Friday, April 29, 2016

Culture File: Attic Projects's Luke Murphy

Choreographer and performer Luke Murphy on dance, determination and the possibility of whiplash

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Culture File: Archeogaming (part 3)

The archaeology and ethics of human-chicken relationships in video games, with research duo, Clucks & Clicks

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Culture File: Archeogaming (part 2)

No Man's Sky, a game with a 18 quintillion planets to explore, will change gaming & keep games archaeologists busy

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Culture File: Archeogaming (part 1)

What happens when the apparently disparate worlds of archaeology and video games converge?

Monday, April 25, 2016

Culture File: Zooming in on Hieronymus Bosch

Luke Clancy visits the first almost complete gathering of the works of Dutch master of the weird, Hieronymus Bosch

The Culture File Weekly No 67 (Wigmore Hall special with John Gilhooly)

In this special edition, we walk amongst the marble and the ghosts at London's Wigmore Hall in the company of its Limerick-born director, John Gilhooly, to hear about the space's journey from piano showroom to the world's greatest chamber music venue

Friday, April 22, 2016

Culture File: The End of The English Wine Joke

Modern day Wine Goose, Dermot Sugrue on the fizz of an English wine renaissance in Sussex

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Culture File: The Wigmore Hall (part 3)

How one of the UK's oldest chamber music venues is approaching life online, with John Gilhooly of the Wigmore Hall

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Culture File: The Wigmore Hall (part 2)

Rubinstein's farewell, and other moments of Wigmore Hall history, with the venue's head, John Gilhooly

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Culture File: The Wigmore Hall

Amongst the velvet and mahogany at the world's greatest chamber music space, with the Wigmore Hall boss, John Gilhooly

Monday, April 18, 2016

Culture File: Alan Phelan's Our Kind

A speculative story of the life Roger Casement never had a chance to live, in Alan Phelan's new film

The Culture File Weekly No 66 (Sat 15 April 2016: The Yips in Music The Blue Boy Horace and Pete Clean Air and the Mezzo-Soprano)

This weekly, "the yips" in music; the most beautiful sound in the world as imagined by a child in an industrial school; smoke and the soprano; and why the old stuff seems so new in Louis CK's acclaimed and as it turns out, prohibitively expensive, not-quite comedy, Horace and Pete

Friday, April 15, 2016

Culture File: The Barber of Seville

Even as mezzo-of the moment, Tara Erraught, prepares for her 25th outing as Rosina, for her, Rossini never gets old

Thursday, April 14, 2016

Culture File: The Yips In Music

With "the yips" back in the sports pages, we consult our fav neurologist, Steven Frucht, about dystonia in music

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Culture File: Horace and Pete's new old vision

Louis CK's "radically stagey" web series, Horace and Pete, makes disintermediation grimly appealing

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Culture File: Grey socks and yapping dogs

Exploring the lives of people held as children in residential care institutions, in Brokentalkers' The Blue Boy

Monday, April 11, 2016

Culture File: Taking a chance with Russell Mills

Artist and notable designer of album sleeves for Brian Eno, Russell Mills, in conversation live at NCAD, Dublin

The Culture File Weekly No 63 (Sat 9th April 2016 On/Off Orlando Furioso John Sheahan)

This weekly, choosing the jazz lifestyle with Czech-Irish duo ON/OFF, fighting sea monsters in Ludovico Ariosto's epic 16th century romance, Orlando Furioso, and sharing a pint of coke and a glass of still water in The Ferryman pub with last Dubliner standing, fiddler, John Sheahan

Saturday, April 9, 2016

Culture File At FOTE Live - Mark Best (chef, Marque, Sydney)

Chef Mark Best's uncompromising look at the food industry, live at Food On The Edge, 2015.

Friday, April 8, 2016

Culture File: Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso at 500

Eric Haywood uncovers "knights in distress and damsels in shining armour" in an Italian Renaissance bestseller

Culture File: The Last Dubliner Standing (Part 1)

A pint of coke and a glass of water in The Ferryman, with the last remaining Dubliner, fiddler, John Sheahan

Culture File: The Last Dubliner Standing (Part 2)

More soft drinks and hard knocks, as fiddler, John Sheahan and bud, Eamonn O’Reilly, remember Dublin dockside life

Thursday, April 7, 2016

Culture File: Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso at 500

Eric Haywood uncovers "knights in distress and damsels in shining armour" in an Italian Renaissance bestseller

Culture File: Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso at 500

Eric Haywood uncovers "knights in distress and damsels in shining armour" in an Italian Renaissance bestseller

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Culture File: Next Gen Jazz with On/Off

Reading the jazz tea leaves in search of the future of jazz, with Czech-Irish jazz duo On/Off

Monday, April 4, 2016

Culture File Weekly No 64 - Nicholas Serota Special

This weekly, a special edition with Nicholas Serota, the head of Tate - and the man responsible for turning a defunct London power station into one of the world’s most visited contemporary art destinations - on the evolution of the gallery, how to encounter new art and how the Turner Prize responded to a new role for contemporary art

Culture File: Director of Tate Nicholas Serota in conversation (Part 3)

