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Exploring a period of musical transition in Towards Enlightenment, a period instruments concert tour from Roy Goodman and Irish Baroque Orchestra.

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The double life of English composer, Arnold Bax, and his Republican alter ego, poet, Dermot O’Byrne

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What is it about airports that makes you mull the nature of existence, wonders Philip McMahon in the playwright’s latest diary entry.

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A year in the life of the Tony Awards, with Jacqueline Davies, who regularly agrees to see every single show of the year on Broadway.

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As Ireland takes to the streets for Culture Night, urban designers, David Jordan and Fergus Browne explain how we might make those streets a little more welcoming.

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It all starts with technique for superchef, Raymond Blanc, whose Le Manoir Au Quat’Saisons was just this week was judged the best — and most expensive restaurant in the UK.

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Get divorced and join the circus is the advice of Ursula Burns, who brings her Paraguayan harp to Tumble Circus’ latest show, Damn The Circus.

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Lighthouse keepers of the world gather on Hook Head to recall a way of life all but automated out of existence.

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Why donkeys make great soul singers and other mysteries of evolution, as we continue our tour of the Natural History Museum, with David Turpin.

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Singer-songwriter, David Turpin takes Liam Geraghty on a tour of Dublin’s Natural History Museum, in the first of a two part interview.

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How the craft beer boom is helping keep alive the once endangered art of the cooper, with Paul McLaughlin of Kelvin Cooperage.

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Is it a Bird? Is it a plane? Is it a performance artist’s take on popstar branding? Culture File meets the enigma behind Dublin Fringe show, Kitschcock.

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Culture File’s regular tech expert, Prof Aisling Kelliher, weighs in on the debt of corporate tech champions, such as Apple and Google, to a culture of government funded research

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Why are role playing games equally attractive to Nordic males and females? Culture File goes larping with the team from Sweden’s LajvVerkstaden.

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The voices behind Cities of Love, a CD and a fundraising opera gala in Dublin’s Pepper Canister Church, on new and old tricks for funding opera studies.

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Dance to the music of the gender pay gap in Ireland with dancer-choreographers, Emma Fitzgerald and Aine Stapleton, creators of Wage

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Oisin McKenna on his new show exploring the effects of the app, Grindr, on life and love in the 21st century.

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Artist, Lee Welch’s tribute to the Portsmouth Sinfonia, the legendary 1970s anti-orchestra.

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Mixmaster, Tony Conigliaro, on the cocktail renaissance - and the perfect Dry Martini.

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To mark the death of Seamus Heaney, a repeat of our programme “The Real and the Imaginary” presented and produced by Eoin O’Kelly. This features Heaney’s work in light of his own public statements on the relationship between poetry and reality.

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Prof Mark Rowlands on the connection between running and animal rights. (Part 4 of 4)

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Explaining the altered sense of self of the long distance runner, with philosopher, Mark Rowlands. (Part 3 of 4)

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Philosopher and runner, Mark Rowlands on understanding Descartes and Sartre - through running. (Part 2 of 4)

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Can running be a kind of philosophical investigation? Welsh-born philosopher of mind, Prof Mark Rowlands believes it can. (Part 1 of 4)

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Culture File encounters “primordial” dance with Japanese duo, Eiko and Koma.

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How the term “comfort food” papers over the tensions of the multicultural cosmopolis, with US cultural critic, Alison Pearlman. (Part 4 of 4)

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"Smart Casual" author, Alison Pearlman, on how chefs became the mythic heroes of contemporary city dwellers. (Part 3 of 4)

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Cultural critic, Alison Pearlman on the rise and rise of the public as restaurant reviewer. (Part 2 of 4)

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Art historian-turned-food culture critic, Alison Pearlman, on overlaps in art and restaurant criticism. (Part 1 of 4)

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Geologist-turned-ceramic alchemist, Cormac Boydell, on chemicals and colour.

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What can directors of today’s 3D blockbusters learn from Hitchcock’s only effort in the area, Dial M for Murder?

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Bow Making 101 with multi-award winning master of the craft, Gary Leahy.

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What on earth to do with your Nobel Prize winnings? Orhan Pamuk’s put them into a museum based on his novel, The Museum of Innocence.

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How IKEA designs are being bent to the will of the Irish people, with projects that include transforming an IKEA lamp into a functioning lobster pot.

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Building an ancient celtic dwelling with just a scalpel and some paper, with artist, Maeve Clancy.

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Working with the bees in very different ways are sound recordist, Chris Watson and beekeeper and local food advocate, David Lee.

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How the legacy of Victorian maker, Henry Willis, is helping forge organ music’s future. (Part 2 of 2)

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Welcoming back a water-powered Victorian wonder. Union Chapel celebrates its restored Willis organ. (Part 1 of 2)

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Test driving a “temporal stereoscope” with the artist, Anne Cleary, at Marino Casino, as part of Cleary & Connolly’s The Absent Architect exhibition.

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In the latest pages from Phillip McMahon’s diaries, a story falls into the writer’s lap in a Dublin coffeeshop.

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Tino Sehgal on art, ethics and the shortcomings of Craig Reynolds’s Boids. (Part 2 of 2)

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Turner Prize nominee, Tino Sehgal, on art, ecology and vegan chocolate cake. (part 1 of 2)

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An animated story explaining the rudiments of typography to kids, is just one facet of the font-themed comedy output of Conor O’Toole.

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How Benjamin Britten’s Alderburgh feeds into the music of contemporary singer-songwriter, Gwyneth Herbert.

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Ned Vizzini, on getting (almost literally) stuck in a book in his bibliophilic new YA novel, House of Secrets.

Correction

In this podcast, it is suggested that Mr Vizzini is, in addition to being a novelist, also a cartoonist. He is not. No offence meant, guv.

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Ever gobbled a lumper? A new radio documentary series, History on A Plate, explores the lost foods of old Ireland.

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Dolly Parton has long been a role model for dragstar, Panti, and an inspiration for Panti’s alter ego, Rory O’Neill. For Culture File, Panti/Rory recorded a guide to Dolly’s finest moments…and they are (in order of appearance):

Jolene

I Will Always Love You

Little Sparrow

Travellin’ Thru

Backwoods Barbie

Jesus and Gravity 

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Did Japan’s ancient Samurai sword makers use metal techniques from Ireland?Silversmith and metal researcher, Cólín Ó Dubhghaill, has his suspicions.

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Will the rise of online series like House of Cards turn Hollywood into a zombie town? Associate Professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Aisling Kelliher, on the future of tv.

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Aspergillus oryzae comes to SoCoDu. Kyoto native/Blackrock resident, Junko Hamilton, on making Irish miso.