The 5 Best The Californian Century Podcast Episodes
1) A Body on the Backlot
Stanley Tucci imagines the story of modern California as a movie screenplay, tracing the dramatic history of the state from Hollywood to Silicon Valley. In this episode, the first man to direct a fu...Show More
2) The Vanishing
Stanley Tucci tells the story of celebrity revivalist preacher Aimee Semple McPherson who disappeared one day in 1926. They called her Sister Aimee and she was a powerful figure in the early days ...Show More
3) The Good Fight
Stanley Tucci tells 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 b...Show More
4) Dark Water
Stanley Tucci tells the story of William Mulholland and the lies that made Los Angeles possible., The founders of LA had a vision of a future megacity. But there was just one problem - it was a vir...Show More
5) Welcome to The Californian Century
Stanley Tucci imagines the story of modern California as a movie screenplay, tracing the dramatic history of the state from Hollywood to Silicon Valley.
6) Governor Jerry Brown
Stanley Tucci tells the story of Jerry Brown, California's longest serving governor. Brown is a singular figure in Californian politics, having presided over California from 1975 to 1983 and 2011 t...Show More
7) On Ice
Stanley Tucci tells the story of Ice-T, the original gangster rapper. Ice T's controversial hit Cop Killer epitomised the turbulence of 1990s LA, consumed by the outrage of the Rodney King beating. ...Show More
8) San Francisco Burning
Stanley Tucci tells the story of Dianne Feinstein, trailblazing Californian politician who took over as mayor of San Francisco in 1978 after the murders of Harvey Milk and Mayor Moscone. Feinstein wa...Show More
9) Acts of Resistance
Stanley Tucci tells the story of Kathleen Cleaver, a leading light in the short-lived but highly influential Black Panther Party which was founded in Oakland, California. Kathleen Cleaver and the Pan...Show More
10) A Twist of Fate
Stanley Tucci continues his history of California with the story of Silicon Valley's troubled founder, William Shockley. Shockley was the man who first brought silicon to Silicon Valley in the 1950s....Show More