Rainbow Valley

Rainbow Valley - bringing you the stories from the decade that shook the world.

Join your host, Scott, as he tells the tale of Viv Nicholson—a name synonymous with extravagance, drama, and unapologe…

Rainbow Valley - bringing you the stories from the decade that shook the world.

Join your host, Scott, as he continues the story of the death of a young woman and a man destined to become President …

Rainbow Valley - bringing you the stories from the decade that shook the world.

Join your host, Scott, for the story of the death of a young woman and a man destined to become President of the USA.

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Rainbow Valley - bringing you the stories from the decade that shook the world.

Join your host, Scott, as this week he recounts the tale of Goldie—the golden eagle who soared into the hearts of Lond…

Rainbow Valley - bringing you the stories from the decade that shook the world.

Episode 032 - Tere Jo Dupperault - Orphan of the Sea (1961)

The name Tere Jo Duperrault resonates with a chilling ta…

Rainbow Valley - bringing you the stories from the decade that shook the world.

Episode 031 - Sinatra at the Sands (1966)

January/February 1966 and Frank Sinatra is headlining at the Copa Room at t…

Rainbow Valley - The Sixties Podcast.

Telling the stories from the decade that shook the world.

The Apollo One Disaster

January 27th 1967, US astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaff…

On August 1st 1960, an album on the Warner Brothers label reached number one in the Billboard Mono Action Albums Chart. It was the debut album for this particular artist and would remain at the top …

The Aberfan Disaster

9:13am on October 21st 1966, Pantglas School in the small Welsh mining village of Aberfan

Inside the school, more than 200 children and nine teachers were waiting for the…

1966: The Year We Won...And Lost The World Cup

As we head rapidly towards the 2022 World Cup finals in Qatar, you may be forgiven for thinking that this episode must surely recount the tale of how …

The Big Freeze

Boxing Day evening 1962

The Christmas Number One at the top of the hit parade was Return to Sender by Elvis Presley

All around the country, families were settling down after a busy tw…

WE’RE BACK!!

Our first episode in two years is finally with you – and it’s a cracker. Join Scott as he tells the story of the making of the movie Zulu.

1964...and the world was still reeling from the assassination of John F Kennedy. Racial tensions continued in the southern states of the USA and tension was rising elsewhere as the conflict in Vietna…

The return of Rainbow Valley – the podcast that tells the stories about the swinging decade.

Episode 023  The Theft Of The Duke Of Wellington

Dr No, the first big screen outing for Ian Fleming’s Jam…

The return of Rainbow Valley – the podcast that tells the stories about the swinging decade.

Episode 022 - Tammi Terrell

Join us as we tell the story of one of Motown's greatest stars. The story of …

The return of Rainbow Valley – the podcast that tells the stories about the swinging decade.

Episode 021 – The Zapruder Film.

Season three opens with the story of a sequence of film that runs for …

Episode 020 of the Rainbow Valley podcast – telling the stories that made the swinging decade.

Emil Savundra, for a brief period in the late sixties, was probably the most reviled man in the UK. A S…

Episode 019 of The Rainbow Valley podcast – telling the stories that made the swinging decade.

Join me as I tell the story of one of the finest singers Britain has ever produced.

A true icon in …

Episode 018 of The Rainbow Valley podcast – telling the stories that made the swinging decade.

Join me as I tell the story of the movie that nearly brought 20th Century Fox crashing to the ground.

T…

1963 - a massive year in terms of news events. 

A year that would see an increase in tensions in America as the battle for racial equality raged on. It would be the year in which a scandal in th…