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They don’t teach you this stuff in school. What acting teacher, Andy Hinds learned when he decided to practice what he preached and make his own stage debut.

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Some of the Edgar Martins images from This Is Not A House, now at the Gallery of Photography, Dublin. Clockwise from top: Atlanta (Georgia), Phoenix (Arizona) and Connecticut (New England).

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Edgar Martins takes us on a tour of a show of his architectural photographs created in the wake of the US subprime crisis.

More photos here

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Just how badly is it possible to spend six seconds? Video sharing app, Vine, decoded with the help Prof Aisling Kelliher.

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Daryl Buckley, of veteran Melbourne new music ensemble, Elision, testifies to the powers of Jimi Hendrix and nice valve sounds.

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A hitherto unnoticed resemblance between Jane Austen and Jeremy Clarkson, in the final part of our special with Austen biographer, Paula Byrne. (Part 3 of 3)

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Jane Austen biographer, Paula Byrne, on some of the novelist’s earliest pieces of fiction, some imaginary marriages cooked up on her father’s parish stationary. (Part 2 of 3)

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A royalty check from 1816 is the first of a series of objects that inspired a new book on Jane Austen and the stuff of her world by Paula Byrne. (Part 1 of 3)

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Is it the singer or the song, or indeed, the facility with media relations? Antonia Couling, a specialist in media training for opera stars, on what every performer needs to know.

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In his latest interactive work, City Hall, composer, Daniel Figgis works with his biggest ensemble yet: the general public.

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On our final visit to this year’s Veronica Dunne International Singing Contest, we meet opera legend, Richard Bonynge, and share a moment with overall winner, Nadine Sierra.

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Can a mug, a jug or a basket move you like a song, a painting or a film can? Questions in search of an answer at Future Beauty? (sic) at the National Craft gallery in Kilkenny

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Our second visit to this year’s Veronica Dunne International Singing Contest sees the sweaty semi-finals decided

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As the release of bassist, Peter Hook’s memoir stirs up once again the puzzle of who did what in the creation of influential, but ill-fated group, Joy Division, photographer Kevin Cummins on his contribution to the band, the myth and even the music. (RPT)

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It’s all about the vowels as Culture File makes its first visit of the week to the 7th Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition.

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Rumble ‘n’ rattle with the Beast of the Ulster Hall, as Dr Joe McKee pulls out some of the stops on the venue’s Mulholland Grand Organ.

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The health risks of spray paint, the whys of tagging, the power of love and the colour blue, in the second part of our visit with Dublin street artist, Maser. (Part 2 of 2)

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Graffiti’s gift to typography, Dublin artist, Maser, shows us around his new studio, which he hopes to turn into a hub for graffiti. (Part 1 of 2)

Maser type pieces: http://maserart.com/they-are-us/ 

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Why are so many music recommendation sites still so bad at knowing what we’d like to hear and will they ever get better?

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"I’m not A.D.H.D… I’m B.O.L.D" co-author, Jacinta Sheerin on where drama meets therapy and where the two part company again.

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Does your life have a good eudaimonic / hedonic balance? Eat up your greens - neuro-scientifically speaking - with Prof Gary Marcus, on music, learning and living a better life. (2/2)

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It’s never too late to learn, officially, according to NYU cognitive psychology professor and middle aged guitar novice, Gary Marcus. (1/2)

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Is this real life? Playwright, Ross Dungan on The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle, his comedy-cum-postmortem stocktaking.

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Firsts of a million? Benjamin Britten’s centenary kicks off with two Dublin opera productions, one from DIT and one from the stars of tonight’s Culture File, the students of Royal Irish Academy of Music, directed by Rough Magic’s Lynn Parker.

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The competitively-priced charms of Bruce Willis, and other vinyl temptations at a Saturday afternoon record fair above talismanic Dublin music venue, Whelan’s.

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Photoblogger, Dave Kennedy, takes us ambling through ancient haunts and secret spots in Dublin’s Phoenix Park.

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Chatted the other day to The IrishTimes’ Chief Innovation Officer, @johnnyryan about recent “links are copyright” fracas/debacle and, eventually, about future of online news. Skype being what it is we had a terrible, terrible connection, even from the IT’s Tara Street studio, and the resulting audio was not suitable for broadcast. But the chat was interesting, and for those who pay attention to the web, copyright and the future of news (that’s everyone, right?) it might be worth sticking with it…

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How the landscape painting of Van Ruisdael, Corot and Lowry helps us think again about photography — and Instagram - in the latest exhibition from Northern Irish artist, Mary MacIntyre.

