Feb 10, 2024
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...
Mar 8, 2023
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...
Jan 4, 2023
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...
Nov 17, 2022
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...
Sep 28, 2022
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...