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Luke Clancy meets Jota Castro and Christian Viveros-Fauné, the latest curators brought in to run Contemporary Dublin, the capital’s long promised mega art show.

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Culture File meets the Irish director of a new documentary film on the lives of Mexico’s child bullfighters.

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Luke Clancy talks to Alan Buribayev, Principal Conductor of the RTÉ NSO, about the place of birdsong in Western classical music.

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Luke Clancy talks to biographer, Sarah Bakewell about the publication of Montaigne’s Essays, and about the French writer’s final moments. (Final part of three)

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Second part of Culture File’s interview with historian, Sarah Bakewell, about her biography of the man she see as ‘the first blogger’, 16th century French writer, Michel de Montaigne.

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Artist filmmaker, Luke Fowler, on the musical liberties and strange death of avant garde composer, Cornelius Cardew.

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Luke Clancy talks to historian, Sarah Bakewell about her biography of How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer. (First part of the three part interview)

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Culture File hears about Cornelius Cardew’s Scratch Orchestra, which has inspired a film from artist, Luke Fowler.

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Luke Clancy talks to design historian, Lisa Godson, about the 20th century Irish architects forced to do their most pioneering work in Africa.

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Luke Clancy meets Andrew McGibbon, author of I Was Douglas Adams’ Flatmate, a book about entourages and the stars that hung out with them.

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Culture File digs in to discover The Loaves and Fishes Supper Club and Ireland’s underground dining scene

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Luke Clancy talks to artist, Sean Hillen, about his photomontages and the strange patterns in the world we mostly manage to ignore.

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Luke Clancy talks about the therapeutic value of satire with the team behind the satire, Brian Cowen and the Seven Deadly Sinners.

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Culture File visits what might just be Ireland’s most nerd-friendly cinema, at Blackrock Castle, Cork.

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Luke Clancy talks to Pat McGarvey of Southern Tenant Folk Union about The New Farming Scene, his band’s (deep breath) alt bluegrass post-Apocalyptic scifi concept album.

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Culture File talks to Nick Dear, the writer who has long been carrying a torch for Frankenstein.

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Type writer, Simon Garfield celebrates The Beach Boys, Bowie and The Beatles, fontwise.

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Culture File talks to Manchester photographer, Kevin Cummins, about his now iconic photos of Joy Division.

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Culture File visits the Ice Music Festival held on the first full moon of each year in the mountain town of Geilo in Norway.

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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.