Profiles, interviews, features and discussion with emerging and established Irish and International people in the creative and cultural sectors. This is a versatile programme that can move across disciplines from crafts to cultural agendas and will include long-form discussions and features on well known artists, cultural topics and the history of ideas. The range will give an access point for the general listener as well as a more seasoned and professional arts listenership. This programme aims to create an intimacy with artists’ work and provide textured pieces that inform and provide a listening experience with high production values. Independently produced by Zoe Comyns – the show brings together a team of innovative radio makers who have a passion, understanding and sensibility for Arts and Culture who will create a far-reaching and fresh sounding series that complements the existing output on RTE Radio 1.
On this week’s Inside Culture we examine the cultural legacy of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Professor of the History of Art at the University of Kent, Christina Loddder, discusses the…
On this weeks show, Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys joins Fionn Davenport to discuss her department’s response to workplace harassment in the arts and culture sector….
Art Summit Ireland takes place on November 3rd at the Merrion Hotel, Dublin and is designed for those who want to learn about the art ecosystem and how to sensibly…
Kilfinane is a mountain village in Limerick that hosted three days and nights of the HearSay Audio Festival. The village was taken over by the world’s finest audio makers. There…
On tonight’s show, Fionn Davenport chats to Professor T.J. Demos from the University of California about his book ‘Against the Anthropocene’. The book critically examines the thesis that we are…
In this episode of Inside Culture we look ahead to this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival with Artistic Director Willie White joining Fionn in studio to preview this year’s programme. Sebastian…
On this week’s show, Fionn Davenport talks to artist, writer and portrait painter Raoul Martinez about his book Creating Freedom in which he explores the limits placed on freedom by…
Fionn Davenport talks to theatre maker Henry Naylor about his focus on conflict zones in his last five plays. Naylor is a British comedy writer, director and performer, best known…
This week Inside Culture is in San Francisco to revisit the Summer of Love of 1967. Fifty years ago, thousands of young adults crowded into San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. They…
This week on Inside Culture Fionn Davenport is joined by Lecturer at the School Of Art History & Cultural Policy, University College Dublin, Roisin Kennedy and by artist and paper…
This week on Inside Culture Fionn Davenport celebrates the life and work of the Viennese composer Franz Schubert. His music will feature at this years Kilkenny International Arts Festival and…
This week on Inside Culture Fionn Davenport travels with the Voyager Golden Record ”the ultimate mixtape”. It was created to go on board Voyagers I and II space missions in…
This week on Inside Culture Fionn Davenport is joined by Katerina Tseliou who is a curator advisor with Documenta 14. Documenta is an art event which happens once every five…
This week on Inside Culture we visit Los Angeles to spend time with some of its dreamers. Fionn Davenport begins on Hollywood Boulevard – home to Grauman’s Chinese Theatre and…
This week on Inside Culture Fionn Davenport speaks to Angela Nagle about her book Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Donald Trump and the Alt-Right….
This week on Inside Culture Fionn Davenport marks the 50th anniversary of the famous Beatles album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club. The album contains many of the band’s best known…
On this weeks show we look at the role of the artist in terms of how they fit into the mechanism of today’s art system – how present do they…
This week on Inside Culture Fionn Davenport speaks to artist Breda Burns about Archiving Activism in Mayo/Sligo from the 1970s through to the 1990s; two women talk about writing their…
This week’s episode of Inside Culture was recorded at Cruinniú na Cásca which was a Creative Ireland initiative presented by RTÉ on Easter Monday. An enormous array of concerts, talks…
This week on Inside Culture Fionn Davenport looks at the future of magazines as the digital age throws up all sorts of challenges and opportunities in the world of publications….
This week on Inside Culture Fionn Davenport looks at the world of podcasting and speaks to producers from Ireland and abroad. Recently, podcasting has received much attention with the new…
This week Inside Culture comes from Animation Dingle 2017. Now in its fifth year this animation festival brings students and professionals together for talks, screenings, awards and the all-important networking….
