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What does it feel like when you are singing Madama Butterfly? Soprano, Anne Sophie Duprels (@duprels) tries to explain.

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Activist comedian, Josie Long, talks to Luke Clancy about where agitating against austerity is taking her comedy.

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Irish Baroque Orchestra’s artistic director, Monica Huggett, explores the Cult of the Virgin Mary in Italian music.

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Why do cities matter more than ever? Avner de-Shalit, co-author of a new book about the city in the 21st century, The Spirit of the Cities, has some ideas.

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Kate OBrien: The Opera? Well, not quite. But Limerick composer,Fiona Linnane, has composed the music for a song cycle based on the novelist’s characters.

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Culture File climbs on board a coach trip to perdition, to experience a new spooky tour of damned Dublin.

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In the second part of our interview with philosopher of science, Bruno Latour, we hear how bad science might lead to good art… (part 2 of 2)

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Culture File meets a superstar of academia, and now a playwright and curator, Bruno Latour. (part 1 of 2)

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Culture File’s Golden Great No 1

Does Margaret Thatcher retain the power to stir deep emotions? Culture File takes an exit poll at Dublin screening of The Iron Lady

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Culture File gets its microphone and its taste buds down to the Science Gallery, Dublin for their noshtravaganza of an exhibition, Edible.

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For all those who wanted to *see* the tech marvel that is Robo-Gershwin playing Rhapsody In Blue with the Dallas Wind Symphony, here it is, recorded Feb 14th 2012. Luv in particular for the bit near the end when conductor, Jeff Helmer, looks casually over to see how his soloist is getting on…

Thanks to the Zenph.com crew for the video!

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

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"Mr Brownlow is film history," said Martin Scorsese of our guest on Culture File, conservationist & silent film evangelist, Kevin Brownlow.

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Sackbutts at the ready? Let’s Gabrieli! Culture File eavesdrops on rehearsals for a “surround sound”concert of the 16th Venetian composer’s work.

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Last night we met Robot Oscar Peterson, this time, we hear the inimitable stylings of Robo-Gershwin with some help from Dr. John Walker. (Part 2 of 2)

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Stephen Sondheim likened songwriting to making hats…but did he ever make a hat? Dublin singer-songwriter-milliner, Jaime Nanci does it all the time…

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Rachmaninoff was quite a pianist! But don’t take our word for us, have a listen to a tech that’s letting long gone performers play again, with Dr John Q Walker of Zenph. (part 1 of 2)

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Luke Clancy reviews David Hockney’s blockbusting show at the Royal Academy, London, including the painter’s biggest showing yet of iPad prints…

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Perched high above a green bend in the Lagan, Culture File goes to meet the team behind a new production of Brian Friel’s “improved” version of Uncle Vanya.

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CultureFile says hello to the husband and wife team behind Sam specialists, Gare St Lazare, & hear about their latest staging of a Beckett short story.

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Culture Filefollows the journalistic pilgrimage to Smithfield to visit artist, Frank Buckley, and his house made from old Euro notes…

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Comedian Stewart Lee explains what he learned from improv jazz and John Cage…(part 2 of 2)

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Comedian Stewart Lee explains what he learned from improv jazz and John Cage…(part 2 of 2)

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Jes Benstock explains the pains and pleasure of documenting the Alternative Miss World for his film, The British Guide to Showing Off.

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Why have so many of our possessions begun to bleet, beep and chirrup at us? It’s sound branding, says composer John Groves.

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Can comedy be art? And more importantly, should it be? We consult with the stand up and Gerry Springer: The Opera writer, Stewart Lee. (part 1 of 2)

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Composer and @Ergodos co-founder, Garrett Sholdice, explains how classical music embraced the DIY spirit.

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Where is the biggest collection of Robert Burns material outside Scotland? Why, in the Linenhall Library, Belfast, of course. We meet the woman who looks after it, Deborah Douglas.

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What exactly goes into your favourite classical sausage? Virtual choir leader, Eric Whitacre hazards a guess…

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How is the sound of one hand clapping like the music of John Cage? Composer, John Godfrey attempts to explain, with the help of the I Ching.

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Do you know your kozoechizen washi from your mitsumatagami? Painter, Richard Gorman on the ancient art of Japanese paper making.

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How is composing a concerto like creating an African textile? Kevin Volans explains ahead of his Horizons 2012 concert at the NCH.

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Barber’s Adagio for…saxophone? Jane O’Leary guides us through the unexpected delights of the Intimate Voices concerts series in Galway this weekend.

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Singer, Sarah Savoy, of Savoy, Louisiana, tell us about what makes Cajun music great: the cooking!

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Culture File grapples with the wigs at rehearsals for Handel’s little seen opera, Semele, at St Werburgh’s Church in Dublin.

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Culture File heads to an imaginary Donegal country pub, The Mother’s Arms, in the company of Little John Nee and his Caledonia Highly Strung Orchestra

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Culture File goes Skypeabout once more, to ask some of the nearly 100independentbooksellers around the island: “What was the last book you sold?”

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Composer and jazz bassist, Ronan Guilfoyle talks about his new work for electric guitar and orchestra, about how Jimi Hendrix made the guitar safe for the orchestra.

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What are Apple up to now? Digital academic, Aisling Kelliher, reads the runes of the California technology company’s latest invitation to journalists.

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Just be yourself, but make it good! As their show, The Family, opens @projectarts, we hear about @THEATREclub’s unique approach to making plays.

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Why has the world of 2012 fallen in love with a silent movie? Luke Clancy attempts to understand Michel Hazanavicius’ film, The Artist.

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Does Margaret Thatcher retain the power to stir deep emotions? Culture File takes an exit poll at Dublin screening of The Iron Lady

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Over the coming weeks, we’ll be talking to composers in the Horizons 2012 Contemporary Music Series at the NCH. This week we talk to Karen Power, who will premier her new work, no chaos: only organised panic for orchestra and live electronics.

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Feeling open to an empathic response? First Fortnight Festival might just be for you! We meet director,Una McKevitt and retired schoolteacher-turned-performer, Marie ORourke, who are reviving their collaborative show, 565+ for First Fortnight 2012.

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Got baggage? We meet Alan O’Regan, whose new play, Those Sick and Indigent, tells the story of a homeless man via a suitcase of keepsakes.

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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. (repeat from April 2011)

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Culture File goes to Wexford: In which we leave the opera house, to meet some of Wexford’s tree population… (repeat from October 2011)

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Luke Clancy discovers how Opera North changed the meaning of the word ‘Leeds’. (repeat from November 2011)

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Liam Ó Maonlaí, Michael Keegan Dolan and Donnacha Dennehy help us assess the impact of composer, Sean Ó Riada. (repeat from October 2011)

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We meet those behind Music Generation, an ambitious U2-funded project to broaden music access in Ireland. (Repeat from September 2011)

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Culture File meets illustrator, PJ Lynch, and hears the golden age of illustration, and about creating images for Dickens’ spectres of Christmas Future…