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Luke Clancy meets Jota Castro and Christian Viveros-Fauné, the latest curators brought in to run Contemporary Dublin, the capital’s long promised mega art show.

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Culture File meets the Irish director of a new documentary film on the lives of Mexico’s child bullfighters.

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Luke Clancy talks to Alan Buribayev, Principal Conductor of the RTÉ NSO, about the place of birdsong in Western classical music.

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Luke Clancy talks to biographer, Sarah Bakewell about the publication of Montaigne’s Essays, and about the French writer’s final moments. (Final part of three)

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Second part of Culture File’s interview with historian, Sarah Bakewell, about her biography of the man she see as ‘the first blogger’, 16th century French writer, Michel de Montaigne.

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Artist filmmaker, Luke Fowler, on the musical liberties and strange death of avant garde composer, Cornelius Cardew.

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Luke Clancy talks to historian, Sarah Bakewell about her biography of How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer. (First part of the three part interview)

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Culture File hears about Cornelius Cardew’s Scratch Orchestra, which has inspired a film from artist, Luke Fowler.

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Luke Clancy talks to design historian, Lisa Godson, about the 20th century Irish architects forced to do their most pioneering work in Africa.

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Luke Clancy meets Andrew McGibbon, author of I Was Douglas Adams’ Flatmate, a book about entourages and the stars that hung out with them.

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Culture File digs in to discover The Loaves and Fishes Supper Club and Ireland’s underground dining scene

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Luke Clancy talks to artist, Sean Hillen, about his photomontages and the strange patterns in the world we mostly manage to ignore.

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Luke Clancy talks about the therapeutic value of satire with the team behind the satire, Brian Cowen and the Seven Deadly Sinners.

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Culture File visits what might just be Ireland’s most nerd-friendly cinema, at Blackrock Castle, Cork.

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Luke Clancy talks to Pat McGarvey of Southern Tenant Folk Union about The New Farming Scene, his band’s (deep breath) alt bluegrass post-Apocalyptic scifi concept album.

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Culture File talks to Nick Dear, the writer who has long been carrying a torch for Frankenstein.

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Type writer, Simon Garfield celebrates The Beach Boys, Bowie and The Beatles, fontwise.

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Culture File talks to Manchester photographer, Kevin Cummins, about his now iconic photos of Joy Division.

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Culture File visits the Ice Music Festival held on the first full moon of each year in the mountain town of Geilo in Norway.