Arts Tonight

Arts Tonight podcast 6 May 2013

Edward Murphy of NIVAL and Mary Moynihan of Smashing Times

Arts Tonight 22 April 2013 podcast: False Optimism at...

A visit to an exhibition of Berlin and Irish artists' work at the Crawford Gallery in Cork, and Alan Foley on 21 years of the Cork City Ballet

Arts Tonight podcast 8 April: Jack B Yeats + National...

Jack B Yeats Sketchbooks; National Gallery of Ireland director Sean Rainbird; and a painter's eye on the Gallery's treasures

Arts Tonight podcast 25 March 2013: History of Opera

Roger Parker on Opera: the last 400 years

Arts Tonight podcast 11 March 2013: Stewart Parker

Playwright Stewart Parker remembered by Marilynn Richtarik, Lynne Parker, Gerald Dawe, John Fairleigh and more

Arts Tonight podcast 18 Feb 2013: The Famine in Art

Representations of the Irish Famine in visual art, recorded in Dublin, New York and at the new Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut

Arts Tonight 4 Feb 2013 podcast: Alice Maher

A tour with the artist of Alice Maher's retrospective at IMMA, Dublin, 'Becoming'. With curator Sean Kissane, actor OIwyn Fouere, composer Trevor Knight and lighting designer Aedin Cosgrove

Arts Tonight 21 January 2013: amon De Buitlar

Arts Tonight 7 January 2013: Leonard Cohen

Sylvie Simmons on her biography of Leonard Cohen, 'I'm Your Man'

Arts Tonight 17 December 2012: The Virgin Mary in art...

Catherine Marshall, Miri Ruben, Marina Warner, Colm Toibin and more on history and imaginings of Mary

Arts Tonight 3 Dec 2012: Kaleidoscope

An eclectic mix of modern and centuries old music selected by Kaleidoscope and performed by some of Ireland's best musicians to a studio audience in RT Radio. Baroque 'jazz', Piazzolla, Gubaidulina, new work by Linda Buckley and a Shakespeare sonnet set to music by Gavin Bryars with Gavin Friday.

Arts Tonight 19 November 2012: Sidney Nolan's Ned Kelly...

Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Yvonne Scott on the iconic Australian paintings currently on view in Dublin

Arts Tonight 5 November 2012: Amiri Baraka

Poet, playwright, music critic, political activist Amiri Baraka on jazz, the black nationalist era and the US election

Arts Tonight 22 October 2012: Sen Keating and the visual...

imear O'Connor, Mick O'Dea, Luke Gibbons and Linda King on Sen Keating and the visual imagining of an emerging State

Arts Tonight 8 October 2012: New York: Big Lights Will...

First of two special recordings of Arts Tonight from the Dublin Theatre Festival. With Eugene Downes, Julia Carruthers, John Scott and Cynthia Hedstrom

Arts Tonight 24 September 2012: A conversation with Tom...

Vincent Woods meets playwright Tom Murphy at his home ahead of DruidMurphy at the Dublin Theatre Festival

Arts Tonight 14 May 2012: modern dance and the Dublin...

With Julia Carruthers, Deirdre Mulrooney, Seona MacRamoinn, Diane Madden of Trisha Brown Company, Junk Ensemble, Coisceim, Fabulous Beast, Liam O'Maonlai, Alan Gilsenan

Arts Tonight 23 April 2012 Part 2: Gavin Quinn of Pan...

Theatre director Gavin Quinn on 20 years of Pan Pan and its current production in Dublin

Arts Tonight 16 April 2012: Part 2: Bram Stoker and...

Discussion continues, with a visit to Stoker's birthplace. Studio guests: Jarlath Kileen, Paul Murray, Elizabeth Miller

Arts Tonight 9 April 2012 Part 2: The late John Arden in...

Part 2: Galway-based British playwright, short-story writer and novelist in interview with Vincent Woods. First broadcast 2009

Arts Tonight Part 1: 2 April 2012: Crash Ensemble,...

Young composers interviewed ahead of forthcoming concert Free State 7

Arts Tonight 26 March 2012 Part 2: Young John McGahern

Denis Sampson in interview, author of Young John McGahern: The Making of A Novelist

Arts Tonight 19 March 2012 part 2: 18th and 19th Century...

Public interview with Eoin Burke recorded at Goethe Institute. Readings by Andrew Bennett and Christiane O'Mahony

Arts Tonight 12 March 2012: Irish language in North,...

Gary Mitchell's play in Irish and Northern Ireland Arts Minister Carl N Chuiln on Irish language policy

Arts Tonight 27 February 2012 Part 2: Iarla Lionard on...

