Opera director, Paul Curran, takes on the storied Greek amphitheatre at Siracusa in Sicily for his retelling of the tragedy of Phaedra.

Every week at one or other of Dublin's public football pitch, the members of the 1815 football club - along with anyone who fancies a game - come together to demonstrate the real value of public space.

Caoimhe Lavelle makes the case for the poetry and panache of artist, rocker and aficionado of the rondel, Lydia Tomkiw.

Orit Gat visits Ireland's entry to the current 60th edition of the Venice Biennale, and talks to artist Eimear Walshe about land and housing in Ireland and their meanings.

Sound artist and composer, Joseph Young, shares some of his favourite things in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.

Jennifer Walshe on the internet's "invisible literatures", as well as new music from the composer, enlisting generative AI to rethink Kurt Swchitter's Ursonate; Tadhg O'Sullivan consults a "black map" in his latest Cloud of Unknowing; and we listen to the cow who likes butter in Sarah Browne's latest work, Buttercup.

For his latest exploration towards the limits of knowing, Tadhg O'Sullivan has been consulting a "black map".

What does attending to a field of cattle have in common with making art? Agrarian artist Sarah Browne on the entangled worlds of humans and domesticated animals.

Invisible Literatures: Jennifer Walshe on what we do when we listen to ai-created music and sound.

Composer and academic, Sean Clancy on a few of his favourites in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.

This week's files take us: into the canopy in East Cork, at The Seed Pavilion; to meet Lonnie G. Bunch III, director of the network of museums and galleries that is The Smithsonian Institution; and through 25 years of RTÉ lyric fm in about six minutes.

The original Celtic celebration of Bealtaine gets an eco-spin at a temporary treehouse in Glenbower Woods in Killeagh this bank holiday weekend.

Like many American visitors to Ireland, Lonnie G. Bunch III, head of the Smithsonian, has uncovered some Irish heritage. But for him the discovery produces ambivalent feelings.

Like many American visitors to Ireland, Lonnie G. Bunch III, head of the Smithsonian, has uncovered some Irish heritage. But for him the discovery produces ambivalent feelings.

Composer and vocalist, Laura Bowler shares her current worlds in watching, readings, listening, tasting and smelling

Jennifer Walshe's data springwatch, Joseph Young brings the ancestors black to life in the garden at Kilruddery, a world of bleeps and bips in the experimental electronic music studio, Ruth Clinton sings her latest songbook.

Neil O'Connor, aka Ordnance Survey, aka Somadrone, is our guide for a safari among the blinking and beeping hardware at the brand new University of Limerick Electronic Music Studio (ULEMS).

More a gathering of friends than a supergroup, Tradition Now festival act Ruth Clinton teams up with Sinead Landless, Corman Lankum and Consuelo Varo to explore Clinton's new songbook, This Fearless Maid II.

Sound artist Joseph Young's new work, The Ancestors, places the voices of the long departed, among other sounds, around the gardens of Kilruddery House in Co Wicklow.

Spring is Here: The evolution of alarm clocks brings a new understanding of Springtime in composer and artist Jennifer Walshe's latest audio epistle.

Per Elling Braseth-Ellingsen of the Hamsun Centre, Norway, on some of his favourite things in watching, reading (would you guess that it's a book by Knut Hamsun), listening, tasting and smelling.

This year, for the first time ever a European Capital of Culture is located within the arctic circle, in Bodø, Norway, where events focus on the precarious cultures and ecologies of this icy part of the world, as well as the region's most famous, most perplexing writer, Knut Hamsun.

Deep inside the Arctic circle in Hamarøy, the childhood home of Nobel prize-winning Norwegian novelist, Knut Hamsum, a new exhibition deals with the writer's troubling legacy (Part 2).

Deep inside the Arctic circle in Hamarøy, the childhood home of Nobel prize-winning Norwegian novelist, Knut Hamsun, a new exhibition deals with the writer's troubling legacy.

English sheep farmer and writer James Rebanks' attention has turned to another type of farming practiced on remote Norwegian islands: eider down gathering.

Beginning a week of programs from inside the arctic circle at European Capital of Culture 2024, Bodø, we meet the man who makes music from an implement traditionally used by Eider gatherers.

Jennifer Walsh on the AI-imagine colours of old Ireland; All You Need Is Death director, Paul Duane on Irish folk horror in film and song; Laura Bowler tries to sing while getting tattooed in her new piece for New Music Dublin; and Deirdre O'Mahony's eco-opera film, The Quickening goes on a tour of "walls and halls".

Maynooth-based Brazilian composer, Victor Lazzarini has some suggestions for your weekend treats in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling

Artist, Deirdre O'Mahony's long running project on Irish foodways blossoms into an operatic film installation at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin and a national tour of "walls and halls".

Vocalist and composer, Laura Bowler's approach to New Music demands she gives audiences something to watch, as well as something to listen to and think about, whether that be mid-performance boxing, or for her latest work, live tattooing.

It lives! And by "it' we mean Irish Folk Horror, which is reanimated in the hands of documentary maker, Paul Duane with his first feature film, All You Need Is Death.

Old Ireland In Colour: Jennifer Walsh on what the best-selling books of colourised photos of the country's past can reveal about the nature of remembering, human and artificial.

Flautist and Stone Drawn Circles member, Lina Andonovska shares some of her favourite things in tv, books, music, podcasts, food and scent.

Recorded live at the Fidelio Winter Chamber Music Festival at St. Patrick's Drumcondra, our panel of Fidelio Trio pianist, Mary Dullea, and composers, Ronah Clarke and John Buckley, talk to Luke Clancy about music commissions: getting and giving. (First broadcast 231223)

Dark PR author, Grant Ennis takes a walk through Dublin decoding much motornormative manipulation.

In the final essay of her series on the meanings of amateurism, writer Joanna Walsh notices a spasm in what theorist Cory Doctorow calls the "enshittification" of the online world.

For his latest album composer, Victor Lazzarini has been adding the warmth of human improvisation to the electronic mix; Lina Andonovska of new New Music supergroup, Stone Drawn Circles explains the "why" and "how" of a new musical constellation; and Matana Roberts on the latest chapter of her epic of musical storytelling, Coin Coin.

Musician and composer, Matana Roberts, on the latest chapter of her jazz epic, Coin Coin, as well as the meaning of Beyonce's country turn. (2/2)

Musician and composer, Matana Roberts, on the latest chapter of her jazz epic, Coin Coin, and the unnamed woman whose story it explores. (1/2)

A new album of mysteriously warm and evocative electronic music, VLZ, summons Culture File to the synth-filled lair of composer, Victor Lazzarini.

How (and indeed why) to form a supergroup, with super-flautist, Lina Andonovska of new music constellation, Stone Drawn Circles

Presenter of the RTÉ NSO's new online concert series, Paul Herriott, shares some of his daily pleasures.

This month, Luke Clancy and a panel featuring ecologists Bill Jordan and Catherine Farrel, composer Karen Power and The Naturalist Bookshelf's Paddy Woodworth, discuss the places where art and ecology can usefully mix. (first broadcast 091021)

The Wager: A book by American journalist, David Grann, leads Jennifer Walshe into an unexpected cranny of the internet.

Paddy Woodworth's latest choice for addition to our shelf of essential nature books is a 2013 volume by Potawatomi botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer.

