Thursday, March 31, 2016

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

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Culture File: Irish Food Writers Guild Food Awards 2016

The Irish Food Writers Guild honours Hiberno-Nordic cuisine, with a 2016 Food Award for Silver Darlings herring

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Culture File: Whack!!

Whack!! Is this a fight? Only Whack!! dancer-choreographers, Philip Connaughton and Ashley Chen can say for sure

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Owww - Ummm - Eeeh - Urrrg

Whack!!!!! Tune in to Culture File at 5:40 on RTE LyricFM to hear Philip Connaughton and Ashley Chen's fighting talk

Culture File: Mark Zuckerberg's surprise appearance

Prof Aisling Kelliher and Luke Clancy discuss a recent, very resonant image of Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg