# Christopher Isherwood
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christopher isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. His best-known works include Goodbye to Berlin (1939), a semi-autobiographical novel which inspired the musical Cabaret, A Single Man (1964) adapted as a film by Tom Ford in 2009, and Christopher and His Kind (1976), a memoir which "carried him into the heart of the Gay Liberation movement".
== Biography ==
=== Early life and work ===
Isherwood was born in 1904 on his family's estate in Cheshire near Manchester in the north of England.
Episode 19 | Jess Walter
Which rules govern literature? How to maintain order in the empire of the imagination?
In this podcast we find out how writers do it. How do they manage to make their characters do what they want? How do they keep their ideas under control? Where does creative license end and discipline start? What…
Maria Mitchell Assoc – The Nature of Nantucket – Katherine Bucknell
On this week's Maria Mitchell Association Podcast, Joanna Roche gets to talk with acclaimed author and literary scholar Katherine Bucknell to discuss her acclaimed biography, Christopher Isherwood Inside Out, an intimate portrait of the celebrated writer behind Goodbye to Berlin and A Single Man. K…
Simon Callow talks about Christopher Isherwood
To coincide with the publication of his audiobook of Down There on a Visit , Simon Callow discuss his encounters over the years with Isherwood's writing.
Paul and Corey Cross the Streams: S8E12 [CABARET (1972)]
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Let's put on a show! It's season 8 for Paul and Corey Cross the Streams, and this season we're watching musicals. It's a singular art form with a dynamic history, and we get to listen to a lot of cast recordings…
This week, Corey wanted to hear the music play with Cabaret (1972)! Just like Si…
What Berlin Teaches Us About Resisting Tyranny: Wendy Lesser’s Cautionary Mirror for Our Times
“Hitler had to abolish democracy to take over Berlin.” — Wendy Lesser
“Ich bin ein Berliner” (I Am a Berliner), JFK famously said in West Berlin on June 26, 1963, in the face of Soviet imperial tyranny. Today, Wendy Lesser is offering the same defiance in her new book Berlin Before and After. Onl…
349. The Swan Song of Truman Capote
In this final episode of our Summer of Swans, we travel to the California home of Joanne Carson where Truman Capote spent his last days in August of 1984.
Truman, infamous writer and collector of Swans, has some pretty epic stories in his last months, as told by his friends before his passing on …
Episode 45 - Jacob's Hands - CBS Radio Workshop (1956)
If your hands had the power to heal the sick, would that be a blessing or a curse? That's the question posed by "Jacob's Hands," a CBS Radio Workshop drama co-written by literary titans Aldous Huxley and Christopher Isherwood (and narrated by the latter). Your humble hosts David, Yavar, and Clark d…
Frankenstein Pride
Movie Meltdown - Episode 554 For this special bonus Horror Club episode, we return to WonderFest to talk with Sam Irvin. Sam is a director, producer, screenwriter, author and the film historian who recently provided the audio commentary for Frankenstein: The True Story. This 1973 film was directed …
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