Hollywood Exiles Podcast
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.
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10. Exile
Mon 25 Mar 2024
The anti-communist chill drives countless Hollywood figures into career exile
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9. Naming names
Mon 18 Mar 2024
Careers destroyed and friendships fractured as Charlie Chaplin faces his fate in America
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8. The un-Americans
Mon 11 Mar 2024
The Hollywood Ten hit a legal brick wall as the blacklist era begins
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7. Are you now, or have you ever been
Mon 4 Mar 2024
A sensational Washington inquiry into Hollywood communist “subversion” begins
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6. Hollywood on trial
Mon 26 Feb 2024
Washington turns its spotlight on Hollywood in the search for “Unamerican” activities
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5. Billy's list
Mon 19 Feb 2024
Hollywood Reporter publisher Billy Wilkerson is first to name movie business communists
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4. Hearts and minds
Mon 12 Feb 2024
The FBI and Ayn Rand scrutinise movies for "subversive" leftist propaganda
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3. The case against Charlie Chaplin
Mon 5 Feb 2024
Movie star Charlie Chaplin stands trial amid a media storm
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2. Red menace
Mon 29 Jan 2024
Oona Chaplin reveals J. Edgar Hoover's campaign to root out communists in Hollywood
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1. An American dream
Mon 22 Jan 2024
Charlie Chaplin is near-exiled following an FBI campaign to root out communism in the US
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Introducing Hollywood Exiles
Mon 15 Jan 2024
Why was Oona Chaplin’s grandfather, Charlie, exiled from Hollywood? Premieres 22 January
