Culture File: "Down and out..." with Phelim Drew

"Down and Out in Paris and London" is up and in Dublin in a one man show from Phelim Drew.

Culture File: New York Fashion Week

Manhattan-based philosopher turned designer, Roman Milisich, dreams a dream of fashion yet to come.

Culture File Weekly No. 8

This week we will be coming to terms both with the not-quite ready for primetime technologies that go under the heading "virtual reality" as well as with some well proven ones, namely the vast range of yeasts produced by one of Ireland's wealthiest men, plus we tune in to a murder of gift-giving crows, and we sniff the 1950s with Odette Toilette.

Culture File: Communication by Touch

The importance of touch as a means of understanding, communicating and remembering, with curator, author and academic, Leslie Millar. (But remember the boundaries, John Travolta!)

Culture File: Sarah Baume on her dog, writing and art

Cork writer, Sara Baume on her debut novel and her dog, Winky, as well as on making and writing about art.

Culture File: Biollionaire Brewer, Dr Pearse Lyons

Meet the Irish biochemist/billionaire at the heart of the craft beer revolution, Dr Pearse Lyons.

Culture File - Gift Bearing Crows

Ever get a gift from a crow? 8-year-old Gabi Mann gets them most days from a murder of crows each of which she knows by name.

Culture File Weekly No. 7

Voices from Mexico, Belfast and the land of the imagination on this week's weekly, as we explore the figure of the spornosexual, discuss stoking interest in symphonic music via Instagram with Alondra de la Parra, and hear from composer, Jennifer Walshe, about the feat of musical speculation that is the Avant Garde Archive of Ireland. (aisteach.org)

Culture File: Perfume After WWII

Odette Toilette on the perfume industry's flight, in the shadow of WWII, from the old world, to the new.

Culture File Weekly No. 7

Voices from Mexico, Belfast and the land of the imagination on this week's weekly, as we explore the figure of the spornosexual, discuss stoking interest in symphonic music via Instagram with Alondra de la Parra, and hear from composer, Jennifer Walshe, about the feat of musical speculation that is the Avant Garde Archive of Ireland. (aisteach.org)

Culture File: Vitrual and Augmented Reality Trends

MS Hololens, Magic Leap, Oculus Rift, Google Glass...Prof Aisling Kelliher appraises recent promises and products in the area of Virtual and Augmented Reality.

Culture File: Mexican Conductor, Alondra de la Parra

Do you follow the conductor on Instagram? Mexican conductor, Alondra de la Parra, on the modern maestro.

Culture File: The Avant-Garde Archive of Ireland

Jennifer Walshe is a prominent Irish composer. Actually, she’s several prominent Irish composers, only one of them real.

Culture File: Spornosexual Dining

Spornosexual-friendly dining with the crew at Belfast's Home restaurant. A spornosexual is a man who aspires to the toned and muscled body-type of professional sportsmen.

Culture Weekly No. 6

This week Culture File moves from high on a hill above Cork city, remembering conductor, composer and teacher, Aloys Fleischmann, to diving down into the fathomless depths of International Klein Blue with writer and Yves Klein scholar, Nuit Bania.

Culture File: Yves Klein Blue

What is it about the colour blue? Yves Klein, colour and commerce with critic and writer, Nuit Banai.

Culture File: Yves Klein

The many deaths of Yves Klein, with Nuit Banai, author of a new book on the trickster inventor of Klein International Blue.

Culture File Weekly No. 5

This week we spend a little time with groundbreaking British performance artist and self-professed Republican, Stuart Brisley, visit a shop selling what poet, Paul Durcan calls "Celtic Fashion" and go underground, in Cork, where the rivers run free.

Culture File: On Musical Snobbery

Is Puccini too popular to be good? George Fleeton on the pervasiveness of Puccini and musical snobbery.

Culture File: On Musical Snobbery

Is Puccini too popular to be good? George Fleeton on the pervasiveness of Puccini and musical snobbery.

Culture File - Cleo on Kildare St.

