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Exploring 17th century picture-in-picture technology with Velázquez expert, Peter Cherry and National Gallery of Ireland’s Kitchen Maid with the Supper at Emmaus (c.1617-1618)

"So I says to her ‘straighten them pots, or you’re out on your ear,’ and she says to me if you think I’m going to…" 
"Ssssssh! Watchit, Jesus, I think she’s listening.."

More/better readings of Velázquez @RTELyricFM, 6.40pm, October 31st, 2012. Or, failing that, just listen here!

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Pssssst! Wanna come to a secret cinema? Culture file visits MORB, Dublin’s highly irregular horror film club.

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In case anyone wanted to take a wintery dérive on a Saturday afternoon in Berlin…Bitte sehr!

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Each year the European Broadcasting Festival, the Prix Europa takes place in Berlin where awards are given to the best European Television, Radio and Online productions. This year Culture File has been nominated in the Radio Music category. All this week we feature extracts from the compilation submitted to the awards that have been broadcast on Classic Drive over the past 12 months.

If you were totally/a bit curious to see Monotype Corporation Series 121 Colm Cille (after you’d heard this) then, here ya go!

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Early instruments collector and player, Laoise O Brien, on musical nursery rhymes and the stranger danger of old Europe.

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A little bit Xtra from our interview with type historian, Dermot McGuinne, curator of a new exhibition on Irish typography and the rise and fall of Colm Cille. Here, he tells the story of how Elizabeth I may have commissioned the first type for use in Irish language printing.

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Dermot McGuinne, curator of a new exhibition at the National Print Museum, on Irish typography and the rise and fall of the fount they call Monotype corporation series 121 Colm Cille.

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Turning sciobs into poetry and poetry into skibs, with Galway-based basket artist and willow farmer, Joe Hogan

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The background artist hogs the limelight in “Extra! Extra! Read All About It!” - the autobiography of superstar extra, Harry ‘Aitch’ Fielder.

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Our regular tech correspondent Aisling Kelliher, of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design, on a new wave of devices to promote intimacy over the internet.

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Graffiti Classics’ Cathal O’Duill’s talks about building a multi-company outfit, his father, Irish TV legend, Brendan, and taking his street quartet into the theatre.

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2012 Turner Prize nominee, Luke Fowler, on adult education, elitism and the Late Late Show, as well as his latest film on historian, EP Thomson.

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MacGyver, the former cult TV hero and IED maven, is making his comeback via a new comic book from Cork artist, Will Sliney.

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Vienna-based Japanese counter-tenor, Daichi Fujiki bringing his unearthly voice to "King David" by Herbert Howells.

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hypervocal:

“Call Me Maybe” Without Music

Another “Call Me Maybe” parody? HAHAHA YOU THOUGHT IT WAS OVER! But actually, it’s exactly what we wanted! To watch Carly Rae Jepsen roll off a car and get a concussion without any of that pesky music in the way. And maybe also to watch Tattoo Guy take off his shirt (with sound effects!).

These just get better and better. See also: the bizarre, hilarious “Gangnam Style” Without Music.

without a song, what would life be? Slightly improved?

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

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Listening for Howells (and Bach and Mahler and Gluck) among the tombstones, with Japanese counter-tenor, Daichi Fujiki.

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Audio historian, Jonathan Sterne, on why piracy is the wrong word for unauthorised music downloading; and how the tech behind mp3 is helping drive an advertising revolution.

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The running time of a CD has little to do with that of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, according to Media historian, Jonathan Sterne, who has some far more obvious explanations.

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Media historian, Jonathan Sterne, author of MP3 The Meaning of A Format, on the gruesome experiments that form part of the history of digital music.

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Wanna come play in the “Spectrum Playground”? Filling The White Spaces, a conference at Dublin’s Science Gallery, gathers pioneers who want encourage clever uses of soon to be freed-up radio frequencies in Ireland.

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In Tromluí Phinocchio / Pinocchio’s Nightmare, Galway’s Moonfish theatre company lay on a bilingual and thoroughly unplugged version of the fibber classic, with the tale stripped back to its dark and scary basics.

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Why treating scientology as a religion might be good for everyone, with Prof Hugh Urban, author of “The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion”.

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Einojuhani Rautavaara: to some he’s the master of Finnish music, to others, a pronunciation pole vault. Guess which camp our guest this time, Finnish violinist, Pekka Kuusisto falls into?

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How do you follow a show involving reading aloud F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby over the course of 8 hours? By taking from the shelf a copy of The Sun Also Rises, of course. John Collins of Elevator Repair Company explains.