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Hello and welcome. I am Josh Whittickham. For today today I am the curator of a place of incredible

artefacts and exhibitions a place that stores the greatest thing on earth this is my

museum of pop culture as a self-confessed pop culture obsessive I love the geniuses

the scam artists and dare I say

the absolute madmen that have made the records shows and films that we love.

In each series I will tell you a story of unlikely triumph and usually an enjoyably crushing failure,

featuring celebrated stars that in any other industry would probably be

politely sacked.

It's a show for people more interested in David Hasselhoff than David Lammie, Elizabeth Taylor

than Queen Elizabeth I, which, let's be honest, is all of us.

Joining me to discuss David Hasselhoff and his part in the fall of the Berlin Wall is comedian and friend Matthew Crosby. Can you tell me how to get to get to Sesame Street?

Once you get your hands on Rubik's Cube, you may never be able to put it down.

Ronald Reagan appears to be heading toward a landslide electoral victory tonight.

America in the 1980s. Former actor Ronald Reagan is in the White House.

Neo-conservatism and rampant consumerism are sweeping the nation, and Wall Street is thriving.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

In cinemas, blockbusters like Star Wars and Indiana Jones dominate the box office.

In some major cities fans waited in line all night to be the first to see Indiana Jones

and the Temple of Doom.

Madonna and Michael Jackson rule the airwaves. The material girl is on a roll.

In just over a year, Madonna has had five top ten hits.

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