The Naturalist's Bookshelf / Paddy Woodworth

Jennifer Walshe's Things Know Things | Culture File

Composer and artist, Jennifer Walshe looks at a woman who is integral to the past, present and future of that Rolls Royce of cars, the Rolls Royce.

Philosopher, Jennifer Corns explores the world of pain, in all its degrees, and all its kinds. (Part 2 of 2)

Pain (Pt 2/2) | Culture File

Paddy Woodworth's latest inclusion for the ideal nature writing bookshelf is Peter Matthiessen's crane chronicle, The Birds of Heaven.

The Naturalist's Bookshelf: The Birds of Heaven | Culture File

In her latest exploration of the relationship between humans and the things that aren't, Jennifer Walshe clicks on digital pets, such as George Batchelor's parrot app, Bird Alone.

Artist Marie Brett, dancer-choreographer, Philip Connaughton, and The Dementia Carers Campaign Network collaborate on an online meditation about family carers in Ireland.

Yes, But Do You Care? | Culture File

Artist and composer, Jennifer Walshe on the listening - and understanding - capabilities of Amazon's Halo wellness technologies.

Paddy Woodworth on the prescient and hopeful message embedded in Simon Schama's 1995 exploration of humans and their home planet, Landscape and Memory

The Naturalist's Bookshelf: Landscape and Memory | Culture File

Paddy Woodworth's voyage along a bookshelf of essential nature writing reaches Bill McKibben's The End of Nature.

The Naturalist's Bookshelf: The End of Nature | Culture File

As London moves tentatively post-pandemic, composer and artist Jennifer Walshe is reunited with her very oldest friend.

Los Angeles-based poet and musician, Yves B Golden creates a radiophonic summer space for Culture File.

Radio Haunting | Culture File

Los Angeles-based poet and musician, Yves B Golden creates another radiophonic summer space for Culture File.

Stendhal and Me | Culture File

Composer, artist and Things Know Things creator, Jennifer Walshe on her new role as Professor of Composition at Oxford.

Jennifer Walshe | Culture File

Her Parisian salon was legendary for its famous guests, but equally for the music Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy played there.

Hearing Again Brillon de Jouy | Culture File

Singer and composer, Fehdah shares some of her favourite reading, listening, watching, tasting and smelling.

Culture File "Likes": Fehdah

Luke Clancy and a panel featuring activist choreographer, Aoibhinn O’Dea, academic and social worker, Benjamin Shepard, scholar, Matthew Cole and creative producer, Louise Blackwell try to discover a new role for play (and almost by chance, work) in our lives.

The Culture File Debate Nov 27th: "Play"

Yves B Golden returns with a new radio poem called Karmageddon

Karmageddon | Culture File

LA-based artist, dj and activist, Yves B Golden's latest radio poem for Culture File is Welcome Home.

Welcome Home | Culture File

Culture File's sojourn on the freshly-minted Republic of Barbados begins with a walk on the beach with Rihanna's favourite calypsonian, The Mighty Gabby.

The Mighty Gabby | Culture File

Culture File sets sail for Barbados Celtic Festival and hears from among others, champion calypsonian, The Mighty Gabby; Mark O'Callaghan, son of To Hell or Barbados author, the late Sean O'Callaghan; and Barbados' Poet Laureate, Esther Phillips.

The Culture File Weekly June 4th: Barbados Celtic Festival

Tara Scanlan's experience of 'hearing colours,' she discovered, is something she shares with her friend, fellow composer, Ciaran McGinn.

The Chromesthetes | Culture File

For the day that's in it, & Dubliners departed, Lisa O'Neill sings Raglan Road, live on Culture File.

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Culture File Xtra: Lisa O'Neill - "Raglan Road" (Acoustic Live On Culture File, RTE Lyric FM)

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 10/21)

The Culture File Debate Encore: What Can Art Do For Ecology?

Culture File presents Lisa Fingleton's seasonal tale of Walter, a man whose pursuit of everything might just have left him  - and the rest of the world - with nothing. 

Written and performed by Lisa Fingleton.

Walter The Warmonger by Lisa Fingleton

The long and starry voyage of "ketchup" to the menus of the Western World, according to linguist, Dan Jurafsky.

Culture File - Ketchup (Menu linguistics part 3 of 4)

The Culture File Weekly 071224: Pain, Fog, halleluiah 
Conductor and researcher, Peter Whelan on what we&#39;re still learning about Handel in Dublin; Orit Gat attempts to see Monet in London through the fog, and artist, Rada Iva Sibila on working with pain.
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The Culture File Weekly 071224: Pain, Fog, halleluiah

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Neuroscientist and cyberdelic evangelist, Till Holzapfel, on some of his favourite things, including  Alejandro Jodorowsky&#39;s The Magic Mountain and the smell behind his dogs ears.
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Culture File "Likes": Till Holzapfel

The Naturalist's Bookshelf "The Signature of All Things" | Culture File https://ift.tt/Zp4GMyt
Paddy Woodworth&#39;s latest selection for his ideal shelf of nature books is The Signature Of All Things by Eat, Pray, Love author, Elizabeth Gilbert

