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28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC World Service AustralasiaLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service Online
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The House Unamerican Activities Committee calls on movie industry witnesses to testify. Hearings with Tinseltown celebrities create a sensation. Katharine Hepburn makes a stand. Show more
38 minutes
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A relationship of Charlie Chaplin’s lands him in legal trouble, as gossip columnist Hedda Hopper and the FBI conspire against him. Hopper calls him and his movies “un-American.” Show more
30 minutes
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Communist accusations in Hollywood continue. Hollywood Reporter publisher Billy Wilkerson develops an anti-communist friendship with Howard Hughes. Show more
39 minutes
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Although the blacklist era ends, the scars remain. Families of Hollywood workers reckon with the fallout in generations to come. Show more
36 minutes
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Charlie Chaplin was one of Hollywood’s first and biggest stars. He helped create the art and industry of movies. But by the 1960s, he was exiled - was it because of politics? Show more
37 minutes
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Dalton Trumbo’s career as a screenwriter blossoms, just as FBI director J. Edgar Hoover makes Hollywood his focus for rooting out communism. Show more
30 minutes
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J. Edgar Hoover and allies like Ayn Rand scrutinise movies, even classics like It’s a Wonderful Life, for “subversive” leftist propaganda. Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC World Service Americas and the CaribbeanLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service Online
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Politicians looking to put on a show grill film industry workers. Actors Gary Cooper & Robert Taylor are called to the stand, along with Jack Warner of Warner Brothers. Show more
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.
Oona Chaplin explores her grandfather Charlie’s exile from Hollywood. It followed a decades-long FBI campaign to root out communism in the US film industry. Premieres 22 January. Show more
29 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC World Service Americas and the CaribbeanLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service South Asia
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The Hollywood Ten's legal strategy fails disastrously. They run out of options. More widely, writers such as Norma Barzman begin to feel they’re being censored. Show more
32 minutes
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Careers are ruined and friendships fractured as anti-communist fervour pushes witnesses to expose names of alleged communists. Charlie Chaplin faces the FBI. Show more
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It was the biggest gold mine fraud of all time – a scam that devastated countless lives. But what really happened? Suzanne Wilton revisits the story she couldn’t let go of. Show more
