Rainbow Valley

Feb 10 2024 31 ep. 75 mins 81
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Rainbow Valley is a monthly podcast where your host, Scott takes a look at key events and personalities that shaped one the most influential, vibrant, tumultuous and swinging decades in history. Join us as we celebrate the 1960’s with the stories surrounding the music and news events of the decade that shook the world.

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Episode 030 - The Apollo One Disaster (1967)

Feb 10 2024 58 mins  
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 Chaffee way made their way into a brand new spacecraft perched atop a large powerful Saturn Five rocket at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. A routine dress rehearsal, and one of many, for th

Episode 029 - The Button Down Mind Of Bob Newhart (1960)

Mar 08 2023 52 mins  
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 for fourteen weeks. The album would stay in the chart for two years selling over 600,000 copies near release and ranking as the 20th best selling album of all time on the Billboard char

Episode 028 - The Aberfan Disaster

Jan 04 2023 70 mins  
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 their first lesson of the day to begin when the air was filled with the sound of a distant rumble. A massive coal tip - a mountain of waste generated by the town's mines that employed 800

Episode 027 - 1966: The Year We Won...And Lost The World Cup

Nov 17 2022 27 mins  
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 England won the world cup in the summer of 1966. You wouldn’t be far off though as this episode of Rainbow Valley is the story of not how we won the World Cup that summer, but how we

Episode 026 - The Big Freeze

Sep 28 2022 42 mins  
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 two days of eating, drinking and making merry. Small screen entertainment on the tv that evening included a hilarious variety show from the London Palladium featuring Bruce Forsyth and No

Episode 025 - The Making Of Zulu (1964)

Jun 28 2022 88 mins  
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. RAINBOW VALLEY – THE MAKING OF ZULU Rainbow Valley is a monthly podcast where your host, Scott takes a look at key events and personalities that shaped one the most influential, vibrant, tumultuous and swinging decades in hi

Episode 024 - Hits and Headlines of 1964

Jul 02 2020 123 mins  
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 Vietnam escalated. But it was also the year of the Tokyo Olympics, The Blue Streak, Donald Campbell and Radio Caroline. There was music from not only the Fab Four, but Dusty, Manfred Mann a

Episode 023 - The Theft Of The Duke Of Wellington

Mar 16 2020 39 mins  
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 James Bond. Its 1962, and the movie would start to lay out a successful formula for most of the other movies that would follow in the series. Of course when we speak about Dr No, most o

Episode 022 - Tammi Terrell

Sep 14 2019 59 mins  
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 a life cut tragically short, but thankfully a life that brought us one of the greatest soul singers of all time. Ladies and gentlemen, Rainbow Valley is proud to present the story of

Episode 021 - The Zapruder Film

Nov 19 2018 87 mins  
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 approximately 22 seconds. A piece of 8mm film that is only 25 feet in length and yet is possibly the most watched piece of celluloid in history….and certainly the most famous ho