Keywords Season 2
Season 2 of Keywords will broadcast in early 2023 on RTÉ Radio 1 – it will also be available as a podcast. This 8 part series opens up the airwaves…
Featured Shows
Zoë Comyns – Podcaster-in-Residence at the Royal Irish Academy
Shelfmarks is a podcast by the inaugural Royal Irish Academy podcaster-in-residence Zoë Comyns. Zoë has spent time looking through the collections and library holdings in the Academy to explore how people have…
Shakespeare’s Starling wins at the AIBs
Shakespeare’s Starling has won the Arts and Culture category award in the 2020 AIB Awards. The judges felt this was the clear winner – remarking it was “exactly what radio…
Four Award nominations, four different programmes, four different stations.
Award Nominations It’s been quite a month here for New Normal Culture. We’ve been nominated for four different programmes, across four different stations in national and international…
Keywords – preview of Episode 1
Keywords starts 8pm Sunday 26th April RTÉ Radio 1 Extra Listen on RTÉ Radio 1 Extra Keywords is brand new series presented by Zoë Comyns which brings together stories, sounds…
Girl Reading – BBC Radio 4
Zoë Comyns meets painter Anastasia Pollard, writers Imtiaz Dharker, Karen Joy Fowler, Samantha Ellis, Katie Ward and art historian Riann Coulter to explore the pose of the girl reader. Listen…
Ethel Voynich, Music Mystery and Manuscripts – The Lyric Feature
Ethel Voynich – Music Mystery and Manuscripts delves into the life of Ethel Voynich. It’s part biography, part mystery and part recovery project for one of Ireland’s little known but most…
BBC Radio 3 – Creative Freedom in Wartime Dublin
Our latest programme for BBC Radio 3 – Creative Freedom in Wartime Dublin is brought to you by Presenter/Producer Regan Hutchins: At the beginning of the Second World War in…
Who we’ve interviewed
David Cronenberg – Rebecca Solnit – Joyce Carol Oates – Siri Hustvedt – Margaret Atwood – Clive James – Neil Jordan – Paul Auster – William Kentridge – Julian Barnes…
Nollaig na mBan 2020 from the Abbey Theatre
RTÉ Radio 1 and New Normal Culture bring you a a celebration of women in Ireland through readings and music from the Abbey Theatre for Nollaig na mBan. Presented by…
BBC World Service – The Cultural Frontline – Digital Experiences of the Body
Our latest documentary went to air on 4th January on BBC World service- Inside and Out, Digital Experiences of the Body. What happens when digital technology and our bodies start…
BBC World Service: Heart & Soul – The Pilgrim Paths of Ireland
Writer Bébhinn Ramsay was 31 when her husband died, leaving her to raise her two young children. Her faith and sense of self were left shaken by the tragedy –…
BBC Radio 4 – Shakespeare’s Starling
How did Shakespeare’s single starling from Henry IV, Part 1 take down a passenger plane and wreak environmental havoc across America? Zoë Comyns explores how one man’s Shakespeare inspired folly…
Frankenstein in the Age of Artificial Intelligence has won a GOLD award at the New York Festivals. This episode of The Book Show was broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 in…
Art from the Anthropocene – The Cultural Frontline – BBC World Service
Art from the Anthropocene – The Cultural Frontline BBC World Service Zoë Comyns goes in search of art from the Anthropocene. She meets artists who are all responding to this…
Counting Down BBC World Service
Counting Down – a documentary broadcast the weekend of the historic vote to remove the 8th Amendment. Listen to Counting Down here on the BBC World Service The current laws…
Frankenstein in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Frankenstein in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is 200 years old this year. It was written when Mary Shelley (then Godwin) was just 18. This week on…
Tristram Shandy
On this week’s RTÉ Book Show, Regan Hutchins gets to grips with one of his favourite novels: Tristram Shandy by Tipperary-born writer Laurence Sterne. Listen here: The only problem with…
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INSIDE CULTURE
Inside Culture #34 (Johnny Cash, Second City, Brexit, Jaki Irvine at IMMA)
This week’s Inside Culture is the last show of the season, and we hope you’ve enjoyed our take on the creativity, culture and the world of ideas. Tonight we chat…
Inside Culture #33 (Amsterdam Special)
This week Fionn Davenport travels to Amsterdam. In a year of mass migration to Europe, Brexit, a shock victory for Donald Trump in the US and the rise of populist…
Inside Culture #32 (Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks Special)
This week’s Inside Culture takes an in-depth look at the book, Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks, in which each year is represented by a single work of art – a…