In the latest of her series on the meanings of amateurism in the online world, writer Joanna Walsh defines and celebrates the species of online essay she calls "The Trash Essay".

Documentary filmmaker, Valentina Signorelli shares some of her favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Isadora Epstein's Voyage turns the travels of St Brendan into performance art, Samuel Lawrence Cunnane turns a van into a travelling darkroom, Kerry Guinan's new exhibition converts a would-be nuclear shelter into a metaphor, and Jennifer Walshe's mission to explore the outer limits of AI arrives at Prompt Transformation.

Paddy Glackin and Donal Lunny join Lorcan Murray live in studio for a St Patrick's Day Classic Drive Special.

A nuclear hideaway under Athlone has inspired Dublin artist, Kerry Guinan to contemplate the apocalypse in a new show she curates at Luan Gallery.

San Francisco-born, Dublin-based artist, Isadora Epstein's latest venture stars herself as Jasconius, a whale companion of Saint Brendan.

Prompt Transformation: Jennifer Walshe on what we might learn about the latest LLMs from the writings of Lester Bangs.

This week, files with Mohammad Syfkhan, the man at the heart of the Kuridish music scene in Leitrim; AP Giannini, the Italian financier without whom we might never have heard of Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney or United Artists; Chequerboard on thinking differently about sounds and images; and Orit Gat on the art of Douglas Gordon.

Dublin guitarist and composer, John Lambert, aka Chequerboard shares some of his favourites in watching, listening, tasting and smelling.

Musician and designer, John Lambert, aka Chequerboard recently turned to, among other things, Eno's Oblique Strategies cards, in search of new ways of working and making.

Filmmaker, Valentina Signorelli's new documentary explores how a bank servicing poor Italian immigrants invented film financing as we know it.

Orit Gat’s latest Voice Note comes from Scottish artist, Douglas Gordon’s current London exhibition, which brings together four decades of work, spilling In movies and texts from the gallery to the nearby Underground.

Mohammad Syfkhan's first Irish album, "I Am Kurdish" is a message from the rich underground music scene in Leitrim.

Snaps shot of creativity around the island, and the world, with Cyborg Soloist, with Zubin Kanga; Star Wars tunes from Leo Pearson; poet Adam Wyeth words on his there will be no silence collaboration, and Jennifer Walshe on the largeness of LLMs.

Composer, pianist and technologist, Zubin Kanga shares some of his favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling

There will be no silence, in theory, in poet, Adam Wyeth's music and words collaboration with composer, David Downes at this year's New Music Dublin.

Pianist and composer Zubin Kanga is on a mission to discover how the technologically augmented classical soloist of the future might sound.

Musician and producer, Leo Pearson on building musical worlds, including for Cartoon Saloon's banshee-powered Star Wars ghost story, Screecher’s Reach.

Natural History Museum (Berlin Edition): Everything you can learn about AI by looking at dinosaurs (and beetles).

Artists and academics working in the realm of sleep, join Luke Clancy to explore the politics of sleep, from the sleep gap, to sleep and the city, and the emancipatory work of dreams, with a panel featuring Black Power Naps, Dr. Cressida Heyes, Peter Power and Dr. Antonio Zaadra.

Musician and academic, Matthew Noone on some of his favourite in film, books, music, podcasts, food and perfume.

Documentary filmmaker, Tadhg O'Sullivan steps into the world of fiction, with his latest, The Swallow, starring Brenda Fricker as a painter recalling lost love.

The experiences of the Polish diaspora in Belfast offer a key to knowing displacement and exile around the world, in a new song cycle from composer, Anselm McDonnell.

Seeking the non-human hidden in the human voice, with Swedish experimental vocalist and composer, Sofia Jernberg.

In the latest of her series on the meanings of amateurism in the online world, writer Joanna Walsh wrestles with the kitschness of AI, and the AI-ness of kitsch.

Dublin classicist and debut novelist behind Glorious Exploits, Ferdia Lennon shares some of his favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Why the grain of the human voice is as important as ever in a world of AI music; the musical multiverse of British composer, Basil Kirchin; surprise celebrity in the world of autism tiktok; and improv improv at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance 30th birthday celebrations.

Author and columnist, Eleanor Flegg is documenting on Tiktok the everyday challenges and triumphs of an adult with recently diagnosed autism.

Need some sonic nutrition? It's time you added to your playlists the rainbow magic of unclassifiable British composer, Basil Kirchin, suggests performance poet, Caoimhe Lavelle.

Interdisciplinary improvisations at the The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, marrying, among other collabs, contemporary dancers with a piper.

AI is the Grain of the Voice: In her latest exploration of the impacts of AI technologies, Jennifer Walshe AI encounters the potentials of voice cloning.

DJ Lychee on some of their favourites in watching, listening, tasting and smelling, with nods to musician Olan Monk and Old Spice deodorant.

The snowdrop wranglers of Altamont Gardens in Co Carlow, Joanna Walsh on being an amateur online and the meaning of LOLcats, and novelist Niamh Mulvey takes a waterside tour of the Kilkenny City that seeps into her fiction.

Kilkenny writer Niamh Mulvey takes us for a walk and some readings, along the banks of the River Nore.

Snowdrop hunters of the world have been assembling to spot rare examples in Altamont Gardens as part of Co Carlow's month-long celebration of the flower.

Writer, Joanna Walsh continues her series exploring what it means to be an amateur online with a visit to icanhascheezburger.com

Pianist and composer, Leon Michener, aka Klavikon, shares some of his favourites in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling

The Dubliners of Ancient Sicily in debut novelist, Ferdia Lennon's Glorious Exploits, set in a Magna Graecia convulsed by the Peloponnesian war; DJ Lychee's Lunar New Year dance soundtrack; and Sadhbh O’Sullivan's Bridgidian song cycle “In Cloak and Womb"

Irish-Vietnamese producer and musician, DJ Lychee creates a soundtrack for Lunar New Year aerial dance spectacular for Dublin.

The malleable legacy of Brigid of Kildare inspires a song cycle from composer and vocalist, Sadhbh O’Sullivan.

Dubliner, Ferdia Lennon's debut novel, about an attempt to stage a play with Athenian captives on Sicily, uses a familiar brand of hiberno-English to storm the ancient world.

This time, the man v machine music magic of Klavikon, Joanna Walsh on what it means to be an amateur in the world of the gig economy, performance poet Caoimhe Lavelle on what a hula hoop adds to a poem, a tribute to master typographer, Phil Baines.

Hula-hooping poet and performer, Caoimhe Lavelle shares some of her favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling

Composer Leon Michener, creator of the app (amplified prepared piano) he calls a Klavikord, points his unique instrument at the big questions of humanity, machines and the spaces in between.

Master typographer, designer, inspirational teacher, writer and walking tour guide, Prof Phil Baines has died. He was our guide, here, on the very first episode of Culture File, in which he brings us through the streets of Dublin, uncovering the casual beauty in the capital's letterscape.

The obvious, but little-explored benefits of bringing a hula hoop to poetry readings, with writer-performer Caoimhe Lavelle.

Writer, Joanna Walsh begins a new series exploring what it means to be an amateur online.

Anthropologist and water-being whisperer, Veronica Strang on some of her cherished stuffs in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Anthropologist Veronica Strang on water beings, the slippery creatures who have been helping humans to understand their planet for millenia. Jennifer Walshe on the sincerity of ChatGTP; and into deep space in the music of jazz composer, Meilana Gillard.

