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Josh Widdicombe's Archive of Pop Culture
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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!
A Keep It Light Media Production
(Copyright 2026)
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The Making of 'Apocalypse Now' (Part 3)
2d ago00:34:15Tap to summarizeWelcome 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;https://museumofpopculture.supportingcast.fm/And join the Archive of Pop Culture fan club.If you want to get in touch with the show...Email: museumofpopculturepod@gmail.comInstagram: archiveofpopculture_podNew episodes are released twice weekly. Please subscribe, leave a review, and spread the word if nostalgic pop culture is your cup of tea!!A Keep It Light Media Production(Copyright 2026)
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The Making of 'Apocalypse Now' (Part 2)
6d ago00:36:06Tap to summarizeWelcome 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!! All episodes for this series are available to listen to now if you go to;https://museumofpopculture.supportingcast.fm/And join the Archive of Pop Culture fan club.If you want to get in touch with the show...Email: museumofpopculturepod@gmail.comInstagram: archiveofpopculture_podNew episodes are released twice weekly. Please subscribe, leave a review, and spread the word if nostalgic pop culture is your cup of tea!!A Keep It Light Media Production(Copyright 2026)
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The Making of 'Apocalypse Now' (Part 1)
1w ago00:45:54Tap to summarizeIn 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/And join the Archive of Pop Culture fan club.If you want to get in touch with the show...Email: museumofpopculturepod@gmail.comInstagram: archiveofpopculture_podNew episodes are released twice weekly. Please subscribe, leave a review, and spread the word if nostalgic pop culture is your cup of tea!!A Keep It Light Media Production(Copyright 2026)
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Spiderman: Turn off the Dark - Broadway's Biggest Musical Failure? (Part 4)
2w ago00:29:25Tap to summarizeSpiderman: 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;https://museumofpopculture.supportingcast.fm/And join the Archive of Pop Culture fan club.If you want to get in touch with the show...Email: museumofpopculturepod@gmail.comInstagram: archiveofpopculture_podNew episodes are released twice weekly. Please subscribe, leave a review, and spread the word if nostalgic pop culture is your cup of tea!!A Keep It Light Media Production(Copyright 2026)
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Spiderman: Turn off the Dark - Broadway's Biggest Musical Failure? (Part 3)
2w ago00:38:57Tap to summarizeSpiderman: 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 ever open? And at what cost?All episodes for this series are available to listen to now if you go to;https://museumofpopculture.supportingcast.fm/And join the Archive of Pop Culture fan club.If you want to get in touch with the show...Email: museumofpopculturepod@gmail.comInstagram: archiveofpopculture_podNew episodes are released twice weekly. Please subscribe, leave a review, and spread the word if nostalgic pop culture is your cup of tea!!A Keep It Light Media Production(Copyright 2026)
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Spiderman: Turn off the Dark - Broadway's Biggest Musical Failure? (Part 2)
3w ago00:38:27Tap to summarizeSpiderman: 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 various egos orbiting the broadway show as it starts to take shape. You could say the warning signs were there from the start....All episodes for this series are available to listen to now if you go to;https://museumofpopculture.supportingcast.fm/And join the Archive of Pop Culture fan club.If you want to get in touch with the show...Email: museumofpopculturepod@gmail.comInstagram: archiveofpopculture_podNew episodes are released twice weekly. Please subscribe, leave a review, and spread the word if nostalgic pop culture is your cup of tea!!A Keep It Light Media Production(Copyright 2026)
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Spiderman: Turn off the Dark - Broadway's Biggest Musical Failure? (Part 1)
3w ago00:39:52Tap to summarizeSpiderman: 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 RuffellThere are Broadway musicals that become legends……and then there are Broadway musicals that become infamous cautionary tales.From the creators of The Lion King and the visionary minds of Bono and The Edge came a musical so ambitious… so expensive… so unbelievably cursed……it made critics beg for intermission.Budget problems. Flying accidents. Preview delays. I could go on… so I will… Six directors. Millions over budget.And enough backstage panic to power all of Times Square. This wasn’t just a musical.It was a catastrophe with merchandise.This is the unbelievable true story of the big budget Broadway musical disaster - Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. All episodes for this series are available to listen to now if you go to;https://museumofpopculture.supportingcast.fm/And join the Archive of Pop Culture fan club.If you want to get in touch with the show...Email: museumofpopculturepod@gmail.comInstagram: archiveofpopculture_podNew episodes are released twice weekly. Please subscribe, leave a review, and spread the word if nostalgic pop culture is your cup of tea!!A Keep It Light Media Production(Copyright 2026)
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes (Part 3)
4w ago00:37:57Tap to summarizeEPISODE 3Welcome 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 Doyle faces a series of tragic life events, before he finds himself embroiled in multiple controversies and scandals surrounding clairvoyants, fake fossils and counterfeit photographs of fairies. All episodes for this series are available to listen to now if you go to;https://museumofpopculture.supportingcast.fm/And join the Archive of Pop Culture fan club.If you want to get in touch with the show...Email: museumofpopculturepod@gmail.comInstagram: archiveofpopculture_podNew episodes are released twice weekly. Please subscribe, leave a review, and spread the word if nostalgic pop culture is your cup of tea!!A Keep It Light Media Production(Copyright 2026)
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes (Part 2)
May 2000:40:13Tap to summarizeEPISODE 2Welcome 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 celebrities have solved crimes! All episodes for this series are available to listen to now if you go to;https://museumofpopculture.supportingcast.fm/And join the Archive of Pop Culture fan club.If you want to get in touch with the show...Email: museumofpopculturepod@gmail.comInstagram: archiveofpopculture_podNew episodes are released twice weekly. Please subscribe, leave a review, and spread the word if nostalgic pop culture is your cup of tea!!A Keep It Light Media Production(Copyright 2026)
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes (Part 1)
May 1600:43:46Tap to summarizeJoining 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 1To the world, he was the architect of logic. The man who brought us the deerstalker, the magnifying glass, and the brilliance of 221B Baker Street.But Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a man of startling contradictions... A medical doctor and surgeon whose globe trotting career took him from the rugged whaling ships of the Arctic, to the bloody battlefields of the Boer War. His life was an odyssey of high-stakes adventure, where his interests and experiences were to converge into his defining creation - Sherlock HolmesBut as the character became the global icon of reason, he bristled against the success of his literary masterpieces,and after killing off Holmes, Doyle himself plunged into the occult. In an amazing life story full of unbelievable twists and turns,He risked his reputation to prove the existence of spirits, and swore to the world that photographs of garden fairies were real.This is the incredible true story of the creator who couldn't escape his own shadow… Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes.All episodes for this series are available to listen to now if you go to;https://museumofpopculture.supportingcast.fm/And join the Archive of Pop Culture fan club.If you want to get in touch with the show...Email: museumofpopculturepod@gmail.comInstagram: archiveofpopculture_podNew episodes are released twice weekly. Please subscribe, leave a review, and spread the word if nostalgic pop culture is your cup of tea!!A Keep It Light Media Production(Copyright 2026)
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