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Luke Clancy walks among the tents, trucks and stables housing Footsbarn travelling theatre company’s latest theatre-cum-circus show, Sorry!

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Luke Clancy’s eyeballs get a tour through a 3D model of the original 1904-vintage Abbey Theatre.

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Culture File hears about fundit.ie and about the design powerhaus, Dieter Rams.

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How does the internet help us to be happy? Does it even? Luke Clancy asks Pascal Bruckner, the philosopher and author of “Perpetual Euphoria” (part 3 of 3).

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Luke Clancy talks to philosopher and writer, Pascal Bruckner, about “the cult of happiness” (Part 2 of 3)

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In the first part of a three part interview, philosopher, Pascal Bruckner, talks about “the cult of happiness” (Part 1 of 3)

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Hugh Tinney talks Luke Clancy through one of the most difficult piano pieces ever written, Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit, as well as the pianist’s dreams of emulating Freddie Mercury.

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Culture File joins in a Hymn to Gaia with organist and composer, Eric Sweeney.

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Culture File meets some of those with a stake in the Feis Ceol - a kind of X-Factor as Gaeilge, before there was even an X-Factor as Béarla…

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Culture File talks type with Simon Garfield, author of the popular history of letters and lettering, Just My Type.

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Luke Clancy talks to Gerald Barry about the world premiere in LA of his opera version of the Importance of Being Earnest.

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Luke Clancy meets the organisers of a Where’s Wally-based flashmob in Dublin.

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Luke Clancy traces the Irish roots of English rock.

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Culture File visits an exhibition from the heavy metal fan’s favourite English Romantic painter, John Martin.

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Luke Clancy talks to Celtic Tiger legend, Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, about the new economic realities in contemporary Ireland. And about organic Kohlrabi.

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Luke Clancy takes the Dublin lettering tour with type historians, Phil Baines and Catherine Dixon.

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Culture File meets the student artist behind the collaborative food project, LET (Limerick Eats Together)

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Culture File visits Dublin’s Lighthouse to hear reaction about the arthouse cinema’s threatened closure.

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Luke Clancy talks to Jussi Parikka about his book Insect Media, and the rise of Posthumanism. (Part two of two)

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How did terms like “virus”, “swarm” and “hive” become our favourite ways to talk about computers and online media? Luke Clancy talks to media theorist, Jussi Parrika, author of Insect Media. (Part one of one)

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Culture File gets a tour of the craft bestiary currently scaling the walls of the Ark, Dublin

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Culture File hears about Bill Drummond’s choir project, The 17.

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Culture File makes a joyful noise with the brethren and the sistren at Ireland’s first Sacred Harp convention in UCC, Cork.

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Culture File drops into shadowy past of barely moving images and morally instructive storytelling, with The Magic Lantern Spectacular, which closes this years’ Killruddery Film Festival.

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Luke Clancy talks to Meave Higgins about her monthly talking club, Enlightenment Night, at the Workingman’s Club, Dublin.

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Luke Clancy talks to Rory O’Neil (alter ego of drag queen, Panti) about the Alternative Miss Ireland contest

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Luke Clancy talks to playwright, Vincent Higgins about his stage adaptation of Spike Milligan’s satire, Puckoon.

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Culture File talks to artist, James Hanley, about his exploits in speed painting and the status of the contemporary portrait.

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Culture File celebrates new Paddy’s Day levels for Angry Birds, and hears about three unsung female pioneers of Irish astronomy.

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Luke Clancy talks to artist, Maud Cotter about her new book and mini show All Stuff Is Farce, and about the stuff she collectings.

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Luke Clancy talks to pianist, Finghin Collins, about his three year project to play all of Mozart’s piano concerti.

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Luke Clancy meets Jota Castro and Christian Viveros-Fauné, the latest curators brought in to run Contemporary Dublin, the capital’s long promised mega art show.

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Culture File meets the Irish director of a new documentary film on the lives of Mexico’s child bullfighters.

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Luke Clancy talks to Alan Buribayev, Principal Conductor of the RTÉ NSO, about the place of birdsong in Western classical music.

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Luke Clancy talks to biographer, Sarah Bakewell about the publication of Montaigne’s Essays, and about the French writer’s final moments. (Final part of three)

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Second part of Culture File’s interview with historian, Sarah Bakewell, about her biography of the man she see as ‘the first blogger’, 16th century French writer, Michel de Montaigne.

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Artist filmmaker, Luke Fowler, on the musical liberties and strange death of avant garde composer, Cornelius Cardew.

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Luke Clancy talks to historian, Sarah Bakewell about her biography of How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer. (First part of the three part interview)

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Culture File hears about Cornelius Cardew’s Scratch Orchestra, which has inspired a film from artist, Luke Fowler.

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Luke Clancy talks to design historian, Lisa Godson, about the 20th century Irish architects forced to do their most pioneering work in Africa.

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Luke Clancy meets Andrew McGibbon, author of I Was Douglas Adams’ Flatmate, a book about entourages and the stars that hung out with them.

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Culture File digs in to discover The Loaves and Fishes Supper Club and Ireland’s underground dining scene

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Luke Clancy talks to artist, Sean Hillen, about his photomontages and the strange patterns in the world we mostly manage to ignore.

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Luke Clancy talks about the therapeutic value of satire with the team behind the satire, Brian Cowen and the Seven Deadly Sinners.

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Culture File visits what might just be Ireland’s most nerd-friendly cinema, at Blackrock Castle, Cork.

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Luke Clancy talks to Pat McGarvey of Southern Tenant Folk Union about The New Farming Scene, his band’s (deep breath) alt bluegrass post-Apocalyptic scifi concept album.

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Culture File talks to Nick Dear, the writer who has long been carrying a torch for Frankenstein.

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Type writer, Simon Garfield celebrates The Beach Boys, Bowie and The Beatles, fontwise.

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Culture File talks to Manchester photographer, Kevin Cummins, about his now iconic photos of Joy Division.

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Culture File visits the Ice Music Festival held on the first full moon of each year in the mountain town of Geilo in Norway.