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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hamburg-born composer and pianist, Niklas Paschburg on the shortcomings of perfection and his footstamping solo piano outings.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Colm Toibin and Comfort Zone visitor, composer Jennifer Walshe, share some things worth bringing into your head and your home.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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. (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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.