Iarla Lionard chats to Vincent Woods about his latest album Foxlight

Arts Tonight 20 February 2012 Part 2: Arts in Action and...

Galway's Medical Orchestra and the Arts in Action programme at NUIG

Arts Tonight 13 February 2012: art education in prisons

Sculpture at Loughan House prison, and painter Brian Maguire on teaching art in prisons

Arts Tonight 30 January 2012: Remembering Pearse...

Memories and insights into the late poet's work with Philip Coleman, Eilan N Chuilleanin, MacDara Woods, PJ Kavanagh, and archive of Pearse Hutchinson himself

Arts Tonight 16 January 2012: Alex Ross on Listen to This

Alex Ross on writing about music for the New Yorker, and briefly, poet Pearse Hutchinson remembered

Arts Tonight 2 January 2012: Marina Warner on the...

Marina Warner on her new book, Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights

Arts Tonight 19 December 2011: Songs of the Scribe --...

Pdraign N Uallachin on her new collection of early Irish poems set to music

Arts Tonight 5 December 2011: Imagine Ireland in Chicago

Chicago as seen through Irish architects' eyes; the IBAM festival; Minister Jimmy Deenihan and Culture Ireland ceo Eugene Downes

Arts Tonight 21 November 2011: Alan Lomax

John Szwed on Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded The World

Arts Tonight 7 November 2011: Year of Craft

A visit to the National Craft Gallery and Rudolf Helztel's jewellery workshop in Kilkenny, and in studio, Nicola Gordon Bowe, Anne Mulrooney and Gearoid Muldowney

Arts Tonight 24 October 2011: Access All Areas

Artists, planners, journalists, architects and developers discuss creative use of the recession's empty buildings and spaces

Arts Tonight 10 October 2011: Behind Closed Doors

Louise Lowe, Colm O'Gorman, Colm Toibin and Minister Frances Fitzgerald on Laundry, Trade, secrecy and marginalisation in Irish society

Arts Tonight 26 September 2011: Open House architecture...

A tour of the Long Room Hub with McCullough Mulvin and discussion on Herbert Simms

Arts Tonight 12 September 2011: Dublin Contemporary

Critics, artists, curators, and visitors discuss the first week of the new international art show

Arts Tonight 20 June 2011: 1960s folk group the...

Paul Brady, Lucy Johnston, Mick Moloney on the ground-breaking band, and the late Adrienne

Arts Tonight 6 June 2011: Fiona Ross at the National...

An ex-stockbroker outlines her plans to transform a cultural institution

Arts Tonight 16 May 2011: Short story winners and The...

Francis MacManus winners and Gerald Barry's opera

Arts Tonight 9 May 2011: Best European Fiction 2011

Aleksandar Hemon, Eilis N Dhuibhne and John O'Brien on the new Dalkey Archive collection

Arts Tonight 25 April 2011: Sounds of the Silk Road

Music by contemporary composers from the former Soviet Union comes to Louth

Arts Tonight 11 April 2011: Protest Songs

Dorian Lynskey on his book, 33 Revolutions per Minute: A History of Protest Songs

Arts Tonight 28 March 2011: the Lir and Anne Carson

Conor McPherson and Brian Singleton on the Lir Academy, and Canadian poet Anne Carson

Arts Tonight 14 March 2011: Sean Wilentz on Bob Dylan

Princeton historian Sean Wilentz on his book, Bob Dylan in America

Arts Tonight 28 February 2011: Iceland and Al Jolson

Einar Orn and Andri Snaer on Iceland post-crash, and Billy O hAnluain on Al Jolson

Arts Tonight 20 December 2010: Friel's Translations, 30...

Arts Tonight 20 December 2010: Friel's Translations, 30 years on

Arts Tonight 6 December 2010: Derek Hill and Alice...

Bruce Arnold on painter Derek Hill, and Catherine Morris on a forgotten Irish figure

Arts Tonight 15 November 2010: Niamh O'Sullivan on...

O'Kelly, the "Land League painter," reappraised

Arts Tonight 1 November 2010: Dublin Review and Herbie...

Ten years of the Dublin Review, and the music of Herbie Hancock

Arts Tonight 18 October 2010: ENRON

A discussion recorded at the Gaiety Theatre Dublin on issues raised by Lucy Prebble's play

Arts Tonight 4 October 2010: Sam Stephenson

A reassessment of the architecture of Sam Stephenson, and a look around his private house

Arts Tonight 13 September 2010: Arts and the economy

Artists' living and working conditions, and the case for retaining current arts funding

Arts Tonight- 31st May 2010- The Short Story

ilis N Dhuibhne and John Boland discuss the Irish short story tradition

Arts Tonight- 24th May 2010- Architecture in Ireland

Paul Keogh, Andrew Clancy and Yvonne Farell discuss architecture in Ireland today

Arts Tonight- May 10th 2010- Literary laureates for...

