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Join Josh Widdicombe (Parenting Hell) as he tells the greatest stories in the history of popular culture.
Partnered each time by one of his best friends in the world (comedians Tom Craine, Matthew Crosby or Suzi Ruffell) Josh takes us through the wildest and most entertaining stories of unhinged genius, world dominating success and shaming failure.
Mr Blobby, The KLF, East 17, Dallas, Ghostwatch, the Sinclair C5, U2, Mary Whitehouse, Apocalypse Now, David Hasselhoff… all will be covered at some point plus many more from the world of film, TV, music, celebrity and pop culture!
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Ghost Watch (Part 3)
The final part of this Halloween special series on BBC's controversial and influential show 'Ghost Watch'. We discuss the fallout of the broadcast and the legacy of the show. If you want to get in touch with the show... Email: museumofpopcu
Ghost Watch (Part 2)
Ghostwatch - Part 2 of our Halloween special series of the story of one of the most infamous TV programmes in British history - this episode we discuss the origin and production of the idea before Tom (who has never seen it before!) watches
Ghost Watch (Part 1)
Halloween night. 1992. Britain was settling down for an evening in front of the television. There were only four channels. And the BBC was the one you could trust. A national treasure. A beloved children's presenter. And a perfectly ordinar
The Millennium Dome (Part 5)
The final part of the infamous, and at times unexpected and bizarre story of one of modern Britain’s greatest folly’s turned success stories - The Millennium Dome. Will the gang get away with their audacious diamond heist? And what happens
The Millennium Dome (Part 4)
Part 4 of the infamous, and at times unexpected story of one of modern Britain’s greatest folly’s turned success stories - The Millennium Dome. The millenium is here and the dome is finally open. But it's safe to say the illfated project ha
The Millennium Dome (Part 3)
Part 3 of the infamous, and at times unexpected story of one of modern Britain’s greatest folly’s turned success stories - The Millennium Dome. If you want to get in touch with the show... Email: museumofpopculturepod@gmail.com Instagram: a
The Millennium Dome (Part 2)
Joining me today to discuss the infamous, and at times unexpected story of one of modern Britain’s greatest folly’s turned success stories - The Millennium Dome, is comedian Matthew Crosby Coming up in part 2 - debates and disagreements on
The Millennium Dome (Part 1)
Joining me today to discuss the infamous, and at times unexpected story of one of modern Britain’s greatest folly’s turned success stories - The Millennium Dome, is comedian Matthew Crosby At the end of the twentieth century on the banks of
Siegfried & Roy (Part 3)
Still to come in part 3 is the aftermath of the tiger attack - including conspiracy theories, lawsuits, and countless controversies as the legendary duo's dominance of the Las Vegas entertainment landscape comes to an end. If you want to ge
Siegfried & Roy (Part 2)
Welcome back to part 2… Coming up in this part we've got tiger attacks, lawsuits and conspiracy theories as the Siegfried and Roy juggernaut starts to derail at the height of their fame. But we kick things off with famous magic mistakes fro
Siegfried & Roy (Part 1)
Las Vegas - 1967… Two young men from Germany, united by a love of magic, spectacle and one extraordinary obsession, arrive in Nevada with almost nothing to their name… Siegfried and Roy - two showmen that were set to define magic and specta
Video Nasties, Mary Whitehouse and Censorship (Part 4)
Welcome back to part 4 of the story of Mary Whitehouse, Video Nasties and the Censorship debate… the controversy surrounding the film 'Natural Born Killers' (1994) And an amusing case of the BBFC getting some payback... Thanks for listening
Video Nasties, Mary Whitehouse and Censorship (Part 3)
Welcome back to part 3 of the story of Mary Whitehouse, Video Nasties and the Censorship debate… in this episode we discuss infamous video nasties titles such as Cannibal Holocaust and I Spit on your grave. And the contoversial work of lite
Video Nasties, Mary Whitehouse and Censorship (Part 2)
Coming up in part 2 we discuss the formation of the BBFC (that’s the British Board of film classification to you and I) the birth of VHS… And the Video Nasties craze hits boiling point as infamous titles such as ‘Driller Killer’, The Evil D
Video Nasties, Mary Whitehouse and Censorship (Part 1)
