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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.