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California: From Hollywood to Silicon Valley

The DocumentaryThe Californian Century
Episode 3 of 5

Stanley Tucci tells the story of Leon Lewis who hunted down Nazis in LA and Silicon Valley's troubled founder William Shockley.

Stanley Tucci imagines the story of modern California as a movie screenplay. In this episode, he tells the story of Leon Lewis who hunted down Nazis in LA in the '30s and '40s. With its aircraft factories and shipyards, California was a prime target for Hitler. And he remembers Silicon Valley's troubled founder, William Shockley: a genius, a hideous boss and an irredeemable racist.

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Sun 5 Jul 202018:32GMT
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  • Wed 1 Jul 202010:32GMT
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  • Wed 1 Jul 202012:32GMT
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  • Wed 1 Jul 202015:32GMT
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  • Wed 1 Jul 202019:32GMT
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  • Wed 1 Jul 202021:32GMT
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  • Wed 1 Jul 202022:32GMT
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  • Sun 5 Jul 202018:32GMT
    BBC World Service except East and Southern Africa, Europe and the Middle East & West and Central Africa