Episodes 37
Avg. Duration 1h 9m
Activity Active
Since Sep 2016
Latest Episode Aug 2025

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Every 2 Months
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Episodic
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rainbowvalley.libsyn.com

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About This Podcast

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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Recent Episodes

S1E36 Episode 036 - Spend Spend Spend – The Rise and Fall of Viv Nicholson (1961)

Aug 25, 2025 18m

Rainbow Valley - bringing you the stories from the decade that shook the world. Join your host, Scott, as he tells the tale of Viv Nicholson—a name synonymous with extravagance, drama, and…

S1E35 Episode 035 - Chappaquiddick Part Two (1969)

Jul 05, 2025 30m

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…

S1E34 Episode 034 - Chappaquiddick Part One (1969)

Jun 08, 2025 33m

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.…

S1E33 Episode 033 - Goldie And His Bid For Freedom (1965)

Apr 28, 2025 18m

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…

S1E32 Episode 032 - Tere Jo Dupperault - Orphan of the Sea (1961)

Mar 31, 2025 44m

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…

S1E31 Episode 031 - Sinatra at The Sands (1966)

Feb 23, 2025 1h 20m

Rainbow Valley - bringing you the stories from the decade that shook the world. Episode 031 - Sinatra at the Sands (1966) January/February 1966 and Frank Sinatra is headlining at the Copa Room at…

S1E30 Episode 030 - The Apollo One Disaster (1967)

Feb 10, 2024 58m

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…

S1E29 Episode 029 - The Button Down Mind Of Bob Newhart (1960)

Mar 08, 2023 52m

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…

S1E28 Episode 028 - The Aberfan Disaster

Jan 04, 2023 1h 10m

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…

S1E27 Episode 027 - 1966: The Year We Won...And Lost The World Cup

Nov 17, 2022 27m

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…

S1E26 Episode 026 - The Big Freeze

Sep 28, 2022 42m

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…

S1E25 Episode 025 - The Making Of Zulu (1964)

Jun 28, 2022 1h 28m

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…

Episode 024 - Hits and Headlines of 1964

Jul 02, 2020 2h 3m

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…

S1E23 Episode 023 - The Theft Of The Duke Of Wellington

Mar 16, 2020 39m

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…

S2E22 Episode 022 - Tammi Terrell

Sep 14, 2019 59m

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…

S3E21 Episode 021 - The Zapruder Film

Nov 20, 2018 1h 27m

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…

S2E20 Episode 020 - David Frost, Emil Savundra, and the trial by television

Sep 23, 2018 53m

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…

S2E19 Episode 019 - Dusty Springfield

Sep 03, 2018 2h 23m

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…

S2E8 Episode 018 - The Making Of Cleopatra (1963)

Jul 29, 2018 1h 38m

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.…

S2E7 Episode 017 - Hits and Headlines of 1963

Jul 11, 2018 2h 6m

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…

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