Monday, January 31, 2011

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Culture File hears of the unexpectedly peripatetic life of Harry Clark’s stained glass masterpiece, The Geneva Window

Sunday, January 30, 2011

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In his latest Culture File audio diary, sound recordist, Chris Watson visits an Australian arts festival taking place…on a train.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

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Culture File waves hello to Microsoft’s latest gaming innovation, the Kinect, with Aisling Kelliher, Assistant Professor of Media Communication Systems at Arizona State University.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

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Culture File knits one and pearls one with “conceptual knitter” Freddie Robins.

Monday, January 24, 2011

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Luke Clancy talks to Richard Thomas, one of the creators of Jerry Springer: The Opera, about his new opera on the life of Anna Nicole Smith.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

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Culture File meets the man behind, The Blanch, a bouffon assault on the Blanchardstown Shopping centre and its kin around the world.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

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Culture File visits the former Cork Creamery that is now the studio of sculptor, Eilis O’Connell.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

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Gut or steel? Luke Clancy shares the cellist’s dilemma, with Dutch virtuoso, Pieter Wispelwey.

Monday, January 17, 2011

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Luke Clancy talks to double Tony award winner, Brian Dennehy, about playing “The Bull” in JB Keane’s The Field.

Sunday, January 16, 2011

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Culture File drags and drops in on the world of Apple’s Garageband music software with one half of the underground dance duo, Arveene and Misk, arveenandmisk.com.

Thursday, January 13, 2011

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Culture File goes walkies in Whitechapel to meet Ruairidh Anderson, who has embarked on a project to write and release a song a week (for a year) about the history of the East End of London.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

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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. (Repeat)

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

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Culture File meets trombone virtusoso, Christian Lindberg, who will be conducting the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra this week

Sunday, January 9, 2011

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Culture File talks to playwright, screenwriter and actor, Mark O’Halloran about the little arts of short theatre, and about his new script for a musical about Cuban drag queens.