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Rainbow Valley

Nov 20, 2018

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...


Sep 23, 2018

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 Sri Lankan swindler, the collapse of his Fire, Auto and Marine Insurance Company left about 400,000 motorists in the...


Sep 3, 2018

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 the world of popular music, and one of the defining voices of the 1960s.

 

Ladies and gentlemen, Rainbow Valley is proud...


Jul 29, 2018

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.

The longest and most expensive movie ever made at the time.

The movie that nearly killed it’s leading lady,...


Jul 11, 2018

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 the UK involving call girls, Russian spies and MPs , would eventually bring down the government.  The Beatles would begin...