Culture File: Potter Mark Campden

The transmutation of metals, and other pottery arcana, in the glistening work of Kilkenny-based potter, Mark Campden

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1018/20131018_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20458375_20458376_232_.mp3

Culture File - The Architect and the Antichrist

The Architect and the Antichrist. Eileen Gray's secret relationship with 20th century bad boy, Aleister Crowley.

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1017/20131017_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20457661_20457662_232_.mp3

Culture File: Beirut Farmers' Market

Kamal Mouzawak, chef founder of Souk el Tayeb, Beirut's first Farmers' Market, on food, culture and what makes a good tabouleh.

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1015/20131015_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20457657_20457658_232_.mp3

Culture File: Eileen Gray

Cloé Pitiot, of Pompidou Centre and Jennifer Gough, of the National Museum of Ireland show some love for Irish designer and artist, Eileen Gray.

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1016/20131016_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20456558_20456559_232_.mp3

Culture File - Open House Limerick

Culture File explores the Neo-Gothic charms of 700 year old Fanningstown Castle in Adare Co. Limerick, one of the properties throwing down its drawbridge for the international OpenHouse festival of building visiting.

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1014/20131014_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20454931_20454932_232_.mp3

Culture File - Greek Instrument Makers

The plight of handmade instruments -- and their makers -- in the new normal of 21st century Greece.

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1011/20131011_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20454167_20454168_232_.mp3

Culture File - Social Choreography 3

In our latest postcard from Hydra, we climb to the roof, to take part in an experimental "social choreography" performance.

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1010/20131010_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20453280_20453281_232_.mp3

Culture File - RICE Festival 2

In our second postcard from the RICE festival on Hydra, Dutch artist, Ed Schouten, on creating choreography on a Waterford daffodil farm.

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1009/20131009_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20452635_20452636_232_.mp3

Culture File - Social Choreography

In the first of our postcards from the inaugural, RICE dance festival on Hydra, we meet choreographer, organiser and former Limerick resident, Michael Klien

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1008/20131008_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20451862_20451863_232_.mp3

Culture File - Hobbes at the School of Life

Why 17th century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes would be a fan of drone strikes.

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1007/20131007_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20451162_20451163_232_.mp3

On the trail of the Saphire d’Or, the last record shop...

On the trail of the Saphire d’Or, the last record shop in the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott.

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Julie Qiu, the New York oyster blogger behind inahalfshell.com on the subtle pleasures of merrior. (Littoral Special Part 2)

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On the waterfront, in search of macroalgae with seaweed forager and mother of a thousand cast-iron plaques, Sally McKenna. (Littoral Special Part 1) 

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How much time do you waste eating each day? Prof Aisling Kelliher on Soylent, a startup that wants to lead us into a “post-food” world.

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How typographer, Thomas Phinney, earned himself the title the Font Detective.