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 (Co...
Episodes(40 episodes)
Season 11 - Episode 3
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 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...
Published: Jun 3, 2026Duration: 38m 57s
Season 11 - Episode 2
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 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...
Published: May 30, 2026Duration: 38m 27s
Season 11 - Episode 1
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 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 intermis...
Published: May 27, 2026Duration: 39m 52s
Season 10 - Episode 3
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes (Part 3)
EPISODE 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://museumofpopc...
Published: May 23, 2026Duration: 37m 57s
Season 10 - Episode 2
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes (Part 2)
EPISODE 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: archiveofpopcul...
Published: May 20, 2026Duration: 40m 13s
Season 10 - Episode 1
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 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...
Published: May 16, 2026Duration: 43m 46s
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 club community and getting in touch with the show...If you want to become a part of the Archive of Pop Culture Community you can join the fan club and support the show at;https://museumofpopculture.supportingcast.fm/And join the Archive of Pop Culture fan club.If you want to get in touch with the show...Email: museumofp...
Published: May 13, 2026Duration: 39m 48s
Season 9 - Episode 4
The Chippendales (Part 4)
Episode 4: In the final episode of this series,, you guessed it, more attmpted murder and inept criminal activity from the Chippendales gang. But will those involved finally get their comeuppance? 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 sp...
Published: May 9, 2026Duration: 32m 53s
Season 9 - Episode 3
The Chippendales (Part 3)
Episode 3: Coming up in this episode - incredibly there are ven more murder plots, blackmail, and police suspicions grow as the battle for the Chippendales empire takes even more sinister turns...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...
Published: May 6, 2026Duration: 33m 17s
Season 9 - Episode 2
The Chippendales (Part 2)
Episode 2: Back for part 2 of the unbelievable story of The Chippendales is comedian and friend Suzi Ruffell…Coming up in this episode - there’s more murrder plots, and a hilarious Chippendales calendar misprint ends up costing those involved $700,000!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...
Published: May 1, 2026Duration: 36m 43s
Season 9 - Episode 1
The Chippendales (Part 1)
Episode 1: Joining me today to discuss the unbelievable story of The Chippendales is comedian and friend Suzi Ruffell…Los Angeles in the late 1970’s…A city of reinvention, excess… and opportunity.In the wake of the sexual revolution, nightlife was shifting and the scene was ready for something different…Enter the Chippendales.What began as a small club scene soon became a global cultural phenomenon. Males dancers turning fantasy into a booming business across the United States in the 1980s.But behind the spectacle...
Published: Apr 29, 2026Duration: 43m 20s
Season 8 - Episode 4
It's A Royal Knockout (Part 4)
Episode 4:Welcome back to the final episode of the definitive story of ‘It’s a Royal Knockout’…We discuss Royal divorces, toe sucking tabloid pics, the Princess Diana ‘squidgeygate’ scandal, and her infamous interview with Martin Bashir…And Prince Andrew reflects on the legacy of the event as his reputation and business are left in tatters.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...E...
Published: Apr 25, 2026Duration: 47m 14s
Season 8 - Episode 3
It's A Royal Knockout (Part 3)
Episode 3:Welcome back to part 3 of the story of the PR disaster that was ‘It’s a Royal Knockout’....Coming up in this episode - we discuss the fall-out of the event one reviewer called;“the single most damaging attack on the royal family since Cromwell…” 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.com...
Published: Apr 21, 2026Duration: 36m 4s
Season 8 - Episode 2
It's A Royal Knockout (Part 2)
Episode 2:Coming up in this episode - we meet the celebrities taking part in the show, and discover the reasons why her majesty The Queen and Charles and Diana quite wisely give the event a wide berth!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...
Published: Apr 18, 2026Duration: 41m 47s
Season 8 - Episode 1
It's A Royal Knockout (Part 1)
Episode 1: In the first episode of this series, Josh Widdicombe and comedian and friend Matthew Crosby discuss the incredible story of 'It's a Royal Knockout'The year is 1987…And in Britain, disaster is lurking at every turn…The stock market crash…The worst storm to hit Southern England in centuries…And Margaret Thatcher winning a third term...But none of them compare to what was arguably the worst PR mistake of the decade…A TV show, produced by an inexperienced British Prince,</p...
Published: Apr 14, 2026Duration: 48m 51s
Old TV Shows you've appeared on & How Mr Blobby ended my relationship...
In this episode of Museum of Pop Culture we discuss and respond to all the brilliant emails, messages, corrections and suggestions that you, the wonderful MOPC community, have sent us.Thanks to everyone for joining the MOPC fan club community and getting in touch with the show...If you want to become a part of the Museum of Pop Culture Community you can join the fan club and support the show at;https://museumofpopculture.supportingcast.fm/And join the Museum of Pop Culture fan club.If you want to get in touch with the show...Email: museumofpopcu...
Published: Apr 11, 2026Duration: 42m 45s
Season 7 - Episode 4
Stay Another Day: The Incredible Story of 'East 17' (Part 4)
Episode 4: In the final episode of the story of East 17 the dream refuses to die as various incarnations of the band rise from the ashes. Will there be a happy ending?And we also look at other classic pop band reformations from S-Club 7, to Bucks Fizz and the lesser known Boyz on the Block.All episodes for this series are available to listen to now if you go to;https://museumofpopculture.supportingcast.fm/And join the Museum of Pop Culture fan club.If you want to get in touch with the show...
Published: Apr 7, 2026Duration: 36m 33s
Season 7 - Episode 3
Stay Another Day: The Incredible Story of 'East 17' (Part 3)
Episode 3:In the third episode of this series, Josh Widdicombe and comedian and friend Tom Craine discuss the incredible story of one of the biggest boy bands of the 90's - East 17.Coming up in this episode - a controversial tabloid news story leads to the sacking of Brian Harvey, and soon after the whole band implodes as Tony leaves and the record label drops them.All episodes for this series are available to listen to now if you go to;https://museumofpopculture.supportingcast.fm/And join the Museum of Pop Cultur...
Published: Apr 3, 2026Duration: 45m 7s
Season 7 - Episode 2
Stay Another Day: The Incredible Story of 'East 17' (Part 2)
Episode 2: In the second episode of this series, Josh Widdicombe and comedian and friend Tom Craine discuss the incredible story of one of the biggest boy bands of the 90's - East 17.Coming up in this episode - it’s the battle of the British boy bands as the rivalry with Take That heats up, and they release their career defining chart topper ‘Stay Another Day’All episodes for this series are available to listen to now if you go to;https://museumofpopculture.supportingcast.fm/And join the Museum of Pop Culture ...
Published: Mar 31, 2026Duration: 43m 33s
Season 7 - Episode 1
Stay Another Day: The Incredible Story of 'East 17' (Part 1)
Episode 1: In the first episode of this series, Josh Widdicombe and comedian and friend Tom Craine discuss the incredible story of one of the biggest boy bands of the 90's - East 17.This is the story of a group who defied the odds, topped the charts, and then imploded in spectacular style… this is the rise and fall of ‘East 17’All episodes for this series are available to listen to now if you go to;https://museumofpopculture.supportingcast.fm/And join the Museum of Pop Culture fan club.If you want to...
Published: Mar 27, 2026Duration: 51m 49s