May 19, 2026
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,...
May 19, 2026
In London in the 1880s, the city was gripped by fear. A killer was prowling the cobbled, fog heavy streets of Whitechapel murdering prostitutes in a chilling reign of terror.
Fast forward seventy years and a new killer was on the loose, this time, not in the impoverished Victorian East End, but towards the west.
May 19, 2026
It can certainly be safe to say that the 1960s produced some of the most dramatic changes in the world of popular music.
From the early days of rock and roll, through to the swinging beat scene, the British invasion, American surf music and right through to the San Francisco sound of the peace and love generation,...
May 19, 2026
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...
May 19, 2026
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...