A collection of interviews and features on topics related to the Norton Simon Museum's exhibitions and collections.

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 ...

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 directed by Anthony Page. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr ...