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Last broadcast on Mon, 30 Jan 2012, 22:00 on BBC Radio 3.
Synopsis
Matthew Sweet is joined by comedian Arthur Smith and music critic Tim de Lisle to review Leonard Cohen's latest studio album, Old Ideas - how does it measure up to his earlier work and the expectations created by the success of his recent world tour?
The designer and television presenter Kevin McCloud and RIBA president Angela Brady discuss the fallout from the current housing crisis and how architects and developers can plan for the future, in a time of economic uncertainty.
Matthew Sweet talks to director Alma Har'el about her documentary film 'Bombay Beach', set in a resort that was once popular with the rich and famous, and is now one of the poorest communities in southern California.
Next month sees the 100th anniversary of Lawrence Durrell's birth. Durrell, one of the best selling English novelists of the twentieth century, is best known for The Alexandria Quartet, an evocation of Egypt before and during World War II. Matthew is joined by the novelist Joanna Kavenna and by Joanna Hodgkin, the daughter of Durrell's first wife, to discuss the writer's life and work.
Producer: Lisa Davis.
Old Ideas
Leonard Cohen's latest album "Old Ideas" is out now on the Columbia Label.
A Place to Call Home
RIBA’s exhibition A Place to Call Home, at Gallery One, begins on 16 February.
Bombay Beach
Bombay Beach will be released in selected cinemas in the UK from February 3rd.
Amateurs in Eden
Amateurs in Eden is published by Virago.
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Mon 30 Jan 201222:00
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