A discussion on children's literature with Siobhn Parkinson and Anthony Browne.

Arts Tonight- 3rd May 2010- Maurice Craig

An interview with author and architectural historian Maurice Craig

Arts Tonight-26th April 2010- Sofia Gubaidulia

The life and music of Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina

Arts Tonight-19th April 2010 -Carsten Jensen

Novelist and political journalist Carsten Jensen talks about his new novel, 'We,the Drowned'

Arts Tonight-12th April 2010- Philip Ball

Philip Ball on his book, 'The Music Instinct-How music works and why we can't do without it'

Arts Tonight- 29th March 2010- Tilda Swinton

An interview with Tilda Swinton from the 2010 Jameson Dublin International Film Festival

Arts Tonight- 22nd March 2010- Paul Muldoon

Poet Paul Muldoon talks about fish, fishermen, poetry and music

Arts Tonight-15th March 2010- Mirtn Direin

Eoghan hAnluain on the life and poetry of Mirtn Direin

Arts Tonight-8th March- How to Live by Michel de...

Sarah Bakewell and Michael Cronin discuss Montaigne's essays as a guide to life

Arts Tonight- 1st March 2010- Duke Special

Duke Special talks about his latest release, 'The Stage, the book and the Silver Screen'.

Arts Tonight- 15th February 2010-Gerard Mannix Flynn

Gerard Mannix Flynn guides us around his exhibition space 'adifferentkettleoffishaltogether'

Arts Tonight- January 11th 2010- a tribute to the late...

Vincent and guests celebrate the life and work of the late broadcaster Ciarn Mac Mathna

Arts Tonight - 14th December 2009 - The Aftermath of the...

Minister Martin Cullen, Michael Dervan, Brian Fay, Peter Daly discuss the future for the arts in the wake of this year's budget

The Arts Show Thursday 23rd July 2009

The Big Bang Festival in Dublin - Sean Rocks talks to festival organisers Brian Fleming and Robbie Harris who perform live in studio. The Big Bang Festival happens every year and drummers and percussionists from all over the world come to Dublin to take part. This year's starts on Friday 24th July at The Button Factory in Dublin.Full details are on www.bigbangfestival.com

The Arts Show Wednesday 15th July 2009

Riverdance composer Bill Whelan talks about the return of Riverdance to The Gaiety Theatre in Dublin, his life and career and chooses some of his favourite music.

The Arts Show Tuesday 23rd June 2009

Outside Broadcast from the National Library of Ireland in Kildare Street in Dublin, where author Edna O'Brien shares some of her love for and insights into the work of William Butler Yeats.

The Arts Show Tuesday 19th May 2009

Dublin-Born Pianist Finghin Collins plays live in studio

The Arts Show - Monday 20th April 2009 - Emma Audio Diary

Emer Horgan who plays Emma in the La Touche Players production kept diary

The Arts Show Thursday 19th March 2009

Interview with Pat Moylan recently appointed chair of Arts Council

The Arts Show Thursday 12th March 2008

Music from Paul Tiernan accompanied by Kevin Murphy on cello. Songs 'Breakfast in Bed' and 'Skinny' from his latest album 'Earthquakes start with Little Cracks'. Full information on Paul Tiernan is available on www.paultiernan.com and www.myspace.com/paultiernan and www.cdbaby.com/cd/paultiernan

The Arts Show Wednesday 4th March 2009

Double Grammy Award Winning duo 'Sugarland' on their album 'Love on the Inside' and first trip to Ireland for dates in Belfast, Thurles and Donegal.

The Arts Show Monday 23rd February 2009

Special programme to mark the 80th birthday of Northern Irish poet John Montague.

The Arts Show Tuesday 17th February 2009

Poet Ruth Padel on the bi-centenary of the birth of her Great Great Grandfather Charles Darwin.

The Arts Show: 21st January 2009 - New Album Reviews

Jessie Collins of iVenus.com reviews the new albums from Antony and the Johnsons and Grand Duchy (Black Francis and his wife Violet Clarke)

The Arts Show: 21st October 2008 - Great Writers Series:...

American novelist, short-story writer and playwright Joseph Heller is widely regarded as one of the best post-World War II satirists. Heller wrote the influential novel 'Catch-22' about American servicemen during World War II. Jon Mitchell of the Department of English at NUI Maynooth and writer Julian Gough talk about Joseph Heller

The Arts Show: 16th October 2008 - Arthur Conan Doyle

Journalist and author Russell Miller is the first biographer to have been granted unlimited access to Arthur Conan Doyle's private correspondence. He also makes full use of the writer's personal papers, unseen for many years. He joins us to talk about his life and work

The Arts Show: 13th October 2008 - 2008 Man Booker Prize...

