Irish broadcaster RTÉ lyric fm's weekly documentary slot. Programmes about music, literature, visual arts and other areas where creativity is manifest. Broadcast on Sundays at 6pm on RTÉ Lyric FM.
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Highlights and special guest interviews and performances from Marty Whelan's breakfast show on RTÉ Lyric FM. Also includes recipes from the wonderful kitchen of Neven Maguire. Listen weekdays 7-10am on RTÉ Lyric FM.
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Luke Clancy’s excursion into art, design, music, performance, media, technology and a world of intriguing possibilities. Broadcast weekdays on Lorcan Murray's Classic Drive on RTÉ Lyric FM.
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Movie news, trivia and interviews with Garret Daly. Broadcast on Movies and Musicals with Aedín Gormley, Saturday, 1 - 4pm on RTÉ Lyric FM.
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Wilde Stories is an artistic transmedia project around Oscar Wilde's collection of fairytales 'The Happy Prince and Other Tales'. The project brings together Irish artists including composer Michael Gallen and visual artist Felicity Clear, to re-imagine the stories in a broadcast collaboration with RTÉ lyric fm. The series is narrated by actor Robert Sheehan, with readings from Lauren Coe and Brian Gleeson. It is an Athena Media production made with the support of the Broadcasting Authority ...
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A selection of podcasts and videos produced by Athena Media, from radio documentaries for NewsTalk and RTE Lyric FM to corporate podcasts and online corporate videos.
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A three part documentary radio series presented by Barry McGovern exploring contemporary Irish composers and their music. What shaped the sound of the century? An Athena Media production for RTÉ Lyric fm made with the funding support of the BAI and the TV licence fee in partnership with the Contemporary Music Centre. Production support by Jonathan Grimes of CMC, the producer is Helen Shaw and the audio editor is Pearse Ó Caoimh.
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Sound artist Joseph Young's new work, The Ancestors, places the voices of the long departed, among other sounds, around the gardens of Kilruddery House in Co Wicklow.By RTÉ lyric fm
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Jennifer Walshe’s Things Know Things | Culture File
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Spring is Here: The evolution of alarm clocks brings a new understanding of Springtime in composer and artist Jennifer Walshe's latest audio epistle.By RTÉ lyric fm
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Radio Documentary
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An audio portrait of painter James Hanley, told through the eyes of his sitters, fellow artists, buyers, family and friends, a story of being creative, connecting and making a life in the uncertain world of the arts.By RTÉ lyric fm
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Ariana Greenblatt goes for magic role while Sundance eyes up a new location in potential festival move.By RTÉ lyric fm
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The Culture File Weekly 200424: Bodø 2024
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This year, for the first time ever a European Capital of Culture is located within the arctic circle, in Bodø, Norway, where events focus on the precarious cultures and ecologies of this icy part of the world, as well as the region's most famous, most perplexing writer, Knut Hamsun.By RTÉ lyric fm
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Culture File "Likes": Per Elling Braseth-Ellingsen
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Per Elling Braseth-Ellingsen of the Hamsun Centre, Norway, on some of his favourite things in watching, reading (would you guess that it's a book by Knut Hamsun), listening, tasting and smelling.By RTÉ lyric fm
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Deep inside the Arctic circle in Hamarøy, the childhood home of Nobel prize-winning Norwegian novelist, Knut Hamsum, a new exhibition deals with the writer's troubling legacy (Part 2).By RTÉ lyric fm
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Deep inside the Arctic circle in Hamarøy, the childhood home of Nobel prize-winning Norwegian novelist, Knut Hamsun, a new exhibition deals with the writer's troubling legacy (Part 1).By RTÉ lyric fm
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English sheep farmer and writer James Rebanks' attention has turned to another type of farming practiced on remote Norwegian islands: eider down gathering.By RTÉ lyric fm
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Beginning a week of programs from inside the arctic circle at European Capital of Culture 2024, Bodø, we meet the man who makes music from an implement traditionally used by Eider gatherers.By RTÉ lyric fm
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Micil Ned Quinn from Mullaghbawn in Co. Armagh was immersed in the folk arts from childhood and grew up to be a renowned traditional singer and songwriter. This programme celebrates and reflects upon the rural life and culture from which he came and that he himself embodied. (First tx 190323)By RTÉ lyric fm
