麻豆社

鈥淚 didn't sit there watching all those people. I was up to the neck in their affairs and often gravely compromised by them. I always sounded kind of aloof, because I wasn't writing about myself. Well, now I am.鈥�

Christopher Isherwood reflects on the formative experiences of his life and how he used them in his novels.

In the week he published his autobiography 鈥楥hristopher and His Kind鈥�, the author chats to Paul Bailey.

Christopher's 1939 novel, 鈥楪oodbye Berlin鈥�, based on his experiences living in Jazz Age Germany, inspired the 1951 stage play 鈥業 Am a Camera鈥�, and the musical and film, 鈥楥abaret鈥�.

He died aged 81 in 1986.

One of a series of classic in depth, long-form interviews unearthed by 4 Extra from tapes deep in the 麻豆社 archives.

First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 3 in March 1977.