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  • Cat Power's Jukebox: with Emily LaBarge | The Comfort Zone

    October 30, 2026 · 58 min

    The Comfort Zone: writer, critic and author of Dog Days, Emily LaBarge arrives to assert the unexpected magic of Cat Power's Jukebox, the 2008 covers album taking on Hank Williams, Billie Holiday and Joni Mitchell among others. See…

  • Crate-crawling and gum-chewing | Culture File

    October 23, 2026 · 30 min

    Deep in the crate-crawling world of Conor Guilfoyle on mission is to save the lost recordings of the Irish jazz scene. The music of gum-chewing, with composer Andy Igamels, whose new album includes a measure of that mundane mastication…

  • Crate-crawling and gum-chewing | Culture File

    October 23, 2026 · 30 min

    Deep in the crate-crawling world of Conor Guilfoyle on mission is to save the lost recordings of the Irish jazz scene. The music of gum-chewing, with composer Andy Igamels, whose new album includes a measure of that mundane mastication…

  • The Screwtape Letters: with Day Magee

    October 16, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

    Culture File Presents The Comfort Zone: artist and performer Day Magee comes to unpack the enduring value of C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters, the 1942 epistolary satire of memos from a senior devil to his nephew, still green in the ways…

  • The Screwtape Letters: with Day Magee

    October 16, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

    Culture File Presents The Comfort Zone: artist and performer Day Magee comes to unpack the enduring value of C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters, the 1942 epistolary satire of memos from a senior devil to his nephew, still green in the ways…

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  • Meghan O’Gieblyn Full Interview | Culture File

    October 9, 2026 · 42 min

    The full interview with Meghan O'Gieblyn from this week's Culture File.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Meghan O'Gieblyn, Tõnu Kaljuste, Paddy Woodworth | Culture File

    October 9, 2026 · 30 min

    "We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will,” a thought from French mystic Simone Weil, inspires Meghan O’Gieblyn's new book, Will and Attention, a probing philosophical examination of addiction, recovery, beauty and…

  • Les Twins: with Favour Odusola

    October 2, 2026 · 48 min

    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…

  • Samba Yonga, Mariano Llinás, Ernesto Montequin | Culture File

    September 25, 2026 · 30 min

    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…

  • The Comfort Zone: Anechoic Chambers with Beatie Wolfe

    September 18, 2026 · 52 min

    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.

  • Culture File Presents Fictions: Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

    September 4, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min

    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…

  • Culture File Presents Fictions: Funes the Memorious

    August 28, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min

    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…

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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.