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Not sure if these AfD poster are promising or warning that “everything is possible”
Read-a-Long-a Borges Culture File’s Summer Reading Club Join Luke Clancy & Colm Tóibín and an infinity of special guests. All Summer, we're reading Jorge Luis Borges stories from "Fictions". Follow the Culture File podcast And/or tune in Saturdays in August 6.30pm (IST) RTÉ lyric fm
🎙️Growing up on tour with Neil Diamond gave Daisy Press a unique outlook on the magic/mysteries of music, and started a journey that leads from Indian Ragas to the engaged minimalism of Frederic Rzewski, whose work she performs at this week's LCMS's festival, Coming Together. omny.fm/shows/cultur...
There’s takes, and there’s takes. Here is the take to make you feel rather sad about the health of the (Irish in particular) take industrial complex. @taylorlorenz.bsky.social has some tips.
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. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/c...
🎙️Come for Orit Gat on Kerry James Marshall at the RA, stay for Ragas Live in Redhook, and some art that doesn't get made, with Tadhg O'Sullivan #kunsthauszuerich www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...
How nice of The New York Times to time there big Balle interview for today. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
Come see/hear Sat 8th Nov, National Botanic Gardens Live recording of RTÉ lyric's fm's The Culture File Debate: Do Bugs Need a Glow-Up? Luke Clancy & bug-friendly panel decide; DJ Lychee x Chris Watson provide sonic insect portraits & soundscapes Booking: dublinbookfestival.com/event/the-cu...
"House of Guinness is available with Irish subtitles" love the way that whatever word "f*ckin" represents must be hidden but "focain" is cool.
If i get this right, The New York Times gadget site has discovered a paper notepad "Ugmonk’s Analog, a delightfully old-school to-do list system" and notes gleefully "There’s no app to download and no account to sign up for."
Remember that time when Culture File burned 'some money'? Well, we weren't the first. In 1994 K-Foundation burned a million quid. Was that a good idea? A great artwork? Colm Toibin, Kerry Guinan and Luke Clancy wonder together this week. Like 'n' subscribe, y'all podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/b...
Coming up at 6.30pm @rtelyricfm Culture File Presents The Comfort Zone, with Dr. Colm Tóibín, Dr. Luke Clancy and special guest Dr. Autumn Brown, who is ready to lead a voyage into silence, in all its shapes, durations & uncanny effects. You can listen anytime right here: www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...
Sound on! Some special writers brought a snap of themselves to our live Culture File Debate from Borris @writingandideas.bsky.social Here's journalist, Andrei Saldatov, remembering a photo from the very start of his career as a thorn in the side of Putin's Russia. More: www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...
Sound on! We asked some special writers to bring along a snap of themselves to our live Culture File Debate from Borris. Here's novelist, Samantha Harvey, who brought a picture of herself as a child, displayed in a special light box. To gasps. Full program: www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...
Mostly the weirdly understated tone seems like an effort to normalise everything. But sometimes it feels like they’re actually attempting humour.