"Water beings" in cultures around the world are ready to teach us again about how to live on planet earth, suggests anthropologist, Veronica Strang (2/2)

Water Beings in cultures around the world are ready to teach us again about how to live on planet earth, suggests anthropologist, Veronica Strang (1/2)

Chasing Comets, saxophonist, Meilana Gillard's new suite for the RGB Trio, takes inspiration from the cosmos - and Nintendo and Sega game sound.

Unaccustomed as it is to public speaking, ChatGPT has been making inroads at our most important social events and moments. Jennifer Walshe wonders if we really should be surprised.

A special edition of The Culture File Weekly on filmmaker Tadhg O'Sullivan's cultural history of ignorance from Fawlty Towers to new born babies, The Cloud of Unknowing.

Another chance to hear the word "wild" hunted down by our panel: writer/artist, Lisa Fingleton; Nature File's Anja Murray; sailor/artist, Gwen Wilkinson; The Naturalist Bookshelf's Paddy Woodworth; along with chair Luke Clancy.

At the inaugural Beta digital arts festival in Dublin, writer, Joanna Walsh, artist//designer, Leon Butler; and writer/academic, Jennifer O'Meara join Luke Clancy to discuss creativity, authenticity and AI.

Composer and MIDI maven, Jeff Rona shares some of his favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Recorded live at this year's Fidelio Winter Chamber Music Festival at St. Patrick's Drumcondra, our panel of Fidelio Trio pianist, Mary Dullea, and composers, Rhona Clarke and John Buckley, talk to Luke Clancy about music commissions: getting and giving.

The artist, Lisa Fingleton responds to the unease of our moment with a story for children and adults inspired by (among other things) a climate activist who went to work at an oil company.

The artist, Lisa Fingleton responds to the unease of our moment with a story for children and adults inspired by (among other things) a climate activist who went to work at an oil company. Check out the podcast feed for a full download of "Walter The Warmonger".

Composer and technologist, Jeff Rona on the bedroom music revolution that the arrival of MIDI sparked. (2/2)

Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) celebrated its 40th birthday this year, but the ideas behind the music making technology have millennia deep roots. (1/2)

Conductor and fiddle player Sinead Hayes deconstructs the trad session, Conor O'Reilly's CóR project eyes sustainability for choral music, and Belfast polymath and techno magician Max Cooper's experiments in 3D/AV magic.

Conductor violinist and Tangletrad inventor, Sinead Hayes shares some of her favourites in watching, listening, tasting and smelling.

Belfast producer and musician, Max Porter on finding the visual forms for his music

Choir conductor and composer, Conor O'Reilly's new venture, Cór wants to see choral music in Ireland act a bit more like the GAA.

Conductor and violinist, Sinead Hayes on "Tangletrad" - her 20 rules for creative intervention at your local seisiun (2/2)

Conductor and violinist, Sinead Hayes has a masterplan for developing musical infrastructure in the West of Ireland involving, among other things, a large number of candles (1/2)

Digging up the revolution that dare not speak its name in Ciara Hyland's documentary, Croíthe Radacacha; Sam Gandy on a new future for psychedelics; Kilkenny's Moot Tapes collective celebrates five years of DIY action; and the art of the robo-cello, as practiced in Sweden.

Documentary maker, Ciara Hyland (Croíthe Radacacha, 74 Days: The Hunger Strike of Terence MacSwiney) on a few of her favourite things.

Cybernetic gossip from Sweden, as the creator of robo-cellist, Magnhild brings news of her relationship with a post-feminist performance-artist robot called Harmony.

Sending signals and waving flags with producer Peter Lawlor and artist-illustrator, Stephen Morton and their DIY tangible record label, Moot Tapes.

Ciara Hyland's documentary "Croíthe Radacacha" tells the stories of Queer women in revolutionary Ireland.

Dr Sam Gandy on what psychedelics, such as psilocybin may offer both in clinical settings and to the environmental movement.

A brand new concert hall The Lark, with a brand new choir the IIMS Chamber Choir; talking on the concert stage with Patrick Rafter at his Marble City Music Festival, and Orit Gat on a retrospective of painter and sculptor, Nicole Eisenman at London's Whitechapel Gallery.

Music producer and IIMSCC vocalist, Hugh Clarke shares some of his tops in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.

French-born, US artist, Nicole Eisenman's retrospective in London takes a sampling of 30 years of the artist's work, and in turn is sampled by Orti Gatt for her latest Voice Notes.

World-renowned Irish violinist, Patrick Rafter has created The Marble City Music Festival in his home city of Kilkenny - and The Four Seasons are at the heart of it.

In Balbriggan, choral master Jo-Michael Scheibe is in rehearsals with the IIMS Chamber Choir at The Lark concert hall. (2/2)

A visit to Balbriggan to meet the people behind Irish Institute of Music and Song and its associated brand new 400 seat concert hall, The Lark. (1/2)

Composer, Ailis Ni Rhiann meets up with a contrabass flute in search of some deep inspiration; a dazzling performance of Eriks Eshevald's hymn to the aurora borealis, Rivers of Light; and John Francis Flynn on thwarting any expectations the world has about a trad musician.

A favourite voice on some of her favourite things, as vocalist and composer, Caroline Shaw marks selects some watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling

Irish folk renaissance man, John Francis Flynn on picking up an electric guitar for the first time and other stirrings in the force of contemporary trad.

Michael Dawson and Maynooth University Chamber Choir come into the studio for a live Culture File celebrating Rivers of Light, a choral hymn to aurora borealis from Latvian composer, Eriks Ešenvalds.

Maynooth University Chamber Choir performing Rivers of Light, a choral hymn to aurora borealis from Latvian composer, Eriks Ešenvalds.

Sharon Carty joins Lorcan Murray for the Winter Special of Classic Drive live from Studio 1 in Donnybrook. Sharon performs Siébel's Aria from Gounod's Faust with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.

Sharon Carty and Gavan Ring performing Et Misericordia from Bach's Magnificat with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra live in Studio 1 in Donnybrook for the Classic Drive Winter Special.

Gavan Ring performs 'Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön', an aria from The Magic Flute by Mozart, with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra as part of the Classic Drive Winter Special live from Studio 1.

Media theorist, Liam Cole Young, on the darkest kind of list and listmakers, as well as the explosive effect on intellectual life of one short list created by the Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges. (RPT)

A musical playdate in Dublin as composer Ailís Ní Ríain and flautist Lina Andonovska meetup to see what music they, along with a brand new contrabass flute, might make.

Recorded live at Dublin Book Festival, writer and artist, Lisa Fingleton, Nature File's Anja Murray, sailor and artist, Gwen Wilkinson, along with The Naturalist Bookshelf's Paddy Woodworth, join Luke Clancy to investigate the secret life of the word "wild".

Composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist and Japanophile, Peter Broderick shares a few of his favourite things in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.

Previewing our Culture File Debate, Paddy Woodworth explores the word wild, and its place in the book trade and the future of the planet.

Soprano, cellist, improvisor, composer and writer, Héloïse Werner on finding a place in the musical world when you’re a cello-playing soprano who likes to do comedy. (2/2)

Soprano, cellist, impovisor, composer and writer, Héloïse Werner on her childhood in the choral hothouse of France's Maîtrise de Radio France’, and ending up on the festival comedy stage.

