Talk Radio is a 1988 American drama thriller film directed by Oliver Stone and starring Eric Bogosian, Alec Baldwin, Ellen Greene, and Leslie Hope.

[3] Barry Champlain, a Jewish radio personality in Dallas, Texas, is a host with a biting sense of humor and a knack for condescending to his audience with his controversial political views.

A former suit salesman with the real name Barry Golden, he achieved his rise to fame through guest shots on the Jeff Fisher radio show using different pseudonyms, eventually using Champlain.

Attacking everyone from gays to drug addicts to rednecks to African Americans, he has a substantial number of hostile callers, from people who take offense to his attitude to radical right-wingers to hate groups phoning in to harass and intimidate him.

The script was almost entirely based on Bogosian's Pulitzer Prize-nominated[4] original play with some biographical information about Alan Berg, a talk show host in Denver who was murdered in 1984 by white supremacists.

In his research for the film version, Bogosian often watched the on-air production of Tom Leykis' talk show, then originating from Los Angeles station KFI.

The consensus summarizes: "The gripping union of a director and star at the peak of their respective powers, Talk Radio offers the viewer a singularly unlikable character and dares you to look away.