The Secret History Of Hollywood - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Adam Roche has developed a formula for creatively presenting films from Hollywood’s Golden Age, but his greatest achievement is his ability to bring the film industry’s greats to life in his marathon, monumental biographies—from the pioneering studio heads and btheir rises and falls, warts and all, to hours and hours of biographies of the likes of Cary Grant, Jean Harlow, Alfred Hitchcock, and Audrey Hepburn. Adam is a terrific storyteller with a strong, sexy British accent he’s never afraid to twist and turn into every character and gender in his well-researched narratives. Hooray for Hollywood!

The different series that Adam has created are absolutely astounding in terms of research, engagement, production value, and attention to detail. The long-form podcasts fly by. Whether it’s Universal Monsters, Val Lewton, Alfred Hitchcock, or Cary Grant, I cannot recommend all of the Secret History of Hollywood series enough.

This is one of the best podcasts around. The writing is brilliant, the narration is soothing to listen to - quietly dramatic. When each episode ends, regardless of its length, you just want to hear more. Wish there were more podcasts done as well and of this quality. Can’t recommend it highly enough.

It's fabulously written & narrator's voice is lovely but goes from near whisper to BLAST. every other sentence punctuated with a musical queue so distracting and uneven it's tarnishing what could be something extraordinary. Please consider a different approach to recording & mastering. Straining to listen then having my eardrum punctured by Bernard Hermann has forced me to quit- it's too frustrating

As one who has written about Alfred Hitchcock I am very knowledgeable about the director this has to be one of the worst bios about him I’ve ever experienced. I jumped to the chapter about VERTIGO & was shocked that it left out key facts while others were just plain wrong. If fudging the facts wasn’t bad enough it’s difficult to listen to as the podcaster has a bad habit of trailing off every sentence where by the end of each you have to strain to hear him. Anyone who gives this podcast a positive review must not know much about the director and it’s podcasts like this that creates erroneous narratives that disgustingly gets propagated. Just because someone creates a podcast about a particular subject doesn’t mean it’s well researched, and while I admit I heard only one chapter it was enough to warn others: stay away.