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Culture File Digital Single: Pick of The Week
19 maart 2026 · 7 min
Marking your cards for some time well spent, The Comfort Zone's Colm Tóibín suggests spending (quite a few) minutes with The Met's latest production of Tristran und Isolde (screening in select Irish cinemas this weekend); artist Rónán Ó Raghallaigh offers Carlo Ginsberg's The Cheese and The Worms; and Luke Clancy counters the two series of Lucia Keskin's sitcom, Things You Should have Done. Lees meer
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Future Library: with Maeve Stone
13 maart 2026 · 59 min
The Comfort Zone: Artist Maeve Stone champions Katie Paterson's deep time artwork, Future Library, and sparks a conversation with Colm Tóibín about space, eternity and marshmallows. Lees meer
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A Tetrapod Makes Land: Culture File Digital Single
12 maart 2026 · 13 min
Events on Valentia Island around 360 million years ago set in motion an exhibition from artist Bryony Dunne, currently at the Irish Architectural Archive in Dublin. Lees meer
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The Culture File Debate: What Is A Sound?
6 maart 2026 · 40 min
Sound artist and composer Tarek Atoui, musician and recordist Natalia Beylis, and Oxn drummer, Eleanor Myler probe the act of making a sound, and the art of receiving one. Recorded at IMMA, Kilmainham. Lees meer
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Attention and Will: with Meghan O'Gieblyn
27 februari 2026 · 52 min
Essayist, Meghan O'Gieblyn invites Colm Toibin and Luke Clancy to an encounter with French philosopher and mystic, Simone Weil, in particular her posthumously published essay/poem Attention and Will. Lees meer
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Crows and Corsets
20 februari 2026 · 29 min
Rion Hanora O'Donovan on the place of 'bad' graffiti in her clothes designs; Dermot Rogers puts some sunlight on the legacy of jazz guitarist, Louis Stewart; Paddy Woodworth slips Esther Woolfson on to the Naturalist's Bookshelf; and Patrick O'Laoghaire starts a new series musical Island postcards. Lees meer
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The Great White Way: with Harold Offeh
13 februari 2026 · 1 uur 3 min
Culture File Presents: The Comfort Zone. Artist and performer, Harold Offeh encourages Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy to think/talk about the late US artist, William Pope.L's performance crawls, as well as the powers of lounging and of silliness. Lees meer
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An Afternoon at the Opera
6 februari 2026 · 1 uur 2 min
Culture File XXXL Edition | After a troubled Northern Irish childhood, Vivien Hewitt found a new life in Italy, and in opera. The director and designer takes a seat in the afternoon quiet of Trieste's Theatre Verdi to talk about a life in the dreamworld of opera. Lees meer
(Photo credit: Vivien Hewitt)
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Neu! with Eleanor Myler
30 januari 2026 · 1 uur 3 min
Culture File Presents: The Comfort Zone. XXXL Edition. Drummer, vocalist and member of the danktrad supergroup, OXN, Eleanor Myler leads Colm Tóibín into the nice 'n' steady sound of krautrockers, Neu! (From 111025) Lees meer
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The Culture File Debate: Quiet/Loud XXXL Edition
23 januari 2026 · 47 min
The Culture File panel explores the place of quiet and loud in the contemporary attention economy, with poet, Paula Meehan and musicians and composers, Siobhán Cleary, John Godfrey, and Christine Tobin. Recorded live at New Music Dublin 2025. (From 260425) Lees meer
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Burn a Million Quid
16 januari 2026 · 1 uur 2 min
Culture File Presents: The Comfort Zone XXXL Edition: Artist and curator, Kerry Guinan join Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy to rake over the embers of art-provocateurs K-Foundation's 1994 performance of burning £1 million on a Scottish island. (First broadcast July 25) Lees meer
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The Culture File Debate: Wìngéd Muses
9 januari 2026 · 29 min
