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Christopher Isherwood - A Born Foreigner

1969 documentary about author Christopher Isherwood. Derek Hart interviews him about his life and work, featuring extracts from films of his novels and stories.

1969 documentary about author Christopher Isherwood. Born near Manchester, Isherwood mostly lived abroad. In 1969, he was living in California, was a devotee of Hinduism and a pacifist - yet of his own choice he remained an outsider, a foreigner. Derek Hart interviews him about his life and work, featuring extracts from films of his novels and stories including I Am A Camera and The Sailor from Gibraltar, and about the background to the writing of his novel A Single Man.

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