Rainbow Valley

Rainbow Valley

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

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July 5, 2025 30 mins

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 of the USA.

Episode 035 - Chappaquiddick Part Two (1969)

 

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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.

Episode 034 - Chappaquiddick Part One (1969)

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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 Londoners in 1965 with his daring escapades!

 

Episode 033 - Goldie And His Bid For Freedom

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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 tale of survival and unfa...

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February 23, 2025 80 mins

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

Episode 031 - Sinatra at the Sands (1966)

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Rainbow Valley - The Sixties Podcast.

Telling the stories from the decade that shook the world.

 

The Apollo One Disaster

 

 

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On August 1st 1960, an album on the Warner Brothers label reached number one in the Billboard Mono Action Albums Chart. It ...

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January 4, 2023 70 mins

The Aberfan Disaster

 

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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 lost it.

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September 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 d...

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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...

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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.

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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 su...

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September 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,...

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November 20, 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 cel...

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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 i...

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September 3, 2018 143 mins

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 to present the s...

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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, Elizabeth Taylor.

The mo...

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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.

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