about a project to drive the use of sustainable forest woods in musical instruments.

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Luke Clancy talks to Paul Chavez about his collaboration with the Edge and Morleigh Steinberg, Cold Dream Colour.

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Luke Clancy talks to artist, Laura Buckley, in the midst of her spinning orchestration of sound and light, Waterlilies.

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With Opera Ireland’s final production, Tosca, opening this week, Culture File marks the end of an era in Irish opera.

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Luke Clancy gets laughing lessons from the cast of Corn Exchange’s new production of Beckett’s Happy Days.

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Luke Clancy talks about Don Wycherley about the challenges of his first time performing a one man show in Jumping The Sharks.

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Luke Clancy talks to science writer, Stephen Johnson, about his latest book “Where Good Idea Come from: The Natural History of Innovation”

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Luke Clancy is on the streets of the city of London with historian, Helen Castor, whose new book looks at the historical Englishwomen who won themselves the title “She Wolves.”

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Luke Clancy talks to the team behind Fishamble Theatre Company’s latest production, Big Ole Piece of Cake.

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Luke Clancy talks to Aisling Kelliher about search giant, Google’s attempt to gain a foothold on your television set.

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Luke Clancy talks to Naoise Nunn and Paddy Cullivan about the political cabaret, Leviathan.

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Luke Clancy talks to Lauren Teeling one of the authors of A Visual Feast, a survey of street art in Ireland.

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Culture File puts the world on pause for a brew at Miss Courtney’s Tearooms in Killarney.

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Luke Clancy investigates the popup scene in Dublin’s Smithfield area.

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Luke Clancy talks to the street art aficionados behind woostercollective.com as well as a new history of ‘uncommissioned urban art’.

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Luke Clancy talks to Michael Urie (best known as the actor behind Ugly Betty’s uber-bitchy sparring partner, Mark) about Celebrity Autobiography, which might just be the meanest show on earth.

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Tim Redmond, conductor of The Golden Ticket, a new opera adaptation of Roald?Dahl’s Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, talks about the show’s Wexford Festival Opera premier.

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Luke Clancy talks to Ross O’Carroll Kelly, who seems to believe he is not a fictional character created by Paul Howard.

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Composer, Gerald Barry, gives Luke Clancy a demonstration of the shortcomings of his favourite old Joanna.

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How welcome are the Black Watch in Belfast? We talk to Belfast Festival at Queens director, Graeme Farrow, about bringing a show about the regiment to Ulster.

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What key is the elephant in? Culture File dives back into the soundworld of Chris Watson, who has been creating a surround piece for a Peckham gallery, with percussionist, Zev.

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How did the bookies get to the Booker? Culture file investigates the zone where odds meet arts.

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Luke Clancy talks to Louis Lovett, the shape shifting actor who has been playing at least 9 different parts at this year’s Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival.

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Luke Clancy talks to Adam Spreadbury-Maher and Robin Norton-Hale, who are cooking up an opera renaissance in a London pub theatre.

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Today on Culture File Caroline Hennessy falls in with the Confrérie des Chevaliers du Goûte Boudin (Brotherhood of the Black pudding) as they arrive in Kanturk to celebrate the town’s finest boudin noir. 

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Facebook, is it hot or not? Luke Clancy talks to Aisling Kelliher, Assistant Professor of Media Communication Systems at Arizona State University, about the website and the film it spawned, The Social Network.

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Culture File investigates the gulf between “What am I doing here?” and “What am I doing here?” while checking out Playing The Dane and Act Without Words at this year’s Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival.

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Conductor, George Daugherty, goes Looney Tunes as he talks to Luke Clancy about his Bugs Bunny at the Symphony show, at Dublin’s Grand Canal Theatre, on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th October.

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Una McKevitt and Marie O’Rourke tell Luke Clancy about 565+, their play tracing one woman’s real life journey from theatre superfan to performer.

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Luke Clancy talks to Dublin Theatre Festival’s Loughlin Deegan about making theatre in a double dip

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What is she wearing? Luke Clancy meets John Byrne in Ballymun and sees the artist’s grand equestrian statue featuring a tracksuited local teen.

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Luke Clancy talks to actor-turned-playwright, Anthony Brophy, about his first play, Chicane.

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It’s Culture Night! And Culture File has asked artists around the country where they’ll be spending their white night.

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Screenwriter, Kieran Carney (Batchelors Walk, Zonad) discusses the delicate art of cultural bluffing with Luke Clancy.

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Sean nos and Jewish religious singing meet in Kabosh theatre company’s This Is What we Sang. Director, Paula McFetridge, talks to Luke Clancy about her production currently running at New York’s 1st Irish Festival.

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Blink and you’ll miss it. Caroline Hennessy lands in the small world of flash fiction.

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What would a new, non-sectarian, cross-community National Anthem for Northern Ireland sound like? Novelist, Colin Bateman tells Luke Clancy about writing one for his first play, National Anthem.

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Playwright Vincent Higgins talks about the choice of Maghaberry maximum security prison, Co Antrim, as the location for recording his radio play, Pariahs.

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Sound artist Chris Watson reports from Istanbul on ‘The Morning Line’ a mammoth metal sculpture-with-sound in the city’s Eminönü square.

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Culture File meets Lebanese food writer and activist, Kamal Mouzawak.

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Composer Roger Doyle talks to Luke Clancy about his latest ‘cinema for the ears’ production, The Room in the Tower.

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A trip to @NLIreland with type historian, James Mosley, to examine the surprising number of editions of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic there. Are some realer than others?

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Tarquin Blake, author of a new book on Ireland’s heritage of abandoned houses, takes Caroline Hennessy to visit the ruins of Buttervant Castle in Co. Cork.

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New principal conductor of the NSO, Alan Buribayev, tells Luke Clancy about the uses he finds for evil robots at orchestra rehearsals.

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Will Irvine and Karl Quinn tell Luke Clancy about Connected, their “bromance” exploring manners and morality online. (Bewley’s Café Theatre, 1pm, 13th Sept, 2010)

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Phil Baines and Catherine Dixon, in Dublin as part of the international typography conference, ATypI (8-12 Sept, 2010) take Luke Clancy on a walking tour of the capital’s public lettering.