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Ruth Barton and Michael Pope review the latest film releases including 1917, Uncut Gems and Seberg.

Darryl W Bullock, author of "David Bowie Made Me Gay" discusses Bowie's influence ahead of his appearance tonight at the Dublin Bowie Festival. This is the fifth year of the festival which coincides with the iconic artist's birthday and sudden passing.

The critically-acclaimed author of"My Coney Island Baby" chats about his latest short story collection ""The Boatman and Other Stories".

Clare Dunne and Cathy Belton co-star in "Herself". The film focuses on the central character of Sandra, a woman with two children, exiting an unhappy marriage, with a steely determination to create a better life for her family. It will premiere at the Sundance Festival this month.

Starting Thursday night on TG4 ten Irish companies will take in the challenge of creating a piece of large-scale public art in a bid to find Ireland’s most Creative Company. Brid Higgins Ní Chinnéide, artist and mentor along with Sharon O’Keefe from The Gleneagle Hotel in Killarney tell us about the six part series.

Moongoose are appearing at First Fortnight Festival. This Saturday they play the Kino in Cork and next Thursday January 16th they will be at St Patrick’s Mental Health as one of the Chistin sessions. Their Studio 8 session includes "On my Own" and "Hard Ground".

Irish musicians pay tribute to broadcaster Larry Gogan. Paul Cleary of The Blades, Noel Hogan of the Cranberries and Steve Wickham of The Waterboys remember the much-loved presenter.

'In The Middle of' is a celebration of author Mary Lavin. This will be an evening of readings and music held in Kells and Dublin this week. Curator Dee Kinahan and musician Steve Wickham join us in studio for a chat and songs.

Spoken word poet Jim Crichard joins us ahead of his appearance at First Fortnight. He performs his poetry including 'Straight Pride'.Jim Crichard also performs as drag queen, Venus Envy.

'Horrible Creature' is a film based on the life of Lucia Joyce, a professional dancer and daughter of James Joyce. Director Aine Stapleton joins us in studio ahead of the film featuring at the IFI as part of the First Fortnight Festival.