Oona Chaplin hosts podcast on how grandfather was on Hollywood blacklist

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A new BBC World Service and CBC podcast tells how Charlie Chaplin was embroiled in an FBI campaign aimed at rooting out communism from Hollywood.

Hollywood Exiles, hosted by Charlie’s granddaughter Oona Chaplin, describes the events that led to the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee hearings and the era of the infamous “Hollywood blacklist.”

The extent and impact of the FBI’s investigation into Charlie Chaplin and others in the film industry, is revealed in the podcast.