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World Service,03 Jan 2012,10 mins

The Hollywood blacklist

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A list of radicals in Hollywood and the entertainment industry was published by US anti-communists more than 60 years ago. The list was known as Red Channels and people whose names were on it found their careers in jeopardy. Walter Bernstein was a young screenwriter at the time.

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