Birdcast: A summer running route brings an encounter with birds and wires for Jennifer Walsh, recorded in her latest postcard from the technological edge.

Galway's Tulca visual art festival kicks off; earthy Limerick improvisers, Peist collaborate with dancer, Aiobhinn O’Dea; Dan Colley's Lost Lear mashes up puppets, people and Shakespear to explore dementia; and Paddy Woodworth brings his latest suggestion for the Naturalist's Bookshelf.

Harpist, early music specialist, and Alice Coltrane admirer, Brenda Molloy shares some of her favourite things in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.

Another chance to hear creator, Dan Colley on Lost Lear, his puppets 'n' people show about using Shakespeare in the care of a former actor with dementia, which is now on a national tour.

Light Moves Festival welcomes a wriggly collaboration between dance artist, Aiobhinn O’Dea and Limerick sonic improvisers, Péist.

Paddy Woodworth's latest choice for slipping on to our shelf of ideal books of nature writing is Diary of a Left-Handed Bird Watcher, a 1996 volume by Californian writer, Leonard Nathan

Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, curator of Tulca, Galway's festival of visual arts, on the Tulca's focus on experiences of disability, including that of J.J. Beegan, a Ballinasloe-born artist and sculptor, who spent most of his life as a patient in an English asylum.

Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, curator of this year's TULCA visual arts festival in Galway, shares a few of her favourite things for watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Artists, curators, archivists, politicians, lawyers and activists gathered at the Reparations 2023 conference in London recently to explore the shapes reparations for the Afrikan slave trade might take. Culture File presents a special report from the event from Louise Williams.

In her latest report from the recent Conference on Afrikan Reparations in London, Louise Williams follows discussions on what reparations might mean for British museums. (3/3)

Lisa Anderson, of the Black Cultural Archives, on the work of collecting, preserving and celebrating the histories of people of African and Caribbean descent. (2/3)

Actor, playwright and director, Kwame Kwei-Armah was one of those addressing a conference in London on aspects of Reparations from cultural redress to environmental justice.

From his secret cave, Irish musical kingpin, Dónal Lunny shares some of his favourites in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.

A supersession in Dundalk, as trad supergroup led by Zoë Conway, Dónal Lunny and friends take on Terry Riley's Minimalist touchstone, In C

Another chance to hear Forensic Architecture-founder, Eyal Weitzman on the art group/research agency's work decoding violent incidents around the world.

Culture File's regular tech soothsayer, Prof Aisling Kelliher on a new product that intends to replace your very old fashioned handheld mobile device. Plus: Meta's celeb chatbots.

Composer and musician, Peter Broderick has found himself uncannily connected with the musics of the late American music maker, Arthur Russell. (part 2 of 2)

For Lá na Cruite | National Harp day, poet Moya Cannon shares not her Culture File Likes, but what she imagines of the savour of the Irish Harp, Edward Bunting might click on.

Join Luke Clancy for a compilation of highlights and extras from his weekday reports on Lorcan Murray's Classic Drive, a journey into creativity in the contemporary world

Irish based composer and musician, Peter Broderick has found himself uncannily connected with the musics of the late American music maker, Arthur Russell. (part 1 of 2)

Wexford Festival Opera's 2023 treats include a Wexford-ated take on Puccini's romp, Gianni Schicchi performed with local volunteers and future stars from Wexford Opera Factory.

With films such All The People In The Place, on the 90s rave scene, artist, Jeremy Deller has spent a career turning sub-cultures into culture.

Fat Bear Week: Even if the change of seasons are quite manifesting as they should, Jennifer Walshe takes consolation in some thicc bears.

Sigurrós and Inga of Fischersund share some of the favourite things in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling

This week, Orit Gat takes in Marina Abramovic, or the performers who would be Marina Abramovic at a retrospective in London; Roisin Stack's Dublin Theatre Festival explores aloneness; a new bass clarinet arrives at the RTÉ Concert Orchestra; and the cosmic jazz of Alice Coltrane via the harp of traditional musician, Brenda Malloy.

Clarinetist, Macdara Ó Seireadáin introduces the brand new bundle of bass currently getting played in with the RTÉCO: a bass clarinet.

Róisín Stack's one woman show cum lecture thinks about the women's "alone time" with the help of the writings of Mary Oliver, Silvia Plath and others.

Avant garde quartet, Zeropunkt beam harpist Brenda Molloy onboard for an exploration of the out-of-this-world sounds of Alice Coltrane.

For her latest voice notes Orit Gat has been to see and feel a retrospective of the performance artist, Marina Abramovic at the Royal Academy of Art in London.

Improviser and composer, Panos Ghikas on a few of his favorite things in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling...

A naggin of the spirit of the times, from the philosophy of making your own clothes to the music of datacenters, with a new exhibition space for the Bloomsbury gang's base at Charleston, the alluring folk horror of artist, Jonathan Baldock, and a touring show on invisible worlds from Jennifer Walshe.

Writer and curator, Charlie Porter, on how the ideas of the Bloomsbury group lead him to making -- and loving -- his own clothes.

The Bloomsbury group's famous Sussex getaway, Charleston, launches its new sister art space with a look at the fashion philosophy of Virginia Woolf and others

Composer, Jennifer Walshe, along with Elizabeth Hilliard, Nick Roth and Panos Ghikas, plus students from schools around Ireland, collaborate on a new work, Oscailt.

Singer-songwriter, surfer and sometime Co Clare resident, Amelia Baker on some of her favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

A special program from this year's End of The Road Festival, with Bafta-award winning director and festival film curator, Mark Jenkin, academic and folk singer, Angeline Morrison - plus a little help choosing your new favourite band from Manchester design duo, Mikesian Studios.

Academic, musician and songwriter, Angeline Morrission is fortifying UK folk music by creating the missing folk songs of the Black British experience.

Director Mark Jenkins on the real and imaginary biographies of a lobster that acted in his Bafta award-winning film, Bait.

The second part of a convo with Mark Jenkin, director of "Cornish Folk Horror" film Enys Men, on making Cornish films and music.

Mark Jenkin, director of Bafta winning fishing tale, Bait, on creating a live soundtrack to his "Cornish Folk Horror" Enys Men.

Who Wants to Write an Email? is an AI-hype sniff test in the form of an interactive comedy quiz show about spotting AI-created text.

Composer and clarinetist manqué, Shaun Davey on some his favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Luke Clancy introduces the latest collection of culture stories: from a "caoineadh of ecological and climate grief" sung on a lake in Cavan, to the siblings behind Icelandic music, art and scent brand, Fischersund and the past present and future of the tokens sometimes known as money.

"A caoineadh of ecological and climate grief" is what artist, AlanJames Burns and collaborators Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan and NYAH, call their new collaborative performance-cum-ritual on a Co. Cavan lake.

Sigurrós and Inga of Fischersund on the scentscape of Iceland, including that unforgettable whale

The second part of our conversation with Rachel O' Dwyer, author of Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform, on platform payments and programmed money. (2/2)

Rachel O'Dwyer's new book, Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform, sees the Irish writer meeting money in all its emergent forms.

Kalaf Epalanga on his debut novel and the story of kuduro, with sounds from Tony Amado, Os Lambas, Carl Craig and Epalanga's old band, Buraka Som Sistema. (Remix)

Another chance to hear our special edition from Vienna, featuring: art at the re-modelled Austrian Parliament building; artist duo, Muntean/Rosenbloom; crowdsourcing modular opera; and a cross-cast production of The Threepenny Opera.

