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Drama on 4: Louis B Mayer and the Bolshevik Beast

Louis B Mayer and the Bolshevik Beast

02/11/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Louis B Mayer and the Bolshevik Beast

Toby Jones and Colin Stinton star in this comedy about the birth of political mudslinging.

Toby Jones stars as movie mogul Louis B Mayer determined to stop Upton Sinclair becoming the next Governor of California and taxing the movie studios. Comedy by Stephen Sheridan.

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.

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