Leonard on BBC6 Music

[Alan_1]

I don't know if this has been posted before (I can't see a post about it) but Stuart Maconie hosts a special programme, talking with Leonard Cohen Sunday week on BBC 6 Music:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04kfry3

[surrender]

Alan_1, thank you for the link. It looks interesting; curious when the interview was taken, hopefully recently.
I've thought that the broadcasting was today, on Leonard's birthday but I've learned that we will have to wait until next Sunday.

So: BBC 6, Sunday 28th September, 14:00 CEST (13:00 BST) !

Kind regards,
Jarmila

[Mabeanie1]

I think it was probably recorded last week when Leonard was in London as Stuart Maconie hosted the Popular Problems launch Q & A at the Canadian High Commission.

Wendy

[Alan_1]

Alan_1, thank you for the link. It looks interesting; curious when the interview was taken, hopefully recently.
I've thought that the broadcasting was today, on Leonard's birthday but I've learned that we will have to wait until next Sunday.

So: BBC 6, Sunday 28th September, 14:00 CEST (13:00 BST) !

Kind regards,
Jarmila

Hi, I think the interview was recorded on 16th September, as on Stuart Maconie's twitter page he says this:

Stuart Maconie @StuartMaconie · Sep 16
In a sunny Hyde Park en route to Canadian Embassy to meet Leonard Cohen. If only London was always like this

https://twitter.com/StuartMaconie

Should be very interesting.

[surrender]

Thank you, Wendy and Alan_1 for the additional information; this is definitely promising!

Jarmila

[sturgess66]

Live now -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04kfry3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_6music

Stuart Maconie hosts a special programme in conversation with the singer and poet Leonard Cohen covering such subjects as songwriting, the possibility of touring again aged 80, his latest album Popular Problems and how being Canadian informs his outlook and music.

Born in 1934, the Canadian singer-songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen took to the world of the printed word long before putting his poetry to music.

His debut album Songs of Leonard Cohen which contained such numbers as Suzanne, Sisters of Mercy and So Long Marianne was released on Columbia Records in 1967. His second album Songs From A Room followed in 1969 containing the much covered number Bird On A Wire.

Cohen has been inducted into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.

After a controversial incident regarding a manager and a large loss of money, Cohen retruned to the live stage in 2008 after a 15 year break. He relased his 13th studio album Popular Problems this month.

[cohenadmirer]

Of course Worth a listen The actual interview , conducted recently in london , only takes up 15 or so minutes of the hour (spread out over the programme ). There are a few covers , a brief history ,and some of leonard's music though not all of these are played in full. Doesn't seem good to fade out ' Hallelujah' !
Available for a while on the BBC i player
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04kfry3

[Goldin]

14:45
"A poem is never finished; it is only abandoned."
Widely misquoted, this is a paraphrase of Valéry by W. H. Auden in 1965. See W. H. Auden: Collected Poems (2007), ed. Edward Mendelson, "Author's Forewords", p. xxx (wiki)