Podcasts from the RTE Lyric FM series, Culture File, the essential daily dose of arts, culture and play. Listen live, 5.40pm, weekdays, RTELyricFM
What’s that you’re watching? Philip Barrett’s finished comix take on The Vision Service, a radio fairy tale of the arrival of television in Ireland. The new Drama on One producion is broadcast tonight, Sunday, December 30th, 8pm, RTE Radio 1.
And online here.
Above is Philip Barrett’s comix “trailer” for radio drama, The Vision Service, an alternative history of the arrival of television in Ireland, written by Luke Clancy and produced by Kevin Brew. It stars Sue Collins, as the storyteller, alongside Aoife Duffin, Caoilfhionn Dunne, Amy Conroy, Steve Blount, Mikel Murfi, Enda Oates, Rory Nolan, Pádraic Delaney and Joe Taylor.
You can hear/download it here: http://www.rte.ie/drama/radio/genres-comedy-thevisionservice.html
This here is the brilliant Phil Barrett’s comix take on our “When Hitch Met O’Casey” feature by Liam Geraghty, which you can listen to here. Now, look over there (on the right of the page) and click to follow us, then to win Phil’s original artwrk, just tweet this link: pic.twitter.com/y8pkX8xI
19-year-old multi-instrumentalist and video blogger, Ronan Dikker, who runs the thisisprojectrebirth vlog. Which may or may not relate to percussion. And those are his rice filled balloons.
He talks to us about the art of the percussionist here.
And plays them rice-filled balloons here.
"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!
If you were totally/a bit curious to see Monotype Corporation Series 121 Colm Cille (after you’d heard this) then, here ya go!
If you listen to the end of our report on the Serendipitor app, you’ll hear mention of a sketch of our reporter, Louise Williams, created by some eight year olds in Smithfield, Dublin. Well, this is that sketch. And this is exactly what Louise Williams look like.
