Culture File - Leonard Elschenbroich

Cellist, Leonard Elschenbroich on music, tears and some useful tricks with clingfilm.

Culture File - Mark Wallinger

Wearing a bear suit & owning a racehorse are just two activities designated art by Turner-prize winning Essex boy, Mark Wallinger.

Culture File - Silence 1 Kevin Barry

In the first part of a Culture File series on silence, writer Kevin Barry talks about quiet and writing.

Culture File - Sound Symbolism and Taste

Sound symbolism: what the name of a food can tell you about eating it, with linguist and computer scientist, Dan Jurafsky.

Culture File: Shopping in Mayfair for Persian Delights

A shopping trip into the Persian heartlands of Mayfair, with the linguist and foodie, Dan Jurafsky.

Culture File - Ketchup

The long and starry voyage of "ketchup" to the menus of the Western World, according to linguist, Dan Jurafsky.

Culture File: Food linguistics

Applying science (linguistics to be precise) to your restaurant menu Dan Jurafsky on what he's learned about food, culture & language by going a la carte.

Culture File: Cello Songs with Vyvienne Long

For Halloween, Vyvienne Long settles in by the crackling log fire, nibble on some Barnbrack and treats us to nothing scarier than a Beatles covers.

Culture File: Casting Humans in Plaster

Fainting, and other hazards of casting humans in plaster, at the studio of Skibbereen artist, Ian Wright.

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Wexford Festival percussionist and collector, Noel Eccles, takes a mallet to his ever growing arsenal of things that go bang, boom and tinkle.

Culture File: Foraging for Mushrooms

In search of some Boletus edulis, or even a few Agaricus campestris, with the mushroom hunters of Ballyhoura woods.

Culture File - Music from Baroque to Wiggy

From Baroque and early music to the wiggiest, freest jazz and improv, no music is out of bounds for husband and wife duo, Homburger/Guy.

Culture File: Wexford Festival Opera

Wexford Festival Opera's AD, David Agler, on a seasonal, locavore joy to equal the advent of ceps amongst sodden leaves.

Culture File: Wexford Festival Opera

WFO's David Agler, on how the special furrow that Wexford carved out - rediscovering lost operatic gems - has started to become crowded.

Culture File: Greek instrument maker

Handmade Greek instrument maker, Marcos Ekonimides, on the economics -- and the religion of --maintaining a millennia old craft.

Culture File: Silent Night At Wexford Festival Opera

Is the 21st century the "American opera" century? Yes, according to WFO's Silent Night conductor, Michael Christie.

Culture File - Sean Lynch Buile Suibhne

Sean Lynch's latest show, For The Birds, brings the myth of Buile Suibhne (and a cow and her calf) into the gallery.

Culture File: Stone Carvers and Car Crushing

Crushing Sean Fitzpatrick's beamer & John Ruskin's taste for Irish stone carving, in part 2 of our interview with artist, Sean Lynch.

Culture File - DeLorean- Sean Lynch

Exploring the many afterlives of the Delorean DMC12, with Ireland's representative at the 2015 Venice Biennale, Sean Lynch.

Culture File - Music in Tallaght Hospital

The arts program at Tallaght Hospital regularly stages musical encounters, but also commissions new music exploring illness, such as Stroke, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease.

Culture File: Bob Marley as Gaeilge

Liam O'Maonlai and friends sings the songs of Bob Marley....as Gaeilge, in Amhráin Na Saoirse.

Culture File: Ensemble Eriu

Some describe Ensemble Ériu as a Minimalist jazz-trad septet. But that's just the sort of thing some people would do.

Culture File: Harry Clarke in Ballinrobe

Among the lilacs, the greens, the scarlets & the deep, deep blues of Harry Clarke’s stained glass at St Mary’s Church in Ballinrobe.

Culture File: Limerick Electronic Music Festival

If you felt the earth move last weekend, it could be down to the sub-bass activities of Limerick "beats" music festival, Prima Volta.

