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Mezzo soprano Anne Sofie von Otter & Nicholas Cords of string quartet Brooklyn Rider bring their Songs of Love and Death to Kilkenny Arts Festival - In the latest of his book-to-screen adaptations, Declan Burke looks at 2001: A Space Odyssey - Brian Boyd & Andrea Cleary on the latest albums from, Calvin Harris - Maggie Rogers - Jamie T

Paul Wittington and Ruth Barton review Bullet Train, Thirteen Lives and Maisie. Poet Paula Meehan tells us about For The Hungry Ghosts at the Kilkenny Arts Festival. World-renowned organist and harpsichordist, Malcolm Proud, will perform Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier as part of the Kilkenny Arts Festival

Elaine Hsieh Chou - Roxy Music at 50 - Out of the Ordinary at Kilkenny Arts Festival

50 years of Deliverance, John Boorman discusses the legacy of the film - Chinese artist Zhou Li is something of a regular on the international circuit. She now has her first solo exhibition in Ireland - John Meagher & Nadine O’Regan review new albums from Beyoncé, Jack White and Nina Nastasia.

John Maguire & Gemma Creagh look at the Joyride, Hit The Road; The Deer King - Chris Wasser reviews Surface, a new eight-part psychological thriller starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, begins on Apple TV+ this Friday - Directed by Sophie Motley, Letters of a Country Postman, has been adapted for the stage & opens at the Everyman in Cork in August

Dr. Mary Burke - The Horse of Selene was the acclaimed debut novel from Juanita Casey - Steven Benedict - Eleven years ago today saw the passing of one of Hollywood’s most revered, yet paradoxically unrewarded figures, Polly Platt - As a 75th birthday gift, the RTE Concert Orchestra will accompany John O’Conor on August 19th in the NCH