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
  • A Meeting by the River: Trailer

    A Meeting by the River: Trailer
    Jul 3 2017
    A play by Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy.

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    2 mins
  • Episode Eight: “Our Play”

    Episode Eight: “Our Play”
    Jun 30 2017
    Chris adapts a George Bernard Shaw story for the LA stage to much acclaim; Don is commissioned to paint the Queen’s cousin, the Earl of Harewood, and sells a portrait of W.H. Auden to the National Portrait Gallery in London. A Meeting by the River is staged in Los Angeles to a warm reception and heads to Broadway.

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    39 mins
  • Episode Seven: “Unfinished Work and Unfulfilled Duties”

    Episode Seven: “Unfinished Work and Unfulfilled Duties”
    Jun 23 2017
    Chris thinks increasingly about his past as he continues writing a memoir about his mother and father, Kathleen and Frank. He and Don both work towards a production of A Meeting by the River, hoping Page will direct it at the Royal Court Theatre. There is an explosion between Don and Page.

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    25 mins
  • Episode Six: David Hockney’s “Giant Portrait”

    Episode Six: David Hockney’s “Giant Portrait”
    Jun 16 2017
    With an appearance by David Hockney. In Los Angeles, Hockney begins a portrait of Chris and Don. Don is still absent in London, and Hockney is unable to progress with his likeness. Don returns home only as Hockney himself departs, carrying the partly finished painting and newly snapped photos of Don from which to work. The Animals collaborate on a stage adaptation of A Meeting by the River. Don takes their script to London when Anthony Page invites him to draw the cast of Osborne’s Look Back in Anger.

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    44 mins
  • Episode Five: “Pandora’s Box”

    Episode Five: “Pandora’s Box”
    Jun 9 2017
    David Hockney, recently settled in LA, offers his London flat to the Animals; Don is able to take a short break in England. Anthony Page hires Don to draw cast portraits for his production of John Osborne’s Time Present, and, later, Hotel in Amsterdam. Don begins an affair with Page and delays his return to Santa Monica.

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    43 mins