The Animals Podcast

The Animals Podcast

By Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy and Katherine BucknellSociety & CulturePersonal Journals
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The Animals Podcast episodes

  • Episode Two: “Something Bad Has Happened”
    Don’s first gallery exhibition wins praise, but his new artistic identity proves destabilizing for the Animals. He conceals a love affair from Chris, even though they have agreed to have outside relationships. Tension mounts between the lovers when Don returns home after two years.

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    37 min
  • Episode One: Introduction to The Animals
    After studying Christopher Isherwood for more than twenty years, Katherine Bucknell receives a package from Don Bachardy—stuffed with unpublished love letters. She ushers us back half a century into the private world of The Animals, Chris and Don, as they live, work, and travel, seldom apart, for seven years. When Don leaves their Santa Monica home to study at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, the separation is excruciating.

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    33 min
  • The Animals Podcast: Trailer
    The true love story of a writer and a painter, openly gay in 1950s Hollywood. The Animals invite you into their secret world.

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    2 min

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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…