Vincent Woods, journalist Sinead Gleeson and Lecturer in Modern English in UCC Eibhear Walsh discuss the nominees for the 2008 Man Booker prize. The shortlist for the prize are: ''The White Tiger' by Aravind Adiga, 'The Secret Scripture' by Sebastian Barry, 'Sea of Poppies' by Amitav Ghosh, 'The Clothes on their backs' by Linda Grant, 'The Northern Clemecy' by Phiilip Hensher and 'A Fraction of the Whole' by Steve Toltz

The Arts Show - 8th October 2008 - Francis Bacon:...

Michael Peppiatt is the author of 'Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma'. He joins us to talk about the revised edition of his 1996 biography of the artist and his friendship with the artist

The Arts Show - 6th October 2008 - Discussion: State Of...

Recorded at a public event at the Abbey Theatre, this public discussion event centred on the role of national theatres in Britain and Ireland. Chaired by Vincent Woods, it brought together the directors of the national theatres of Ireland

The Arts Show: 6th January 2009 - Children's Literature

On tonight's show we take a look at books for children and young people. What makes a book or writer not just popular but enduring? Are there timeless themes and characters? And what's the international appeal of Irish authors? Critic Robert Dunbar and writer Siobhn Parkinson discuss children's literature

The Arts Show 17 Dec 2008

Rod Stoneman was executive producer of the documentary "Chavez: The Revolution Will Not be Televised" (2002). Stoneman here talks about his recently published study of the documentary

The Arts Show: 2nd October 2008 - Dublin Theatre...

Catriona Crowe, Chairperson of the Irish Theatre Institute, and theatre critic Ian Walsh review some of the plays at the Dublin Theatre Festival. Up for discussion are: 'The Year of Magical Thinking', 'Hedda Gabler', 'Black Watch', 'Caligula', 'Heart of Darkness' and 'Delirium'

The Arts Show: 30th September 2008 - Fiona Shaw

We interview the Irish actress Fiona Shaw about her life and work, and playing Winnie in Samuel Beckett's 'Happy Days' at The Abbey Theatre

The Arts Show: 24th September 2008 - PD James

PD James has been writing and publishing crime fiction for 46 years. Her first novel, 'Cover Her Face', was published in 1962. She is known for her acute social and psychological insights and she relishes character, place and the possibilities unleashed by murder. Her new novel is 'The Private Patient' and she joins us to talk about it and read an excerpt

The Arts Show: 15th September 2008 - Public Interview...

A public interview with writer Roddy Doyle took place on Saturday 13 September in Dromahair in County Leitrim, as part of the Cinema North-West Adaptations Festival. Beginning with 'The Commitment's' the writer discusses the script to screen process

The Arts Show: 8th September 2008 - John Banville Public...

Listen to our recent public interview with Booker Prize-winning author John Banville. During the interview he talks about his alter-ego, the crime author Benjamin Black

The Arts Show: 2nd September 2008 - Claire Cunningham at...

Dance Base, Scotland's National Centre for Dance, has partnered with Dance Ireland and the Dublin Fringe Festival to promote a cutting edge dance exchange programme between Scotland and Ireland. As part of this exchange programme, Claire Cunningham, an artist with osteoporosis, will be performing her solo dance aerial piece 'Mobile' at the Dublin Fringe Festival. We find out more about it from her

The Arts Show: 26th August 2008 - Private / Public...

The New Group Exhibition in St Anne's Park is called 'Private - Public' and is inspired by the transformation of the park from a privately-owned estate and mansion to a public amenity where artists present their own interpretations of this idea through various media. Richard Beirne meets the exhibition's curator Colleen Lambe

The Arts Show: 27th August 2008 - Tracey Emin

Always controversial, a retrospective exhibition of the work of British artist Tracey Emin has opened at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. The exhibition looks back on her 20-year career and brings together work ranging from appliqud blankets, paintings, sculptures, films, neons, drawings and print. Brian Fay, Head of Fine Art at the Dublin Institute of Technology, reviews the exhibition

The Arts Show 18th August 2008

Norwegian writer Linn Ullman talks about her latest novel A Blessed Child

The Arts Show 19 August 2008

Playwright and broadcaster Melissa Murray and Stephen Matterson of the School of English at Trinity College Dublin discuss the life and work of American writer John Steinbeck

The Arts Show 21st July 2008

Pakistani author Mohammed Hanif talks about his debut novel A Case of Exploding Mangoes

The Arts Show 9th July 2008

Film director Tom Kalin talks about his latest film, Savage Grace