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The Animals Podcast Launches May 14
You can listen to the first episode now, ahead of the launch date, by visiting
TheAnimalsPodcast.com/preview. Enter password TheAnimals2017 when prompted.
The series is based on The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy. Simon Callow stars as “Chris,” and Alan Cumming stars as “Don.” Katherine Bucknell, editor of the letters and of four volumes of Isherwood’s diaries, narrates. Original music is by prize-winning composer Edmund Jolliffe.
The podcast will culminate in July with an audio performance of A Meeting by the River, Isherwood and Bachardy’s stage adaptation of Isherwood’s last novel. The play is presented for the first time in over 40 years under the direction of Anthony Page, formerly artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre, London. The cast includes Dominic West (The Wire), Kyle Soller (Poldark), Penelope Wilton (Downton Abbey), and Annabel Mullion (Mother’s Milk).
Starting May 14, you can download the 11-episode series for free, one episode each week, on www.TheAnimalsPodcast.com, iTunes, Stitcher, Acast, Downcast, Overcast and Podbean.
To launch the podcast, Alan Cumming and Angus Wright will appear live at Tate Britain reading excerpts from The Animals and from Isherwood’s Diaries. The May 14 reading coincides with the exhibition Queer British Art and with the David Hockney retrospective, and will take place in front of Hockney’s 1968 portrait of Isherwood and Bachardy, not seen in public for over twenty-five years. You can purchase tickets here.
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The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
On 21 April, Don Bachardy and Tina Mascara awarded the inaugural L.A. Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose to Wesley Lowery for They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement.
This year’s prize-winning memoir is a ‘devastating front-line account of the police killings and the young activism that sparked one of the most significant racial justice movements since the 1960s: Black Lives Matter’, in the words of Junot Diaz.
Isherwood won the L.A. Times Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1984. The new prize, sponsored by the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, spans fiction, travel writing, memoir, and diary to honor Isherwood’s work across those genres. It is given in partnership with the Los Angeles Times at their annual book festival in tribute to the city Isherwood made his adoptive home.
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Don Bachardy and Tina Mascara present the L.A. Times Christopher Isherwood Prize.
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2017-2018 Christopher Isherwood Fellows
The Huntington Library has announced its 2017-2018 cohort of Isherwood Fellows. Lois Cucullu, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Reid Echols, Doctoral Candidate, University of Texas, Austin; Jaime Harker, Professor, University of Mississippi; and Jack Sargent, Doctoral Candidate, University of Exeter will be at work in the Christopher Isherwood archive at the library for between one and three months each. To find out more about their work, visit The Christopher Isherwood Foundation / Fellowships.
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