How birds and their metaphors move through the work and the lives of novelist, John Banville, art critic, Orit Gat, novelist, Sara Baume, journalist and author Paddy Woodworth. Under consideration are: The Pigeon; The Swift; The Wheatear; and The Crane. But which scribe fancies which wìngéd muse? (First broadcast Dec 24) Lees meer
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Culture File Presents: The Comfort Zone
2 januari 2026 · 57 min
In this XXXL edition of The Comfort Zone, The Rats: 'horrademic' Prof Darryl Jones brings a favourite 1970s gorecore novel into the Zone, with a steer that James Herbert's The Rats, racism, misogyny and homophobia notwithstanding, has something to offer the world of 2025. Lees meer
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The Culture File Debate: The Hare's Corner
26 december 2025 · 41 min
In this XXXL edition of the debate, an ancient Irish farming tradition that sees the wisdom of leaving some farm land free from the imperatives of production -- ‘The Hare’s Corner’ -- is celebrated in poetry, story, discussion and music. Paddy Woodworth leads a panel featuring Jane Clarke, Catherine Cleary, Jane Carkill and Colm Mac Con Iomaire. Lees meer
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Close Up Magic: with Michael Dervan
19 december 2025 · 1 uur
Culture File Presents: The Comfort Zone. Music critic Michael Dervan wants everyone in the zone to enjoy the artistry of The Great Slydini and other masters of sleight of hand and misdirection. Lees meer
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The Culture File Debate Extra: Freedom
15 december 2025 · 27 min
Outlandish Theatre Company's performance event Freedom uses the myth of Antigone to explore the act of speaking about Gaza, about the limits of art and speech. Listen to the piece in its entirety here. Recorded live at Samuel Beckett Theatre, TCD, Dublin in November 2025. Lees meer
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The Culture File Debate: Freedom?
12 december 2025 · 30 min
Outlandish Theatre's latest, Freedom works with the myth of Antigone to focus on the act of speaking about Gaza, about the world in which it exists, and about the limits of art and speech. After the show's Dublin debut, the creative team gathered to explore further for the Culture File Debate. Check the Culture File feed for a live recording of the Freedom performance. Lees meer
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Reconstruction: with Joshua Barley
5 december 2025 · 30 min
Culture File Presents: The Comfort Zone. Translator, Joshua Barley encourages Colm Tóibín to watch Reconstruction (Anaparastasi) Theo Angelopoulos' 1970 avant police procedural set in the rock-studded, murder-harbouring landscape of the Northern Greek province of Epirus. Lees meer
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Reconstruction: with Joshua Barley
5 december 2025 · 54 min
Culture File Presents: The Comfort Zone XXXL Edition. Translator, Joshua Barley encourages Colm Tóibín to watch Reconstruction (Anaparastasi) Theo Angelopoulos' 1970 avant police procedural set in the rock-studded, murder-harbouring landscape of the Northern Greek province of Epirus. Lees meer
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Kerry James Marshall, Unmade Art, Ragas Live
28 november 2025 · 30 min
24 Hour Raga People at a festival in Redhook, NY; by the banks of the River Nore, Tadhg O'Sullivan journeys into art that might not get made ; and in Piccadilly, the largest ever European Survey for the veteran American, Kerry James Marshall, a painter of Black American life like no other. Lees meer
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The Art of Listening: Under Water: with Finola Merivale
21 november 2025 · 51 min
Culture File Presents: The Comfort Zone XXXL Edition. Composer, Fiona Merivale encourages Colm Tóibín to tune into The Art of Listening: Under Water, a recent work by the legendary Norwegian recordist and composer, Jana Winderen. Lees meer
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Escaping Perfection with Niklas Paschburg | Culture File Digital Single
20 november 2025 · 11 min
Hamburg-born composer and pianist, Niklas Paschburg on the shortcomings of perfection and his footstamping solo piano outings. Lees meer
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Do Bugs Need a Glow-Up? | The Culture File Debate
14 november 2025 · 40 min
In this XXXL edition, Luke Clancy and panel make the case for loving some teeming critters of the invertebrate kingdom. Advocating for their favourites are: Rachel McKenna (shieldbugs); Liam Lysaght (wasps); Cassia Gaden Gilmartin (earwigs); and Nessa Darcy (woodlice). Recorded live at National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin as part of Dublin Book Festival. Lees meer
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Strange lands still bear common ground | Culture File Digital Single
13 november 2025 · 22 min
Curator, Beulah Ezeug takes a tour of some of the work she's brought into the big tent of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts 2025, including the immense quilts by artist, Jessica Zamora-Turner. Lees meer
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Beatles 64: with Christine Feldman-Barrett
7 november 2025 · 54 min
Culture File Presents: The Comfort Zone. XXXL Edition. Beatledemic Christine Feldman-Barrett joins Luke Clancy and Colm Toibin to watch the latest in a long line of Beatlementaries, and talk about Taylor Swift, fandom and the secrets of sex appeal (they're secret). Lees meer
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Útóipe Cheilteach? | Culture File Digital Single (Double 'A' Side)
6 november 2025 · 33 min
Dennis Harvey and Lars Lovén on the music of a Celtic Utopia in their new documentary, plus Light Moves festival teams up with Palestinian Movement Film Festival, as well as Catherine Young Dance and the Palestinian company El Funoun, for a Palestinian dance solidarity happening. Lees meer
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The Iron Gates, Steven Daly, Organism
31 oktober 2025 · 29 min
Worshiping giant sturgeons at the Iron Gates in Barbara Knežević's new film; keeping the Hot Club de Paris sound alive on the banks of the Tolka; and Navid Navab and Garnett Willis on their Organism platform, erected around a collection of organ pipes salvaged from a Montreal church. Lees meer
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Hope and Glory: with Rosie Lavan
24 oktober 2025 · 57 min
Culture File Presents: The Comfort Zone. Academic and editor, Rosie Lavan wants us to think again about John Boorman's rosey 1987 Blitz biopic, Hope and Glory. Lees meer
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Adeniyi Allen-Taylor | Culture File Digital Single
23 oktober 2025 · 9 min
Musical director of African Gospel Choir Dublin, Adeniyi Allen-Taylor on the ingredients of his music - and his Ọba Ńlá 2025 concert, showcasing his Afro-beat Orchestra. Lees meer
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Moving Still, Grogan's, Banat Al-Quds
16 oktober 2025 · 29 min
Culture File | The place of perfume in music making with DJ-Producer, Moving Still; how Dublin pub Grogan's defies the partification odds; the sound of Palestine, with all female choir, Banat Al-Quds; and Paddy Woodworth on the cosmic lives of swifts. Lees meer
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Neu!: with Eleanor Myler
10 oktober 2025 · 1 uur 3 min
Culture File Presents: The Comfort Zone XXXL edition. Drummer, vocalist and member of the danktrad supergroup, OXN, Eleanor Myler leads Colm Toibin into the nice 'n' steady sound of krautrockers, Neu! Lees meer
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Comfort Zone Likes | Jennifer Walshe
9 oktober 2025 · 7 min
Colm Toibin and Comfort Zone visitor, composer Jennifer Walshe, share some things worth bringing into your head and your home. Lees meer
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The Culture File Debate | The Fire This Time
2 oktober 2025 · 29 min
The myths and meanings of fire with: Dr Cathy Smith of Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires; ANNEX co-founder Donal Lally; Andrew Scott, Professor of Modern and Ancient Fire Systems, and artist and performer, Rónán Ó Raghallaigh. Lees meer
(First broadcast 291022)
Luke Clancy's culture come-all-ye, featuring bright spots in music, performance, film, tv and art from Ireland and the world. Broadcast Wednesday night at 9pm and Saturdays at 6.30pm on RTÉ lyric fm.
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The Culture File Debate | What are the artists doing in the garden?