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Actors aged 8-18 taste the fear this week at the inaugural Cork Young Performers Festival.

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How Christine Tobin turned WB Yeats on to jazz, with some help from her old schoolteacher, Gabriel Byrne.

What’s that you’re watching? Philip Barrett’s finished comix take on The Vision Service, a radio fairy tale of the arrival of television in Ireland. The new Drama on One producion is broadcast tonight, Sunday, December 30th, 8pm, RTE Radio 1.

And online here.

Above is Philip Barrett’s comix “trailer” for radio drama, The Vision Service, an alternative history of the arrival of television in Ireland, written by Luke Clancy and produced by Kevin Brew. It stars Sue Collins, as the storyteller, alongside Aoife Duffin, Caoilfhionn Dunne, Amy Conroy, Steve Blount, Mikel Murfi, Enda Oates, Rory Nolan, Pádraic Delaney and Joe Taylor. 

You can hear/download it here: http://www.rte.ie/drama/radio/genres-comedy-thevisionservice.html

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Among the legacies of 20th century American composer Alfred Burt are a set of 15 carols, currently being revived by The Cork Chamber Choir. Nicki Ffrench Davis who sings with the choir, tells us of the short but productive life of the composer, who died when just 33.

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Caught one more time, up on Cyprus Avenue…with music historian, Stuart Bailie, in search of some East Belfast locations made famous in the music of Van Morrison. (Part 2 of 2)

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Conquered in a car seat. We go for a ride with Stuart Bailey, head of Belfast’s Oh Yeah music centre — and an oracle of the city’s geography as seen through the songs of Van Morrison. (part 1 of 2)

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Incredible instrument eating boy, Conor Mitchell, on adapting and scoring the Belfast stage version of the Oliver Jeffers The Incredible Book Eating Boy

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Let freedom ring! Culture File takes to the rooftops with Kristian Marken, unofficial Keeper of the Smock Alley Theatre’s storied bell.

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And iPhone/Pod/Pad people…have you tried the very best podcast app? It’s called Downcast and it works just like it should. What more can we say. Oh, yeah, it’s here http://www.downcastapp.com/

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Columnist and comedian, Anne Gildea, talks to Luke Clancy about the season’s joys and pains

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Knitting a Rothko and other extreme knitting projects, with “performance knitter” Rachel Gomme.

This here is the brilliant Phil Barrett’s comix take on our “When Hitch Met O’Casey” feature by Liam Geraghty, which you can listen to here. Now, look over there (on the right of the page) and click to follow us, then to win Phil’s original artwrk, just tweet this link: pic.twitter.com/y8pkX8xI

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This time on Culture File the long lost story of what happened when Hitch met O’Casey. When Alfred Hitchcock came to Sean O’Casey’s place for dinner, it was not the start of a beautiful friendship. But their meeting may have sown the seeds of something more important.

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"I’m only know two places: Dublin and the Internet" says our guest this time, Mumblin Deaf Ro, who has released one of the most beautifully poignant, soulful and sweet albums of 2012 in Dictionary Crimes.

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"I’m only known two places: Dublin and the Internet" says our guest this time, Mumblin Deaf Ro, who has released one of the most beautifully poignant, soulful and sweet albums of 2012 in Dictionary Crimes

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Unpretentious, anonymous, and without monetary value - everything the world of contemporary art isn’t. The Douglas Hyde Gallery ‘s John Hutchinson explains the charms of the gallery’s current show of some 200 handcrafted bags from Iran.

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Lars Von Trier’s latest bizarre movie premise involves creating a “social network” film, enlisting hundreds of directors around the world to contribute short sections to a film now showing in Copenhagen.

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The strange case of Fr. Conefrey and the war on jazz, is part of the story of the music’s troubled past in Ireland, told in a new documentary, Out with Paganism… and all that Jazz, presented by jazz vocalist, Christine Tobin. The documentary airs in the Lyric Feature on RTE lyricfm Friday 7th December at 7.00pm

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Even iTunes can’t give us the definitive insight into what has tweens and pre-tweens on their feet in 2012. That job rests with the Panto. Claire Tighe and Aidan Mannion of Theatreworx tell us about song selection and their “panto boot camp”.

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The much longer and basically raw version of our conversation with Aisling Kelliher on Millennials and the spotting industry they’ve accidentally spawned.

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How much faith should we put in “studies” of “Millennials”? Prof Aisling Kelliher on generational markers and markets. And if you are looking for Eric Hoover’s terrific article mentioned in the piece, The Millennial Muddle, there it is.