The Naturalist's Bookshelf "The Signature of All Things" | Culture File

The Naturalist's Bookshelf "The Signature of All Things" | Culture File 
Paddy Woodworth&#39;s latest selection for his ideal shelf of nature books is The Signature Of All Things by Eat, Pray, Love author, Elizabeth Gilbert
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Magic and Hyper-Reality | Culture File https://ift.tt/ZuLiPbg
VR visionary, Curtis Hickman on everything good old-fashioned legerdemain can teach a creator about working with the &#34;hyper-reality&#34; of VR storytelling

Magic and Hyper-Reality | Culture File

Magic and Hyper-Reality | Culture File 
VR visionary, Curtis Hickman on everything good old-fashioned legerdemain can teach a creator about working with the &#34;hyper-reality&#34; of VR storytelling
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Seeing The Emergency | Culture File 
As a taster for this week&#39;s Culture File Debate: Seeing Natures, Paddy Woodworth asks his panel of nature image-makers - Jane Carkill, Melissa Culhane, Killian Mullarney and Yanny Petters - about the effects of the climate emergency on their work and their lives.
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Seeing The Emergency | Culture File

Seeing The Emergency | Culture File https://ift.tt/wLQU18d
As a taster for this week&#39;s Culture File Debate: Seeing Natures, Paddy Woodworth asks his panel of nature image-makers - Jane Carkill, Melissa Culhane, Killian Mullarney and Yanny Petters - about the effects of the climate emergency on their work and their lives.

Saved on Spotify "Rememember Me" by Hildegard, Helena Deland, Ouri https://ift.tt/nFCRcB6

Saved on Spotify: Rememember Me by Hildegard, Helena Deland, Ouri

Saved on Spotify "Pig" by Villager, Waleed https://ift.tt/LHPAOGb

Saved on Spotify: Pig by Villager, Waleed

Berlin-based Lambert, on the best place to obtain Sardinian folk masks and other essentials of his performances.

Culture File: Pianist-composer, Lambert's search for the right mask

A musical image of a Middle East primed to erupt, in the music of a Nazareth-born, Dublin-based jazz singer

Culture File: Ruba Shamshoum's volcano

Dublin International Piano Festival's Archie Chen leads a fingertip tour of best practice Chopin

Culture File: Mastering Chopin with Dr Chen

...according to @maxhaiven, our Tuesday 27th and 28th March guest on Culture File in conversation w/ @Rachelodwyer, 6.05pm @Lyriclorcan @RTÉlyricfm (and on podcloud the day after!)

Guess who is the biggest financial contributor to art in the contemporary world...?

Max Haiven on the rise of money as a subject in art, and art as a form of money, an asset class for the super-rich.

Culture File: The Art and Money Tango (Part 1)

Max Haiven on how art helps us demystify money.

Culture File: The Art and Money Tango (Part 2)

Poems written in 14th century Kilkenny by a Franciscan Bishop inspired a new jazz early music project, Anakronos

Culture File: Richard Ledrede's Red Book

In this special All-Rembrandt-All-The-Time edition, we travel to Amsterdam to join in the Netherland's celebrations of the 350th Anniversary of Rembrandt Van Rijn. For the event, the Rijksmuseum has on display every one of its Rembrandt holdings - a treasure through which curator and Rembrandt biographer, Jonathan Bikker leads Culture File.

The Culture File Weekly 150319: All of the Rembrandts. Srsly.

Irish drummer, Bryan O'Connell, on cult German experimental rocker, Jaki Leibezeit and his musical journeys.

Culture File: Jaki Leibezeit's Secrets of Rhythm

Drummer and performer, Bryan O'Connell on the things that make him go 'Bravo!'

Culture File 'Likes': Bryan O'Connell

Paddy Woodworth places the first observer of Ireland, Michael Viney, on our growing shelf of essential writing about the natural world.

The Naturalist's Bookshelf: A Year's Turning | Culture File

Writer and environmentalist, Paddy Woodworth adds another book to our shelf of the best nature writing, Julian Hoffman's The Small Heart of Things.

The Naturalist's Bookshelf: The Small Heart of Things | Culture File

A wave of apps offers to rewild conversation, explains Prof Aisling Kelliher, by introducing a touch of randomness back into online communication.

Spontaneity Rediscovered | Culture File

In his latest epistle, Rob Long looks for validation at the coffee shop.

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Are regular users of WhatsApp's audio messaging uncovering fresh avenues of expression and communication?

The Art of the WhatsApp Audio Note | Culture File

Art historian-Instagrammer and dealer, Dr Hadi Maktabi on the woven languages of antique carpets

Hadi Maktabi's not-so-secret language of the loom | Culture File

Jennifer Walshe navigates towards the joy in Minecraft; Clare-based Indian classical music fan and musician, Matthew Noone find his in an electro-acoustic take on the sarode; painter, Catherine Boucher Beug is back the garden, back in the before times; and Rob Long has some helpful advice for No 46.

The Culture File Weekly January 30th: Sarods, Minecraft, Dead flower & Presidental Tips

Composer and artist, Jennifer Walshe tumbles into a Youtube clip of Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer, Maya Plisetskaya.

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