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Louis B Mayer and the Bolshevik Beast

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

by Stephen Sheridan

Director ..... Sally Avens

A comic re-imagining of the 1934 Gubernatorial campaign in California when socialist writer Upton Sinclair stood for election under the slogan End Poverty in California. Movie Mogul Mayer was determined to stop him and began a battle of political mudslinging the like of which had never been seen before. Show less

Contributors

Louis B Mayer:
Toby Jones
Upton Sinclair:
Colin Stinton
Thalberg:
Chris Pavlo
Frank Merriam:
Sam Dale
Craig Sinclair:
Jessica Turner
Franklin D Roosevelt:
David Hounslow
Director:
Sally Avens

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