Podcasts from the RTE Lyric FM series, Culture File, the essential daily dose of arts, culture and play. Listen live, 5.40pm, weekdays, RTELyricFM
What’s that you’re watching? Philip Barrett’s finished comix take on The Vision Service, a radio fairy tale of the arrival of television in Ireland. The new Drama on One producion is broadcast tonight, Sunday, December 30th, 8pm, RTE Radio 1.
And online here.
Above is Philip Barrett’s comix “trailer” for radio drama, The Vision Service, an alternative history of the arrival of television in Ireland, written by Luke Clancy and produced by Kevin Brew. It stars Sue Collins, as the storyteller, alongside Aoife Duffin, Caoilfhionn Dunne, Amy Conroy, Steve Blount, Mikel Murfi, Enda Oates, Rory Nolan, Pádraic Delaney and Joe Taylor.
You can hear/download it here: http://www.rte.ie/drama/radio/genres-comedy-thevisionservice.html
Among the legacies of 20th century American composer Alfred Burt are a set of 15 carols, currently being revived by The Cork Chamber Choir. Nicki Ffrench Davis who sings with the choir, tells us of the short but productive life of the composer, who died when just 33.
Conquered in a car seat. We go for a ride with Stuart Bailey, head of Belfast’s Oh Yeah music centre — and an oracle of the city’s geography as seen through the songs of Van Morrison. (part 1 of 2)
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This here is the brilliant Phil Barrett’s comix take on our “When Hitch Met O’Casey” feature by Liam Geraghty, which you can listen to here. Now, look over there (on the right of the page) and click to follow us, then to win Phil’s original artwrk, just tweet this link: pic.twitter.com/y8pkX8xI
This time on Culture File the long lost story of what happened when Hitch met O’Casey. When Alfred Hitchcock came to Sean O’Casey’s place for dinner, it was not the start of a beautiful friendship. But their meeting may have sown the seeds of something more important.
"I’m only know two places: Dublin and the Internet" says our guest this time, Mumblin Deaf Ro, who has released one of the most beautifully poignant, soulful and sweet albums of 2012 in Dictionary Crimes.
"I’m only known two places: Dublin and the Internet" says our guest this time, Mumblin Deaf Ro, who has released one of the most beautifully poignant, soulful and sweet albums of 2012 in Dictionary Crimes
Unpretentious, anonymous, and without monetary value - everything the world of contemporary art isn’t. The Douglas Hyde Gallery ‘s John Hutchinson explains the charms of the gallery’s current show of some 200 handcrafted bags from Iran.
Lars Von Trier’s latest bizarre movie premise involves creating a “social network” film, enlisting hundreds of directors around the world to contribute short sections to a film now showing in Copenhagen.
The strange case of Fr. Conefrey and the war on jazz, is part of the story of the music’s troubled past in Ireland, told in a new documentary, Out with Paganism… and all that Jazz, presented by jazz vocalist, Christine Tobin. The documentary airs in the Lyric Feature on RTE lyricfm Friday 7th December at 7.00pm
Even iTunes can’t give us the definitive insight into what has tweens and pre-tweens on their feet in 2012. That job rests with the Panto. Claire Tighe and Aidan Mannion of Theatreworx tell us about song selection and their “panto boot camp”.
How much faith should we put in “studies” of “Millennials”? Prof Aisling Kelliher on generational markers and markets. And if you are looking for Eric Hoover’s terrific article mentioned in the piece, The Millennial Muddle, there it is.
Michael Haneke’s latest film Amour? Do I really have to see it? If the prospect is simply too much for you, give us 5 minutes and we’ll save you the trouble. (NB: It’s actually more like 7, but you’re still saving hours!)
19-year-old multi-instrumentalist and video blogger, Ronan Dikker, who runs the thisisprojectrebirth vlog. Which may or may not relate to percussion. And those are his rice filled balloons.
He talks to us about the art of the percussionist here.
And plays them rice-filled balloons here.
In the third part of our Shetland visit, we take the ferry further North still this time, to Whalsay, one of the smaller islands, to meet the two Whalsay natives who guard the memory of poet, Hugh MacDiarmid’s escape to their island. (3 of 3)
For more about Shetland, visit http://www.visitscotland.com/creative
Cerys Matthews flies her explosively eclectic new project to 60 degrees North* (That’s Lerwick, in Shetland, by the way) (2 of 3).
For more about Shetland, visit http://www.visitscotland.com/creative
Northwards ho, for the opening of the Mareel Arts Centre, on Shetland, a shimmering harbour-side venue that holds the title of these island’s most Northerly arts centre. (1 of 3).
For more about Shetland, visit http://www.visitscotland.com/creative
Culture File travels to 1960s San Francisco to uncover the story of Compton Cafeteria Riot, a tiny rising often eclipsed in LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgender) culture by the more famous, but later, Stonewall Riot.
Say ‘hi!’ to 18 year old cellist, Sinead O’Halloran, winner of Ireland’s largest classical music scholarship for post-primary schools, the Fr Frank Maher Music Awards sponsored by Top Security.
Since its earliest days, Black Metal has been as adept at generating lurid myths as making music. But, according to Nick Richardson, one of the contributors to Beyond The Darkness, a new study of the music and its aesthetic, the genre’s visual sophistication is often overlooked.
Do women design differently from men? A Design Week event in Dublin brings together three prominent design world women to attempt some answers to this question — while also bigging up women in design.
If Don Draper existed, American Modernist designer Paul Rand would be on his rollerdex. We visit a Dublin exhibition of “the designer’s designer” who gave everybody from IBM to Enron their logos.
Thomas Edison called it “The Eighth Wonder of the World” It completed the revolution that Gutenberg started. But now you can hardly pay someone to take one off your hands! Doug Wilson, director of Linotype: The Film tells us about the machine that kickstarted the Information Age.
Bone up on the reproductive life of snails and Greek gods tonight — as well as the hidden connections between Domenico Ghirlandaio and the Thomson Twins — as we tour Alice Maher’s current IMMA exhibition in the company of the artist.
"So I says to her ‘straighten them pots, or you’re out on your ear,’ and she says to me if you think I’m going to…"
"Ssssssh! Watchit, Jesus, I think she’s listening.."
More/better readings of Velázquez @RTELyricFM, 6.40pm, October 31st, 2012. Or, failing that, just listen here!
