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Helen Oxenbury, talks about the books she made in collaboration with cult Scottish writer and musician, Ivor Cutler.

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Liam Ó Maonlaí, Michael Keegan Dolan and Donnacha Dennehy help us assess the impact of composer, Sean Ó Riada.

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Come away to the waters and the wild with Mike Scott and the Waterboys’ latest, An Appointment with Mr Yeats.

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Hop on the Irish Architecture Foundation’s Open House Luas Dockland tour, with strategic Planner, Pauline Byrne!

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Playwright, Arthur Riordan, talks about his new version of Ibsen’s epic verse drama, Peer Gynt.

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Would it help if An Taoiseach danced more? Choreographer Michael Klien thinks, maybe.

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Could dance be the art form for the twenty-first century? Dance dramaturg, Steve Valk, looks to Bali and asks why not.

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Dramatist, Grace Dyas, talks about the creation of her play, Heroin, about the history of the drug in Dublin.

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Do illustrators need to be good at drawing? Of course not, says illustrator and author, Steve McCarthy.

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We talk to Amy Conroy about her silver years coming out drama, I <3 Alice <3 I.

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Loughlin Deegan talks about his last program in charge of Dublin Theatre Festival, and about taking over at the capital’s newest theatre, The Lir.

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Luke Clancy talks to Aisling Kelliher about Bjork’s latest project, Biophilia, and asks the key question: “What is it?”

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We go “In Search of Nick Drake” at an exhibition inspired by the enigma of the English singer-songwriter who died in 1974.

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Culture File goes on Skypeabout around the island to make some plans for Culture Night 2011.

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Thursday September 22nd

We ask the team behind Corokinesis, an experimental, surround-sound choral service at Christ Church Cathedral, why pick on Evensong?

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Wednesday September 21st http://bit.ly/pUeSTh

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Friday September 16th http://bit.ly/qXZfJC

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Tuesday September 20th http://bit.ly/pLrbyk

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Monday September 19th http://bit.ly/ndulcF

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The art and the business of bees, with sound artist, Chris Watson and apiculturist, David Lee.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.