Culture File: My Prague: Hannah Mottlova (Prague Spring Festival Part 4)

The Czech Ambassador to Ireland bring us to the Prague of her mind's eye

Culture File: Czech Harpagandist, Katerina Englichova (Prague Spring Festival Part 3)

Harp soloist, Katerina Englichova wants the world to take her instrument a little more seriously

The Culture File Weekly No. 70 (The Prague Spring Festival, Alex Mercado, Finghin Collins, Teddy Cruz)

This weekly, we take a trip to Czechia for this year's Prague Spring Festival and discover what orchestras are for; we'll hear tales of two pianos and their players, Alex Mercado and Finghin Collins, and we'll share an important message from a research-based political and architectural practice in San Diego, Estudio Teddy Cruz + Forman

Culture File: Prague Spring Festival (Part 2)

How The Rolling Stones helped revitalise Prague Castle, with historian and Castle enchanter, Prof. Zdenek Lukeš

Culture File: The Prague Spring Festival (Part 1)

What makes a city? A collection of people in one place? Or do they need other things, like symphony orchestras?

Culture File: At home with Finghin Collins

As the piano prodigy turns forty, Finghin Collins, talks school, politics and living the dream

Culture File: Mexican jazz pianist, Alex Mercado

Discovering the new worlds of Keith Jarrett's improvisations drew Alex Mercado away from classical piano into jazz

Culture File: The Critical Power of Architecture

If Trump builds his wall who will design it? Not the architectural firm of Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman

The Culture File Weekly No. 69 (Snarky Puppy, Food Photography, Candlelit Tales, Analogue Synths)

This weekly, the growing obsession with photographing our dinners, the dog-shaped global jazz force Snarky Puppy, some quiet storytelling in a Dublin pub and the Masonic Hall vibrating to the sound of analogue synthesisers

Culture File: Musical Ancestor Worship

Simon Reynold’s vision of an almost unstoppable ancestor-worshipping epidemic in popular music

Culture File: #Instagrub

Up your #Instagrub game with some advice from Lens and Larder food stylist and photographer, Renée Kemps

Culture File: Candlelit Tales

How the Tain and the speech styles of Twitter inspired pub storytelling event, Candlelit Tales

Culture File: Snarky Puppy

Bill Laurance from global jazz phenomena/collective, Snarky Puppy, talks music, therapy and Miles

The Culture File Weekly No. 68 (Archeogaming, No Man's Sky, James Murphy & Hieronymus Bosch)

This weekly, it's something of a holiday in the netherworld, as we visit Leiden in Holland, to a group of archaeologist who investigate the world of computer games and we'll head 100 miles South, to Den Bosch, to visit an exhibition dedicated to the town's best known son, Hieronymus Bosch, and we'll meet Cork choreographic tornado, James Murphy

Culture File: Ideopreneurial Entrephonics II

Sounds and wonders at a two-day festival of oddbod music, art and electronics in Dublin

The Culture File Weekly No. 68 (Archeogaming, No Man's Sky, James Murphy & Hieronymus Bosch)

This weekly, it's something of a holiday in the netherworld, as we visit Leiden in Holland, to a group of archaeologist who investigate the world of computer games and we'll head 100 miles South, to Den Bosch, to visit an exhibition dedicated to the town's best known son, Hieronymus Bosch, and we'll meet Cork choreographic tornado, Luke Murphy.

Culture File: Attic Projects's Luke Murphy

Choreographer and performer Luke Murphy on dance, determination and the possibility of whiplash

Culture File: Archeogaming (part 3)

The archaeology and ethics of human-chicken relationships in video games, with research duo, Clucks & Clicks

Culture File: Archeogaming (part 2)

No Man's Sky, a game with a 18 quintillion planets to explore, will change gaming & keep games archaeologists busy

Culture File: Archeogaming (part 1)

What happens when the apparently disparate worlds of archaeology and video games converge?

Culture File: Zooming in on Hieronymus Bosch

Luke Clancy visits the first almost complete gathering of the works of Dutch master of the weird, Hieronymus Bosch

The Culture File Weekly No 67 (Wigmore Hall special with John Gilhooly)

In this special edition, we walk amongst the marble and the ghosts at London's Wigmore Hall in the company of its Limerick-born director, John Gilhooly, to hear about the space's journey from piano showroom to the world's greatest chamber music venue

Culture File: The End of The English Wine Joke

Modern day Wine Goose, Dermot Sugrue on the fizz of an English wine renaissance in Sussex

Culture File: The Wigmore Hall (part 3)

How one of the UK's oldest chamber music venues is approaching life online, with John Gilhooly of the Wigmore Hall

Culture File: The Wigmore Hall (part 2)

Rubinstein's farewell, and other moments of Wigmore Hall history, with the venue's head, John Gilhooly

