Damian Barr's fictionalised audiobook "The Two Roberts" chronicles the 26-year relationship between real-life artists Bobby MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, from their 1933 meeting as Glasgow art students through their rise to fame in bohemian London and subsequent fall into obscurity. Narrator Michael Abubakar brings depth to the story of these working-class men who lived together illegally during a time when homosexuality was criminalized, depicting their glamorous wartime years alongside Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud before the postwar art world's shift left them forgotten and broke.
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Damian Barr's fictionalised audiobook "The Two Roberts" chronicles the 26-year relationship between real-life artists Bobby MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, from their 1933 meeting as Glasgow art students through their rise to fame in bohemian London and subsequent fall into obscurity. Narrator Michael Abubakar brings depth to the story of these working-class men who lived together illegally during a time when homosexuality was criminalized, depicting their glamorous wartime years alongside Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud before the postwar art world's shift left them forgotten and broke.