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Grayson Perry afternoon tea at The British Museum. (And his show, The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman is even better!)

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Luke Clancy reviews the London debut of the Michael Keegan Dolan and Liam O’Maonlai collaboration, Rian.

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We meet some cultural “Trailblazers” and hear about their “Aha Moments” (while avoiding mention of Scandinavian pop or Alan Partridge).

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Luke Clancy meets David Malone, at the NCAD, Dublin, where the English author and film-maker was speaking to artists about high finance.

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Culture File goes to Wexford 3: In which we leave the opera house, to meet some of Wexford’s tree population…

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Culture File goes to Wexford 2: Michael Gieleta, director of the Polish opera, Maria, makes the Markievicz connection.

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Culture File goes to Wexford 1: Luke Clancy meets the team behind the short opera, The Telephone.

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Luke Clancy visits the Darklight festival to meet the director of a crowdfunded documentary about the last record shop on Teeside.

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A short walk around the Central Bank in Dame Street in Dublin, talking with people, such as English documentary maker, David Malone.

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Dublin music producer, Misk, offers an introduction to the fine art of making loops in Garageband.

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Helen Oxenbury, talks about the books she made in collaboration with cult Scottish writer and musician, Ivor Cutler.

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Liam Ó Maonlaí, Michael Keegan Dolan and Donnacha Dennehy help us assess the impact of composer, Sean Ó Riada.

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Come away to the waters and the wild with Mike Scott and the Waterboys’ latest, An Appointment with Mr Yeats.

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Hop on the Irish Architecture Foundation’s Open House Luas Dockland tour, with strategic Planner, Pauline Byrne!

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Playwright, Arthur Riordan, talks about his new version of Ibsen’s epic verse drama, Peer Gynt.

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Would it help if An Taoiseach danced more? Choreographer Michael Klien thinks, maybe.

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Could dance be the art form for the twenty-first century? Dance dramaturg, Steve Valk, looks to Bali and asks why not.

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Dramatist, Grace Dyas, talks about the creation of her play, Heroin, about the history of the drug in Dublin.