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.