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Movie News | Monopoly Movie, Mary and More
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A new Blair Witch project is in the pipeline, while a board game is making its way to the big screen. Pass Go.By RTÉ lyric fm
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Jennifer Walsh on the AI-imagine colours of old Ireland; All You Need Is Death director, Paul Duane on Irish folk horror in film and song; Laura Bowler tries to sing while getting tattooed in her new piece for New Music Dublin; and Deirdre O'Mahony's eco-opera film, The Quickening goes on a tour of "walls and halls".…
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Maynooth-based Brazilian composer, Victor Lazzarini has some suggestions for your weekend treats in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smellingBy RTÉ lyric fm
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Chicken and Chickpea Tagine with Honey and Ginger and Speedy Coq au VinBy RTÉ lyric fm
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Artist, Deirdre O'Mahony's long running project on Irish foodways blossoms into an operatic film installation at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin and a national tour of "walls and halls".By RTÉ lyric fm
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The wonderful Mark Knopfler chats to Marty!!
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The legendary h Mark Knopfler talks music with Marty.By RTÉ lyric fm
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Indelible Experiences in New Music | Culture File
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Vocalist and composer, Laura Bowler's approach to New Music demands she gives audiences something to watch, as well as something to listen to and think about, whether that be mid-performance boxing, or for her latest work, live tattooing.By RTÉ lyric fm
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It lives! And by "it' we mean Irish Folk Horror, which is reanimated in the hands of documentary maker, Paul Duane with his first feature film, All You Need Is Death.By RTÉ lyric fm
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The wonderful Flo Sweeney came in to chat about her upcoming concert with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra on Sunday April 28th at the Bord Gais Energy Theatre.By RTÉ lyric fm
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Jennifer Walshe’s Things Know Things | Culture File
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Old Ireland In Colour: Jennifer Walsh on what the best-selling books of colourised photos of the country's past can reveal about the nature of remembering, human and artificial.By RTÉ lyric fm
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Calling the Curlew Home | The Lyric Feature
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Ireland is on the verge of losing its population of breeding curlew, but could our songs, stories and art help us to save it?By RTÉ lyric fm
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Movie News | A Scenario and a Fourth Sequel
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Denis Villeneuve eyes up a Nuclear War film while Warner Bros look to add another instalment in The Matrix.By RTÉ lyric fm
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The Culture File Debate: Commissioning New Music
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Recorded live at the Fidelio Winter Chamber Music Festival at St. Patrick's Drumcondra, our panel of Fidelio Trio pianist, Mary Dullea, and composers, Ronah Clarke and John Buckley, talk to Luke Clancy about music commissions: getting and giving. (First broadcast 231223)By RTÉ lyric fm
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Flautist and Stone Drawn Circles member, Lina Andonovska shares some of her favourite things in tv, books, music, podcasts, food and scent.By RTÉ lyric fm
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Some delicious vegetarian options from Neven!By RTÉ lyric fm
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Dark PR author, Grant Ennis takes a walk through Dublin decoding much motornormative manipulation.By RTÉ lyric fm
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flamenco guitarist Paco Peña joins Marty in Studio
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Marty is joined by legendary flamenco guitarist Paco Peña, ahead of his Irish tour.By RTÉ lyric fm
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In the final essay of her series on the meanings of amateurism, writer Joanna Walsh notices a spasm in what theorist Cory Doctorow calls the "enshittification" of the online world.By RTÉ lyric fm
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Chorus Noster Recolat | The Lyric Feature
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An examination of the earliest notated music in Ireland: Medieval Monastic Chant.By RTÉ lyric fm
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Movie News | Butler, Bruckheimer and Beyond
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Austin Butler continues to line up with great directors while Star Trek sets up for a final film.By RTÉ lyric fm
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The Culture File Weekly 300324: New Music / new music
