Feel the force of Beethoven, in the company of students from St...

Feel the force of Beethoven, in the company of students from St Mary’s School for Deaf Girls, Cabra, and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

Culture File: Beethoven for the Deaf

Feel the force of Beethoven, in the company of students from St Mary's School for Deaf Girls, Cabra, and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

Why the co-editor of the first Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland,...

Why the co-editor of the first Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland, Harry White, isn’t awaiting excitedly an electronic version of his magnum opus.

Culture File -Encyclopedia on Music in Ireland 4

Why the co-editor of the first Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland, Harry White, isn't awaiting excitedly an electronic version of his magnum opus.

Do flash-in-the-pan girl band B*witched need to be immortalised...

Do flash-in-the-pan girl band B*witched need to be immortalised by an entry in the first Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland? Most certainly says one of the new book’s editor, Harry White, them and Val Doonican.

The changing status of the harp and how to compare Gerald Barry...

The changing status of the harp and how to compare Gerald Barry & U2, with Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland editor, Harry White.

Culture File - Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland

The changing status of the harp and how to compare Gerald Barry & U2, with Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland editor, Harry White.

Culture File: Bewitching Encyclopedia of Music

Do flash-in-the-pan girl band B*witched need to be immortalised by an entry in the first Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland? Most certainly says one of the new book's editor, Harry White, them and Val Doonican.

From A River of Sound all the way to Zozimus, with Harry White,...

From A River of Sound all the way to Zozimus, with Harry White, one of the editors of the first Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland.

Culture File - EMIR

From A River of Sound all the way to Zozimus, with Harry White, one of the editors of the first Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland.

Just how Irish is Irish enough? On tour in Australia, Culture...

Just how Irish is Irish enough? On tour in Australia, Culture File diarist Philip McMahon rethinks Irish identity.

Author Paul Jones talks about his book about the lexicography of...

Author Paul Jones talks about his book about the lexicography of Northern England

"I love trash" is the mantra of Sesame Street’s Oscar The...

"I love trash" is the mantra of Sesame Street’s Oscar The Grouch, but it’s also a key phrase for Dublin artist, Sam Keogh.

Culture: How Irish is Irish Enough?

Just how Irish is Irish enough? On tour in Australia, Culture File diarist Philip McMahon rethinks Irish identity.

Culture File: Oscar as Art

"I love trash" is the mantra of Sesame Street's Oscar The Grouch, but it's also a key phrase for Dublin artist, Sam Keogh.

Culture File: When is a Geordie not a Geordie

Author Paul Jones talks about his book about the lexicography of Northern England

How a masterpiece painted by William Orpen found its way into...

How a masterpiece painted by William Orpen found its way into the DNA of a prize-winning contemporary lamp.

Culture File: Orpen Lamp

How a masterpiece painted by William Orpen found its way into the DNA of a prize-winning contemporary lamp.

Masaki Batoh founder of Japanese experimental pop band, Ghost,...

Masaki Batoh founder of Japanese experimental pop band, Ghost, demos his Brain Pulse Machine, a device he has invented for children with emotional disorders.

Culture File: Brain Pulse Machine

Masaki Batoh founder of Japanese experimental pop band, Ghost, demos his Brain Pulse Machine, a device he has invented for children with emotional disorders.

How to create a show to run simultaneously in Dublin and New...

How to create a show to run simultaneously in Dublin and New York, with Helena Byrne of the Breakaway Project. Skype is the answer, obvs.

Culture File - The Breakaway Project

How to create a show to run simultaneously in Dublin and New York, with Helena Byrne of the Breakaway Project. Skype is the answer, obvs.

Just how did Doctor Who, a thousand year old time travelling...

Just how did Doctor Who, a thousand year old time travelling extraterrestrial became a role model for children everywhere?

Culture File - Doctor Who

Just how did Doctor Who, a thousand year old time travelling extraterrestrial became a role model for children everywhere?

Culture File goes under with Hiberno-Nordic pop band, The...

Culture File goes under with Hiberno-Nordic pop band, The Unusual History of Ether.

Culture File - The Unusual History of Ether

Culture File goes under with Hiberno-Nordic pop band, The Unusual History of Ether.

Smart Cities critic, Anthony Townsend, on how communities such...

