With Dan Snow to discuss Chaplin’s long life in all its complications (is Paul Duncan, author of the Charlie Chaplin Archives.

As the men say, in many ways Chaplin’s The Tramp was autobiographical, a reflection of Chaplin’s poverty stricken childhood.

However, as a successful man in Hollywood, Chaplin had disturbing relationships with girls who starred in his films and was eventually exiled from the USA on instruction by J. Edgar Hoover.