Josh Widdicombe's Archive of Pop Culture

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 from history.
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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 spectacle for the next five decades…
Every evening they transformed the impossible into entertainment...
Tigers appeared from nowhere.
White lions prowled across the stage.
And night after night, millions watched as two illusionists became global superstars.
But behind the sequins, the headlines and the roaring crowds was a story of ambition, friendship and betrayal.
How did two outsiders build one of the most spectacular and highest earning acts in entertainment history?
Then, in 2003, everything changed.
During a performance at the Mirage, Roy was viciously attacked by one of the show's beloved white tigers. The world watched in shock...
What followed became another chapter in a story that had already defied belief. More unbelievable than their show itself.
Two men.
A lifetime of dreams.
The biggest stage in the world.
And the fine line between illusion and reality.
This is the extraordinary story of Siegfried and Roy.

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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. Back soon with the next series.

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Hosted by Josh Widdicombe
Research by - David Price
Additional editing by Will Fitzpatrick + James Sheldon
Design by John Gregory
Music by Pickle & Button

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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 literature (at the time at least) Laddy Chatterley's Lover.

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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 Dead and Cannibal Holocaust cause public outrage!

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