Show Notes
Culture File's August reading club featuring the Fictions of Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges. Colm Tóibín and Luke Clancy are joined by poet and novelist, Susannah Dickey, for Culture File's latest voyage into Borges' short stories. This time, they find themselves on a mysterious island dreaming new life into being, while wondering is art even worth making. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Deep in the crate-crawling world of Conor Guilfoyle on mission is to save the lost recordings of the Irish jazz scene. The music of gum-chewing, with composer Andy Igamels, whose new album includes a measure of that mundane mastication; plus, a moment of pause as Patrick O'Laoghaire sails by with the latest of his island postcards. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Deep in the crate-crawling world of Conor Guilfoyle on mission is to save the lost recordings of the Irish jazz scene. The music of gum-chewing, with composer Andy Igamels, whose new album includes a measure of that mundane mastication; plus, a moment of pause as Patrick O'Laoghaire sails by with the latest of his island postcards. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Culture File Presents The Comfort Zone: artist and performer Day Magee comes to unpack the enduring value of C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters, the 1942 epistolary satire of memos from a senior devil to his nephew, still green in the ways of evil. Inspo for a conversation that seeks to answer questions such as what is eternity? Is modern culture rubbish? How will heaven sort out the issue of remarried widows and widowers? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Culture File Presents The Comfort Zone: artist and performer Day Magee comes to unpack the enduring value of C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters, the 1942 epistolary satire of memos from a senior devil to his nephew, still green in the ways of evil. Inspo for a conversation that seeks to answer questions such as what is eternity? Is modern culture rubbish? How will heaven sort out the issue of remarried widows and widowers? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The full interview with Meghan O'Gieblyn from this week's Culture File. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.