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🔊Culture File Digital Single🔊 Filmmaker, Tadhg O'Sullivan on his new film starring Brenda Fricker, The Swallow, a watery, elegiac meditation on memory and loss, and memory loss. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

Come to our recording. What are the artists doing in the garden? asks the latest Culture File Debate, which is recording live Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray next Thursday, 25th September. Booking is free but/and essential! Click this. www.mermaidartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...

If i get this right, The New York Times gadget site has discovered a paper notepad "Ugmonk’s Analog, a delightfully old-school to-do list system" and notes gleefully "There’s no app to download and no account to sign up for."

<IMG>dog at table in fire</IMG> www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Mindboggling Jaws thought dive: going from lenses to marco-economics by way of something called “hyper Newtonian aesthetics“ pca.st/episode/06bd...

Good ole AI.

Academic and podcaster, Autumn Brown joins Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy for some sharing, featuring: Calligraphy Lesson: Collected Short Stories by Mikhail Shishkin: A Trilogy by Justified Ancients of Mu Mu; and William Blake vs. the World by John Higgs podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/c...

Drummer and vocalist Eleanor Myler joins Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy in sharing some favourite things, including a current choice of Eleanor's, So Little Happened for So Long by Nev Clay. www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...

Róis joins the crew to recommend John Healey's Death of an Irish Town, while Colm is diving headlong again into Tolstoy, and Luke is catching up on the first series of Apple's The Studio. www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...

The best thing about Sydney Sweeney‘s jeans is that it suggests that, even now, in the everyone’s-famous and/or a Nazi-for-15-seconds era, come August there’s still a silly season.

He's still at it.

On The Boreen: Teaċ Damsa; Tour de Force; Hedgerow & Wayside A visit to Daingean Uí Chúis, where Michael Keegan-Dolan is creating a dance work around The Bothy Band's 1975 debut album; To Kilkenny for a collaborative exhibition in Rothe House with a botanical artist, a paper maker, a composer, an...

On The Boreen: Teaċ Daṁsa; Tour de Force; Hedgerow & Wayside A visit to Daingean Uí Chúis, where Michael Keegan-Dolan is creating a dance work around The Bothy Band's 1975 debut album; To Kilkenny for a collaborative exhibition in Rothe House with a botanical artist, a paper maker, a composer, an...

It could catch on. After all, it's already in operation for ads. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_0Y...

'know the way people say "don't know who needs to know this"? Well, this time it's YOU that needs to know. @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social's brilliant opera/cosmic trip MARS @abbeytheatre.bsky.social. It's the best thing you'll hear/see/feel this year. Or most others. www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/mars/

RIP Sean Rocks. That voice. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Remember that time when Culture File burned 'some money'? Well, we weren't the first. In 1994 K-Foundation burned a million quid. Was that a good idea? A great artwork? Colm Toibin, Kerry Guinan and Luke Clancy wonder together this week. Like 'n' subscribe, y'all podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/b...

Ex-Bad Plusser, Ethan Iverson on his band's remake of Black Sabbath's Iron Man (which involves tweaks/sprinkles of Ligeti and Gregorian chant). For the day that's in it. open.substack.com/pub/iverson/...

Are Private Eye jokes now... criminal? PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece as a placard! (1/2)

Normal.

No, but really, whatever happened to gesundheit?

Culture File Presents: The Comfort Zone XXXL Edition Twelve Microtonal Etudes: musician-academic-composer Richard Duckworth joins Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy for an extended encounter with US composer, Easley Blackwood's electro masterpiece. 🔊https://www.rte.ie/radio/lyricfm/clips/22529278/

Culture File | Schaymon Draymon's House of Hibernia, Cecilia Danell's sylvan scifi, The Natural History of Selborne The spiritual calling that is running a rave; the sylvan sci fi of Cecilia Danell; unfinished art; and Paddy Woodworth's The Naturalist's Bookshelf.

Culture File Digital Single: Kate Carr (XXXL version) Sound artist and recordist Kate Carr talks to Culture File about her sonic practice and principles, and the importance of messy urban soundscapes.

