Culture File

How Castelblayney Players, like groups around the island, nurtured the amdram flame through the pandemic season.

Theatre comes to Limerick's People's Park in the shape of a knockabout comedy set at a performance by a travelling theatre troupe

Composer and artist, Jennifer Walshe dives into the scifi of Ursula Le Guin and contemplates simultaneity, as she waits at the boarding gates.

This weekly, Yves B Golden remembers scratchcards as a route into the great unknown, Jennifer Walshe on the poetry of data from a distant planet, Aine Gallagher spots Starlink and the onward march of capital, plus the astral projections of Dub Reggae with Mad Professor.

Musicmaker, curator and educator, Dominic Murcott shares some of the listenings, watchings, readings, tastings and smellings he'd recommend.

Dub innovator and impresario, Mad Professor leads a warp-speed voyage through the family tree of reggae.

The twinkling appearance of the Starlink satellite train in the skies above Beara propels Aine Gallagher into some space exploration.

Richard Branson's 'almost' space trip this weekend, presents the perfect moment to enjoy Jennifer Walshe's mediation on humans and their interstellar ambitions (First broadcast May 4th 2021)

In this special All-Rembrandt-All-The-Time edition, we travel to Amsterdam to join in the Netherland's celebrations of the 350th Anniversary of Rembrandt Van Rijn, during which the Rijksmuseum put on display every one of its Rembrandt holdings - a treasure through which curator and Rembrandt biographer, Jonathan Bikker leads Culture File.

American choral composer, Sarah Rimkus on some of her favourites in reading, watching, listening, tasting and smelling.

Women as they saw themselves in Jennifer Higgie's tour of self-portraits by women painters through history, hiking the Chemin De Nietzsche but looking for Bono, and the robotic life of Britney.

Hiking the Chemin de Nietzsche, in the South of France, near the Summer palace of Bono, writer, Liam Cagney gets all philosophically hot and bothered.

Art critic, Jennifer Higgie has been looking at the missing stories of historical women artists (including this time Artemisia Gentileschi) through the genre to which they had the greatest access: self-portraiture.

Art critic, Jennifer Higgie has been looking at the missing stories of historical women artists via the genre to which they had the greatest access: self-portraiture.

In her latest "Things Know Things" composer, Jennifer Walshe notices the hamstrung existences of Britney Spears and a robot. More from the series in our Thing Know Things playlist here: https://bit.ly/3A9xsdy

Reading, watching, listening, tasting and smelling pleasures of artist, Katherine Boucher Beug,

On the air this week is our latest Culture File Debate: We Shall Dance Again, but in this here podcast-only edition we'll have choral acts of remembrance, with US composer, Sarah Rimkus, Jeremy Till on post-scarcity art, a moment of radiophonic poetry from Yves B Golden, disembodied theatre with Darkfield Radio.

#WeWillDanceAgain emerged in the heart of the pandemic as an evocative slogan of resilience. But what does dance have to offer to a post-pandemic world? On our panel, Michael Klien, Professor of the Practice of Dance at Duke University, performer and conflict resolution guru, Dana Caspersen; and Galway-based dance artist, Bernie Divilly, lead.

Reading, watching, listening, tasting and smelling pleasures of artist, Katherine Boucher Beug,

On the air this week is our latest Culture File Debate: We Shall Dance Again, but in this here podcast-only edition we'll have choral acts of remembrance, with US composer, Sarah Rimkus, Jeremy Till on post-scarcity art, a moment of radiophonic poetry from Yves B Golden, disembodied theatre with Darkfield Radio.

Los Angeles-based poet and musician, Yves B Golden creates another radiophonic summer space for Culture File.

Sarah Rimkus' choral setting of interviews with survivors of the US's WWII internment of Japanese-Americans gets its Irish premiere this week from Chamber Choir Ireland.

The roots of Darkfield Radio's perfect pandemic artform lie in using smartphones to make theatre in the streets. Darkfield co-directors, David Rosenberg and Glen Neath explain.

Jeremy Till on a mission for art and design beyond creating objects that inspire ever-increasing consumption.

Jennifer Walshe finds the healing powers of twisting 'n' shouting undimmed by the pandemic; Bitch Falcon's Lizzie Fitzpatrick on her second life as a nurse; soprano, Elizabeth Hilliard on the demands of singing contemporary music, and cabinets of inspiration at the National Museum.