Britain in the early 1980s. A nation gripped by fear. Not of war. Not of crime. But of what was lurking... on the video shelf. Cheap horror films. Violent exploitation movies. Unregulated VHS tapes passed from hand to hand… They became know
Neighbours (Part 4)
NEIGHBOURS - PART 4 A sun-drenched rival soap is launched over in Summer Bay - sadly they both go the way of the Dodo. But ultimately, what matters is the friends and neighbours we made along the way... All episodes for this series are avai
Neighbours (Part 3)
NEIGHBOURS - PART 3 Scott and Charlene get married... what more is there to say. Is this the biggest wedding of the decade? All episodes for this series are available to listen to now if you go to; https://museumofpopculture.supportin
Neighbours (Part 2)
NEIGHBOURS - PART 2 We meet the iconic cast who made the show famous, and some bizarre celebrity cameos who have appeared over the years. And disocver the story behind the iconic theme music... All episodes for this series are available to
Neighbours (Part 1)
Britain in the mid 1980’s is a nation caught between tradition and change. Margaret Thatcher's government reshapes the economy… Duran Duran and Wham! dominate the pop charts, while Live Aid unites the world through music. And most important
The Making of 'Apocalypse Now' (Part 3)
Welcome back to the final part of the insane story of the making of Apocalypse Now… Can Francis Ford Coppola pull victory from the jaws of defeat as the film spirals over budget and out of control. Or will he, like Kurtz himself, end up des
The Making of 'Apocalypse Now' (Part 2)
Welcome back to part 2 of the incredible story of the making of Apocalypse Now… in this episode we’ve got casting disasters, drink and drugs problems on set, and a civil war that repeatedly sends the helicopters AWOL whilst trying to film!!
The Making of 'Apocalypse Now' (Part 1)
In the mid 1970’s America stood at a crossroads. The Vietnam War had recently ended, leaving deep social divisions and a crisis of trust in government after the Watergate scandal... Alongside this, American cinema was re-inventing itself af
Spiderman: Turn off the Dark - Broadway's Biggest Musical Failure? (Part 4)
Spiderman: Turn off the Dark - Broadway's Biggest Musical Failure? (Part 4) In the final part of this incredible story of the Spiderman Broadwy musical - Turn off the dark, we discover the true cost, both finanical and emotional, of the inf
Spiderman: Turn off the Dark - Broadway's Biggest Musical Failure? (Part 3)
Spiderman: Turn off the Dark - Broadway's Biggest Musical Failure? (Part 3) In this episode the Spiderman Broadway show is hit by casting issues, money issues, and theatre issues. Bascially, anything that can go wrong does. Will the show ev
Spiderman: Turn off the Dark - Broadway's Biggest Musical Failure? (Part 2)
Spiderman: Turn off the Dark - Broadway's Biggest Musical Failure? (Part 2) In this episode we discuss the genesis story of the band whose two members soundtrack the doomed musical - rock legends U2. And we start to get a sense of the vario
Spiderman: Turn off the Dark - Broadway's Biggest Musical Failure? (Part 1)
Spiderman: Turn off the Dark - Broadway's Biggest Musical Failure? (Part 1) Joining me today to discuss one of the most disastrous Broadway Musicals ever - Spiderman: Turn off the Dark - Is comedian and friend Suzi Ruffell There are Broadwa
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes (Part 3)
EPISODE 3 Welcome back to the final part of the life and work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. If you thought the first two parts were a rollercoaster, incredibly his life story is about to take even more wild twists and turns!!! Sir Arthur Conan
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes (Part 2)
EPISODE 2 Welcome back to part 2 of the story Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes... Coming up in this episode - Sherlock Holmes is killed and resurrected by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle… and we discuss other instances where famous celebri
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes (Part 1)
Joining me to discuss the incredible life and work of perhaps my favourite author - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - and his most famous creation - Sherlock Holmes, is comedian and friend Tom Craine. EPISODE 1 To the world, he was the architect of
The strangest fan club memberships, feed the frog, and boring chair facts...
In this latest episode of Archive of Pop Culture we discuss and respond to all the brilliant emails, messages, corrections and suggestions that you, the wonderful AOPC community, have sent us. Thanks to everyone for joining the AOPC fan clu
