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Front Row: Leonard Cohen, BalletBoyz, Contemporary war poetry

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11/11/2016

Leonard Cohen, BalletBoyz, Contemporary war poetry

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Leonard Cohen, BalletBoyz, Contemporary war poetry

A rare interview with the singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, whose death was announced today

An archive interview with the late Leonard Cohen, BalletBoyz directors on their WWI dance film Young Men, and Kevin Powers and Daljit Nagra on contemporary war poetry.

With news of the death of Leonard Cohen at the age of 82, we broadcast a rare interview the singer-songwriter did with Front Row in 2007, on a visit to Manchester for the opening of an exhibition of his art.

To mark Armistice Day, Michael Nunn and William Trevitt, artistic directors of the all-male dance troupe BalletBoyz, discuss Young Men, the film of their stage production which explores the soldiers' experience of the First World War, and why they felt it was important to shoot the film in the cold, rain and mud on location in northern France.

And poetry from the battlefield. When we use the term 'war poet' we immediately think of WWI but what about verse inspired by more recent conflict? How do contemporary war poets compare to the likes of Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke and Isaac Rosenberg? American Iraq War veteran and poet Kevin Powers, and Radio 4's poet-in-residence Daljit Nagra, discuss modern war poetry.

Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Ella-mai Robey.

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