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Sound artist Joseph Young's new work, The Ancestors, places the voices of the long departed, among other sounds, around the gardens of Kilruddery House in Co Wicklow.

Spring is Here: The evolution of alarm clocks brings a new understanding of Springtime in composer and artist Jennifer Walshe's latest audio epistle.

Per Elling Braseth-Ellingsen of the Hamsun Centre, Norway, on some of his favourite things in watching, reading (would you guess that it's a book by Knut Hamsun), listening, tasting and smelling.

This year, for the first time ever a European Capital of Culture is located within the arctic circle, in Bodø, Norway, where events focus on the precarious cultures and ecologies of this icy part of the world, as well as the region's most famous, most perplexing writer, Knut Hamsun.

Deep inside the Arctic circle in Hamarøy, the childhood home of Nobel prize-winning Norwegian novelist, Knut Hamsum, a new exhibition deals with the writer's troubling legacy (Part 2).

Deep inside the Arctic circle in Hamarøy, the childhood home of Nobel prize-winning Norwegian novelist, Knut Hamsun, a new exhibition deals with the writer's troubling legacy (Part 1).