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Radio 4,25 mins

Leonard Cohen speaks to Mark Lawson in a rare interview from 2007

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The Canadian singer speaks to Mark Lawson about the art of songwriting, his paintings and his retreat from the world in the 1990s when he was ordained as a Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk and took the name Jikan.

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