Radio of Resistance

Leonard Cohen - The Flame and Book of Longing


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An episode dedicated to the nurses and doctors at the frontline, fighting their lives off to protect the civilians against the pandemic, as Leonard Cohen would have done with his words, verses, and songs. From "Happens to the Heart" to "Book of Longing," Leonard Cohen's main purpose in life, as many other writers who have been through wars and crossed the border of dying, is to tell the tales of the broken and the lame. True, none of us knows that we have the permission to murder and to maim, the most important lesson remains thus: we are privileged with the freedom of choice, the freedom of thinking, and the freedom to act with consequences. And this episode, as with many other episodes, will talk about the consequences. 

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Radio of ResistanceBy Thanh Phuong Dinh


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