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Culture File meets the real Raymond Scannel, as well as the fake Louis Armstrong, James Stewart and Peter Falk.

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Culture File goes in search of “the god shot” with the coffee geeks at Dublin’s International Coffee Conference.

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Culture File meets Iseult McCarthy of the National Stamp Design Advisory Committee and contemplates the future of the stamp.

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/pod-v-12051106m07sculturefile-pid0-367680.mp3]

Luke Clancy talks to actress, Saoirse Ronan, and Joan Burney Keatings about the Cinemagic young people’s film festival.

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Luke Clancy talks to Martin Bright, the former Observer journalist who set up New Deal of the Mind, an organisation created to stimulate jobs in Britain’s culture sector.

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Culture File visits the giant dressing-up box that is the National Theatre’s costume hire division, in Finglas, Dublin.

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/pod-v-09051107m17sculturefile-pid0-437184.mp3]

Luke Clancy talked to Brian F O’Bryne about Mayday Mullagh, a festival of conversation that the actor and his industry friends ran in his home village in Co. Cavan.

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/pod-v-06051106m47sculturefile-pid0-407376.mp3]

Culture File hears about Ink, a photographic exhibition from Aidan Kelly, exploring the tattoos of older people.

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/pod-v-05051106m26sculturefile-pid0-386544.mp3]

Culture File goes eating its way through the undergrowth with forager, Tom O’Byrne

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/pod-v-04051106m53sculturefile-pid0-414240.mp3]

Luke Clancy talks to stand up comedian, Maeve Higgins, about her monthly “knowledgey” club “Enlightenment Night”.

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/pod-v-03051106m08sculturefile-pid0-368064.mp3]

Culture File goes on a “people hunt” with the help of a smartphone app at the Mindfield festival of ideas in Dublin.

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/pod-v-02051108m00sculturefile-pid0-480576.mp3]

Culture File finds a way to discover new music via food, with the couple behind the San Francisco food ‘n’ music blog, Turntablekitchen.com.

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/pod-v-29041108m52sculturefile-pid0-532752.mp3]

Culture File talks to Michel Bauwens, the “p2p philosopher” who sees in our future p2p property, and even p2p money.

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/pod-v-28041105m48sculturefile-pid0-348720.mp3]

Culture File hears about The Big Fella, a new play written by a native of Hull, produced by an English company, set in New York and dealing with Irish republicans. Go Figure.

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/pod-v-27041107m08sculturefile-pid0-428352.mp3]

Luke Clancy talks songs and sibling work practices with singer-songerwriter, Declan O’Rourke and his brother/manager/songwriting partner, Edward.

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/pod-v-25041107m18sculturefile-pid0-438000.mp3]

Culture File goes in search of the Ommm noise, with music from Parisian vocal group of that name, and finds out how scientific the search for ghosts can get.

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/pod-v-21041106m50sculturefile-pid0-410352.mp3]

Louise Williams concludes her series from the Holy Land with a visit to a restaurant where diners eat in total darkness

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/pod-v-30061107m05sculturefile-pid0-425952.mp3]

Culture File meets the late Juliano Mer-Khamis, inspirational actor-director behind Jenin’s Freedom Theatre.

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/pod-v-20041106m14sculturefile-pid0-374496.mp3]

Culture File visits Nalaga’at, the world’s only deaf blind theatre group, at their base in Jaffa, Israel.

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/pod-v-1904118m49sculturefile-pid0-529800.mp3]

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

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/pod-v-15041107m12sculturefile-pid0-431568.mp3]

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

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/pod-v-14041106m52sculturefile-pid0-412272.mp3]

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

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/pod-v-13041107m45sculturefile-pid0-465000.mp3]

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).

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/pod-v-12041108m06sculturefile-pid0-485904.mp3]

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

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/pod-v-11041107m51sculturefile-pid0-470736.mp3]

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

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/pod-v-08041108m41sculturefile-pid0-521039.mp3]

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.

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/pod-v-06041106m21sculturefile-pid0-381864.mp3]

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

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/pod-v-05041105m45sculturefile-pid0-345792.mp3]

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…

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/pod-v-04041106m00sculturefile-pid0-360072.mp3]

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

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/pod-v-01041107m25sculturefile-pid0-445920.mp3]

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

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/pod-v-31031106m52sculturefile-pid0-412632.mp3]

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

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/pod-v-30031107m56sculturefile-pid0-476328.mp3]

Luke Clancy traces the Irish roots of English rock.

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/pod-v-29031106m31sculturefile-pid0-391104.mp3]

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

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/pod-v-28031105m43sculturefile-pid0-343608.mp3]

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

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/pod-v-25031105m25sculturefile-pid0-325032.mp3]

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)

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/pod-v-23031105m30sculturefile-pid0-329760.mp3]

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

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/pod-v-22031108m12sculturefile-pid0-492840.mp3]

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

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/pod-v-21031108m04sculturefile-pid0-484944.mp3]

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)

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/pod-v-17031107m06sculturefile-pid0-426312.mp3]

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

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/pod-v-16031106m45sculturefile-pid0-407952.mp3]

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

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/pod-v-14031106m25sculturefile-pid0-395616.mp3]

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

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/pod-v-11031106m37sculturefile-pid0-397704.mp3]

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.

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/pod-v-10031107m05sculturefile-pid0-425688.mp3]

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

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/pod-v-09031106m25sculturefile-pid0-385560.mp3]

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

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/pod-v-0803116m13sculturefile-pid0-373824.mp3]

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

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/pod-v-07031106m05sculturefile-pid0-365952.mp3]

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

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/pod-v-04031107m07sculturefile-pid0-436776.mp3]

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

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/pod-v-03031106m33sculturefile-pid0-393144.mp3]

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

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/pod-v-02031106m54sculturefile-pid0-414456.mp3]

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