Culture File: The best uses of "yes" and "no" with composer, Neil Martin (Part 1)

Composer, Neil Martin on cellos and dancers, Heaney and Virgil, the afterlife and the bit before.

Culture File: Documenting Doping

Documentary maker, Gretha Viana on 9.79 seconds that heralded a new era of sport.

Culture File: Gwilym Simcock's Fingers

How to straddle the jazz-classical divide, with the Welsh-born pianist and Impossible Gentleman kingpin.

Culture File: Tommy Fleming's Paddy

The Irish singer heads into the world of musical theatre with the story of an Irish immigrant in 1960s England

Culture File: Mastering Chopin with Dr Chen

Dublin International Piano Festival's Archie Chen leads a fingertip tour of best practice Chopin

The Culture File Weekly No 80 (Cannabis and sensory craft, cannibalism in Brazilian culture, Irish showjumping and Mexican embroidery)

This weekly: we share a curry comb with an Irish showjumper, hunt the embroidered treasure of Oaxaca and beyond, hear smell scientist Avery Gilbert, predictions for the future of legalised pot, and listen as Ambassador Afonso José Cardoso, explains the literal and metaphorical role of cannibalism in Brazilian culture. Phew.

Culture File: Sensory Craft and Pot Fragrance

Smell scientist, Avery Gilbert, sees the future of his specialty in Colorado's legalised marijuana industry

Culture File: Cannibalism and Culture

Cannibalism both literal and metaphorical on a journey into the tasty heart of Brazil's musical history (photo: Cannibalism in Brazil in 1557 as described by Hans Staden (b. around 1525 – Wolfhagen, 1579). Gravure de Théodore de Bry, 1562)

Culture File: Darryl Walker's Stable Life

Irish Showjumper Darryl Walker introduces us to some of his charges there at Inchanappa House in County Wicklow

Culture File: Which would Frida Kahlo wear?

Rebecca Devaney has been knocking on doors, meeting craftspeople and collecting embroideries from all over Mexico

Culture File Xtra: Antonina's Hummingbirds

Rebecca Devaney has been knocking on doors, meeting craftspeople and collecting embroideries from all over Mexico. One of the textiles she encountered was by Antonina Cornelia

Culture File: LA Stories (Part 4)

In the final part of our LA diaries, Luke finds Uber's best secret use: as a music recommendation service

The Culture File Weekly No 79 (Katie O'Kelly, Ruba Shamshoum, Christina Kubisch, Meltybrains?)

This Weekly, playwright Katie O'Kelly and singer, Ruba Shamshoum talk about art in troubled times, we take a walk in the park with Christina Kubisch and get our brains slightly melted by dublin experimental pop band, Meltybrains?

Culture File: Meltybrains? Anyone?

Dublin experimental pop ensemble Meltybrains? on harmony, counterpoint and the best way to mass manufacture masks

Culture File: Christina Kubisch in Islandbridge

The electric landscapes of the city and the Irish lives lost in WWI made audible in the work of the Berlin artist

Culture File: Katie O'Kelly's Olive Tree

Katie O'Kelly's new one-woman show debuts as part of this year's Palfest, Palestinian solidarity art festival

Culture File: Ruba Shamshoum's vocalcano

A musical image of a Middle East primed to erupt, in the music of a Nazareth-born, Dublin-based jazz singer

Culture File: LA Stories (Part 3)

The Monarchs of Venice Beach (and Theodor Adorno)

The Culture File Weekly No 78 (Tanabata, The Wake, Wilde Stories, Fourth of July)

This weekly, we celebrate the seventh day of the seventh month, Japanese style and the fourth day of the seventh month, American style, as well as dance on film in The Wake and the washing up sounds of Michael Gallen

Culture File: Chef, Takashi Miyazaki celebrates all the 7s of Tanabata in Mitchelstown

The Japanese festival of the 7th day of the 7th month is marked by a 7-course meal eaten deep in a cave in Cork

Culture File: Michael Gallen's Wilde music

High up places feed the music of composer, Michael Gallen's suite inspired by Oscar Wilde's children's stories

Culture File: Oonagh Kearney's The Wake

Filmmaker Oonagh Kearney's latest trilogy of films explores the female body through choreography

Culture File: Fourth of July in the Deerfield Residence

They jury may be out on Brexit, but 1776's Amexit is heartily celebrated each July 4th

Culture File Xtra: Meltybrains? essay the RTE lyricfm signature tune

.@Meltybrains ? do their candypink earthquake version of a classic & also speak next week Culture File @RTELyricFM

Culture File: LA Stories (Part 2)

Who'd put Black Mountain as their first choice college? Luke wonders, at a show on the experimental art school

The Culture File Weekly No 77 (Mexican music, Mauritian cuisine, California startups, Brazilian censorship)

This weekly, the Italian chef who is bringing mama's technique to African ingredients, a conductor who knows the power of Instagram, a Brazilian typographer who is trying to tell the story of censorship in his country, and Prof Aisling Kelliher on the CNBC Disruptor 50 list.

Culture File: Mexican conductor, Alondra de la Parra

Do you follow the conductor on Instagram? Alondra de la Parra, on the life of the modern maestro