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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.