Culture File: Odette Toilette's History of Scent II

Bottle branding, synthetic scents and Caron’s mythical perfume, Narcisse Noir, in the second part of our history of perfume in the C20th, with Odette Toilette.

Culture File Weekly No. 1

The very first Culture File Hebdo - or Weekly as we say around these parts - involves therapy with stand up Eleanor Tiernan, taking fright at the airborne befane of restaurateur, Giorgio Casari, kicking over the stones of Dublin with historian, Lisa Marie Griffith and rolling with the punches at Bantry Boxing Club.

Culture File: Smelling the Century with Odette Toilette

Culture File Scent Correspondent, Odette Toilette, sets of on a journey through the smells of the 20th Century.

Culture File: Painting the Fight with Sarah Walker

Artist, Sarah Walker explores in paint the sparring, the waiting, the fights and the folding chairs of the Irish boxing scene.

Culture File: Irish Storytelling with author Lisa Marie Griffith

Everything you've ever wanted to know about Hill 16 and other staples of Irish historical storytelling, with author, Lisa Marie Griffith.

Culture File - The Making (Ireland's Year of Design)

A glimpse of the alternative worlds of unfinished design objects at In The Making, the first exhibition of ID2015, Ireland’s Year of Design.

Culture File - Little Gems

Culture File - Nollaig na Mban

Italian restaurateur, Giorgio Casari, introduces to Nollaig na mBan Italian style, when the all-seeing Bufana takes to the air.

Culture File - National Therapy Project

The possibly imaginary exhibits in the "Sensory Healing" section and other highlights of comedian, Eleanor Tiernan's National Therapy Project.

1001 Nights of Culture File- Some like it Cold

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 Nights of Culture File-

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: : L'amour

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: Eric Whitacre's Cyber Choir

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: 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.