Luke Clancy presents Culture File Weekly & Culture File: The Comfort Zone alternating every Saturday.
Luke was born in Galway. His childhood sketch books contain many plans for recording studios, and he first popped up on radio as an incorrigible ring-in quiz contestant on Radio Forth in Scotland at the age of 7. He later moved back to Ireland and switched to hammering the switchboard at Larry Gogan's Just A Minute Quiz, where he had some success. All the same, he began proper work as a print journalist, and his writing has appeared in Art Review, Modern Painters, The Irish Times, The Times, The Guardian, and The New York Times, among others, as well as The Independent, where he wrote the paper’s Paris diary.
He moved to radio after taking a MSc in Multimedia Systems at TCD, and after completing his doctorate on Radio Art (which is definitely a thing) at National College of Art and Design, he began making radio documentaries such as The Five Stages, Paradise Blues, Skelligs Calling, Islands, as well as the sonic culture series Soundstories, and of course Culture File. He also wrote the award-winning audio dramas In Praise of Darkness and The Vision Service, as well as the short story The Wednesdays, from which he co-wrote the award-winning short film. When he’s not recording, he likes to travel to record. He’s often changed his mind about whether he likes cats. Or opera.
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