Culture File: Potter Mark Campden

The transmutation of metals, and other pottery arcana, in the glistening work of Kilkenny-based potter, Mark Campden

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1018/20131018_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20458375_20458376_232_.mp3

Culture File - The Architect and the Antichrist

The Architect and the Antichrist. Eileen Gray's secret relationship with 20th century bad boy, Aleister Crowley.

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1017/20131017_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20457661_20457662_232_.mp3

Culture File: Beirut Farmers' Market

Kamal Mouzawak, chef founder of Souk el Tayeb, Beirut's first Farmers' Market, on food, culture and what makes a good tabouleh.

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1015/20131015_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20457657_20457658_232_.mp3

Culture File: Eileen Gray

Cloé Pitiot, of Pompidou Centre and Jennifer Gough, of the National Museum of Ireland show some love for Irish designer and artist, Eileen Gray.

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1016/20131016_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20456558_20456559_232_.mp3

Culture File - Open House Limerick

Culture File explores the Neo-Gothic charms of 700 year old Fanningstown Castle in Adare Co. Limerick, one of the properties throwing down its drawbridge for the international OpenHouse festival of building visiting.

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1014/20131014_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20454931_20454932_232_.mp3

Culture File - Greek Instrument Makers

The plight of handmade instruments -- and their makers -- in the new normal of 21st century Greece.

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1011/20131011_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20454167_20454168_232_.mp3

Culture File - Social Choreography 3

In our latest postcard from Hydra, we climb to the roof, to take part in an experimental "social choreography" performance.

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1010/20131010_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20453280_20453281_232_.mp3

Culture File - RICE Festival 2

In our second postcard from the RICE festival on Hydra, Dutch artist, Ed Schouten, on creating choreography on a Waterford daffodil farm.

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1009/20131009_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20452635_20452636_232_.mp3

Culture File - Social Choreography

In the first of our postcards from the inaugural, RICE dance festival on Hydra, we meet choreographer, organiser and former Limerick resident, Michael Klien

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1008/20131008_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20451862_20451863_232_.mp3

Culture File - Hobbes at the School of Life

Why 17th century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes would be a fan of drone strikes.

http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/1007/20131007_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20451162_20451163_232_.mp3

On the trail of the Saphire d’Or, the last record shop...

On the trail of the Saphire d’Or, the last record shop in the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott.

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Julie Qiu, the New York oyster blogger behind inahalfshell.com on the subtle pleasures of merrior. (Littoral Special Part 2)

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On the waterfront, in search of macroalgae with seaweed forager and mother of a thousand cast-iron plaques, Sally McKenna. (Littoral Special Part 1) 

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How much time do you waste eating each day? Prof Aisling Kelliher on Soylent, a startup that wants to lead us into a “post-food” world.

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How typographer, Thomas Phinney, earned himself the title the Font Detective.

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If you’re going to wrestle, make it an Irish bout. Culture File meets the roadshow that’s bringing local wrestling heroes, Duncan Disorderly and The Lord Of The Manor to the towns and villages of Ireland.

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Director Alan Foley on 20 years of Cork City Ballet

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Exploring a period of musical transition in Towards Enlightenment, a period instruments concert tour from Roy Goodman and Irish Baroque Orchestra.

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The double life of English composer, Arnold Bax, and his Republican alter ego, poet, Dermot O’Byrne

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What is it about airports that makes you mull the nature of existence, wonders Philip McMahon in the playwright’s latest diary entry.

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A year in the life of the Tony Awards, with Jacqueline Davies, who regularly agrees to see every single show of the year on Broadway.

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As Ireland takes to the streets for Culture Night, urban designers, David Jordan and Fergus Browne explain how we might make those streets a little more welcoming.

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It all starts with technique for superchef, Raymond Blanc, whose Le Manoir Au Quat’Saisons was just this week was judged the best — and most expensive restaurant in the UK.

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Get divorced and join the circus is the advice of Ursula Burns, who brings her Paraguayan harp to Tumble Circus’ latest show, Damn The Circus.

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Lighthouse keepers of the world gather on Hook Head to recall a way of life all but automated out of existence.

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Why donkeys make great soul singers and other mysteries of evolution, as we continue our tour of the Natural History Museum, with David Turpin.

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Singer-songwriter, David Turpin takes Liam Geraghty on a tour of Dublin’s Natural History Museum, in the first of a two part interview.

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How the craft beer boom is helping keep alive the once endangered art of the cooper, with Paul McLaughlin of Kelvin Cooperage.

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Is it a Bird? Is it a plane? Is it a performance artist’s take on popstar branding? Culture File meets the enigma behind Dublin Fringe show, Kitschcock.

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Culture File’s regular tech expert, Prof Aisling Kelliher, weighs in on the debt of corporate tech champions, such as Apple and Google, to a culture of government funded research

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Why are role playing games equally attractive to Nordic males and females? Culture File goes larping with the team from Sweden’s LajvVerkstaden.

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The voices behind Cities of Love, a CD and a fundraising opera gala in Dublin’s Pepper Canister Church, on new and old tricks for funding opera studies.

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/20130905_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20434490_20434491_232_.mp3]

Dance to the music of the gender pay gap in Ireland with dancer-choreographers, Emma Fitzgerald and Aine Stapleton, creators of Wage

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/20130903_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20431589_20431590_232_.mp3]

Oisin McKenna on his new show exploring the effects of the app, Grindr, on life and love in the 21st century.

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Artist, Lee Welch’s tribute to the Portsmouth Sinfonia, the legendary 1970s anti-orchestra.

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Mixmaster, Tony Conigliaro, on the cocktail renaissance - and the perfect Dry Martini.

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To mark the death of Seamus Heaney, a repeat of our programme “The Real and the Imaginary” presented and produced by Eoin O’Kelly. This features Heaney’s work in light of his own public statements on the relationship between poetry and reality.

[audio http://culturefilepod.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/20130829_rtelyricfm-culturefile-culturefil_c20429086_20429087_232_.mp3]

Prof Mark Rowlands on the connection between running and animal rights. (Part 4 of 4)

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Explaining the altered sense of self of the long distance runner, with philosopher, Mark Rowlands. (Part 3 of 4)

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Philosopher and runner, Mark Rowlands on understanding Descartes and Sartre - through running. (Part 2 of 4)

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Can running be a kind of philosophical investigation? Welsh-born philosopher of mind, Prof Mark Rowlands believes it can. (Part 1 of 4)

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Culture File encounters “primordial” dance with Japanese duo, Eiko and Koma.

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How the term “comfort food” papers over the tensions of the multicultural cosmopolis, with US cultural critic, Alison Pearlman. (Part 4 of 4)

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"Smart Casual" author, Alison Pearlman, on how chefs became the mythic heroes of contemporary city dwellers. (Part 3 of 4)

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Cultural critic, Alison Pearlman on the rise and rise of the public as restaurant reviewer. (Part 2 of 4)

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Art historian-turned-food culture critic, Alison Pearlman, on overlaps in art and restaurant criticism. (Part 1 of 4)

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Geologist-turned-ceramic alchemist, Cormac Boydell, on chemicals and colour.

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What can directors of today’s 3D blockbusters learn from Hitchcock’s only effort in the area, Dial M for Murder?

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Bow Making 101 with multi-award winning master of the craft, Gary Leahy.

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What on earth to do with your Nobel Prize winnings? Orhan Pamuk’s put them into a museum based on his novel, The Museum of Innocence.