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Front Row: Jimmy's Hall; Leonard Cohen biography

Jimmy's Hall; Leonard Cohen biography

29/05/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Jimmy's Hall; Leonard Cohen biography

Jimmy's Hall review and three fictional US TV characters take on the British Royal family.

Jimmy's Hall reviewed; three fictional US TV characters take on the British Royal family; Liel Leibovitz on Leonard Cohen; Geoff Dyer on writing aboard a US naval vessel.

Tonight's Front Row, presented by Samira Ahmed, reviews Ken Loach's new film Jimmy's Hall - based on the true story of 1930s Irish hero Jimmy Gralton, who defied his parish priest and built a community hall.

Also in the programme: Liel Leibovitz on Leonard Cohen's enduring appeal and why he wrote a biography of him; Geoff Dyer on being a writer-in-residence aboard an American naval vessel; and three fictional US television characters take on the British Royal family.

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