Culture File - George Fleeton

Apple Genius Bar v. Così fan tutte: evolving standards of genius, with Mozart commentator, George Fleeton.

Culture File: Branding in Terrorism

The growing importance of branding in terrorism, with author and counter-terrorism analyst, Artur Beifuss.

Culture File: Designing Against Extremism

Could areas such as graphic design, branding & even performance art produce new ways of combating extremism?

Culture File: Comedy Podcasts

There is no downside for comedians starting podcasts. Or is there? Gearoid Farrelly on the world of the laughcast. (Part 2 of 2)

Culture File - Podcasting Comic

Irish comic, Gearoid Farrelly, on the exploding world of the comedian podcast.

Culture File - Tim Crouch

Tim Crouch examines the fine print on the contract between audience and performer at the theatre.

Culture File - Arts to Business

What's behind the recent demise of many of Dublin's independent art spaces?

Culture File: Tiki Pop

Tiki Pop writer and curator, Sven Kirsten, on Don the Beachcomber and his rival Vic the Trader - once kings of the tiki scene.

Culture File - Tiki Pop

“America Imagines Its Own Polynesian Paradise” in new book and an exhibition of the 20th century style urban archeologist, Sven Kirsten, calls Tiki Pop.

Culture Night: Data Driven Artefacts

Feel the homicide rate with CIT's Trevor Hogan, whose "data driven artefacts" make data you can touch.

Culture File: Dublin's Swastika Laundry

Dublin's Swastika Laundry (by way of Heinrich Boll and Charles Manson) as Luke McManus continues his search for Nazi branding gold.

Culture File: Infamous Branding

Luke McManus to investigate the enduring power to communicate of some of history’s most infamous branding.

Culture File: Emer McBride's Words on Stage

Eimear McBride’s syntactically promiscuous, but steadfastly prizewinning debut novel has defeated many. But not Corn Exchange Theatre Co.

Culture File: Resonances - Sound and Glass

Vibrating to the ancient mystery of the Solfeggio frequencies, in Resonance, a sound and glass show at The National Craft Gallery.

Culture File - De Snob your Coffee

James Hoffman, author of The World Atlas of Coffee, on de-snobbing snobby coffee.

Culture File- Mr. Men in Edinburgh

Comedian, Conor O’Toole on the Edinburgh Freestival and his Trans-friendly take on Roger Hargreaves' Mr Men.

Culture File: Open Source Aran Sweater

"Open Source Aran Sweater" is a project to create an archive of Aran knitting as part of the global initiative, Cut, Make, Do.

Culture File: Collating the IT Information Collectors

Do you know where your data is? Aisling Kelliher on data collection, inference engines and good old fashioned cookies.

Culture File - The Company

Dublin Fringe Festival kingpins, The Company, reboot Aeschylus The Oresteia as a nightmare of social anxiety.

Culture File - 26 mixes for Geocache

A radical approach to audience building: hide cassettes of experimental music at locations in rural England for anyone with a GPS device to track down.

Culture File: IYO's Rape of Lucretia

Conductor, Stephen Barlow, on the acid colours of Benjamin Britten’s grim, The Rape of Lucretia, which tours in a new production from IYO.

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Grassy acres of gurning dancers, TEDy pep talks & cava bars? Expect none of that at Enniskillen Beckett Festival.

Culture File - Svetlana Rudenko

Synesthesia, the politics of contemporary Ukraine and the legacy of John Field, with Wicklow-based pianist, Svetlana Rudenko.

Culture File - The moth and Butterfly

Culture File brings its “storynet” (aka microphone) to Galway storytelling club, Moth and Butterfly, to meet instigator, Órla McGovern.

Culture File - The Gillie of Lough Mask

The underwater landscape of Lough Mask and the fish that hide there, with gillie Michael Harnesse.

Culture File: Performance Psychology

Fight, flight and the concert pianist, with performance psychologist, Jaime Diaz.