Hollywood Exiles

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Host Oona Chaplin guides listeners through the period known as the Red Scare - an ideological battle that implicated Hollywood’s biggest stars, including her grandfather, Charlie.

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Mar 25, 2024 · 38 min
10. Exile
The anti-communist chill drives countless Hollywood figures into career exile
Mar 18, 2024 · 31 min
9. Naming names
Careers destroyed and friendships fractured as Charlie Chaplin faces his fate in America
Mar 11, 2024 · 28 min
8. The un-Americans
The Hollywood Ten hit a legal brick wall as the blacklist era begins
Mar 4, 2024 · 27 min
7. Are you now, or have you ever been
A sensational Washington inquiry into Hollywood communist “subversion” begins
Feb 26, 2024 · 27 min
6. Hollywood on trial
Washington turns its spotlight on Hollywood in the search for “Unamerican” activities
Feb 19, 2024 · 30 min
5. Billy's list
Hollywood Reporter publisher Billy Wilkerson is first to name movie business communists
Feb 12, 2024 · 29 min
4. Hearts and minds
The FBI and Ayn Rand scrutinise movies for "subversive" leftist propaganda
Feb 5, 2024 · 37 min
3. The case against Charlie Chaplin
Movie star Charlie Chaplin stands trial amid a media storm
Jan 29, 2024 · 36 min
2. Red menace
Oona Chaplin reveals J. Edgar Hoover's campaign to root out communists in Hollywood
Jan 22, 2024 · 35 min
1. An American dream
Charlie Chaplin is near-exiled following an FBI campaign to root out communism in the US
Jan 15, 2024 · 2 min
Introducing Hollywood Exiles
Why was Oona Chaplin’s grandfather, Charlie, exiled from Hollywood? Premieres 22 January

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