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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.

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  • 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…

  • Culture File Presents Fictions: The Circular Ruins

    August 21, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min

    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…

  • Culture File Presents Fictions: The Circular Ruins

    August 21, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min

    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…

  • Why are we like this? | CFDS

    August 19, 2026 · 29 min

    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…

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

    August 7, 2026 · 1 hr 24 min

    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…

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

    August 6, 2026 · 1 hr 24 min

    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…

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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.