Culture File RTÉ lyric fm

Composer and academic, Sean Clancy on a few of his favourites in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.

This week's files take us: into the canopy in East Cork, at The Seed Pavilion; to meet Lonnie G. Bunch III, director of the network of museums and galleries that is The Smithsonian Institution; and through 25 years of RTÉ lyric fm in about six minutes.

The original Celtic celebration of Bealtaine gets an eco-spin at a temporary treehouse in Glenbower Woods in Killeagh this bank holiday weekend.

Like many American visitors to Ireland, Lonnie G. Bunch III, head of the Smithsonian, has uncovered some Irish heritage. But for him the discovery produces ambivalent feelings.

Composer and vocalist, Laura Bowler shares her current worlds in watching, readings, listening, tasting and smelling

Jennifer Walshe's data springwatch, Joseph Young brings the ancestors black to life in the garden at Kilruddery, a world of bleeps and bips in the experimental electronic music studio, Ruth Clinton sings her latest songbook.