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One common link between John Cage, The Beatles and Aphex Twin is that they’ve all been reworked by champion new music ensemble, Alarm Will Sound. We talk to the outfit’s Alan Pierson.

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Why are writers of Young Adult fiction leaving Dystopia behind and setting sail for The Big C? Books blogger, David Maybury explains.

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Michael J Nelson, star and writer on Mystery Science Theater 3000 on the strange compulsion to make fun of movies, and his latest project, Rifftrax.

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Glass artist Róisín de Buitléir gives the kiss of life to Irish glass, with the help of the masters at The Irish Handmade Glass company

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"Drop Everything" was the title of a crowd-funded free festival in the unlikely location of Inis Oirr last weekend. Louise Williams shipped out for Culture File

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"Like Disneyland for Geeks!" Niamh Shaw, star of That’s About The Size Of It, on life at CERN and how to put string theory on stage.

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Hear how the words of WB Yeats inspired UK theatre company Ad Infinitum’s Translunar Paradise, a drama with no words at all.

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In the final part of our interview, Pascal Bruckner, concludes his dissection of the culture of happiness with an offer of some alternatives to the pursuit of that ellusive state. (Part 3 of 3)

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Pascal Bruckner, continues his dissection of the culture of happiness with a look at its economic face. (Part 2 of 3)

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As the the Science Gallery, Dublin, is talking about “Happiness” at the moment, why not have a listen to Pascal Bruckner, author of a very considered study of “the cult of happiness” (Part 1 of 3)

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Prof Henry Jenkins on how the The Harry Potter Alliance challenged the studio behind the film, The Hunger Games to fight real hunger. And why it would be safer for schools to open up access to Facebook and Twitter. (Part 2 of 2) Part 1

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Why might fans of Harry Potter be the future of politics? Prof Henry Jenkins, author of Spreadable Media, explains. (Part 1 of 2) Part 2

Enjoyed that? There’s an odds on chance you’d like to listen to Prof Aisling Kelliher decode Klout. (And give the whole social rating scene a good kicking!)

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Big heads and little tunes come together in Pigeon, a new collaboration between Carpet Theatre company and Waterboys, Jack Cawley and Steve Wickham.

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Comedian Stewart Lee tells us how improv jazz taught him how to keep every show special.

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Prepared piano person, Hauschka, (one third of the Transcendentalists tour) on ping pong balls and John Cage.

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What’s your Klout? Our regular tech commentator, Aisling Kelliher, of Arizona State University, decodes the new wave of social rating systems.

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To the perennial conundrum “waving or drowning?” now add “flying or falling?” - a question explored in Junk Ensemble’s latest for this year’s Dublin Dance Festival.

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Composer and artist, Denis Roche on making art for the very mobile (dancers’) and very immobile (transplant patients’) bodies.

Oded Ezer’s crowdsourced SkypeType.
The text reads (as if you couldn’t read it!)

Every improvement in communication makes the truth less visible

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Unplugged comedian and writer Isy Suttie talks about her Skype love story, Pearl and Dave, and her big unlove of Facebook.

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"I’m not a prophet but I have some ideas" Oded Ezer on the future of typography (2 of 2)

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A typeface based on sperm & a religion for typographers: just two of the projects of our guest, Israeli experimental typographer, @OdedEzer. (part 1 of 2)

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On our second visit of the week’s Cork International Choral festival, Regan Hutchins meets some of the 4,500 singers involved - including members of a Filipino Glee Club…

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It’s pop, Laura, but not as we know it. Avant singer-songwriter-cellist, Laura Moody, on the meaning of “pop”.

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A man walks into a pub…and sees a performance of National Theatre of Scotland’s supernatural exploration of folk songs,The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, then talks to the show’s Madeleine Worrall.

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As Microsoft announce their latest assault on the eBook arena, we talk to publishing commentator and book blogger, David Maybury.

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Into the heart of the night, choral style, as we celebrate Compline with the Clerk’s Choral, at their HQ in the ancient church of St. Mary’s, Youghal.

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Even fans of The Magnetic Fields sometimes miss out on musically promiscuous frontman, Stephin Merritt’s forays into musical theatre.

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The spooks-in-chief with progressive trad act,The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock, explain their interest in the poetry of Arthur Griffith

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Architect, Christopher Whyms-Stone on on his Culture Yard project to restore and celebrate a very special 20th century housing project in the Kingston suburb of Trenchtown, Jamaica. (Part 2 of 2)

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Taking a machete to a blancmange but in a good way, is how Stephen Fry describes Gerald Barry’s opera of The Importance of Being Earnest. The composer shares some other takes on the piece.

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It’s all about the universe’s tastiest rhizome this time, as we talk to the folks behind Edinburgh restaurant, Rhubarb.

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Some photos to browse, while you listen to our two part interview with Jamaican architect and Culture Yard conservationist, Christopher Whyms-Stone, about his project to restore and celebrate a very special few square yards of Trench Town that inpired among other things, Bob Marley to write No Woman, No Cry.

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Jamaican architect, Christopher Whyms-Stone, helps tell the story of Trenchtown and an historical Irishman without whom Bob Marley’s No Woman, No Cry couldn’t have been written. (Part 1 of 2)

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Can you be graphic, gory and tender all at the same time? Yes, if you are baroque composer, Dieterich Buxtehude, says academic, author and musician, Yonit Kosovske.

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What is it that makes today’s packaging so different, so appealing, we ask artist and Styrofoam aficionado, Brendan Earley.

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Contralto, Raphaela Mangan and pianist, Niall Kinsella join us to celebrate the extraordinary, unsettling sounds of Kathleen Ferrier.

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Accordionist, Sharon Shannon shares some secrets about collaborations, recalcitrant harmonia and much missed pets.

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Luke Clancy explores the strange, compulsive world of the unboxingvideo and the product teardown.

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All The Young Dudes: Culture File catches up with the members of Dublin’s newest (and possibly youngest) contemporary music ensemble, Kirkos.

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Korean-born Dublin-trained piano champion, Soo Jung Ann, and her teacher, John O’Conor celebrate victory at Barcelona’s Concours International de Musique Maria Canals.

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With the launch of a new book and exhibition dedicated to nearly 30 years of work, we celebrate the comix genius of Daniel Clowes.

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Guess the magical musical link between HRH Elizabeth II and pop princess, Katy Perry…OK, it’s Albert Nobbs composer, Brian Byrne.

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Have you met Nyai Sekar Madu Sari? Luke Clancy makes the acquaintance of UCC’s shiny gamelan orchestra.

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Luke Clancy reviews the first posthumous show of work by Tyrone born artist, William McKeown, at the Kerlin gallery, Dublin.

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The twisted roots of Bob Dylan’s Masters of War in the second part of our interview with culturalequity.org’s Don Fleming.

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Director, Pat Collins, on his first feature film, Silence, the story of a sound recordist’s search for exactly that elusive stuff.

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As Alan Lomax’s peerless archive of folk recordings from around the world goes online, we talk to one of those behind the project, Don Fleming.

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The Baton v The Bow: John Wilson and Andrew Haveron talk about what a long friendship can do for a conductor and his soloist.

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Director and celebrity sister, Sophie Fiennes, on shooting her documentary, Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, about German artist,Anselm Kiefer.