1001 Culture Files: Jack Dohery's Pots

All this week Culture File we're celebrating "One Thousand and One Nights of Culture File" with a double helping of some the most popular episodes of our daily epistle from the world of contemporary creativity. Each day this week, we'll have a Culture File at 5.40 and another one again 6.40.

Culture File: Fitness Tracking

All this week Culture File we're celebrating "One Thousand and One Nights of Culture File" with a double helping of some the most popular episodes of our daily epistle from the world of contemporary creativity. Each day this week, we'll have a Culture File at 5.40 and another one again 6.40.

1001 Culture Files: Music in Berlin

All this week Culture File we're celebrating 'One Thousand and One Nights of Culture File' with a double helping of some the most popular episodes of our daily epistle from the world of contemporary creativity.

1001 Culture Files - Van Morrison's Belfast

All this week Culture File we're celebrating 'One Thousand and One Nights of Culture File' with a double helping of some the most popular episodes of our daily epistle from the world of contemporary creativity

1001 Culture Files: The Caretaker

All this week Culture File we're celebrating "One Thousand and One Nights of Culture File" with a double helping of some the most popular episodes of our daily epistle from the world of contemporary creativity.

1001 Culture Files: Virtual Netherworlds

All this week Culture File we're celebrating "One Thousand and One Nights of Culture File" with a double helping of some the most popular episodes of our daily epistle from the world of contemporary creativity.

Culture File: The Wexford Carols Renewed

Luke Clancy talks to Caitriona O'Leary about her new CD, a contemporary take on The Wexford Carols featuring Tom Jones among others.

Culture File: 2014 A Cultural Review

Luke Clancy, Rachel Ní Chuinn, & Eoghan Nolan on 2014, via a 93 year old's take on death, Grand Budapest Hotel & Episodic Narrative Addicts.

Culture File: 2014 Highlights

Musician, Rachel ni Chuinn and advertising eminence, Eoghan Nolan assemble to discuss what culture they consumed this year, and how.

Culture File: Batik in Londan

Batik and the tangled colonial stories of textiles, in Brixton Market, London SW9

Culture File: Voice Box

Beating the tambourine at Voice Box, Visual Centre for Contemporary Art's own special brand of short talks event.

Culture File: The East London Renaissance

Oom Pah Pah and the East London Renaissance, with dragstar turned local historian, Jonny Woo.

Culture File: Music and Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Scottish viola-player turned composer, Sally Beamish, on turning Anglo-Saxon poetry into music.

Culture File: Outsider Comedy

Weird comes in from the cold with US comics Tim and Eric, but they're just part of a long history of outsider comedy, says Gareth Stack.

Culture File: Scarcity - Inevitable Fact or Avoidable Consequence

Is scarcity a fact of life on earth, or as carefully constructed as a seasonal drought of Frozen dolls? Jeremy Till on lack and its malcontents.

Culture File - Silences Part 4

In the final part of our series on silence, Amanda Coogan on the scarce silences of her childhood.

Culture File - Where is the Real London?

Where is the real London? More like, is London real, we discover when Booker nominated novelist, Tom McCarthy invites us to meet him at Pret A Manger. (part 1 of 2)

Culture File - The Most Beautiful Place in London?

Is Pret A Manger the most beautiful place in London? Novelist and art newspaper creator, Tom McCarthy makes a case. (Part 2 of 2)

Culture File: St. Mel's Cathedral Remade

Up from the ashe of the fire-ravaged St Mel’s Cathedral in Longford springs craftsmanship on a medieval scale.

Culture File: Culwick Choral Society

Mother and son choristers, Elizabeth and Donal McCormack, introduce Ireland's oldest, continuously singing choir, The Culwick Choral Society - which has been singing on Thursday for over a century.

Culture File: SARCy Silence

Are we looking for silence in all the wrong places? Gareth Stack expands his collection of silences at Belfast's SARC (part 3 of 4)

Culture File: Poetryfilm

Poetryfilm: the genre where words & images do what the MBA in your life calls leveraging each other's strengths.

Culture File: RIAM War Requiem

Conductor, James Cavanagh, on the Royal Irish Academy of Music's long march on Benjamin Britten's War Requiem.

Culture File - War Requiem

Conductor, James Cavanagh, on the Royal Irish Academy of Music's long march on Benjamin Britten's War Requiem.

Culture File - Atom Tick

Experimental comedy duo, James Moran and Stephane Hanly, aim to remove any pressure on audiences to laugh in their "Arthouse comedy" show, Atom Tick.

Culture File: The House of Diehl

Philosopher-turned fashion designer, Roman Milišic, on his couture-to-children's books empire of invention, The House of Diehl.

Culture File: Irish mezzo-soprano, Rachel Kelly

Irish mezzo-soprano, Rachel Kelly, on life as a young singer with The Royal Opera House at Covent Garden.

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.