RTÉ - Culture File on Classic Drive Podcast
1) Culture File Digital Single: Pick of The Week
The Comfort Zone's Colm Tóibín suggests reading a new literary biography by Nicholas Boggs, Baldwin: Alove Story; artist Harold Offed thinks a trip to your local Brazilian foods store would be a solid...Show More
2) Voice Memos From The Real World | Culture File Digital Single
Y'know, Cecil Taylor is way easier to enjoy if you slow it right down, and other insights from composer, musician, and .25 speed YouTube clip enthusiast, claire rousay.
3) Cerys Hafana, Louis Haugh and 100 Caterpillars | Culture File
Are you coming for an echtra, or ancient Irish outing to the otherworld, with artist Louis Haugh? Paddy Woodworth is waiting within, the greatest ever photobook of Costa Rican caterpillars in his hand...Show More
4) Viet and Nam, Connie Converse, Fin Family Moomins | Culture File Digital Single
Why you need to see Truong Minh Quy's film, Viet and Nam, listen to Connie Converse's album, How Sad, How Lonely and read Tove Jansson's Finn Family Moomins. Colm Tóibín, Meghan O'Gieblyn and Luke Cla...Show More
5) Thierry Tidrow | Culture File Digital Single
Canadian composer, Thierry Tidrow who features in this year's New Music Dublin festival on the strange history of Claude Vivier, the art of capturing online speech in music, and his attraction to maki...Show More
6) Norma Winstone, Living On The Wind | Culture File
Legendary jazz vocalist Norma Winstone on learning to understand the voice as an instrument, the genius of bandmate, Kenny Wheeler, and how Drake became her most famous fan. Also, Paddy Woodwth awards...Show More
7) Ms Hartman's Neighbourhood | Culture File Digital Single
Composer, improvisor and evangelist for the power of children's music, Ríona Sally Hartman leads a tour of her musical world.
8) Culture File Digital Single: Pick of The Week
The Comfort Zone's Colm Tóibín suggests spending (quite a few) minutes with The Met's latest production of Tristran und Isolde (screening in select Irish cinemas this weekend); artist Rónán Ó Raghalla...Show More
9) Tracey at The Tate, Make2026, Patrick O'Laoghaire
Orit Gat takes in the new Tate Modern show from former YBA, now officially OBA, Tracey Emin; Rachel Andrews is at Cork's Make2026, with Prof Helen A. Fielding to learn which AI to love; and Patrick O'...Show More
10) Culture File Digital Single: What's Up With Tracey?
If you enjoyed Orit Gat's essay on Tracey Emin's sort-of-retrospective at Tate Modern (which you can hear in the current edition of Culture File), here is some further conversation between Orit Gat an...Show More