Artszone

Aedín Gormley

Please note: Artszone's successful ten-year run came to an end on Friday September 4th 2009.

Artszone is a weekly digest of all that's current in the arts world, reporting on the key cultural happenings at home and abroad.

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Joshua Bell

Friday September 4th

The Finale
After a successful ten years on air, join us for the final Artszone as we look back and choose highlights from our vast archive of guests. The programme will include interviews with writers from Colm Tóibín to Conor McPherson to Germaine Greer, violinist Joshua Bell, actresses Sian Philips and Fiona Shaw, director Joe Dowling, artist Dorothy Cross and singers Veronica Dunne and Bono! Highlights too from Artszone trips to Paris for the opening of Centre Culturel Irlandais and to Beijing for the 'China Ireland Cultural Exchange.'

Visit the Artszone Archive

For an archive of programmes from early 2007 up through 2009, click HERE. (A listen back facility and details of the most recent programme will be displayed and previous programmes can be accessed by selecting the date of your choice in the calendar on the right side.)

Our Contributors

Three Artszone contributors are now dedicated correspondants, covering specific areas of cultural interest. Philip Hammond, Tom Crann, and Luke Clancy will report once a month on the arts in Northern Ireland, the arts Stateside and the world of the visual arts, respectively.

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Monthly Features

From time to time, Artszone includes themed monthly features within the programme. Past monthly features have included Remembered Words, Codification and Art Now. Most recently, Melissa Murray presented a series entitled The Five Senses. Click here for more details.

Glenn Gould

Artszone Specials

Listen back to some of our special programmes here including A Profile of Dorothy Parker, presented by Liz Nolan, and The Gouldberg Variations, presented by Bernard Clarke, which recently received a bronze prize in the 2008 PPI Awards.