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’s 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 reverbera ... Show More
Feb 2023
Escaping NXIVM Introduces: The No Good, Terribly Kind, Wonderful Lives and Tragic Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman
News of the mysterious deaths of billionaire Canadian pharma giant Barry Sherman and his philanthropist wife Honey in December 2017 reverberated around the world. Five years later, with no arrests and little news from the police, their deaths remain shrouded in mystery and conspi ... Show More
33m 54s
Jul 2019
Hollywood: The Hollywood Ten, Tinseltown’s Red Scare
In the 1940s, the Red Scare had everyone on high alert, as whispers of Communist conspiracies swept through Hollywood. When Edward Dmytryk was wrongfully accused of a Communist agenda, he would soon learn that one false move would lose him absolutely everything. Parcasters - Indi ... Show More
47m 13s
Sep 2021
Hollywood Scandals: Charles Manson
After spending half his life behind bars, Charles Manson leaves prison with dreams of a Hollywood recording career. But when he is rejected by Hollywood, Charles Manson’s hunger for fame runs so deep, he’s willing to play any role he can get – preferring infamy to anonymity.
Hol ... Show More
48m 39s
Aug 2023
Charlie Chaplin
The Golden Age of Hollywood was a place of pioneers, storytellers, ideas, westward expansion, money, politics and scandal- the story of Hollywood is the story of America itself. At the turn of the 20th century, Hollywood in Los Angeles was a dusty country hamlet, but soon bright ... Show More
46m 25s