Hollywood Exiles
By BBC & CBC
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.
Latest episode
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10. Exile
The anti-communist chill drives countless Hollywood figures into career exile -
9. Naming names
Careers destroyed and friendships fractured as Charlie Chaplin faces his fate in America -
8. The un-Americans
The Hollywood Ten hit a legal brick wall as the blacklist era begins -
7. Are you now, or have you ever been
A sensational Washington inquiry into Hollywood communist “subversion” begins -
6. Hollywood on trial
Washington turns its spotlight on Hollywood in the search for “Unamerican” activities -
5. Billy's list
Hollywood Reporter publisher Billy Wilkerson is first to name movie business communists -
4. Hearts and minds
The FBI and Ayn Rand scrutinise movies for "subversive" leftist propaganda -
3. The case against Charlie Chaplin
Movie star Charlie Chaplin stands trial amid a media storm -
2. Red menace
Oona Chaplin reveals J. Edgar Hoover's campaign to root out communists in Hollywood -
1. An American dream
Charlie Chaplin is near-exiled following an FBI campaign to root out communism in the US