How Tate Modern reshaped London, accidentally making life harder for younger artists

Friday, April 1, 2016

Culture File: Director of Tate Nicholas Serota in conversation (Part 2)

Nicholas Serota on the wandering years of the Turner Prize and why collaborative group, Assembly's 2015 win matters

Thursday, March 31, 2016

Culture File: Director of Tate Nicholas Serota in conversation (Part 1)

Director of Tate, Nicholas Serota on studio visits and assessing young artists

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

The Culture File Weekly No. 63 (Sat 26th March, 2016 with Tohono O'odham, music for skeletons, DJ Papal Nuncio and contentious fabrics)

This weekly: a scorching journey through the desert with the Tohono O'odham people, a concert among the skeletons and specimens at the Natural History Museum, the Papal Nuncio's rock 'n' roll radio days and the academic who thinks it's time to pay a little less attention to flags and a little more to other humbler pieces of cloth

Culture File: Morse and The Rising

Sound artist, Jimmy Eadie, celebrates a short, optimistic morse message sent from O'Connell Street in Easter 1916

Saturday, March 26, 2016

Culture File: Morse and The Rising

Sound artist, Jimmy Eadie, celebrates a short, optimistic morse message sent from O'Connell Street in Easter 1916, in his Little Museum of Dublin sound installation.

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Culture File Xtra: April Promo

Listen out for this new Culture File promo across RTE-tuned radios in the coming days. And obviously, share like crazy too...

Culture File: Very Like A Whale

Making vocal music from the dimensions of a whale, at Tonnta Music's takeover night at the Natural History Museum

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Culture File: Crossing the Great Wall of America

A pilgrim's eye view of the Great Wall of America with the Tohono O'odham tribe and photographer, Maeve Hickey

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Culture File: Textiles of The Nation

How a handkerchief might be as important to Irish identity as a tricolour, according to Prof. Catherine Harper.

Culture File Xtra: Tohono O'odham

JIC you'd like to practice the pronunciation of the tribe that are crossing the Sonoran Desert this evening (220316) on Culture File, pronounced here by the woman who photographed their yearly journey along "The Great Wall of America" for her exhibition "Walking to Magdalena, a Pilgrimage"

Saturday, March 19, 2016

Culture File: Linda Buckley's Oblique Strategy

Eno's Oblique Strategies cards steer a chat with composer, Linda Buckley, whose new work is inspired by the cards

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Culture File: @USAmbIreland Kevin O'Malley's road back home

The journey of one family of economic refugees to the US, the O'Malley's of Mayo, ends up at @USAmbIreland c/o @USEmbassyDublin @WhiteHouse @POTUS Music: "The Beautiful Road" - Ronan O'Snodaigh https://itun.es/i6YS4pT

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Culture File: US Ambassador, Kevin O'Malley's Paddy's Day

Replacing the dollar-stuffed envelope home with new creative initiatives, with US Ambassador, Kevin O'Malley

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Culture File: Kate Ellis' Wandering Cello

It's no surprise that cellist and Crash Ensemble boss Kate Ellis thinks genres have little meaning in new music

Monday, March 14, 2016

Culture File: Pianist-composer, Lambert's search for the right mask

Berlin-based Lambert, on the best place to obtain Sardinian folk masks and other essentials of his performances.

The Culture File Weekly No. 61 (Sat 12th Feb, 2016, w/ fecal microbiota transplantation, the ghosts of greyhounds, the sound of old Anatolia

This weekly, we’ll be remembering the old days in Anatolia, travelling to Offaly to hear about a 13th century saint who had the rare distinction of being a greyhound and exploring we get a taste of fecal microbiota transplantation (though not literally).

Friday, March 11, 2016

Culture File: Mary Fox's historical hounds

Greyhound historian, Mary Fox, on the long, strange friendship between humans and their fastest, best friends

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Culture File: Antonia Arslan's Armenian grandfather

How the writings of Italian novelist, Antonia Arslan, brought memories of her grandfather's Anatolia back to life

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Culture File: Antonia Arslan's Armenian grandfather

How the writings of Italian novelist, Antonia Arslan, brought memories of her grandfather's Anatolia back to life

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Culture File: Patrolling the Brain-Gut-Microbiota Axis

Culture file is living up to its name this time, as we get a taste of fecal microbiota transplantation (so not literally)

Monday, March 7, 2016

Culture File at FOTE: JP McMahon's Big Plan

Food on The Edge-founder, JP McMahon on the conference he hopes will become a regular gathering of world chefs

The Culture File Weekly No. 60 (Sat 5th Feb, 2016, w/Lemn Sissay, Silver Darling, Whack!! & Aisling Kelliher)

This weekly, chomps of Hiberno-Nordic cuisine, poet, Lemn Sissay on his Superman Was A Foundling, whacks from dancer-choreographers, Philip Connaughton and Ashley Chen, and aftershocks from a certain image of Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg

Friday, March 4, 2016

Culture File: Superman Was a Foundling

Superman Was A Foundling, Lemn Sissay points out in the title of a work he made for London's Foundling Museum