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Last broadcast on Thu, 25 Dec 2008, 23:30 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
The story of the love affair between poet and singer Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen, the beautiful wife of a Norwegian novelist. The two met on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960. Their romance and eventual separation is immortalised in one of Cohen's earliest and best known songs, So Long, Marianne. 45 years later Cohen talked to Norwegian Radio about the song, and later Marianne spoke for the first time in English about her role as muse.
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Sat 2 Aug 200810:30
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Thu 25 Dec 200823:30
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