Culture File: The Wigmore Hall

Amongst the velvet and mahogany at the world's greatest chamber music space, with the Wigmore Hall boss, John Gilhooly

Culture File: Alan Phelan's Our Kind

A speculative story of the life Roger Casement never had a chance to live, in Alan Phelan's new film

The Culture File Weekly No 66 (Sat 15 April 2016: The Yips in Music The Blue Boy Horace and Pete Clean Air and the Mezzo-Soprano)

This weekly, "the yips" in music; the most beautiful sound in the world as imagined by a child in an industrial school; smoke and the soprano; and why the old stuff seems so new in Louis CK's acclaimed and as it turns out, prohibitively expensive, not-quite comedy, Horace and Pete

Culture File: The Barber of Seville

Even as mezzo-of the moment, Tara Erraught, prepares for her 25th outing as Rosina, for her, Rossini never gets old

Culture File: The Yips In Music

With "the yips" back in the sports pages, we consult our fav neurologist, Steven Frucht, about dystonia in music

Culture File: Horace and Pete's new old vision

Louis CK's "radically stagey" web series, Horace and Pete, makes disintermediation grimly appealing

Culture File: Grey socks and yapping dogs

Exploring the lives of people held as children in residential care institutions, in Brokentalkers' The Blue Boy

Culture File: Taking a chance with Russell Mills

Artist and notable designer of album sleeves for Brian Eno, Russell Mills, in conversation live at NCAD, Dublin

The Culture File Weekly No 63 (Sat 9th April 2016 On/Off Orlando Furioso John Sheahan)

This weekly, choosing the jazz lifestyle with Czech-Irish duo ON/OFF, fighting sea monsters in Ludovico Ariosto's epic 16th century romance, Orlando Furioso, and sharing a pint of coke and a glass of still water in The Ferryman pub with last Dubliner standing, fiddler, John Sheahan

Culture File At FOTE Live - Mark Best (chef, Marque, Sydney)

Chef Mark Best's uncompromising look at the food industry, live at Food On The Edge, 2015.

Culture File: Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso at 500

Eric Haywood uncovers "knights in distress and damsels in shining armour" in an Italian Renaissance bestseller

Culture File: The Last Dubliner Standing (Part 1)

A pint of coke and a glass of water in The Ferryman, with the last remaining Dubliner, fiddler, John Sheahan

Culture File: The Last Dubliner Standing (Part 2)

More soft drinks and hard knocks, as fiddler, John Sheahan and bud, Eamonn O’Reilly, remember Dublin dockside life

Culture File: Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso at 500

Eric Haywood uncovers "knights in distress and damsels in shining armour" in an Italian Renaissance bestseller

Culture File: Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso at 500

Eric Haywood uncovers "knights in distress and damsels in shining armour" in an Italian Renaissance bestseller

Culture File: Next Gen Jazz with On/Off

Reading the jazz tea leaves in search of the future of jazz, with Czech-Irish jazz duo On/Off

Culture File Weekly No 64 - Nicholas Serota Special

This weekly, a special edition with Nicholas Serota, the head of Tate - and the man responsible for turning a defunct London power station into one of the world’s most visited contemporary art destinations - on the evolution of the gallery, how to encounter new art and how the Turner Prize responded to a new role for contemporary art

Culture File: Director of Tate Nicholas Serota in conversation (Part 3)

How Tate Modern reshaped London, accidentally making life harder for younger artists

Culture File: Director of Tate Nicholas Serota in conversation (Part 2)

Nicholas Serota on the wandering years of the Turner Prize and why collaborative group, Assembly's 2015 win matters

Culture File: Director of Tate Nicholas Serota in conversation (Part 1)

Director of Tate, Nicholas Serota on studio visits and assessing young artists

The Culture File Weekly No. 63 (Sat 26th March, 2016 with Tohono O'odham, music for skeletons, DJ Papal Nuncio and contentious fabrics)

This weekly: a scorching journey through the desert with the Tohono O'odham people, a concert among the skeletons and specimens at the Natural History Museum, the Papal Nuncio's rock 'n' roll radio days and the academic who thinks it's time to pay a little less attention to flags and a little more to other humbler pieces of cloth

Culture File: Morse and The Rising

Sound artist, Jimmy Eadie, celebrates a short, optimistic morse message sent from O'Connell Street in Easter 1916

Culture File: Morse and The Rising

Sound artist, Jimmy Eadie, celebrates a short, optimistic morse message sent from O'Connell Street in Easter 1916, in his Little Museum of Dublin sound installation.

Culture File Xtra: April Promo

Listen out for this new Culture File promo across RTE-tuned radios in the coming days. And obviously, share like crazy too...

Culture File: Very Like A Whale

Making vocal music from the dimensions of a whale, at Tonnta Music's takeover night at the Natural History Museum