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Thinking Allowed

Drugs trial calamity - McCarthy stigma

Thinking Allowed

BBC

Society & Culture, Science

4.4997 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2010

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Professor Laurie Taylor looks at new research dealing with the McCarthy period in US History when actors and artists found themselves unable to work having been denounced or charged for having associations with communism. The stigma and the effect of the accusations is examined by Elizabeth Pontikes, author of 'Stained Red' and she discusses her detailed analysis of the work prospects of those associated with black listed actors and film workers in the US film Industry from 1945 to 1960. Laurie also talks to Professor Adam Hedgecoe about his sociological research into a drug trial that went disastrously wrong. Producer: Chris Wilson.

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Hello, am I hallucinating or do I really remember a day back in the early 60s

1:20.0

when together with several hundred other people, many of them dressed in the standard hippie

1:23.7

uniform of the time, you know, loon pants, tie-died t-shirts and bedraggled Afghan goats.

1:29.2

I stood, well Afghan goats for that better, because that's where they come from, I stood in a queue which stretched all the way back down Denmark hill in

1:36.1

South London simply in order to have a chance of participating in the Mardsley

1:40.8

Hospital's trial of LSD.S.D. Now I think, and I vaguely remember reading it,

1:46.2

that the organizers panicked when they saw the alarming effects the drug was having on some of the

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