The pasts, presents and futures of gardens are under discussion, as Paddy Woodworth shepherds a panel of Mary Reynolds, Seamus O'Brien and Colin Stafford-Johnson in discussing the possibilities and responsibilities in a time of crisis. Recorded at The National Botanical Gardens, Kilmacurragh. Co Wicklow.

Choreographer and artist behind Garden as Gallery, Joan Davis shares some of her favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

In a podcast-only program, we return to The National Botanical Gardens, Kilmacurragh. Co Wicklow for the Q&A session from this month's Culture File Debate on the pasts, presents and futures of gardens, with Paddy Woodworth, Mary Reynolds, Seamus O'Brien, Colin Stafford-Johnson.

Paddy Woodworth's latest choice for addition to our shelf of ideal nature books, is a 2018 collaboration between poet Mark Roper and photographer Paddy Dwan, Comeragh: Mountain, Coum, River, Rumour.

Learn to dance like the leaves do, is one of the prospects of artist and choreographer, Joan Davis latest project in her garden in Co Wicklow,

On Saturday, the Culture File Debate comes from the National Botanic Gardens at Kilmacurragh in Co Wicklow, where our panel discusses the past, present and future of gardens. Here's a taste of the convo.

AI as Companion Species: to conclude her exploration of the things AI is a little bit like, Jennifer Walshe thinks imagine AI as critters with which we might have to learn to live.

Absurdist cricket with Pinter and Beckett at the crease in Shomit Dutta's play, Stumped at Bewley's Café Theatre; media images of the Women's World Cup 23 decoded by Orit Gat; new exhibitions at Galway International Festival from Ruby Wallis, and in Turin, exploring the fugitive art of Lee Lozano.

Digital Humanities specialist at TCD's Long Room Hub, Jennifer Edmond shares some of her favourites in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.

Artist Ruby Wallis' show at Galway Arts Centre, Whistling in the Dark, looks at superstitions and taboos around women whistling.

An extended version of our conversation with football critic and art writer, Orit Gat, on everything we can tell about the future of Women's Football from the framing of this year's Women's World Cup.

What can we tell about the future of Women's Football from the framing of this year's Women's World Cup, with football critic and art writer, Orit Gat?

Orit Gat returns with some voice notes on the "scandalous feminism" of 1960s artist Lee Lozano, taken at the current Lozano exhibition, Strike, at Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin.

Nobel-prizewinning fielding in Shomit Dutta's new play, Stumped, which imagines Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter playing cricket together.

Kalaf Epalanga's debut novel tells the story of a network of people caught up in immigration arrest, but also the story of kuduro music. Plus Jennifer Walshe's latest Things Know Things, on how AI resembles Conceptual Art

Vocalist and opera maker, Loré Lixenberg shares some of her favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Irish Times music critic, Michael Dervan, helps us assess classical music offerings from Qobuz, Spotify and Naxos, as well as the utility of "spatialized" audio.

Buraka Som Sistema MC, Kalaf Epalanga, on his beat-powered debut novel, Whites Can Dance Too, and the story of Kuduro. (2/2)

Actor Gabriel Adewusi shares some of his favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Culture File goes pitchside for some fine art soccer from Man U midfield legend, Juan Matta, locates Dublin sites associated with the slave trade, visits a sex-postive bakery, and take a headlong dive into the jungle of classical music streaming services.

The debut novel from Buraka Som Sistema star, Kalaf Epalanga, is part of the author's mission to tell the world about the genre of electronic dance music called, Kuduro.

AI is Conceptual Art: In the latest of her essays attempting to uncover things that might help us to think through AI, Jennifer Walshe settles upon Conceptual Art.

Poor tagging and a patchy search has been discouraging for anyone trying to enjoy classical music from the streaming services. Does the launch of Apple Classical mean all that is changing?

Fooderia, on Dublin's Capel Street, is Ireland's first sex-positive bakery, offering a range of choco-caramel and cream slathered treats, all modelled on human genitalia.

Culture File's Senior Artball Correspondent, Orit Gat reports from Manchester International Festival, where this year artist, Tino Seghal and former Manchester United and Spain midfielder, Juan Mata, team up for a football-into-art performance work.

Richard Carson leads a walking tour in the region of Lower Gardiner St. area which surfaces traces of the slave trade in the fabric of Dublin.

Composer and University of California professor of composition, João Pedro Oliveira on a few of his favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Audio excursions into the realms of both slime mould with Jennifer Walshe, and the dung beetle with Deirdre O'Mahony, as well as for a telling dip in the swimming pools of Dublin with Chinedum Muotto.

Artist, Deirdre O'Mahony on creating the art of Irish rural realities. (part 2 of 2)

Artist, Deirdre O'Mahony on creating the art of Irish rural realities. (part 1 of 2)

Dublin-based artist, Chinedum Muotto uses video, sound and sculpture to explore swimming stories and experiences of the African diaspora in Dublin and Barbados.

AI is Gunk Mould: Jennifer Walshe adds slime/gunk mould to her catalogue of RL things which AI might resemble.

Composer, Joao Pedro Oliveira projects some music for the eyes; Pipeworks festival star, David Goode on the power and glory of his chosen instrument; experimental vocalist, Lore Lixerberg teams up with composer, Karen Power and Tadhg O'Sullivan has been stealing work from the AI for his latest Cloud of Unknowing.

English organist, Bach specialist and star of this week's Pipeworks festival, David Goode on some of his favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Californian based Portuguese composer, Joao Pedro Oliveira, explores how seeing and hearing are not always as distinct as we'd like to imagine.

Mezzo-soprano, Lore Lixenberg and composer, Karen Power team up with Amazonian birds and Namib Desert critters for a sonic adventure in Language, Land, Sea.

In his latest cloud, Tadhg O'Sullivan contemplates the will to datafy and the myths of Palo Alto.

English organ star, David Goode on power, faith and the particular life of the organist.

This week, composer Caroline Shaw on the joys of Tiktok and ABBA; Jennifer Walshe's Things Know Things explores the relationship between AI and EVP; the progressive politics of witches celebrated in Junk Ensemble's Ritual, and Aisling Kelliher on what the movies have lead us to expect from Apple's Visio Pro headset.

Balbriggan teacher and novelist, Kevin Curran shares some of his recent favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Prof Aisling Kelliher of USC School of Cinematic Arts on Apple's Vision Pro and the cinematheque of dystopian dataspaces, in an extended version.

Prof Aisling Kelliher of USC School of Cinematic Arts on Apple's Vision Pro and the cinematheque of dystopian dataspaces.

Finding love on TikTok and other adventures in the life of Pulitzer and Grammy winning composer, violist and vocalist, Caroline Shaw.

The dissident potential of witches is under inspection in Junk Ensemble's latest, a live performance installation created with a collaborative team that includes Jesse Jones, Aideen Barry and Planningtorock.

AI is EVP: In the latest of her attempts to uncover all the things that AI is like, Jennifer Walshe strikes upon the uncanny business of Electronic Voice Phenomenon.

Irish composer, Emma O'Halloran on some of her favourite things in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling

Vocalist and songwriter, Aoife O'Donovan on the tools for telling stories in song; teenage voices of Balbriggan filtered through the writing of Kevin Curran in a new novel about life in Ireland's most diverse town, and Orit Gat on the baked art of Uri Aran in his exhibition, Take This Dog for Example.