26 september 2025 · 29 min
The horticultural turn in contemporary art has a long history, but the urgency with which artists address our patches of green has never been greater. Laura Ní Fhlaibhín, Sara Muthi, Helen Flanagan and Elida Maiques join Luke Clancy to discuss artists and gardens. Recorded live at Mermaid Arts Centre in Bray, County Wicklow. Lees meer
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The Swallow
18 september 2025 · 6 min
This Culture File Digital Single meets Filmmaker, Tadhg O'Sullivan who speaks about his new film starring Brenda Fricker, The Swallow, a watery, elegiac meditation on memory and loss, and memory loss. Lees meer
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"Exotica": Jennifer Walshe
12 september 2025 · 30 min
Culture File Presents: The Comfort Zone: Composer and tech wrangler, Jennifer Walshe, leads Colm Toibin deep into the humid heart of the musical mega-genre that almost dare not speak its name: Exotica Lees meer
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Taking the Waters
5 september 2025 · 30 min
Culture File goes for full immersion into some extended realities at Immersive Island at Venice Film Festival, and at Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria, meeting the creators of experimental experiences designed to dip users into new worlds, including the Irish team behind Irish dance gameworld, Foolish Flame. Lees meer
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Comfort Zone Likes | Autumn Brown
4 september 2025 · 7 min
Academic and podcaster, Autumn Brown joins Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy in sharing some culture choices: Calligraphy Lesson: Collected Short Stories by Mikhail Shishkin; 2023: A Trilogy by Justified Ancients of Mu Mu; and William Blake vs. the World by John Higgs Lees meer
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The Culture File Debate x Beta Festival
29 augustus 2025 · 29 min
Recorded live at Beta Festival '24, writers and artists Noam Young-rak Son, Joanna Walsh and Leon Butler to help chart recent shifts at the intersection of art, design and AI. (First broadcast 140125) Lees meer
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Comfort Zone Likes | Eleanor Myler
28 augustus 2025 · 6 min
Percussionist-singer Eleanor Myler joins Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy in sharing some culture choices: How to End a Story: Collected Diaries by Helen Garner; Victor Hugo's Octopus; and So Little Happened for So Long by Nev Clay. Lees meer
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The Culture File Debate x Beta Festival
22 augustus 2025 · 29 min
Recorded live at Beta Festival '24, artists Basil Al-Rawi and Conan McIvor, researcher Dr Autumn Brown, and historian Ciaran Wallace explore how we preserve and reimagine our cultural archives in a world of digital tools. (First broadcast 110125) Lees meer
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Comfort Zone Likes | Róis
21 augustus 2025 · 9 min
Composer-vocalist, Róis joins Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy in sharing some culture choices: Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, John Healey's Death of an Irish Town and Apple's The Studio. Lees meer
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The Tortured Poets Department
15 augustus 2025 · 29 min
Culture File Presents: The Comfort Zone: Art writer, Orit Gat joins Luke Clancy to wave Colm Tóibín off on a journey out of his comfort zone, and into the Taylor Swift Cinematic Universe. (First broadcast 150325) Lees meer
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Caravaggio 2025
8 augustus 2025 · 1 uur 35 min
Culture File XXXL Mix. An extended version of our Caravaggio program in which Colm Toibin, Orit Gat and Luke Clancy go to see this year's blockbuster once-in-a-lifetime gathering of the painter's work at the Barberini - as well as the many Caravaggios that are permanent Roman residents - and then gathered to imagine what the painter might mean (not to mention, smell like) to the 21st century. Lees meer
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Culture File Likes: Raina Lampkins-Fielder
8 augustus 2025 · 13 min
Raina Lampkins-Fielder, the Paris-based curator behind IMMA's current Kith & Kin: The Quilts of Gee's Bend, on a few of her favourite things Lees meer
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On The Boreen: Teaċ Daṁsa; Tour de Force; Hedgerow & Wayside
1 augustus 2025 · 30 min
This time on Culture File, A visit to Daingean Uí Chúis, where Michael Keegan-Dolan is creating a dance work around The Bothy Band's 1975 debut album; and to Kilkenny for a collaborative exhibition in Rothe House that brings together a botanical artist, a paper maker, a composer, and much local weedlife. Plus, our debut Twitch livestream with Renault4-based art project, Tour De Force. Lees meer
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Burn a million quid: Kerry Guinan
25 juli 2025 · 1 uur 2 min
Culture File Presents: The Comfort Zone XXXL Edition. This time, artist and curator, Kerry Guinan join Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy to rake over the embers of art-provocateurs K-Foundation's 1994 performance of burning £1 million on a Scottish island. Lees meer
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Culture File | Schaymon Draymon's House of Hibernia, Cecilia Danell's sylvan scifi, The Natural History of Selborne
18 juli 2025 · 30 min
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. Lees meer
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Culture File Presents: The Comfort Zone XXXL version
16 juli 2025 · 52 min
Twelve Microtonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media: musician-academic-composer Richard Duckworth joins Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy for an extended encounter with US composer, Easley Blackwood's electro masterpiece. Lees meer
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Culture File Digital Single: Kate Carr (XXXL version)
16 juli 2025 · 21 min
Sound artist and recordist Kate Carr talks to Culture File about her sonic practice and principles, and the importance of messy urban soundscapes. Lees meer
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