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Cultural critic, Alison Pearlman on the rise and rise of the public as restaurant reviewer. (Part 2 of 4)

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Art historian-turned-food culture critic, Alison Pearlman, on overlaps in art and restaurant criticism. (Part 1 of 4)

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Geologist-turned-ceramic alchemist, Cormac Boydell, on chemicals and colour.

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What can directors of today’s 3D blockbusters learn from Hitchcock’s only effort in the area, Dial M for Murder?

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Bow Making 101 with multi-award winning master of the craft, Gary Leahy.

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What on earth to do with your Nobel Prize winnings? Orhan Pamuk’s put them into a museum based on his novel, The Museum of Innocence.

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How IKEA designs are being bent to the will of the Irish people, with projects that include transforming an IKEA lamp into a functioning lobster pot.

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Building an ancient celtic dwelling with just a scalpel and some paper, with artist, Maeve Clancy.

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Working with the bees in very different ways are sound recordist, Chris Watson and beekeeper and local food advocate, David Lee.

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How the legacy of Victorian maker, Henry Willis, is helping forge organ music’s future. (Part 2 of 2)

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Welcoming back a water-powered Victorian wonder. Union Chapel celebrates its restored Willis organ. (Part 1 of 2)

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Test driving a “temporal stereoscope” with the artist, Anne Cleary, at Marino Casino, as part of Cleary & Connolly’s The Absent Architect exhibition.

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In the latest pages from Phillip McMahon’s diaries, a story falls into the writer’s lap in a Dublin coffeeshop.

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Tino Sehgal on art, ethics and the shortcomings of Craig Reynolds’s Boids. (Part 2 of 2)

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Turner Prize nominee, Tino Sehgal, on art, ecology and vegan chocolate cake. (part 1 of 2)

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An animated story explaining the rudiments of typography to kids, is just one facet of the font-themed comedy output of Conor O’Toole.

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How Benjamin Britten’s Alderburgh feeds into the music of contemporary singer-songwriter, Gwyneth Herbert.

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Ned Vizzini, on getting (almost literally) stuck in a book in his bibliophilic new YA novel, House of Secrets.

Correction

In this podcast, it is suggested that Mr Vizzini is, in addition to being a novelist, also a cartoonist. He is not. No offence meant, guv.

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Ever gobbled a lumper? A new radio documentary series, History on A Plate, explores the lost foods of old Ireland.

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Dolly Parton has long been a role model for dragstar, Panti, and an inspiration for Panti’s alter ego, Rory O’Neill. For Culture File, Panti/Rory recorded a guide to Dolly’s finest moments…and they are (in order of appearance):

Jolene

I Will Always Love You

Little Sparrow

Travellin’ Thru

Backwoods Barbie

Jesus and Gravity 

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Did Japan’s ancient Samurai sword makers use metal techniques from Ireland?Silversmith and metal researcher, Cólín Ó Dubhghaill, has his suspicions.

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Will the rise of online series like House of Cards turn Hollywood into a zombie town? Associate Professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Aisling Kelliher, on the future of tv.

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Aspergillus oryzae comes to SoCoDu. Kyoto native/Blackrock resident, Junko Hamilton, on making Irish miso.