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For his latest album composer, Victor Lazzarini has been adding the warmth of human improvisation to the electronic mix; Lina Andonovska of new New Music supergroup, Stone Drawn Circles explains the "why" and "how" of a new musical constellation; and Matana Roberts on the latest chapter of their epic of musical storytelling, Coin Coin.…
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Musician and composer, Matana Roberts, on the latest chapter of their jazz epic, Coin Coin, as well as the meaning of Beyonce's country turn. (2/2)By RTÉ lyric fm
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Guy Garvey in studio, celebrating the fantastic new album ''Audio Vertigo' from Elbow.By RTÉ lyric fm
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Musician and composer, Matana Roberts, on the latest chapter of their jazz epic, Coin Coin, and the unnamed woman whose story it explores. (1/2)By RTÉ lyric fm
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Beautiful live music from Neil Martin, Limerick’s Lamentation, which he’ll play at the upcoming Music Network gala concert!By RTÉ lyric fm
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A new album of mysteriously warm and evocative electronic music, VLZ, summons Culture File to the synth-filled lair of composer, Victor Lazzarini.By RTÉ lyric fm
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How (and indeed why) to form a supergroup, with super-flautist, Lina Andonovska of new music constellation, Stone Drawn CirclesBy RTÉ lyric fm
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We Only Want The Earth: Episode 2 | The Lyric Feature
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We Only Want The Earth: Can music help us face the climate crisis?By RTÉ lyric fm
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Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman interview
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Aedín Gormley meets the award-winning songwriting duo Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman in New York. With a string of acclaimed hits including the Tony winning musical Hairspray and more recently Some Like It Hot, which just last month took home the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, the duo have had the careers most songwriters dream of.…
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Presenter of the RTÉ NSO's new online concert series, Paul Herriott, shares some of his daily pleasures.By RTÉ lyric fm
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The Culture File Debate 230324: What Can Art Do For Ecology?
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This month, Luke Clancy and a panel featuring ecologists Bill Jordan and Catherine Farrel, composer Karen Power and The Naturalist Bookshelf's Paddy Woodworth, discuss the places where art and ecology can usefully mix. (first broadcast 091021)By RTÉ lyric fm
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Nevens Recipes - Smoked bacon and egg croissants with red pepper relish
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These filled croissants are always a winner at breakfast and are an excellent way of using up day-old croissants. However, they also freeze very well and I often keep some tucked away for those unplanned mornings when we’ve been out late and something substantial is in order…By RTÉ lyric fm
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Jennifer Walshe’s Things Know Things | Culture File
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The Wager: A book by American journalist, David Grann, leads Jennifer Walshe into an unexpected cranny of the internet.By RTÉ lyric fm
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The fantastic Niall McCabe joins Marty in Studio
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Beautiful live music from Niall McCabe this morning. A song for his mam, and her meeting him for the first time on Valentines Day.By RTÉ lyric fm
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The Naturalist's Bookshelf "Braiding Sweetgrass" | Culture File
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Paddy Woodworth's latest choice for addition to our shelf of essential nature books is a 2013 volume by Potawatomi botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer.By RTÉ lyric fm
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Music Network CEO Sharon Rollston joins Marty
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Music Network CEO Sharon Rollston, chatting about the great work they do and an upcoming Gala Concert with Neil MartinBy RTÉ lyric fm
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In the latest of her series on the meanings of amateurism in the online world, writer Joanna Walsh defines and celebrates the species of online essay she calls "The Trash Essay".By RTÉ lyric fm
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We Only Want The Earth: Episode 1 | The Lyric Feature
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We Only Want The Earth: Can music help us face the climate crisis?By RTÉ lyric fm
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An all Irish movie news with news of directors Lee Cronin and David Freyne, and actors Jamie Dornan and Eve Hewson.By RTÉ lyric fm
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