This week on Inside Culture Fionn Davenport looks at the way Amazon and Netflix have disrupted the world of film production and distribution. He’s joined in studio by Irish TV…
Inside Culture returns to air for another series of culture, creativity and a world of ideas! Fionn Davenport speaks to the new directors of The Abbey Theatre, Neil Murray and…
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…
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…
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…
This week, Inside Culture celebrates the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia, originally published in Latin in 1516 and celebrated ever since. The book is an account of a fictional…
On this week’s Inside Culture we check out a new illustrated book on Irish fine art, we delve into the IFI’s new online archive of ads, examine the topic of…
On this week’s Inside Culture we hear about David Bowie’s legacy in terms of art, and theatre. We speak to playwright Enda Walsh about his collaboration with Bowie for the…
This week Inside Culture looks at a major exhibition at The National Gallery of Ireland. Creating History is a selection of 55 paintings, taken from their own collection and collections…
On tonight’s Inside Culture we talk to IMAX filmmaker, Greg MacGillivray. We hear about dark heritage, Wagner and truth, and we visit Monster Music Improv, a children’s show at the…
On tonight’s show, we hear about design and violence at the Science Gallery, and chat to one of the world’s most respected directors, Ivo van Hove. We also visit the…
Tonight on Inside Culture, we hear about these changing times of television and listen to a song from The Book Shop Band. We also look at libraries as many face…
On tonight’s show, we bring you interviews with two giants of the arts: one of the worlds’ most performed living composers Augusta Read Thomas, and artist William Kentridge. We also…
This week Inside Culture looks at the life and work of the Russian author Anton Chekhov. Fionn Davenport is joined in studio by the artistic directors of Corn Exchange Theatre,…
As part of the RTE Radio 1 Culture Night special, Inside Culture comes to you from The Coach House stage in Dublin Castle. We’re looking at identity through ideas of…
This week on Inside Culture presenter Fionn Davenport speaks to Belfast born painter Colin Davidson about his new exhibition of nudes – ‘Ten Night Paintings’ at the Oliver Sears Gallery…
This week on Inside Culture Fionn Davenport joins writer Stacey Gregg and director Sophie Motley as they rehearse their play Override for this year’s Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival. The play…
This week, Inside Culture comes to from Edinburgh as it hosts The International Edinburgh Festival and the Fringe Festival. There are over 3000 shows being performed in the Scottish capital…
Making Ireland Modern is a touring exhibition which looks at the role buildings and infrastructures have played in the history of the Irish State and in forging its identity….
This week on Inside Culture presenter Fionn Davenport takes us on a journey across 35 years of MTV. Born on August 1st 1981, its success wasn’t guaranteed and, in fact,…
Representation of Jews in Irish Literature is an exhibition currently running at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin. It explores the depiction of Jewish people in Irish literature and society…
This week we focus on Galway – a city renowned for its vibrant cultural scene and this has been boosted further. Galway will be the European City of Culture in…
On tonight’s episode of Inside Culture we have an exclusive interview with soul legend Irma Thomas, and we speak to travel writer Geoff Dyer. We also hear about digital storytelling…
Broadcast on 4th July 2016 On tonight’s episode of Inside Culture we come to you from the non-American city of New Orleans for 4th July. We’re going to bring you…
Broadcast on 27th June 2016 On tonight’s episode of Inside Culture we meet with Plastic Jesus is an LA-based English street artist, speak to UK poet, musician and novelist Kate…
Broadcast on 20th June 2016 On tonight’s episode of Inside Culture we talk to playwright Conor McPherson on the revival of The Weir, chat to drummer Dave Hingerty, hear how…
Broadcast on 13th June 2016 This week on Inside Culture we talk to Chief Executive of TENI, Bronan Giambrone and TENI board member, Peter Dunne about issues facing trans people…
Broadcast on 6th June 2016 On tonight’s episode of Inside Culture we speak to one of the writers of The People v. O.J. Simpson, and go to Manchester to check…
Broadcast on 30th May 2016 On tonight’s episode of Inside Culture we discuss the Panama Papers, meet the director of Florence Foster Jenkins, hear about the real value of culture…
Broadcast on 23rd May 2016 On tonight’s episode of Inside Culture we discuss the recent campaign for a separate Arts Department, watch a fictional film about Roger Casement, find out…
Broadcast on 16th May 2016 On tonight’s episode of Inside Culture we look at the past and future of journalism, examine the interviewing style of David Frost, and reflect on…
Broadcast on 9th May 2016 On tonight’s episode of Inside Culture we discuss the 2020 European Capital of Culture bid, hunt ghost signs, take a trip to the existentialist café,…
Broadcast on 2nd May 2016 On tonight’s episode of Inside Culture, we discover the work of Delacroix, and we find out what city smog might taste like. Presenter Fionn Davenport…
Broadcast on 25th April 2016 On this episode of Inside Culture, we explore gender imbalance, street art, the death of knowledge, and poetry. Presenter Fionn Davenport discusses gender parity in…
Broadcast on 18th April 2016 On tonight’s episode of Inside Culture, we celebrate Shakespeare, 400 years after his death. Presenter Fionn Davenport visits Belfast where 250 people are mounting a…
Broadcast on 11th April 2016 On tonight’s first episode of Inside Culture, presenter Fionn Davenport visits Wide Open Opera company as they prepare for their production of Rossini’s The Barber…
