The medieval bridge of Mostar, a train journey from Berlin to Bologna, snow falling in Leningrad and artist Albrecht Dürer's Rhinoceros are among the choices from contributors to the new season of RTÉ Radio 1's Continental Riffs, each capturing something uniquely European.
Continental Riffs started out as a series of broad cultural conversations giving a nod to the 50th anniversary of Ireland joining the EU, though it was soon clear that the show supported fresh original conversations around all sorts of ideas.
Each episode features a pair of artists, makers, or producers with objects and experiences chosen by them to punctuate ideas, emotions and realizations with a focus on the continent of Europe.
Mick Heaney in The Irish Times said that Continental Riffs is 'best characterised as slow radio, pleasingly meandering conversation that gently washes over the curious listener.’
The most recent episode available is with writer, visual artist and film maker Adrian Duncan and Gary Younge, journalist, author, documentary maker and currently Professor of Sociology at Manchester University. Listen to the extended version of their conversation below:
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Forthcoming new episodes feature choreographer, dancer and founder of Teaċ Damhsa, Michael Keegan Dolan (Mám, Nobodaddy and How To Be a Dancer in Seventy-two Thousand Easy Lessons), with his collaborator and wife, French-born dancer Rachel Poirier; visual artists Maud Cotter and Sara Baume, who is also an award-winning writer; film and documentary maker Pat Collins (That They May Face the Rising Sun) and author and academic Patrick Joyce (his most recent book is Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World); and conservation architect Gráinne Shaffrey with architectural historian Ellen Rowley.
in RTE Radio na Gaeltachta's Baile na nGall studios recording Continental Riffs
Listen: Continental Riffs - Dragana Jurišic talks to Barbara Kneževic
Previous episodes available include director of the Oakville Galleries, Canada, curator and visual artist Seamus Kealy with visual artist Aideen Barry; fashion designer, visual artist and writer Joanne Hynes with singer-songwriter, composer and librettist, Julie Feeney; architect Andrew Clancy with Academy Award-winning actor Cillian Murphy, Nóra Hickey M’Sichili, director of Le Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris with London-based dance artist and choreographer Fearghus Ó Conchúir; Annie Fletcher, director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (IMMA) with Athens-based artist Navine G. Dossos; photographer Dragana Jurišic of the former Yugoslavia with Australian-born visual artist Barbara Kneževic, both Irish citizens whose homes are now in Dublin.
Created and produced by Clíodhna Ní Anluain. Continental Riffs is currently broadcast on Sundays at 7.30pm on RTÉ Radio 1 - extended versions of each episode are available here, or wherever you get your podcasts.