Art writer, Orit Gat sends some voice notes from amongst the chocolate chip cookies and letter shaped bread of artist, Uri Aran's Dublin exhibition, Take This Dog For Example.

Writer Kevin Curran and actor, Gabriel Adewusi, on bringing stories of teenage life in Ireland's youngest and most diverse town to life for the audiobook version of Curran's latest novel, Youth.

American folk vocalist, songwriter, and sometime Yo-Yo Ma collaborator, Aoife O'Donovan brings it all back home to Clonakilty

Jennifer Walshe on possibly the best way to pronounce AI; composer Dave Flynn on the sounds that fill the air of Aotearoa/New Zealand, and Prof Jennifer Edmond on the benefits of having machines read novels for us - at least some of the time.

Writer and historian and author of a new study of the long history of Palo Alto, Malcolm Harris shares some of his favorites in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling

Prof Jennifer Edmond, of Trinity Center for Digital Humanities, on what we gain when we engage machines to read novels. (2/2)

TCD's Prof Jennifer Edmond's approach into literature involves, among other things, using data analytics to explore vast collections of novels.

Irish composer Dave Flynn falls under the spell the Tuis and the Kakapo and other birds that fill the air of Aotearoa/New Zealand with unique sound.

AI is "A.I." Jennifer Walshe on the stories we can't stop telling ourselves about AI.

The musician and composer behind Ordnance Survey, Neil O'Connor on some of his favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling

Palo Alto became a centre of technology while horses were still providing much of the world's horsepower. But the story of this San Francisco suburb and its approach to the people and resources offers a useful way of understanding the contemporary world, according to historian Malcolm Harris' new book.

Malcolm Harris' epic new history of Palo Alto unpicks some of the stories Silicon Valley likes to tell about itself. Plus this time, the rise of former Stanford Philosophy grad and current ultra-right billionaire, Peter Thiel. (3/3)

Malcolm Harris continues the story of Palo Alto, home to eugenics-inspired Stanford university, which grew into the engine of Silicon Valley. (2/3)

Historian Malcolm Harris on his new book on the San Francisco suburb that gave the world the "Palo Alto System". (1/3)

Paddy Woodworth's imaginary shelf of the world's best nature writing adds a slim volume (or three) of poetry by Seamus Heaney.

Choreographer, dancer and former cross country skier, Marco D'Agostin on some of his favourites in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.

A spectral reimagining of the music of Seán Ó Riada, Marco D'Agostin's tribute to the late English dance artist, Nigel Charnok, a visit to "the longest stage in the world" and Jennifer Walshe on all the many ways that AI is like an energy drink.

The GrünflächenUnterhaltung is a yearly event held in the German city of Münster creating "the longest stage in the world" with four kilometers of musicians performing on a Saturday afternoon in May.

The musical territory of Seán Ó Riada reimagined by Ordnance Survey, the current moniker of Irish composer and musician, Neil O'Connor.

The dance philosophy of late British choreographer, Nigel Charnok is honoured in a show from one-time pupil, Marco D’Agostin.

AI Is An Energy Drink: Jennifer Walshe on how generative AI has much in common with your favourite can of caffeinated pop.

Musician and theorist, DeForrest Brown on The Otolith Group, the origins of Detroit techno and his Make Techno Black Again campaign; Susan Stenger on the sound of Connemara granite, and Berlin cellist, Anne Müller on her great escape from the orchestra.

Composer and creator of the NCH's new sound installation in Stephen's Green, Ellen Reid on a few of her favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

DeForrest Brown on the music and the underwater mythos of Detroit techno duo, Drexciya. (2/2)

American writer and musician, DeForrest Brown is on a mission to rewire ideas of what Techno really is -- where it came from and what it's for.

Some reasons not to join an orchestra, and other things cellist and composer, Anne Müller learned on the way to creating her own tech-augmented cello sound.

Flautist, composer, sound artist, sometime Nick Cave bassist, Susan Stenger on finding the musical form of Tim Robinson's Connemara.

Cellist, composer and Erased Tape-staple, Anne Müller on a few of her favourite things, from the music of Ben Lukas Boysen to her partner's homemade bread.

...and what is it they say? Luke Clancy and a panel featuring contemporary artist/sean-nós singer, Ceara Conway; Durham University Professor of Music Cognition, Tuomas Eerola; and music journalist, Molly Cantwell discuss the space we make for sad songs, and accompanying tears.

An extended interview with contemporary dance innovator and voguing aficionado, Trajal Harrell; composer, Ellen Reid on adding a headphones soundtrack to Stephen's Green in Dublin; and Jennifer Walshe on AI music as fan fiction.

American composer, Ellen Reid's globe-spanning, GPS-based headphones-music project arrives in Dublin's Stephen's Green.

Everything from Keith Jarret's piano improvisations to the queer subculture of voguing provide inspiration for dancer and choreographer, Trajal Harrell.

Music As Fan Fiction: Jennifer Walshe on how generative AI is reshaping how we understand music.

Sound excursions from the bogs of Monaghan with artist Siobhan McDonald, a cellar in Brno with "imaginary folk" band Širom, and a symposium for Tim Robinson in Kylemore Abbey, Connemara; plus Orit Gat on the scent of freshly cut grass and other alarm calls.

Some favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling from musician and filmmaker, Dónal O'Connor.

A childhood incident in the bogs of Monaghan form part of the inspiration for artist, Siobhan McDonald's new body of work at The Model, Sligo.

Slovenian trio, Širom use strictly acoustic, often home-made instruments to create a world of sound that is entirely their own.

Landscape scholar, Finola O'Kane on the vast, yet small distances between pineapples and potatoes, and other quirks of Connemara cartography.

In the final part of her series of reflections on scent and memory, writer Orit Gat pursues the reasons to think and write about scent. (5/5)

Twenty years of thinking through art gathered in Sarah Pierce's show, Scene of the Myth at IMMA; Tadhg O'Sullivan's Cloud of Unknowing settles on the peak of double empathy; and Robert Curgenven builds a "Pavilion of Air" in Merrion Square, Dublin.

Joe Greene of Belfast cosmic popsters, Documenta on some of his favourite stuff for watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Robert Curgenven takes a walk through Merrion Square, Dublin, where the latest instance of his ambient/ambulatory sound work, Pavilion of Air is currently floating.

What is an exhibition supposed to be, and other questions from Scene of the Myth, a survey of 20 years of work in forms from archives to performance by artist, Sarah Pierce.

A new show at IMMA performs the tricky task of looking over 20 years of artist, Sarah Pierce's activities in installations, performances, talks, publications and archives.

Tadhg O'Sullivan contemplates othermindedness; beginning, as has become the tradition, by considering the bat.

English writer and filmmaker, Alex Harvey explores Tom Waits' LA music, and the sounds, streets and cinema that inspired it. Plus: Orit Gat on the meanings of "signature scents".

Actor, writer, comedian and podcaster, Joe Pera on some of his favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling

Alex Harvey, author of Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles, on Waits' debt to the movies. (2/2)

English documentary maker, Alex Harvey explores Tom Waits' LA-inspired music in a new book, Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles. (1/2)

In the latest of her series of reflections on scent and memory, writer Orit Gat decodes the idea of having a signature scent. (4/5)

A selection of audio eggs containing everything from Jennifer Walshe on an intriguing editing trend on TikTok, to a dropin on the moshpit with Hastings Punk choir, via everything you might learn about Irish 16th century women's lives through their cookbooks.

