"Stanley Tucci imagines the story of modern California as a movie screenplay, tracing the dramatic history of the state from Hollywood to Silicon Valley.*
His screenplays tell the stories of ten women and men who built California. It's a high risk, high reward state. A place where, if you make it, you're on top of the world. But if you don't, there's a long, long way to fall.
Here is the men who lied and lied and lied again to bring water to arid LA, and the story of the superstar revivalist preacher who was as big as Chaplin – before she disappeared without trace.
We'll also hear about the genius who first brought silicon to Silicon Valley, right before he became a passionate eugenicist - Silicon Valley's dirty little secret".
And my own favourite to date …… Episode 5, The Good Fight, "the story of Leon Lewis who hunted down Nazis on the streets on LA in the 30s and 40s.
With its aircraft factories and shipyards, California consumed ten per cent of the US war budget. That made it a prime target for Nazis hoping to disrupt the war effort.
Leon Lewis swung into action, infiltrating LA's Nazi groups. Meanwhile, California drew in more people and money than ever before, sowing the seeds of its post-War economic success.
In all there are ten episodes, of the real story of California: a story littered with dead bodies, disasters and duplicity.
Academic consultant: Dr Ian Scott, University of Manchester
Written and produced by Laurence Grissell"
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*The Californian Century, Radio 4, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fq4f
Here is the men who lied and lied and lied again to bring water to arid LA, and the story of the superstar revivalist preacher who was as big as Chaplin – before she disappeared without trace.
We'll also hear about the genius who first brought silicon to Silicon Valley, right before he became a passionate eugenicist - Silicon Valley's dirty little secret".
And my own favourite to date …… Episode 5, The Good Fight, "the story of Leon Lewis who hunted down Nazis on the streets on LA in the 30s and 40s.
With its aircraft factories and shipyards, California consumed ten per cent of the US war budget. That made it a prime target for Nazis hoping to disrupt the war effort.
Leon Lewis swung into action, infiltrating LA's Nazi groups. Meanwhile, California drew in more people and money than ever before, sowing the seeds of its post-War economic success.
In all there are ten episodes, of the real story of California: a story littered with dead bodies, disasters and duplicity.
Academic consultant: Dr Ian Scott, University of Manchester
Written and produced by Laurence Grissell"
Picture; A view of the Vincent Thomas Bridge, a suspension span connecting San Pedro and Terminal Island, The Port of Authority at English Wikipedia, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publishes it under the following licenses: w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike his file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
*The Californian Century, Radio 4, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fq4f
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