Rainbow Valley

Episode 002 - The Profumo Affair


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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 showgirl and a British Cabinet minister would meet by chance on an aristocrat’s Buckinghamshire estate. Also present that fateful weekend was a Russian spy and a successful man about town whose wit and charm had secured him his position in London’s high life.

No one could have known on that hot Sunday afternoon as they relaxed by the estate swimming pool, that this meeting would pave the way for a national sex and security scandal and would lead to tragic personal disaster.

Rainbow Valley is proud to present the story of The Profumo Affair.

 

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Scott

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