Crate-crawling and gum-chewing | Culture File
Deep in the crate-crawling world of Conor Guilfoyle on mission is to save the lost recordings of the Irish jazz scene. The music of gum-chew...
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Crate-crawling and gum-chewing | Culture File
Deep in the crate-crawling world of Conor Guilfoyle on mission is to save the lost recordings of the Irish jazz scene. The music of gum-chew...
The Screwtape Letters: with Day Magee
Culture File Presents The Comfort Zone: artist and performer Day Magee comes to unpack the enduring value of C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Lett...
The Screwtape Letters: with Day Magee
Culture File Presents The Comfort Zone: artist and performer Day Magee comes to unpack the enduring value of C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Lett...
Meghan O’Gieblyn Full Interview | Culture File
The full interview with Meghan O'Gieblyn from this week's Culture File.
Meghan O'Gieblyn, Tõnu Kaljuste, Paddy Woodworth | Culture File
"We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will,” a thought from French mystic Simone Weil, inspires Meghan O’Gieblyn's new...
Les Twins: with Favour Odusola
The Comfort Zone: dancer and choreographer, Favour "Official PAK" Odusola brings the choreographic art of Les Twins for appreciation, and al...
Samba Yonga, Mariano Llinás, Ernesto Montequin | Culture File
An epic trilogy of documentaries dedicated to a cinematic biography of Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges, premiered at this year's Venice...
The Comfort Zone: Anechoic Chambers with Beatie Wolfe
Musician, conceptual artist and regular Eno collaborator, Beatie Wolfe encourages The Comfort Zone crew to contemplate the not-quite-natural...
Culture File Presents Fictions: Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
Culture File's summer reading club concludes with Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, Jorge Luis Borges' story of a possibly lost, possibly never-ex...
Culture File Presents Fictions: Funes the Memorious
Culture File's summer reading club continues with Funes, His Memory, Jorge Luis Borges' tale of a man benefiting and suffering from total re...
Culture File Presents Fictions: The Circular Ruins
Culture File's August reading club featuring the Fictions of Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges. Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy are joined by...
Culture File Presents Fictions: The Circular Ruins
Culture File's August reading club featuring the Fictions of Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges. Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy are joined by...
Why are we like this? | CFDS
Art as history, and history as art in the research-driven, karaoke-spiced work of artist duo Ruth Clinton and Niamh Moriarty, showcased in a...
Fictions: Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (XXXL) | Culture File
Culture File's August reading club featuring the Fictions of Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges. Luke and Colm welcome a special guest to d...
Fictions: Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (XXXL) | Culture File
Culture File's August reading club featuring the Fictions of Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges. Luke and Colm welcome a special guest to d...
Counting Bashō | Culture File
Translator and poet, Andrew Fitzsimons on translating the complete haikus of Basho, the 17th century master of the form, and on the work of...
Fictions: The South | Culture File
Culture File launches a summer reading club on the fictions of Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges. Each week, Luke and Colm welcome a speci...
Do Bugs Need a Glow-Up? | The Culture File Debate
Luke Clancy and panel make the case for loving some teeming critters of the invertebrate kingdom. Advocating for their favourites are: Rache...
Do Bugs Need a Glow-Up? | The Culture File Debate
Luke Clancy and panel make the case for loving some teeming critters of the invertebrate kingdom. Advocating for their favourites are: Rache...