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Chaplin, Celebrity and Modernism

Tuesday 17 July 2007 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)

Mark Kermode investigates Chaplin's celebrity role and influence on world culture from the modernists and Dadaists, through to the Russian avant-garde to imitators in Bombay. Mark has privileged access to Chaplin's private archive and reveals remarkable letters written to Charlie Chaplin by Truman Capote, Winston Churchill and James Agee.

Duration:

45 minutes




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