Smart Cities critic, Anthony Townsend, on how communities such as the one in Red Hook in Brooklyn, have started to take back control of their online data. (Part 3 of 3)

Culture File: Smart Cities

Nervous about using the phrase “computationally...

Nervous about using the phrase “computationally intractable” in everyday conversation? Learn how, with “smart cities” critic, Anthony Townsend.

Culture File - Smart Cities 2

Nervous about using the phrase "computationally intractable" in everyday conversation? Learn how, with "smart cities" critic, Anthony Townsend.

Antony Townsend, author of Smart Cities: Big Data, Civil Hackers...

Antony Townsend, author of Smart Cities: Big Data, Civil Hackers and the Quest for a New Utopia, on the push for data-driven city planning.

Culture File - Smart Cities 1

Antony Townsend, author of Smart Cities: Big Data, Civil Hackers and the Quest for a New Utopia, on the push for data-driven city planning.

Composer, Simon Fisher Turner, on creating the soundtrack for a...

Composer, Simon Fisher Turner, on creating the soundtrack for a doomed assault on Mount Everest.

Culture File: The Epic of Everest Soundtrack

Composer, Simon Fisher Turner, on creating the soundtrack for a doomed assault on Mount Everest.

Culture File - Gerry Hunt

A Viking superhero with a distaste for contemporary Dublin architecture is among the graphic creations of self-proclaimed 'old dog' of Irish comics, Gerry Hunt.

Culture File: Potter Mark Campden

The transmutation of metals, and other pottery arcana, in the glistening work of Kilkenny-based potter, Mark Campden

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1018/20131018_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20458375_20458376_232_.mp3

Culture File - The Architect and the Antichrist

The Architect and the Antichrist. Eileen Gray's secret relationship with 20th century bad boy, Aleister Crowley.

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1017/20131017_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20457661_20457662_232_.mp3

Culture File: Beirut Farmers' Market

Kamal Mouzawak, chef founder of Souk el Tayeb, Beirut's first Farmers' Market, on food, culture and what makes a good tabouleh.

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1015/20131015_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20457657_20457658_232_.mp3

Culture File: Eileen Gray

Cloé Pitiot, of Pompidou Centre and Jennifer Gough, of the National Museum of Ireland show some love for Irish designer and artist, Eileen Gray.

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1016/20131016_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20456558_20456559_232_.mp3

Culture File - Open House Limerick

Culture File explores the Neo-Gothic charms of 700 year old Fanningstown Castle in Adare Co. Limerick, one of the properties throwing down its drawbridge for the international OpenHouse festival of building visiting.

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1014/20131014_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20454931_20454932_232_.mp3

Culture File - Greek Instrument Makers

The plight of handmade instruments -- and their makers -- in the new normal of 21st century Greece.

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1011/20131011_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20454167_20454168_232_.mp3

Culture File - Social Choreography 3

In our latest postcard from Hydra, we climb to the roof, to take part in an experimental "social choreography" performance.

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1010/20131010_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20453280_20453281_232_.mp3

Culture File - RICE Festival 2

In our second postcard from the RICE festival on Hydra, Dutch artist, Ed Schouten, on creating choreography on a Waterford daffodil farm.

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1009/20131009_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20452635_20452636_232_.mp3

Culture File - Social Choreography

In the first of our postcards from the inaugural, RICE dance festival on Hydra, we meet choreographer, organiser and former Limerick resident, Michael Klien

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1008/20131008_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20451862_20451863_232_.mp3

Culture File - Hobbes at the School of Life

Why 17th century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes would be a fan of drone strikes.

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1007/20131007_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20451162_20451163_232_.mp3

On the trail of the Saphire d’Or, the last record shop...

On the trail of the Saphire d’Or, the last record shop in the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott.

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Julie Qiu, the New York oyster blogger behind inahalfshell.com on the subtle pleasures of merrior. (Littoral Special Part 2)

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On the waterfront, in search of macroalgae with seaweed forager and mother of a thousand cast-iron plaques, Sally McKenna. (Littoral Special Part 1) 

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How much time do you waste eating each day? Prof Aisling Kelliher on Soylent, a startup that wants to lead us into a “post-food” world.

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How typographer, Thomas Phinney, earned himself the title the Font Detective.