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A twilight tour through the lost city of once-celebrated Dublin author of gothic fictions, Charles Maturin, creator of Melmoth The Wanderer.

Bilingual singer and artist, Ceara Conway on her recent work exploring disappearances and losses - in language and birds.

An audio jaunt to Espiscol Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York City for an animal mass, rethinking the ear with Norwegian artist and musician, Camille Norment, and sensing sea salt and turpentine in the music of composer Caterina Schembri.

Norwegian artist and musicker, Camille Norment, is ready to question everything we know about sound, starting with any notion that the ear is at the centre of things.

Goats, llamas, snakes, birds, a camel, a horse, a cow, a tortoise and some oysters all take part in the St Francis feast day mass at New York's Episocal Cathedral of Saint John the Divine.

Composer Gerry Murphy on a day in the life of Kapellmeister of Thomaskirche, Leipzig: the industrious Herr Bach.

Italian-Colombian composer, Caterina Schembri on the images and substances behind her new album, Sea Salt & Turpentine.

Singer, composer and Irish wake enthusiast, Róis, on a few of her favourite things in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.

New essays from Tadhg O'Sullivan on the agit-horror film, Threads; Orti Gat on the rebirth of the Turner prize, and Paddy Woodworth on Irish nature poetry, as well as Outlandish's theatrical rethink for our moment of Gorky's Summerfolk, at Dublin Theatre Festival.

Paddy Woodworth's latest selection for inclusion on the Naturalist's Bookshelf is Windfall, an anthology of Irish nature poetry edited by Jane Clarke.

Tadhg O'Sullivan remembers his initiation into the horrors of nuclear armageddon via the 80s BBC TV program, Threads.

Maxim Gorky's Summerfolk, premiered in St Petersburg in 1904, gets refocused on the world of today in Dublin-based Outlandish's Dublin Theatre Festival show, Global Desires.

Soundtracking the inner spaces of trauma and anxiety, as composer and sound designer, Anna Mullarkey teams up with Enda Walsh.

What use is the Turner prize for contemporary art? Plenty, decides Orit Gat in her latest Voice Notes.

Artist and filmmaker, Mikhail Karikis tells us about some of the sweet things in his cultural diet.

Meet the would-be "artisanal white noise" mogul who is opening up the functional sound market with his app Fuzzzel; musicologist Jeremy Dibble on the Down-born composer and conductor, Hamilton Harty, and pianist, composer and musical right arm to Gil Scott Heron, Brian Jackson on music, justice and the legacy of Alice Coltrane.

Working with artists such as composer, Owen Pallet, harpist, Mary Lattimore, pianist Kelly Moran and nature recorder, Chris Watson, Christopher Weingarten is exploring the market for "artisanal" white noise with his Fuzzzel app.

A few of the favourite things in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling of Dublin-based Colombian-Italian composer, Caterina Schembri.

Lady Gregory in America, and in jail, in Colm Toibin's new opera at Wexford, Jemiriye of Les Amazones D'Afrique on campaigning in song, drinking stars in the piano music of John McLachlan and Paddy Woodworth's latest entry for The Naturalist's Bookshelf.

Thirty years of piano composition meets up on a new album from Dublin-born composer, John McLachlan's Drinking The Stars.

Jemiriye, part of African women's super group, Les Amazones d’Afrique on campaigning in song.

Novelist, Colm Tóibín tries out comic opera in his Wexford Festival production, set during The Abbey Theatre company's US tour of Playboy of the Western World in 1911.

Paddy Woodworth's latest selection for inclusion on his shelf of nature books celebrates the undersung—and unsung—work of Irish nature artists.

A few of her favourite things in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling from TCD historian, Philippa Byrne.

Composer, musician and longtime Gil Scott Heron collaborator, Brian Jackson on some things to look up in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

The uncanny side of being bilingual with seanos singer, Ceara Conway; Caoimhe Lavelle on the lost Dublin - and lost body -- of Gothic author, Charles Maturin; and sountracking trauma and anxiety on stage with sound designer Anna Mullarkey.

