RTÉ - Inside Culture

We look back through a year of interviews, features and documentaries brought to you by the Inside Culture team.

On tonight’s programme, we celebrate 20 years of Ireland’s leading new music group, Crash Ensemble. Since 1997 Crash has built an international reputation for boundary-pushing music and collaborating with an eclectic group of musicians and artists.

On this week's show we ask whether the past few weeks have been a cultural turning point in terms of what is considered inappropriate behaviour.

The cultural legacy of the 1917 Revolutions. We'll look at the influence of the revolution on European ideals of progress with NUIG's Gavin Murphy and NCAD's Brian Hand.

On tonight's show, turning waste into art with Diarmuid Hester

We speak to comedians Fern Brady, Jayde Adams & others about the offending audiences, taboo subjects and truth. Also how improv techniques helps with a fear of public speaking.

We come to you from Hearsay International Audio Arts Festival where we hear from internationally acclaimed audio artists and producers as well as some locals hosting the festival.

On this evening's programme Fionn Davenport will be speaking with Fiona Shaw awe'll look at the photographs of JJ Clarke from the 1890s.

On tonight’s show, Fionn Davenport chats to Professor T.J. Demos from the University of California about his book Against the Anthropocene.

On tonight’s show 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.

This week on Inside Culture we hear about Savage Town, a graphic novel set in Limerick, we talk to British composer Sally Beamish and learn about the history of the human heart.

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 conservator at the National Gallery, Niamh McGuinne. They're in studio to discuss Bristle: hair and hegemony is a new exhibition of works by a range of artists.

This week on Inside Culture Fionn Davenport celebrates the life and work of the Viennese composer Franz Schubert.

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 1977.

This week on Inside Culture Fionn Davenport is joined by Katerina Tseliou who is a curator advisor with Documenta 14.

This week on Inside Culture we visit Los Angeles to spend time with some of its dreamers.

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 Fionn Davenport marks the 50th anniversary of the famous Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club. Regan Hutchins visits the Gluckman Gallery and Fionn goes to the National Print Museum.

This week on Inside Culture we look at the role of the artist the mechanism of today’s art system and ask whether an artist can be successful and still make meaningful work after their turn their back on the art world?

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.

In this week's Inside Culture Fionn Davenport talks to Hollywood screenwriter Jonathan Ames and visits and exhibition by Illustrators Ireland.

Fionn Davenport joins podcasters from around the world and at home. Roman Mars (99% Invisible), Second Captains, Alison Spittle and others discuss their work.

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.

Creativity, Culture and a world of Ideas on Inside Culture presented by Fionn Davenport.

Inside Culture returns for a brand new series and tonight Fionn Davenport speaks to writer Rebecca Solnit about the Trump era and he meets the joint directors of The Abbey Theatre.

We explore how 1916 has been explored in Jaki Irvine's IMMA exhibition, what goes through your mind in those final moments of death with author Robert Olen Butler.

Amsterdam is long thought of as the poster child for liberal thinking and acceptance, but we explore the next possible major fault line in Europe in cultural terms.

This week we bring you a full show on Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks through a discussion with editors Fintan O'Toole, Eibhear Walshe and Catherine Marshall.

This week Thomas More's 'Utopia' on the book's 500th anniversary and we hear how the vision to build a better world brought Lenin on a train from Switzerland to Russia in 1917.

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 love according to philosophers, and explore artistic response to conflict.