Hello and welcome. I am Josh Whittickham. For 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 I self-confessed, pop culture obsessive.

I love the geniuses, the scam artists and dare I say, the absolute madmen.

They've 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 Lamy, Elizabeth Taylor than Queen Elizabeth I first, which, let's be honest, is all of us.

Today I'm joined by the first, which let's be honest, is all of us.

Today I'm joined by comedian and my best friend Tom Crane,

and over the next few episodes I'll be telling him about the rise and fall of Mr.

Blobby.

And Noel Edmonds, it is a story you might remember,

but it's so much richer and deeper than you ever thought. And if you don't remember it, get ready to hear the maddest thing you've Confir. A unique day in London's financial markets ended with the Chancellor announcing that

the pound was being suspended from the ERM.

Yeah, eat my shorts!

Have no choice but to drive Saddam from Kuwait by force.

You know where you've been tango.

Britain in the early 1990s. The hangover of the previous decade was still being felt.

Unemployment, privatisation and protests were everywhere.

The rioting began when police tried to clear Whitehall after demonstrators refused to move from the entrance to Downing Street.

Margaret Thatcher was gone.

We're leaving Downing Street for the last time after 11 and a half wonderful years.

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