Come with us behind the red door at No. 18, Kildare Street, inside Cleo, keeps the flame of the Irish handknit (and its smell) alive.

Culture File: Stuart Brisley. Artist II

Sixty-plus years of art making and counting: the work of British artist, Stuart Brisley’s work, at the MAC, Belfast.

Culture File: Stuart Brisley, Artist PI

The many directions of veteran artist/educator, Stuart Brisley, from landscape painter to transgressive performance artist and back.

Culture File Weekly No. 4

This week Culture File has been roaming the Dublin docks not helping much with the installation of a new art project, listening to cellist, Matthew Barley experiment with healing music, welcoming composer, performer and reverb fanatic, Brigid Power-Rice, and journeying a little deeper into a century of scent, with scent historian, Odette Toilette.

Culture File: The Scent of Success in the 1930s

Odette Toilette's voyage into scent reaches the 1930s, and Joy, a perfume to appeal to the 30s super rich.

Culture File Weekly No. 4

This week Culture File has been roaming the Dublin docks not helping much with the installation of a new art project, listening to cellist, Matthew Barley experiment with healing music, welcoming composer, performer and reverb fanatic, Brigid Power-Rice, and journeying a little deeper into a century of scent, with scent historian, Odette Toilette.

Culture File: Cork's Waterways in Sound

Composer, Tom Lane and performer, OlwenFouéré, offer a headphones tour of Cork's waterways.

Culture File: On Acting in A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing

Aoife Duffin on becoming the girl in question in Corn Exchange's stage version of Emer McBride's novel, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing.

Culture File: Songwriter Brigid Power-Ryce

Tales of an abandoned underground carpark and the ideal way to stress test freshly-composed songs, with Brigid Power-Ryce.

Culture File - Cellist Matthew Barley

Cellist, Matthew Barley, on the therapeutic power of sound and music.

Culture File - Dublin Ships

The Arklow Venus and all the other ships moving via Dublin Port get their names in lights courtesy of artist, Cliona Harmey.

Culture File: Odetette Toilette and the Smell of Chanel

Odette Toilette continues her voyage into the scents of the 20th century, with a squirt of Chanel No.5.

Culture File Weekly No. 3

A secret garden hidden behind Thomas Street, a White van parked up in Crumlin and a kitchen in Finglas are the locations for a Dublin odyssey this week on Culture File, as we explore a garden/art project, the revival of Donal O'Kelly's Catalpa and percussionist, Alex Petcu-Colan's take on the music of Evelyn Glennie.

Culture File: Catalpa Kitchen Review

Over a pot of tea, playwright & director, Phillip McMahon and his Mam assess the revival of Donal O'Kelly's Catalpa

Culture File: Guerrilla Gardening with Tony Lowth

The future of gardening, with self-styled guerrilla composter, Tony Lowth, the horticultural brains behind NCAD's Garden Farm.

Culture File: NCAD Urban Gardening

In every secret garden, a compost heap. The footsoldiers of a foodie revolution at NCAD talk kale and relational aesthetics.

Culture File: The Scents of the 20th Century II

Odette Toilette continues her journey into the Twentieth century of scent with the treason of 4711, the distant bonfire of Chanel's Cuir de Russie, and fragrances for the smoking woman.

Culture File Weekly No. 2

In this week's program, we float in the strange particles of another world w/ sean-nós master, Iarla Ó Lionáird, attend an unsettling feast of things you might foolishly have imagined were inedible with the Domestic Godless, and hear from Odette Toilette about imaginary flowers and olfactory intellectual property in the early years of the 20th C.

Culture File: Alex Petcu Colan, percussionist

Cork-born percussionist, Alex Petcu Colan, show us his bag-o-hundred sticks, and other staples of the knocking-on-things trade.

Culture File: Domestic Godless

Gareth Stack finds no hiding place amongst the chocolate covered brussels sprouts, edible fabrics and sauted sheep testicles of food art collective, Domestic Godless.

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