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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.