The Galway Cello and the luthier who created it, chasing cranes in the writings of Peter Matthiessen, Rob Long's sage advice on evolving business models in the tv industry, plus the soundworld of the young Franz Kafka and other audio epiphanies.

Editor and translator, Sophie Lewis on some of her pleasures in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.

In his latest epistle from Hollywood, writer and producer, Rob Long recalls what happens when a writer is not actually fired (but really is).

Kevin Brew celebrates sound in a trilogy of audio epiphanies, on the soundworld of the young Franz Kafka, the joy of feedback and the consolations of pop. With thanks to Aidan Mathews, Kerstin Aquaviva and RTÉ Radio 1's A Living Word.

Kuros Torkzadeh on the life of a luthier, his love of Amati instruments and his own creation, The Galway Cello, commissioned by the city's Cellissimo festival.

Paddy Woodworth's latest inclusion for the ideal nature writing bookshelf is Peter Matthiessen's crane chronicle, The Birds of Heaven.

Writer and producer, Rob Long goes deep into the anti-flow state known as "procrastination".

Marise Gaughan explores the possibility of, if not love at first sight, then at least marriage; auctioneer, Philip Sheppard tells tales from The Shamrock Table; we take a few moments for some remote Contemplative Dance; while Rob Long deals with a lifetime of shilly-shallying.

Philip Sheppard, of Sheppard’s Irish Auction House in Durrow, County Laois, shares some of his favourite reading, watching, listening, eating and smelling.

Eleanor Flegg on the story of a table so beloved when it was shipped across the Atlantic it inspired a ballad, "The Lament On Fletcher’s Shamrock Table On Its Departure for The New York Exhibition"