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Luke Clancy talks to Aisling Kelliher about search giant, Google’s attempt to gain a foothold on your television set.

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Luke Clancy talks to Naoise Nunn and Paddy Cullivan about the political cabaret, Leviathan.

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Luke Clancy talks to Lauren Teeling one of the authors of A Visual Feast, a survey of street art in Ireland.

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Culture File puts the world on pause for a brew at Miss Courtney’s Tearooms in Killarney.

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Luke Clancy investigates the popup scene in Dublin’s Smithfield area.

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Luke Clancy talks to the street art aficionados behind woostercollective.com as well as a new history of ‘uncommissioned urban art’.

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Luke Clancy talks to Michael Urie (best known as the actor behind Ugly Betty’s uber-bitchy sparring partner, Mark) about Celebrity Autobiography, which might just be the meanest show on earth.

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Tim Redmond, conductor of The Golden Ticket, a new opera adaptation of Roald?Dahl’s Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, talks about the show’s Wexford Festival Opera premier.

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Luke Clancy talks to Ross O’Carroll Kelly, who seems to believe he is not a fictional character created by Paul Howard.

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Composer, Gerald Barry, gives Luke Clancy a demonstration of the shortcomings of his favourite old Joanna.

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How welcome are the Black Watch in Belfast? We talk to Belfast Festival at Queens director, Graeme Farrow, about bringing a show about the regiment to Ulster.

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What key is the elephant in? Culture File dives back into the soundworld of Chris Watson, who has been creating a surround piece for a Peckham gallery, with percussionist, Zev.

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How did the bookies get to the Booker? Culture file investigates the zone where odds meet arts.

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Luke Clancy talks to Louis Lovett, the shape shifting actor who has been playing at least 9 different parts at this year’s Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival.

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Luke Clancy talks to Adam Spreadbury-Maher and Robin Norton-Hale, who are cooking up an opera renaissance in a London pub theatre.

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Today on Culture File Caroline Hennessy falls in with the Confrérie des Chevaliers du Goûte Boudin (Brotherhood of the Black pudding) as they arrive in Kanturk to celebrate the town’s finest boudin noir. 

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Facebook, is it hot or not? Luke Clancy talks to Aisling Kelliher, Assistant Professor of Media Communication Systems at Arizona State University, about the website and the film it spawned, The Social Network.

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Culture File investigates the gulf between “What am I doing here?” and “What am I doing here?” while checking out Playing The Dane and Act Without Words at this year’s Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival.

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Conductor, George Daugherty, goes Looney Tunes as he talks to Luke Clancy about his Bugs Bunny at the Symphony show, at Dublin’s Grand Canal Theatre, on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th October.

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Una McKevitt and Marie O’Rourke tell Luke Clancy about 565+, their play tracing one woman’s real life journey from theatre superfan to performer.

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Luke Clancy talks to Dublin Theatre Festival’s Loughlin Deegan about making theatre in a double dip

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What is she wearing? Luke Clancy meets John Byrne in Ballymun and sees the artist’s grand equestrian statue featuring a tracksuited local teen.

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Luke Clancy talks to actor-turned-playwright, Anthony Brophy, about his first play, Chicane.

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It’s Culture Night! And Culture File has asked artists around the country where they’ll be spending their white night.

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Screenwriter, Kieran Carney (Batchelors Walk, Zonad) discusses the delicate art of cultural bluffing with Luke Clancy.

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Sean nos and Jewish religious singing meet in Kabosh theatre company’s This Is What we Sang. Director, Paula McFetridge, talks to Luke Clancy about her production currently running at New York’s 1st Irish Festival.

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Blink and you’ll miss it. Caroline Hennessy lands in the small world of flash fiction.

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What would a new, non-sectarian, cross-community National Anthem for Northern Ireland sound like? Novelist, Colin Bateman tells Luke Clancy about writing one for his first play, National Anthem.

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Playwright Vincent Higgins talks about the choice of Maghaberry maximum security prison, Co Antrim, as the location for recording his radio play, Pariahs.

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Sound artist Chris Watson reports from Istanbul on ‘The Morning Line’ a mammoth metal sculpture-with-sound in the city’s Eminönü square.

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Culture File meets Lebanese food writer and activist, Kamal Mouzawak.

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Composer Roger Doyle talks to Luke Clancy about his latest ‘cinema for the ears’ production, The Room in the Tower.

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A trip to @NLIreland with type historian, James Mosley, to examine the surprising number of editions of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic there. Are some realer than others?

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Tarquin Blake, author of a new book on Ireland’s heritage of abandoned houses, takes Caroline Hennessy to visit the ruins of Buttervant Castle in Co. Cork.

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New principal conductor of the NSO, Alan Buribayev, tells Luke Clancy about the uses he finds for evil robots at orchestra rehearsals.

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Will Irvine and Karl Quinn tell Luke Clancy about Connected, their “bromance” exploring manners and morality online. (Bewley’s Café Theatre, 1pm, 13th Sept, 2010)

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Phil Baines and Catherine Dixon, in Dublin as part of the international typography conference, ATypI (8-12 Sept, 2010) take Luke Clancy on a walking tour of the capital’s public lettering.