Uncover Introduces: Hollywood Exiles

Published: Jan. 30, 2024, 3:10 p.m.

b'From the BBC World Service and CBC Podcasts comes Hollywood Exiles. Host Oona Chaplin tells the story of the decades-long campaign to root out communism in Hollywood. It\\u2019s a campaign that eventually drove her grandfather, Charlie Chaplin, and many others out of tinseltown. Hollywood Exiles is a tale of glamour, duplicity and political intrigue that reverberates to this day. It\\u2019s the story of how Tinseltown became an ideological battleground. The toll of the fight was enormous \\u2013 reputations, careers and families were torn apart by the campaign to drive communists from the movie business. More episodes are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/fZ1ZQKD6'