For his latest choice of essential writing on the natural world, Paddy Woodworth selects Robert Lloyd Praeger's exploration of Ireland, The Way that I Went.

The late historian and writer, Jonathan Bardon on how the contralto, Susanna Cibber, came to perform in the premier of Handel's Messiah (Repeat)

Monday night is rehearsal night for the members of the "anti-choir" Hastings Punk Choir...

Corecore: Jennifer Walshe on a Tiktok style that just might be more than a viral trend.

Vocalist and fungi fan, Lauren Kinsella on some of her favourite things in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

On the program this week, the world's oldest voices recorded among the centenarians of the Talysh Mountains, the synthesised voice of her brother, David, in Holly Marie Parnell's documentary Cabbage, falling asleep to Joe Pera's voice in the comedian's new sleep podcast, and Orit Gat on art that smells.

Producer Ian Brennan and Italian-Rwandan photographer, Marilena Umuhoza Delli travelled to the Talysh Mountains to record and document the "The Oldest Voice in the World" - and to hear the life hacks of the centenarians.

Concertina player Maura O'Connor from the Sliabh Luachra region joined Lorcan in studio for a chat and some tunes.

Writer and comedian Joe Pera brings the capacity for everyday awe celebrated in his TV show, Joe Pera Talks With You to the stage.

In her latest work, Cabbage, filmmaker, Holly Marie Parnell collaborates with her mother and her brother, David, a non-mobile, non-verbal person, who communicates using eye-tracking technology.

In the latest of her series of reflections on scent and memory, writer Orit Gat recalls times when art and the sense of smell converged. (3/5)

Jennifer Walshe in the imaginary real Oxford/Longford, Lauren Kinsella in the kingdom of mushrooms, Micheál Mac Liammóir at An Taibhdhearc, and Yves B Golden airside and enjoying it.

Director of the New Music Dublin festival of contemporary sounds shares some of his regular delights in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Yves B Golden on the profound joy of the pause that only getting airborne allows.

The ghost of Micheál Mac Liammóir - along with Oscar Wilde's revenant singing George Michael anthems - roams the earth in Wáltsáil Abhaile, Fíbín theatre company's latest show at An Taibhdhearc in Galway.

Among the treats at The Ark's Big Bang festival are mushrooms, conjured in the mesmerising music of improvising vocalist Lauren Kinsella and friends.

Fictional Tourists: Composer and artist, Jennifer Walshe keeps finding her everyday world reproduced in art. Or is it the other way around?

The North of England's many efforts at cultural renaissance in a new memoir from Alex Niven; Orit Gat, on a satisfyingly difficult to pin down smell that lives in an apartment in Brooklyn; and Ella De Guzzman, the bag detective of Siopaella, on things that last.

Ella De Guzman turned her skills as a designer bag detective into her business Siopaella

Alex Niven, author of a new cultural history-cum-memoir of Northern England continues his tour of attempted Northern renaissances (2/2)

Writer and academic, Alex Niven's new book, The North Will Rise Again, is a cultural history-cum-memoir of Northern England.

In the latest of her series of reflections on scent and memory, writer Orit Gat recalls an old love, and an apartment in Brooklyn. (2/5)

Salvation through making at this year's MAKE symposium in Cork with academic, Tim Ingold and artist, Ann Hamilton. The long-term impact of a 19th century plant hunting expedition to America, through the lenses and other tech of Dublin artist, Anthony O'Connor, and Jennifer Walshe on everything she's learned about chatbots from her cat, Nomi.

200 years after David Douglas set sail for America in search of tree specimens to plant in the British Isles, artist, Anthony O'Connor explores the trip's legacy today.

Artist Ann Hamilton on the business of knowing through making, and her recent work, Chorus, sited in a subway station beneath the World Trade Centre.

Prof Tim Ingold, who spoke at this year's MAKE symposium, has a vision of turning art from a sector built around professionals, to something bigger and broader that involves us all.

Attention! Chatbot Bizarre!: playing with her cat, Nomi (see pic) leads Jennifer Walshe towards an epiphany about Bing and the new wave in chatbots.

Rennaisance-to-Leonard Cohen music interpreter, Joel Frederiksen shares some of his favourites for watching, listening, tasting and smelling.

A podcast only edition of the Culture File Weekly brings us into the operatic world of Emma O'Halloran, the scentlife of Orit Gat, the biosphere of the Everglades with Paddy Woodworth, and to a celebration of the music of the late guitarist, Denis Cahill.

From creative collaborations to the messy ethics of machine learning, this month’s Luke Clancy and a panel of composer, Jennifer Walshe, digital ethics researcher, Abeba Birhane and AI copyright specialist, Andres Guadamuz, on the coulds, shoulds and woulds of AI.

Fiddler and filmmaker, Dónal O' Connor's new film, Litir ó Do Chara, looks at the trad legacy of guitarist, Dennis Cahill.

Paddy Woodworth returns to choose the latest volume for inclusion in his imaginary shelf of the world's best nature writing.

Athlone composer, Emma O'Halloran explores opera writing through the stage plays of her uncle, Mark O'Halloran

In the first of a series of her reflections on scent and memory writer, Orit Gat recalls the olive oil soap of her Tel Aviv childhood.

Composer, Grainne Mulvey on carrying historical speeches from great Irishwomen into her new work, Tadhg O'Sullivan on what Dunbar's number signifies in the world of the Irish small town novel; percussionist, Caitríona Frost on the quirks of Irish traditional playing on marimba, and Jennifer Walshe on a domestic apparition.

Kerry-based artist, Laura Fitzgerald shares some of her favourite things in watching, listening, readings, tasting and smelling.

For his latest radio poem, Tadhg O'Sullivan meditates on the challenges that Irish small town life offers to "Dunbar's Number".

Composer, Grainne Mulvey's ongoing musical exploration of speeches from Irish women builds with the words of Harriet Morison, Hannah Sheehy-Skeffington, and Elizabeth Coppin.

Caitríona Frost, 50% of percussionist duo Bangers and Crash, is coaxing the sounds of Irish traditional playing techniques from the marimba.

Images Obscure and Not: Jennifer Walshe has an appointment to catch the optical wonders happening in her hall.

Artist-farmer, Orla Barry shares some of her favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling

Patricia Hurl's retrospective at IMMA; picturing Care with the help of generative AI; jazz singer, Christine Tobin falls for the boglands; and we celebrate World Radio Day, with a tale of peace in the sewing workshop.

Prof Ioana Moldovan gets some help from image-generating AIs to better understand human ideas of care.

40 years of catching up to do at a new retrospective in Kilmainham of the often darkly funny work of veteran Irish painter, Patricia Hurl.

Jazz singer and improviser Christine Tobin's return home to live in rural Ireland has steered her gently towards a new sound.

As part of UNESCO's World Radio Day, Luke Clancy uncovers the peace found in a sewing workshop

Artist, Ruby Wallis leads a tour of the Dublin area once known as "The Monto" for a feminist rethink of the nightime city; Aisling Kelliher on AI and the life cycle of hype; plus Yves B Golden's latest radio poem, The Theatre of Winter.

Artist and researcher, Anthony O'Connor on a few of his favourites for watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.

The current torrents of hype around AI leads Aisling Kelliher to think about the sometimes not so subtle interplay of technology and enthusiasm.

