Rainbow Valley

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) July 16 th 1969 and the world watched in awe as Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape K ennedy in F lorida carrying the promise that President John F K ennedy had...

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 unapologetic living. When this spirited pools winner declared she'd "spend, spend, spend!" after scooping £152,319 in 1961, she didn't just ignite public imagination—she carved her name into British cultural his...

Rainbow Valley - telling the stories from the decade that shook the world. Episode 037 - The Great Escape From Alcatraz (1962) On today's episode we are travelling to a place that was designed to be the end of the line. A place synonymous with impenetrable security and the bleakest form of penal servitude. It sits starkly in the turbulent, frigid waters of the San Francisco Bay. For twenty-nine ye...

Rainbow Valley - telling the stories from the decade that shook the world. Episode 038 - The Mini This time on Rainbow Valley, we climb into one of the most famous little cars ever built and tell the story of how the Mini became so much more than four wheels and a cheeky grin. Born not from glamour, but from crisis, the Mini arrived in the shadow of Suez, petrol rationing and a Britain trying to w...

The story of James Bond on the big screen is a tale of highs and lows, ups and downs, twists and turns.  The story of the making of the movies themselves is worthy of an Ian Fleming novel in its own right.  It is the story has taken over sixty years to tell, and is still being told today. As important to this story as Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan and Craig is the story of three other m...

Rainbow Valley - Episode 013   1962 – A year of worldwide upheaval, the continuing space race and the death of Hollywood's biggest sex symbol. The year would witness one of the most devastating air disasters as an Air France Boeing 707 would crash in Paris, John Glen would become the first American to orbit the earth and Albert Sabin would develop the first oral polio vaccine. Algeria Burundi and...

As we discovered in series one, the 1960s signified, for many, a decade of revolution, a decade of hope, a decade of immense change worldwide. We must not forget however that it was also a time of conflict, the cold war and racial tension. Musically, the world moved from the rock and roll era and crooners into the British invasion, folk music and peace and love along with hippies, drugs and Woodst...

The Great Train Robbery was the robbery of £2.6 million from a Royal Mail train heading from Glasgow to London on the West Coast Main Line in the early hours of 8 August 1963, at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn, near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England.   A robbery that took less than 30 minutes from start to finish, spread over a distance of 28 miles, and would net the gang involved the equivale...

  THE MAKING OF SERGEANT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND   On June 1 st 1967, The Beatles released what was and is still considered by many the greatest album of all time. It was an album of firsts. It featured the first gatefold sleeve, the first time lyrics had ever appeared on a record cover and it was the first album the band would release following their decision to stop touring. It was the...

  THE MAKING OF BREAKFAST AT TIFFANYS   The 1960s heralded in a new era in a variety of ways. Society and political events influenced the cultural and art world throughout the decade. The early sixties would begin to be seen as the start of the permissive age. Lady Chatterley and the pill would nudge open the door to  a new world of liberation that would reach out to people's attitudes, the way th...

    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.     The 1960s was a decade that would prove itself to be one of the most cu...

    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.   On October 14 th 1964, African American civil rights leader Dr Martin Lut...

  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.   In the early part of the 1960's, there was a challenge to country music's N...

  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.   1960, the first year of the swinging decade. In cinemas across the world, a...

    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.   The first year of this remarkable decade would bring us the cold war, the...

    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.   In 1963, Brian Epstein's stable of stars had occupied the number one posi...

    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.   Liverpool legend tells the story of a young eighteen-year-old lad by the...

  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.   Two worlds would collide in the summer of 1961, when a young nightclub show...

Episode 001 – Janis Joplin For the very first episode of Rainbow Valley, we begin with one of the most unforgettable voices of the 1960s: Janis Joplin. Raw, rebellious, wounded and extraordinary, Janis Joplin became one of the defining figures of the counter-culture era. Born in conservative Port Arthur, Texas, she never quite fitted the world around her. Drawn to the blues, to outsider voices, an...