Oct 30, 202658 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...
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Culture File
Hosted by RTÉ lyric fm · arts · EN-IE
About this Podcast:
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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What is Culture File about?
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.
What has Culture File covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Cat Power's Jukebox: with Emily LaBarge | The Comfort Zone" (30 October 2026, 58 minutes), "Crate-crawling and gum-chewing | Culture File" (23 October 2026, 30 minutes), and "Crate-crawling and gum-chewing | Culture File" (23 October 2026, 30 minutes).
How often does Culture File publish?
Culture File publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 46 minutes across 100 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Culture File?
Booking probability for Culture File is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Culture File requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Culture File's contact route on record: verified email.
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Culture File is an arts podcast with 100 episodes published.
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Crate-crawling and gum-chewing | Culture File
Oct 23, 202630 minDeep 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...
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Crate-crawling and gum-chewing | Culture File
Oct 23, 202630 minDeep 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...
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The Screwtape Letters: with Day Magee
Oct 16, 20261h 1mCulture 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...
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The Screwtape Letters: with Day Magee
Oct 16, 20261h 1mCulture 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...
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Les Twins: with Favour Odusola
Oct 2, 202648 minThe 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...
Sep 25, 202630 minAn 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...
Sep 18, 202652 minMusician, 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...
Aug 21, 20261h 13mCulture 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...
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Why are we like this? | CFDS
Aug 19, 202629 minArt 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...
Aug 6, 20261h 24mCulture 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...
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Counting Bashō | Culture File
Aug 5, 202632 minTranslator 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...
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Fictions: The South | Culture File
Jul 31, 202657 minCulture 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...
Jul 24, 202640 minLuke 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)...
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Beau Travail: with Caroline Mac Cathmhaoil
Jul 17, 202657 minThe 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...
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Comfort Zone Pick of The Week | CFDS
Jul 15, 202611 minSomething 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...
Jul 13, 202628 minLots of fun at fun at Rob Heaslip's Irish Wake Amusements; floral action from Amsterdam with Danh Vo's show at the Stedelijk Museum; Paddy Woodworth's Naturalist's Bookshelf too turns to flowers; and Patrick O'Laoghaire...
Jul 2, 202643 minThe 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...
Jun 25, 202629 minSimon 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...
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Jun 19, 20261h 6mThe 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...
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