Culture File: CoVahr Fox & Friends, Kate Carr, Zoe Basha Cityscape-appreciating sound artist ,Kate Carr, on her urban practice; Dublin-based musician-composer-carpenter, Zoe Basha on getting into and out of music; and how to play mini-golf in your "fursona" with Berlin's favorite pianist-fox, CoV...

Culture File: Rhythm of the Seasons, Stone Carving In The Bronx, Changes in the Land Percussionist, James Larter reboots of the Four Season; the allure of ancient craft in New York; and Paddy Woodworth suggests a new old volume about New England as essential reading for today.

Culture File | Caravaggio 2025 Caravaggio is celebrated this summer in Rome with a once-in-a-lifetime meetup of paintings normally living in museums around the world. Colm Toibin, Orit Gat and Luke Clancy went to see that blockbuster in the Barberini and then gathered to imagine what the painter ...

Culture File: Rhythm of the Seasons, Stone Carving In The Bronx, Changes in the Land Percussionist, James Larter reboots of the Four Season; the allure of ancient craft in New York; and Paddy Woodworth suggests a new old volume about New England as essential reading for today.

Culture File: Politics of the Imagination, The Gee's Bend Quilters, Bombast! Classical music and hiphop meet with a bang in Belfast composer, Anselm McDonnell's latest project; the textile stories of Gee's Bend, Alabama at a new show at IMMA; and a program of premiers of chamber music from Black ...

I’ve got it! Couldn’t put my finger on it. But yes, Andrew Scott is doing a Mark Cousins impersonation.

Don’t want to worry anyone, but the Moby bikes have started speaking in tongues.

Lena in London, is what it could have been called. That is all.

walking along the street, listening to a podcast about how walking along the street listening to a podcast is a hastener of the end times

Colm Tóibín steps outside the Comfort Zone, with special guests each episode leading the way into everything from Keening and Mulholland Drive, to Microtonal Music and Lasagne. New episodes fortnightly. "The best thing on the radio" Declan Lynch, Irish Independent. www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...

Coming up at 6.30pm @rtelyricfm Culture File Presents The Comfort Zone, with Dr. Colm Tóibín, Dr. Luke Clancy and special guest Dr. Autumn Brown, who is ready to lead a voyage into silence, in all its shapes, durations & uncanny effects. You can listen anytime right here: www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...

Why is Rod Stewart making Glastonbury political? Artists should just shut up and perform

Forget policemen, Loaganma is looking very young these days.

Seems like there's a great opportunity here. If the damage assessment can be done by AI simulation, couldn't the strike also be done by AI simulation? Then could they just play with their super bigly AI at home without bothering/murdering the rest of humanity? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Can't get with all this Bluesky hasn't enough diversity of opinion notion that's be flooding the discourse this week. OK, Third Reich analogies are lame, but was anybody saying in 1932 that Berliner Tageblatt or Frankfurter Zeitung needed to open up to more Nazi voices? Besides the Nazis, that is?

Sound on! Some special writers brought a snap of themselves to our live Culture File Debate from Borris @writingandideas.bsky.social Here's journalist, Andrei Saldatov, remembering a photo from the very start of his career as a thorn in the side of Putin's Russia. More: www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...

Sound on! We asked some special writers to bring along a snap of themselves to our live Culture File Debate from Borris. Here's novelist, Samantha Harvey, who brought a picture of herself as a child, displayed in a special light box. To gasps. Full program: www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...

This is very good and important - even ends up with some very upbeat thoughts (hint: tariffs could help us break free from the overbearing manner in which trade agreements have made us give to American digital demands in things like privacy and digital locks) www.wnycstudios.org/story/enshtt...

Booker-winner Samantha Harvey, co-novelists Helen Macdonald & Sin Blaché; & journalist Andrei Soldatov share their fav author photographs & explore writers' navigation of self-presentation. LISTEN: to The Culture File Debate at Festival of Writing & Ideas 2025 www.rte.ie/radio/podcas...

Mostly the weirdly understated tone seems like an effort to normalise everything. But sometimes it feels like they’re actually attempting humour.

The future (3 parts)

Sandymount runs.

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