Josh Widdicombe's Archive of Pop Culture

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 importantly of all - daytime TV was about to change forever…
In 1985 - a quiet cul-de-sac in Melbourne, Australia, captured the world's imagination.
Ramsay Street wasn't just a fictional location. For millions of viewers, it quickly felt like home.
From pop superstars to Academy Award Winners - the show became a legendary launchpad for global superstardom.
It gave the world pop Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Guy Pierce, Margot Robbie, and Russell Crowe…
By the late 1980s, nearly twenty million British viewers tuned in daily. It became an essential cultural anchor for a generation of UK school kids and adults alike.
From Bouncer's dream to Harold’s Amnesia and Scott and Charlene’s iconic wedding - few shows before or since have held such a nostalgic, endearing place in the heart of British TV viewers…
This is the wonderful story of Australia’s greatest TV export, a show that was much more than just a soap opera, this is ‘Neigbours’…
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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 destroyed by his mad journey to make the film….

All episodes for this series are available to listen to now if you go to;
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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!!

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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 after the demise of the old Hollywood studio system…
A new breed of young, hungry and fearless filmmakers are forging a new path - Scorsese, Lucas, Spielberg, and the elder statesman of the group - Francis Ford Coppola…
Amongst this landscape, the visionary filmmaker - off the back of huge success with The Godfather and its sequel - risked his own fortune, health, and sanity, to go deep into the Heart of Darkness to make arguably the most infamous war film of all time…
This is the insane story of a doomed production - typhoons,
heart attacks, civil war, actors being overweight, high on drugs, and even removed from the film completely…
This is the story of Francis Ford Coppola and the most infamous and psychologically destructive film production in Hollywood history…
This is the incredible story of the Making of Apocalypse Now…

All episodes for this series are available to listen to now if you go to;
⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://museumofpopculture.supportingcast.fm/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
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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 infamous show.
How did it measure up to other notorious Broadway bombs?
Was it really a failure? And if so, who was to blame?

All episodes for this series are available to listen to now if you go to;
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New episodes are released twice weekly. Please subscribe, leave a review, and spread the word if nostalgic pop culture is your cup of tea!!
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