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Luke Clancy's culture come-all-ye, featuring bright spots in music, performance, film, tv and art from Ireland and the world. Broadcast Saturdays at 6.30pm, repeated Wednesdays at 9pm on RTÉ lyric fm.

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  • Friday · 47 min

    Les Twins: with Favour Odusola

    The Comfort Zone: dancer and choreographer, Favour "Official PAK" Odusola brings the choreographic art of Les Twins for appreciation, and also creates a Comfort Zone Choreo (seated) for celebrated non-dancer Colm Tóibín. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • September 25 · 29 min

    Samba Yonga, Mariano Llinás, Ernesto Montequin | Culture File

    An epic trilogy of documentaries dedicated to a cinematic biography of Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges, premiered at this year's Venice Film Festival. Its director, Mariano Llinás and its main character, archivist and translator, Ernesto Montequin unfurl their completist life of Borges. An award winner at this year's Ars Electronica festival was SummitShare, a project from Zambia which uses AR and deep metadata to address the crisis in museums around contested cultural objects. One of the project's creators, Samba Yonga explains the problems around repatriation SummitShare promises to right. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • September 18 · 52 min

    The Comfort Zone: Anechoic Chambers with Beatie Wolfe

    Musician, conceptual artist and regular Eno collaborator, Beatie Wolfe encourages The Comfort Zone crew to contemplate the not-quite-natural silence of an anechoic chamber. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • September 4 · 1 hr 14 min

    Culture File Presents Fictions: Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

    Culture File's summer reading club concludes with Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, Jorge Luis Borges' story of a possibly lost, possibly never-existing civilisation, hunted down by a literary flatfoot called Borges and his BFF, Adolfo Bioy Casares. Writer and critic Orit Gat helps Luke Clancy and Colm Tóibín assess the damage to the fabric of reality, while Ariel Hernandez (guitar) and Dermot Dunne (accordion) play some live milongas. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • August 28 · 1 hr 9 min

    Culture File Presents Fictions: Funes the Memorious

    Culture File's summer reading club continues with Funes, His Memory, Jorge Luis Borges' tale of a man benefiting and suffering from total recall. Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy are joined by Joseph Rizzo Naudi, a blind writer and researcher who works on making art and exhibitions engaging through the creative use of blindness. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • August 21 · 1 hr 13 min

    Culture File Presents Fictions: The Circular Ruins

    Culture File's August reading club featuring the Fictions of Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges. Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy are joined by poet and novelist, Susannah Dickey, for Culture File's latest voyage into Borges' short stories. This time, they find themselves on a mysterious island dreaming new life into being, while wondering is art even worth making. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • August 21 · 1 hr 13 min

    Culture File Presents Fictions: The Circular Ruins

    Culture File's August reading club featuring the Fictions of Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges. Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy are joined by poet and novelist, Susannah Dickey, for Culture File's latest voyage into Borges' short stories. This time, they find themselves on a mysterious island dreaming new life into being, while wondering is art even worth making. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • August 19 · 28 min

    Why are we like this? | CFDS

    Art as history, and history as art in the research-driven, karaoke-spiced work of artist duo Ruth Clinton and Niamh Moriarty, showcased in a provocative new exhibition, A Disentailing Deed, at Project in Dublin. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • August 7 · 1 hr 23 min

    Fictions: Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (XXXL) | Culture File

    Culture File's August reading club featuring the Fictions of Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges. Luke and Colm welcome a special guest to discuss one story from Borges's collection Fictions. This time, we're on the trail of Pierre Menard, an improbable literary figure who has re-written Don Quixote from scratch. Poet, Ella Frears, and composer and improviser, Olesya Zdorovetska, join the search posse. Presenters: Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy Associate Producer: Niamh Daly Producer: Luke Clancy See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • August 6 · 1 hr 23 min

    Fictions: Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (XXXL) | Culture File

    Culture File's August reading club featuring the Fictions of Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges. Luke and Colm welcome a special guest to discuss one story from Borges's collection Fictions. This time, we're on the trail of Pierre Menard, an improbable literary figure who has re-written Don Quixote from scratch. Poet, Ella Frears, and composer and improviser, Olesya Zdorovetska, join the search posse. Presenters: Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy Associate Producer: Niamh Daly Producer: Luke Clancy See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • August 5 · 31 min

    Counting Bashō | Culture File

    Translator and poet, Andrew Fitzsimons on translating the complete haikus of Basho, the 17th century master of the form, and on the work of one unfortunate contemporary follower, The Haiku Killer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • July 31 · 56 min

    Fictions: The South | Culture File

    Culture File launches a summer reading club on the fictions of Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges. Each week, Luke and Colm welcome a special guest to explore a story from Borges' collection, Fictions. First up, The South, a dream-like mystery tale of a man held somewhere between life, death and Buenos Aires. Joining the pursuit this time, scholar and author, Patricia N. Klingenberg. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • July 24 · 40 min

    Do Bugs Need a Glow-Up? | The Culture File Debate

    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. First Broadcast: 151125 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • July 17 · 56 min

    Beau Travail: with Caroline Mac Cathmhaoil

    The Comfort Zone: artist, writer and filmmaker Caroline Mac Cathmhaoil leads Colm and Luke into Claire Denis’s 1999 film Beau Travail, a kind of waking dream of a movie about jealousy and justice and the wages of colonialism, explored, in part, through the medium of contemporary dance. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • July 15 · 10 min

    Comfort Zone Pick of The Week | CFDS

    Something for the weekend? Colm Tóibín inserts the Kanneh-Mason sibling's take on Fauré's Après Un Rêve into his dinosaur (car); Caroline Mac Cathmhaoil plugs the poetry and YouTube performances of Joelle Taylor, while Luke Clancy suggests a trio of compilations from Swedish label, XKatedral, on which you may hear, among other sounds, organ chiffing. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • July 2 · 43 min

    The Shape of Jazz to Come: with Olesya Zdorovetska

    The Comfort Zone: musician, composer and improviser, Olesya Zdorovetska encourages Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy to encounter the many freedoms offered in Ornette Coleman's 1959 free jazz throwdown/manifesto album, The Shape of Jazz To Come. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • June 25 · 29 min

    Still In A Dream with Simon Reynolds | Culture File

    Simon Reynolds has made a habit of writing books that offer to rethink the histories of popular music, such as Rip It Up and Start Again, his keywork on Post-Punk, and his story of electronic dance music, Energy Flash. Now, he's back with a highly personal history of the shapes of music from 1984 to 1994, from the hazy 'snowdrift' assaults of My Bloody Valentine, to the paraslacker aesthetics of The Smiths he calls Still In A Dream: Shoegaze Slackers and the Reinvention of Rock. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • June 19 · 1 hr 6 min

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    The Comfort Zone: writer, Emma Dabiri invites Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy to get with the subversive allure of Carl Anderson's Judas, and other hidden treasures in the 1973 film version of the Rice and Lloyd Webber musical, Jesus Christ Superstar. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • June 17 · 30 min

    The Musical Universe of Daisy Press | CFDS

    Growing up on tour with Neil Diamond gave Daisy Press a unique outlook on the magic and mysteries of music, and started a journey that leads from Indian Ragas via the 12th century chant of Hildegard von Bingen -- all the way to the engaged minimalism of Frederic Rzewski, whose work she performs at this weekend's Louth Contemporary Music Society festival, Coming Together. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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