Arena Friday 4 April 2014

on Thursday's show....Paul Whitington and Áine O'Connor review "The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society", "Let The Sunshine In" and "Never Steady, Never Still"; Irish electronic dancefloor-fillers, Le Galaxie in session on the release of their new album "Pleasure"; and Declan Long tells us about the celebration taking place in Vienna this year to mark 100 years since the death of Austrian artists Gutav Klimt and Egon Schiele, both of whom were killed by the 1918 flu pandemic.

Arena

Daily arts and popular culture show

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Arts News

Alan Corr - Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel in a decade to be published March 2015, Paul Simon will be taking part in a tribute to Seamus Heaney in NCH on 23^rd April as part of the ‘One City One Book’ festival, expected faces and nominees at the IFTA’s tomorrow night

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arts news, alan corr

Film

film lecturer Tom Kennedy with a guide to the essential films of the 1990's - films like Goodfellas, Jurassic Park, Toy Story, Three Kings, Being John Malkovich, Fargo, Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs

for more on the series of essential films of the 1990's see www.ifi.ie

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film, 1990s

Essay

Evelyn O'Rourke takes a wry look at the growing trend of 'the selfie' among celebrities, politicians, fund-raisers and ordinary people

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essay, selfie

Books

Abie Philbin Bowman takes a look at the book "Look Who's Back" by Timur Vermes, a book which poses the question "is it ever ok for us to laugh at Hitler?". It is published by Maclehose Press

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books, adolf hitler, comedy

Album reviews

Rachel Breslin and Alan Corr review the latest album releases - "Lift Your Spirit" from Aloe Blacc, "Tremors" from Sohn and "Himalayan" from Band of Skulls

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music

Music Played on the Show

Can You Do This

Aloe Blacc