Culture File

Silence: Dr. Autumn Brown invites Colm Toibin and Luke Clancy to join her on a journey out of the Comfort Zone and into silence, in all its shapes, durations and uncanny effects.

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Culture File Debate broadcasts live from Eyeries Village Hall, Rachel Andrews is your host with three panelists who will give a broad and unique understanding to the myth of An Cailleach Beara (The Hag of Beara), to give listeners context to this myth ahead of the two hour Ambient Orbit following it..

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Keening: Fermanagh composer and musician, Róis brings some of the few surviving recordings of keening in the old style into The Comfort Zone, where the conversation with Colm Toibin turns to JM Synge, RIP.ie and real "doomscrolling"

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Lasagne: authentic Italian cucina, a basic microwave meal and a way of understanding language, memory, literature and reality? Derry poet and novelist, Suasannah Dickey brings the dish and its many metaphors out to play with Colm Toibin.

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The frontline of knitting, DIY monuments and macabre collections, and our latest suggestion for books to include on the ideal Naturalist's Bookshelf.

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German poet and traveller, Joachim Sartorius, author of Syracuse: Sicily’s City of Stories, talks to Luke Clancy about the histories and happenings of his adopted home. 

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Syracuse: Historical novelist, Ferdia Lennon, whose book Glorious Exploits was set in ancient Syracuse, joins Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy for a verbal trip to the storied Sicilian city.

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