Polly Samson_ Cohen on Hydra

Polly Samson with special guest David Gilmour | A Theatre for Dreamers

Recorded: Sat 24 Apr 2021

Duration: 1 hour

Polly Samson with special guest David Gilmour | A Theatre for Dreamers

Polly Samson joins is from the island of Hydra with husband David Gilmour watching on in the background to talk to Alex Clark about her re-imagined novel about Leonard Cohen’s time spent on the sultry Greek Island amongst a wild circle of poets, painters and musicians in her Sunday Times bestselling novel A Theatre for Dreamers.

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