Arts Tonight 20 May 2013: podcast: Dublin Dance Festival
In-depth discussion and analysis of the Dublin Dance Festival, a week into its run
Monday 10pm
In-depth discussion and analysis of the Dublin Dance Festival, a week into its run
Includes extra questions from floor on arts in education discussion
Ministers for Arts and Education + panel + audience on the new charter for arts in education
Edward Murphy of NIVAL and Mary Moynihan of Smashing Times
Extended podcast of Edna O'Brien interview at Cúirt, Galway
A visit to an exhibition of Berlin and Irish artists' work at the Crawford Gallery in Cork, and Alan Foley on 21 years of the Cork City Ballet
Kevin O'Connor on his biography of painter Harry Kernoff
Jack B Yeats Sketchbooks; National Gallery of Ireland director Sean Rainbird; and a painter's eye on the Gallery's treasures
Historian Tony Judt remembered, and 50 years of the New York Review of Books, with Robert Silvers
Roger Parker on Opera: the last 400 years
Actress Marie Mullen interviewed at her old alma mater, NUI Galway, with a student audience
Playwright Stewart Parker remembered by Marilynn Richtarik, Lynne Parker, Gerald Dawe, John Fairleigh and more
Engineer Peter Rice (Pompidou Centre, Sydney Opera House, Louvre Pyramid) remembered 20 years after his death. Extended podcast
Representations of the Irish Famine in visual art, recorded in Dublin, New York and at the new Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut
Billy O hAnluain profiles solo jazz pianist improvisor Keith Jarrett
A tour with the artist of Alice Maher's retrospective at IMMA, Dublin, 'Becoming'. With curator Sean Kissane, actor OIwyn Fouere, composer Trevor Knight and lighting designer Aedin Cosgrove
A programme for the late poet Dennis O'Driscoll, with contributions from Seamus Heaney and many more poets, editors, critics, friends and family
Filmmaker and broadcaster Éamon de Buitléar on the donation of his archive of wildlife films, bilingual television programmes and traditional music audio to NUI Galway
An interview with Professor Harold Bloom of Yale University at his home in New Haven, Connecticut.
Sylvie Simmons on her biography of Leonard Cohen, 'I'm Your Man'
The Irish famine and visual art: with a visit to the new Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University, Connecticut.
Frank McGuinness on adapting Joyce's The Dead for the Abbey Theatre, and Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vazquez on his new book The Sound Of Things Falling.
An eclectic mix of modern and centuries old music selected by Kaleidoscope and performed by some of Ireland's best musicians to a studio audience in RTÉ Radio. Baroque 'jazz', Piazzolla, Gubaidulina, new work by Linda Buckley and a Shakespeare sonnet set to music by Gavin Bryars with Gavin Friday.
Mary Lavin remembered in the centenary year of her birth. With James Ryan, Kathleen MacMahon, Maureen Kennelly, Mary Gordon and more
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Yvonne Scott on the iconic Australian paintings currently on view in Dublin
The podcast will be downloaded in mp3 format or mp4 if it's video, once the download is fully complete you can simply listen to or watch the programme on your computer, or transfer the file to a portable device (mp3 player, iPod etc) and listen to it at your convenience.