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Benicio Del Toro and Mia Threapleton in The Phoenician Scheme

Culture 5 - your cultural highlights for the next seven days

Hear the Culture 5 every Friday on Aedín in the Afternoon on RTÉ lyric fm, from 1pm

Sissy Spacek in the film version of Stephen King's carrie

Hail to the King - 50 years of the master of literary horror

One afternoon in the early 1970s, the author Tabitha King stopped by her husband's office and noticed an unusually large pile of pages in his waste paper basket...

Books • 25 Jul 24

King of 'commercial' fiction: Stephen King

Book snobs, be damned! The joys of commercial fiction

I am not a fast reader. I have friends that can whizz through books like they're fact-checkers speed-reading legal documents, gobbling up words and flinging the carcasses aside like greedy cartoon dogs let loose on a pile of pork chops.

Books • 11 Mar 23

Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre feature in essential Netflix Original The Defiant Ones

5 Netflix Original films you have to see

There's no question that Netflix is fast becoming a major player in the movie world - we've chosen five Netflix Originals films that may have hitherto escaped your attention..

Film • 12 Aug 22

The Stand - RTÉ Arena on the latest Stephen King adaptation

Stephen King's epic 1978 novel described a band of survivors in a world that had been turned upside down and inside out by a pandemic...

RTÉ Arena • 15 Jan 21

Misery at 30 - RTÉ Arena revisits a horror classic

Often regarded as one of the best screen adaptations of a Stephen King novel, Chris Wasser revisits Misery at 30

RTÉ Arena • 10 Nov 20

Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande, maintaining a 2km distance at all times

Culture 10 - the week's cultural highlights, going Gaga

Our handy digest of Cultural musts to keep you amused and engaged...

Culture 10 • 29 May 20

Stephen King tells Colbert which character he'd quarantine with

The current global pandemic feels a bit like something out of Stephen King novel - but Stephen Colbert asks the award-winning author which of his characters would he choose to quarantine with?

RTÉ Player • 08 May 20

Diarmaid Ferriter on the boat to Clare Island earlier this year: his recent book, On the Edge, investigates our offshore islands.

Your essential Christmas book guide

In the yuletide, there's nothing quite like a good book as the country's myriad book club members will readily tell you. It's all about choosing with caution and to help you do so Paddy Kehoe has recommendations with plenty of new releases too.

Books • 04 Dec 18