Orkney composer, Erland Cooper on some of life's delight's including the film music of Isobel Waller-Bridge and a special scented candle that smells of the Pacific South West.

Composer and conductor, Timothy Brock, on his "historically informed performance" of silent film music, and bringing back to life the movie scores written by Charlie Chaplin for his own films.

The subversive power of the eye roll this time, with artist Caroline Mac Cathmhaoil creator of This Is How Eye Roll, an artwork programmed to respond to world events with the gesture.

Paddy Woodworth's latest selection for "the shelf" is a deeply illustrated nature book for younger readers from Michael Fewer and illustrator Melissa Doran (Melissa Culhane).

Beta Festival visitors artist Maeve Stone and her cyborg shamen mentor, futurist Adah Parris, drop round for a cup of something soothing with Caoimhe Lavelle.

Timothy Brock has restored scores for a dozen of Charlie Chaplin's films, most recently A Woman of Paris. (2/2) Music from A WOMAN OF PARIS Copyright © Roy Export S.A.S. Audio extracts from the Chaplin Archive Copyright © Roy Export Company Ltd.

Bringing back to life the music created by Charlie Chaplin for his own films, such as Modern Times, is the calling of composer and conductor, Timothy Brock. (1/2)

Rewalking a memorable path through "Handel's Dublin" in the company of the late historian, Jonathan Bardon. (1/4)

The watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling pleasures of musician, composer and sound designer, Anna Mullarkey.

Why flavour is in the brain and not the glass at Taste Week in Paris; robotic eye rolling at Beta Digital Festival in Dublin's Liberties; Orit Gat's celebration of pigeonkind; and Paddy Woodworth's Naturalist's Bookshelf.

Warming up for our live session at The National Botanic Gardens, writer Orit Gat makes the case for loving 'n' leaving alone the pigeon.

Updating the legacy of Auguste Escoffier with some brand new flavours and techniques at "Taste Week" in Paris.

Walking a few momentous blocks of Dublin on the scent of a constellation of chancers, charities, literal bigwigs, choristers and 18th century It Girls that somehow resulted in the Irish capital being the venue for the premiere of Handel's Messiah.

The Irish Institute of Music and Song in Balbriggan's "Pathway to the Well" offer children in North County Dublin experiences of Irish music and tradition, such as The Fingal Mummers, who recently brought their mischievous musical theatrics to the children of Balbriggan Educate Together.

Neuroscientist and cyberdelic evangelist, Till Holzapfel, on some of his favourite things, including Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Magic Mountain and the smell behind his dogs ears.

Conductor and researcher, Peter Whelan on what we'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.

Among the ingredients for Rada Iva Sibila sound installations are the Zagreb artist's spoken words, captured as she experiences the pain of arthritis. Image credit: Serhii Shapoval @photo_by_shapoval

Is it possible to see once-breathtaking images from Monet or Van Gogh at all now? Orit Gat gives it a go at two current London shows from the Modernist mainstays.

What did George Frideric Handel hear at the Messiah's first performance in Dublin in 1743? Irish Baroque Orchestra's Peter Whelan turns his attention to the composer's little giant.

Rewalking a memorable path through "Handel's Dublin" in the company of the late historian, Jonathan Bardon. (4/4)

Composer, John McLachlan shares some of his favourite things, which include all six volumes of Karl Ove Knausgård's My Struggle, and that perennial scent choice, the smell turf.

On the trail of the probably German writer behind The Treasure of the Sierra Madre with Tadhg O'Sulllivan, the art of playing the violin while reciting verse with soloist, Larissa O'Grady; an unorthodox way of finding a bed for the night in a new Irish short film, Room Taken and a visit the an "art cabin" in Limerick City.

A couch-surfing homeless immigrant who doesn’t know his luck encounters a blind woman who doesn't know he's there, in director TJ O'Grady-Peyton's Room Taken.

Culture File makes a studio visit to the "Art Cabin" at Brother Russell House in Limerick City.