The Animals Podcast

By: Christopher Isherwood Don Bachardy and Katherine Bucknell
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  • Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, a celebrated novelist and a talented painter, were openly gay in conservative 1950s Hollywood. In private, they called themselves The Animals. Simon Callow and Alan Cumming read their love letters; Katherine Bucknell reveals secrets they kept even from their friends, a galaxy of star writers, artists, stage players and movie makers in L.A., London, and New York. The series is capped by a play the lovers wrote together, A Meeting by the River, starring Dominic West, Kyle Soller and Penelope Wilton, and directed by Anthony Page.

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Episodes
  • Coda: Don Bachardy at Eighty-two

    Coda: Don Bachardy at Eighty-two
    Jul 21 2017
    With an appearance by Don Bachardy.Don Bachardy, from the home he shared with Christopher Isherwood in Santa Monica, talks about the 1979 Broadway production of A Meeting by the River, about his relationship with Chris, and about Vedanta.

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    23 mins
  • Episode Ten: A Meeting by the River, Directed by Anthony Page, Act II

    Episode Ten: A Meeting by the River, Directed by Anthony Page, Act II
    Jul 14 2017
    Playful sparring between the brothers deepens to rivalry and self-doubt. Patrick’s secret love life is exposed. Spiritual darkness closes around Oliver, and he calls upon the memory of his guru to show him a way forward. Dominic West, Kyle Soller, Penelope Wilton and Annabel Mullion star in this audio adaptation of Isherwood and Bachardy’s A Meeting by the River.

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    58 mins
  • Episode Nine: A Meeting by the River, Directed by Anthony Page, Act I

    Episode Nine: A Meeting by the River, Directed by Anthony Page, Act I
    Jul 7 2017
    Two brothers confront each other in a monastery beside the Ganges. One plans to renounce the world, the other tries to stop him. Adapted by Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy from Isherwood’s last novel, A Meeting by the River is a daring, ruthless, and joyfully comic meditation on the nature of love and the question of whether god exists. Dominic West, Kyle Soller, Penelope Wilton and Annabel Mullion star in this audio production.

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    50 mins

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