Culture File Weekly No 33

Culture File Weekly delves into the music of Rhiannon Giddens, the Carolina-born, Limerick-based singer, champion of the banjo and tireless explorer of the forgotten histories of black music in America.

Culture File Weekly No 32

Culture File's journey through the scents of a century fetches up in the present scent world of gourmand perfumes, celebrity "juice" and the middle-eastern driven vogue for perfumes based on the scent of oud.

Culture File Weekly No 31

Culture File's journey through the scents of a century fetches up in the present scent world of gourmand perfumes, celebrity "juice" and the middle-eastern driven vogue for perfumes based on the scent of oud.

Culture File Weekly No. 30

Odette Toilette leads us through the scents that made the 20th century, finding an alternative history in perfumes and the societies that produced them. We begin this week, as the dust of WWI settles and the air is filled once more with the sweet scent of violets...

Culture File: Giorgio Casari

Restaurateur, Giorgio Casari, on Ferragosto and the flavours and sounds of full summer in Italy

Culture File Weekly No. 29

Luke Clancy talks to Tess Gallagher, widow of Raymond Carver about the decade she spent with the writer, during which he wrote some of the most popular love poems of the Twentieth century, for and to Tess Gallagher. We hear about the origins of poems such as Late Fragment, and enjoy some of the music they inspired in Irish composer, Linda Buckley