Culture File

Bringing back to life the music created by Charlie Chaplin for his own films, such as Modern Times, is the calling of composer and conductor, Timothy Brock. (1/2)

Rewalking a memorable path through "Handel's Dublin" in the company of the late historian, Jonathan Bardon. (1/4)

The watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling pleasures of musician, composer and sound designer, Anna Mullarkey.

Why flavour is in the brain and not the glass at Taste Week in Paris; robotic eye rolling at Beta Digital Festival in Dublin's Liberties; Orit Gat's celebration of pigeonkind; and Paddy Woodworth's Naturalist's Bookshelf.

Warming up for our live session at The National Botanic Gardens, writer Orit Gat makes the case for loving 'n' leaving alone the pigeon.

Updating the legacy of Auguste Escoffier with some brand new flavours and techniques at "Taste Week" in Paris.

The subversive power of the eye roll this time, with artist Caroline Mac Cathmhaoil creator of This Is How Eye Roll, an artwork programmed to respond to world events with the gesture.

Paddy Woodworth's latest selection for "the shelf" is a deeply illustrated nature book for younger readers from Michael Fewer and illustrator Melissa Doran (Melissa Culhane).

The uncanny side of being bilingual with seanos singer, Ceara Conway; Caoimhe Lavelle on the lost Dublin - and lost body -- of Gothic author, Charles Maturin; and sountracking trauma and anxiety on stage with sound designer Anna Mullarkey.

Composer, musician and longtime Gil Scott Heron collaborator, Brian Jackson on some things to look up in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.