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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.