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Culture File hears of the unexpectedly peripatetic life of Harry Clark’s stained glass masterpiece, The Geneva Window

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In his latest Culture File audio diary, sound recordist, Chris Watson visits an Australian arts festival taking place…on a train.

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Culture File waves hello to Microsoft’s latest gaming innovation, the Kinect, with Aisling Kelliher, Assistant Professor of Media Communication Systems at Arizona State University.

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Culture File knits one and pearls one with “conceptual knitter” Freddie Robins.

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Luke Clancy talks to Richard Thomas, one of the creators of Jerry Springer: The Opera, about his new opera on the life of Anna Nicole Smith.

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Culture File meets the man behind, The Blanch, a bouffon assault on the Blanchardstown Shopping centre and its kin around the world.

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Culture File visits the former Cork Creamery that is now the studio of sculptor, Eilis O’Connell.

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Gut or steel? Luke Clancy shares the cellist’s dilemma, with Dutch virtuoso, Pieter Wispelwey.

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Luke Clancy talks to double Tony award winner, Brian Dennehy, about playing “The Bull” in JB Keane’s The Field.

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Culture File drags and drops in on the world of Apple’s Garageband music software with one half of the underground dance duo, Arveene and Misk, arveenandmisk.com.

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Culture File goes walkies in Whitechapel to meet Ruairidh Anderson, who has embarked on a project to write and release a song a week (for a year) about the history of the East End of London.

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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. (Repeat)

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Culture File meets trombone virtusoso, Christian Lindberg, who will be conducting the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra this week

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Culture File talks to playwright, screenwriter and actor, Mark O’Halloran about the little arts of short theatre, and about his new script for a musical about Cuban drag queens.

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On culture file, it’s Christmas…in Kerala, as we enjoy good old fashioned Southern Indian Christmas celebration, with plenty of rice pancakes, fish curry and beetroot wine.

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Culture File finds a rare point of agreement with hipster music website, Pitchfork.com, about dubstep star, James Blake.

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Culture File sees about acquiring the mark of the beast at one of the studios leading tattooing’s new wave.

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Culture File talks to Maximilian Reidel about a revolution in glass design, and his family’s four hundred year history in glass making.

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Caroline Hennessy talks to Marjorie Quarton about the place of chocolate in the Irish Kitchen of the 1700s

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Louise Williams rides shotgun with one of Port au Prince’s most prolific graffiti artists, Jerry Rosambert. Louise’s reporting from Haiti received support from the Simon Cumbers Media Challenge Fund.

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Laoise O’Brien of the early music group, Morisca, fills her lungs to play some medieval instruments for Luke Clancy.

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In the second part of Culture File’s interview with Frank Cotrell Boyce, the screenwriter tells Luke Clancy about his new script on the Homeless World Cup.

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In the first of a two part interview, Luke Clancy talks to Frank Cottrell Boyce, the screenwriter behind films such 24 Hour Party People, The Claim and A Cock and Bull Story.

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Luke Clancy visits a Limerick exhibition by Philippe Chancel featuring photographs of civic life in North Korea, with the show’s curator, Marian Lovett.

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Luke Clancy travels to Berlin to meet artist, Susan Philipsz, one of the shortlisted artists for this year’s Turner Prize.

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Luke Clancy talks to Susie Jones, whose new documentary tells the story of Rudely Interrupted, an Australian indie rock band that grew out of a Melbourne music therapy group.

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On this episode of Culture File, journalist Louise Williams travels to Haiti to meet some remarkable survivors — human and architectural — of the most recent quake.

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Blánaid Murphy tells Luke Clancy about the Palestrina Choir remarkable founder, Edward Martyn.

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Luke Clancy talks to song collector, Desmond Cahalan and performance poet, Raven, about why they chose to relocate their arts to Ireland.

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Is a poem march more powerful than a protest? Luke Clancy talks to The Unholy Trinity, a gathering of a rock musician, a composer and a poet who’ve come together to see.

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Rhob Cunningham, the songwriter behind Our Little Secrets, talks to Luke Clancy about why his band prefers to have stand up comedians as support acts.

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Luke Clancy discovers the enduring educational value of Kylie Minogue with Sir Mark Jones, director of the V&A.

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Luke Clancy meets up with Mary Coll, who has written Anything But Love, the play that will open the newly refurbished Belltable Arts Centre in Limerick.

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Luke Clancy talks to Kila kingpin Ronan O’Snodaigh about singing his way out of a depression.

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Culture File chows down with the crowd at a special eatin’ ‘n drinkin’ screening of a new file about restaurant life, Today’s Special, starring Aasif Mandvi.

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Culture File talks to woodturner, Roger Bennett, about the new wave of Irish crafts.

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Luke Clancy talks to Capt Patrick O’Connor about the Defence Forces’ forays into social networking.

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Luke Clancy hears about a project to drive the use of sustainable forest woods in musical instruments.

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Luke Clancy talks to Paul Chavez about his collaboration with the Edge and Morleigh Steinberg, Cold Dream Colour.

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Luke Clancy talks to artist, Laura Buckley, in the midst of her spinning orchestration of sound and light, Waterlilies.

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With Opera Ireland’s final production, Tosca, opening this week, Culture File marks the end of an era in Irish opera.

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Luke Clancy gets laughing lessons from the cast of Corn Exchange’s new production of Beckett’s Happy Days.

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Luke Clancy talks about Don Wycherley about the challenges of his first time performing a one man show in Jumping The Sharks.

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Luke Clancy talks to science writer, Stephen Johnson, about his latest book “Where Good Idea Come from: The Natural History of Innovation”

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Luke Clancy is on the streets of the city of London with historian, Helen Castor, whose new book looks at the historical Englishwomen who won themselves the title “She Wolves.”

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Luke Clancy talks to the team behind Fishamble Theatre Company’s latest production, Big Ole Piece of Cake.

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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.