Among the happenings for the inaugural Brigit's festival was artist Ruby Wallis' dérive leading a group of women on a nightwalk through Dublin city.

For her latest Culture File radio poem, Yves B Golden reflects on the shocking joy of rain and other Californian winter pleasures.

Vaari Claffey and collaborators on the many good reasons not to be an artist in an exhibition at NCAD, finding a new philosophy for understanding technology at a conference in TUD, and Jennifer Walshe on the gamification of the auld sod.

Curator, Vaari Claffey on a few of her favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Noel Fitzpatrick, professor of Philosophy at TUD, on imagining new ethical imperatives for everyday tech.

Techne logos, Care And the (Neg) Anthropocene was the title of a recent conference at TUD. Noel Fitzpatrick, professor of Philosophy and one of its organisers, offers some help with the twisty title.

Curator, Vaari Claffey on her new collaborative film exploring the ideas of artist and former head of NCAD, Noel Sheridan, with the help of a 90s performance film.

The Digital Soil Beneath Our Feet: Jennifer Walshe on the other earths of farm simulator gaming.

Opera director and former professional soccer player, Carmen C. Kruse on some of her favourites in watching, reading, listening and tasting.

A special edition from Vienna includes: art at the re-modelled Austrian Parliament building; artist duo, Muntean/Rosenbloom; crowdsourcing modular opera; and a cross-cast production of The Threepenny Opera.

Maurice Lenhard, director of Vienna's Volksoper's studio, on his cross cast production of a Brecht and Weil classic

Vienna artist duo, Muntean/Rosenblum on how Renaissance music flavours their work, and the escape of uniting to create a single practice.

How to make opera about experiences that are unique to the 21st century? Vienna-based Civic Opera Creations, and their co-founder, Carmen C Kruse have a plan.

In the first of a week of reports from the Austrian capital, a new art program at the just reopened Austrian Parliament building makes the case for democracy in unexpected ways.

Vienna Volksoper based director, Maurice Lenhard, on a few of his favourite things in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Jennifer Walshe goes into the woods, David Stalling trawls the sound of the undersea Atlantic, the power of Care at a conference in TUD, and the music of Leonard Cohen reimagined as the sound of the french renaissance.

Irish scholar and author of Care and Capitalism, Katheleen Lynch, talked about the political project of care at a TUD conference exploring Care in our moment.

After trying out the approach with Nick Drake and John Dowland, early music specialist, Joel Frederiksen crosses French Renaissance chanson with the songs of Leonard Cohen.

The School of Wild Listening aims to enlist our ears in a new relationship with the planet. The work starts with the surround sound performance of "audifications" recorded in the North Atlantic by composer, David Stalling.

Up The Forest Track: Jennifer Walshe heads into the woods near her Roscommon home, where the talk is of The Tuatha Dé Danann. And AI.

Authors, Éanna Ní Lamhna (Wild and Wonderful) and Eoghan Daltun (An Irish Rainforest) in conversation with Luke Clancy in a special program recorded live at Dublin Book Fair 2022 at The National Botanic Gardens.

Culture File always asks "Likes" guests about scent - a steady portion of people take the question in the direction of cherished smells from the natural world.

Dr Linda King, Aisling Lyons, Mary Louise O’Donnell and Cormac De Barra assemble to examine how the harp wound its strings around every aspect of Irish life.

In a journal of journeys that takes in Berlin, Las Vegas, Tokyo and Sequoia National Park, Yves B Golden remembers her 2022 - and its tunes.

For his latest radio poem, Tadhg O'Sullivan attempts to discern the limits of knowing in his baby daughter, Sibéal

Paddy Woodworth's latest addition to his shelf of essential writing about the natural world is, somewhat unexpectedly, Laudato si', the second encyclical of Pope Francis.

Jennifer Walsh on distilling the sound of the season; Supercomposite, the artist behind the AI generated phantom, Loab; and Anouchka Grose and Robert Brewer Young, the psychoanalyst/luthier pair who've pooled their understandings of listening.

Artist-filmmaker, Bryony Dunne shares some of her favourite cultural moments and stuffs.

We've all done it, haven't we? Played around with image-making AI until we summoned a ominous, inexplicable presence from within the maths? Well, Steph Swanson, aka, Supercomposite has.

Listening to the endangered worlds of wood, and eco-anxiety with psychoanalyst, Anouchka Grose and luthier, Robert Brewer Young, co-authors of Uneasy Listening. (2/2)

Anouchka Grose and Robert Brewer Young, a psychoanalyst and a luthier respectively, team up to explore listening in their professions and beyond. (1/2)

The Sound of Christmas: Jennifer Walshe on the sound of the season, as reconstituted via AI

Prof Aisling Kelliher on the generative AI boom, Alex Niven on a new edition of the influential jeremiad, Capitalist Realism, plus messages from the birds of Lesbos, relayed via artist, Bryony Dunne.

The artist behind Loab, "first AI-generated cryptid," shares some of her love in watching, readings, listening, tasting and smelling

The second part of our conversation with Alex Niven, author of the introduction for a new edition of Mark Fisher's germinal, Capitalist Realism. (2/2)

Alex Niven has written the introduction for the new edition of Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism, a book that continues to haunt 21st century culture.

Irish artist, Bryony Dunne's work zooms in on migrations, of birds and of peoples.

Why is the timeline suddenly full of machine-made illustrations, photos, films, texts? Because generative AI says USC's Prof Aisling Kelliher

Paddy Woodworth, the voice of Culture File's The Naturalist's Bookshelf, causes a chain reaction as he invites naturalists Richard Nairn, Jane Clarke and Tina Claffey to select their favourite volumes of nature writing. Recorded live at the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin as part of Dublin Book Fair 2022.

Psychoanalyst and author, Anouchka Grose choses some of her favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

What the piano hears and other secrets of the music of Swedish composer, Lisa Streich.

Inescapable cog of the Irish new music scene, Nick Roth on why knowing via music is the best type of knowing.

Harper-composer, Úna Monaghan on her festival premier of Notwithstanding, scored for, among other things, harp, motion-tracked clarinet and a trio of turntables.

One of several Irish composers celebrated at this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival was Birr-based, Ann Cleare

Life and death on an Irish bog, the comings/goings of Insta-travel, the music of exile and the films of Crash Ensemble resident filmmaker, Laura Sheeran.

Gotland-based composer, Lisa Reich on a few of her favourite things in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

A visit to the refugee camp at Calais led Limerickwoman-in-Paris, Fiona Olivier to create Musique Sans Frontières as a platform for exiled musicians

Photographer Tina Claffey on an extraordinary encounter with a moth, on an Irish bog. (An excerpt from Culture File Presents: The Naturalist's Bookshelf Live, which will be broadcast on 6.30pm, Saturday, Dec. 3rd)

Crash Ensemble's resident filmmaker, Laura Sheeran on turning music into movies

How much has the Insta-lifestyle disrupted "real" travel? Sisters Tara and Rebecca Scanlan connect for a catch up.

[Extra Time Podcast Only edition] Art writer, Orit Gat, filmmaker, Juliet Jaques, and author, Adrian Duncan, join Luke Clancy to work out if it is possible, or even acceptable, to love the beautiful game. In association with Paper Visual Art.

CEO of the contemporary music powerhouse Crash Ensemble, Siân Cunningham shares her favourite in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling