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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.

Updated: weekly
Episodes available: indefinitely

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    10. Exile

    Mon 25 Mar 2024

    The anti-communist chill drives countless Hollywood figures into career exile

  • 9. Naming names

    Mon 18 Mar 2024

    Careers destroyed and friendships fractured as Charlie Chaplin faces his fate in America

  • 8. The un-Americans

    Mon 11 Mar 2024

    The Hollywood Ten hit a legal brick wall as the blacklist era begins

  • 7. Are you now, or have you ever been

    Mon 4 Mar 2024

    A sensational Washington inquiry into Hollywood communist β€œsubversion” begins

  • 6. Hollywood on trial

    Mon 26 Feb 2024

    Washington turns its spotlight on Hollywood in the search for β€œUnamerican” activities

  • 5. Billy's list

    Mon 19 Feb 2024

    Hollywood Reporter publisher Billy Wilkerson is first to name movie business communists

  • 4. Hearts and minds

    Mon 12 Feb 2024

    The FBI and Ayn Rand scrutinise movies for "subversive" leftist propaganda

  • 3. The case against Charlie Chaplin

    Mon 5 Feb 2024

    Movie star Charlie Chaplin stands trial amid a media storm

  • 2. Red menace

    Mon 29 Jan 2024

    Oona Chaplin reveals J. Edgar Hoover's campaign to root out communists in Hollywood

  • 1. An American dream

    Mon 22 Jan 2024

    Charlie Chaplin is near-exiled following an FBI campaign to root out communism in the US

  • Introducing Hollywood Exiles

    Mon 15 Jan 2024

    Why was Oona Chaplin’s grandfather, Charlie, exiled from Hollywood? Premieres 22 January

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