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Composer and artist, Denis Roche on making art for the very mobile (dancers’) and very immobile (transplant patients’) bodies.

Oded Ezer’s crowdsourced SkypeType.
The text reads (as if you couldn’t read it!)

Every improvement in communication makes the truth less visible

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Unplugged comedian and writer Isy Suttie talks about her Skype love story, Pearl and Dave, and her big unlove of Facebook.

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"I’m not a prophet but I have some ideas" Oded Ezer on the future of typography (2 of 2)

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A typeface based on sperm & a religion for typographers: just two of the projects of our guest, Israeli experimental typographer, @OdedEzer. (part 1 of 2)

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On our second visit of the week’s Cork International Choral festival, Regan Hutchins meets some of the 4,500 singers involved - including members of a Filipino Glee Club…

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It’s pop, Laura, but not as we know it. Avant singer-songwriter-cellist, Laura Moody, on the meaning of “pop”.

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A man walks into a pub…and sees a performance of National Theatre of Scotland’s supernatural exploration of folk songs,The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, then talks to the show’s Madeleine Worrall.

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As Microsoft announce their latest assault on the eBook arena, we talk to publishing commentator and book blogger, David Maybury.

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Into the heart of the night, choral style, as we celebrate Compline with the Clerk’s Choral, at their HQ in the ancient church of St. Mary’s, Youghal.

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Even fans of The Magnetic Fields sometimes miss out on musically promiscuous frontman, Stephin Merritt’s forays into musical theatre.

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The spooks-in-chief with progressive trad act,The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock, explain their interest in the poetry of Arthur Griffith

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Architect, Christopher Whyms-Stone on on his Culture Yard project to restore and celebrate a very special 20th century housing project in the Kingston suburb of Trenchtown, Jamaica. (Part 2 of 2)

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Taking a machete to a blancmange but in a good way, is how Stephen Fry describes Gerald Barry’s opera of The Importance of Being Earnest. The composer shares some other takes on the piece.

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It’s all about the universe’s tastiest rhizome this time, as we talk to the folks behind Edinburgh restaurant, Rhubarb.

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Some photos to browse, while you listen to our two part interview with Jamaican architect and Culture Yard conservationist, Christopher Whyms-Stone, about his project to restore and celebrate a very special few square yards of Trench Town that inpired among other things, Bob Marley to write No Woman, No Cry.

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Jamaican architect, Christopher Whyms-Stone, helps tell the story of Trenchtown and an historical Irishman without whom Bob Marley’s No Woman, No Cry couldn’t have been written. (Part 1 of 2)

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Can you be graphic, gory and tender all at the same time? Yes, if you are baroque composer, Dieterich Buxtehude, says academic, author and musician, Yonit Kosovske.

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What is it that makes today’s packaging so different, so appealing, we ask artist and Styrofoam aficionado, Brendan Earley.

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Contralto, Raphaela Mangan and pianist, Niall Kinsella join us to celebrate the extraordinary, unsettling sounds of Kathleen Ferrier.

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Accordionist, Sharon Shannon shares some secrets about collaborations, recalcitrant harmonia and much missed pets.

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Luke Clancy explores the strange, compulsive world of the unboxingvideo and the product teardown.

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All The Young Dudes: Culture File catches up with the members of Dublin’s newest (and possibly youngest) contemporary music ensemble, Kirkos.

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Korean-born Dublin-trained piano champion, Soo Jung Ann, and her teacher, John O’Conor celebrate victory at Barcelona’s Concours International de Musique Maria Canals.

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With the launch of a new book and exhibition dedicated to nearly 30 years of work, we celebrate the comix genius of Daniel Clowes.

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Guess the magical musical link between HRH Elizabeth II and pop princess, Katy Perry…OK, it’s Albert Nobbs composer, Brian Byrne.

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Have you met Nyai Sekar Madu Sari? Luke Clancy makes the acquaintance of UCC’s shiny gamelan orchestra.

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Luke Clancy reviews the first posthumous show of work by Tyrone born artist, William McKeown, at the Kerlin gallery, Dublin.

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The twisted roots of Bob Dylan’s Masters of War in the second part of our interview with culturalequity.org’s Don Fleming.

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Director, Pat Collins, on his first feature film, Silence, the story of a sound recordist’s search for exactly that elusive stuff.

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As Alan Lomax’s peerless archive of folk recordings from around the world goes online, we talk to one of those behind the project, Don Fleming.

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The Baton v The Bow: John Wilson and Andrew Haveron talk about what a long friendship can do for a conductor and his soloist.

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Director and celebrity sister, Sophie Fiennes, on shooting her documentary, Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, about German artist,Anselm Kiefer.

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Actor, Rory Nolan, tells us about the occupational hazard that led him to write The Audition for Fishamble Theatre Company’s “Tiny Plays for Ireland” programme.

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Will it be the Talibam! or the Bunyan, sir? The staff at Cork’s talismanic Plugd Records shop help us choose a new CD from their eclectic racks.

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L’affaire Daisey, where do you stand? Aisling Kelliher on a few things we might learn about technology in the wake of writer and performer, Mike Daisey’s fall from grace.

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Harlem-born Julliard-trained tenor, Noah Stewart, shares his feelings on Pinkerton, Puccini and the Atkins Diet.

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Luke Clancy reviews a very chatty dual London exhibition from David Shrigley and Jeremy Deller. (Despite what you hear at the end of this piece, the Shrigley and Deller shows run until May 13th.)

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Is Ireland having a musicals renaissance? Phillip McMahon writer of the Abbey’s new musical, Alice In Funderland, and the show’s Alice, Sarah Greene, think so.

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What would do get if a barbershop quartet supped with a gospel choir? Something that sounds a lot like Harold’s Cross very own the Larkfield Four.

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How do you solve a problem like Philomena? Stephanie McKeon on taking on an already well-loved role in Rough Magic’s Improbable Frequency.

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Anything planned for June 21st? Love:Live Music organiser, Jody Ackland, explains how Ireland’s daylong celebration of music is going to take over the solstice.

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Historian Helen Castor tells us about her book She Wolves: The Women who Ruled England before Elizabeth, which has now been turned into a BBC television series.

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What does the Christchurch, Triskel, Cork, look like when Dreyer’s Joan of Arc is being projected? A bit like this.

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A cinematic mass? Composer Irene Buckley & Cork French Film Festival director, Paul Callanan on giving Dreyer’s ‘Joan of Arc’ a new sound.

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Eric Whitacre’s rallying cry “Choir Nerds of the World Unite!” is taken up on Culture File this time by Greg Beardsell and the Irish Youth Chamber Choir.

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In a bonus part of our conversation with Martin Lindstrom (which we saved specially for podcast fans) the author of Brandwashed tells us why “nostalgia” in marketing isn’t what it used to be. (Part 4 of 3! Haha!)

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In the final part of our interview with Brandwashed author, Martin Lindstrom, he weighs up where our relationship with technology is leading us. (Part 3 of 3)

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Are consumers giving away their personal information too cheaply on sites like Facebook and Gmail? Brandwashed author, Martin Lindstrom, says absolutely, yes. (2 of 3)

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Could you do a “brand detox” and live a life without brands? Our guest this time, Martin Lindstrom, author of ‘Brandwashed’, tried & failed. (part 1 of 3)