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The Home Front: Archive Broadcast Recordings 1939-45
Various
45 SONGS • 2 HOURS AND 26 MINUTES • JUL 02 2008
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1
News Bulletin: War Declared (3.9.1939)
BBC News Broadcaster
01:36
2
Neville Chamberlain: War With Germany (3.9.1939)
Neville Chamberlain
02:59
3
King George VI: War With Germany (3.9.1939)
King George VI
05:47
4
Evacuation of Children From London (14.6.1940)
Kenneth Adams
02:30
5
Appeal: Local Defence Volunteers (14.5.1940)
Anthony Eden
01:09
6
Lord Haw Haw: On Blitzkreig (1.6.1940)
William Joyce
03:27
7
Winston Churchill: We Shall Fight on the Beaches (4.6.1940)
Winston Churchill
02:18
8
If the Invader Comes (20.6.1940)
General Sir Hugh Elles
05:03
9
Salvage of Household Materials (26.6.1940)
Megan Lloyd George
04:45
10
Dover: Hellfire Corner (21.8.1940)
Robin Duff, Mr. Knoyes & Ms. Knoyes
03:09
11
Volunteer ARP Warden 1940
ARP Warden
01:21
12
Battle of Britain: Spitfire Pilot (6.1.1941)
Squadron Leader A.V.R. Sandy Johnstone
06:09
13
Midnight News: Battle of Britain (15.9.1940)
Alvar Lidell
00:39
14
Battle of Britain: Farmers Under Fire (27.8.1942)
John Brunt
01:43
15
The Blitz: Black Saturday (7.9.1940)
Tom Chalmers
02:55
16
London Wedding Blitzed (30.10.1940)
Ann and Trev
03:24
17
My First ARP Experience (11.1941)
Max Miller
00:50
18
Community Singing: Manchester Air Raid Shelter (20.12.1940)
Anonymous
02:29
19
Somerset in Wartime (29.9.1940)
Ed Murrow
04:44
20
Work of the WVS (27.11.1940)
Assorted WVS
01:36
21
Mass-Observation of the War (1.4.1941)
Tom Harrison
14:26
22
Workers' Playtime (26.5.1941)
Anonymous
01:48
23
Women at the Benches (6.1.1941)
Mrs. Smith
03:53
24
World & Home News (10.1.1941)
Alan Howland
03:29
25
5 to 1 on the Land (15.4.1941)
Anonymous
03:44
26
News Bulletin: Japan Enters the War (7.12.1941)
Alvar Lidell
02:52
27
Gert & Daisy: The Kitchen Front (20.12.1941)
Elsie Waters & Doris Waters
03:17
28
London Cabbie in the Blitz (1.8.1943)
Harry Anderson
03:40
29
Baedeker Raid on Exeter (4.5.1942)
Frank Gillard
03:04
30
Canteen Concert (12.1942)
Sir Harry Lauder
00:45
31
Evacuees: Christmas Messages from USA (25.12.1942)
Anita Cowan & Rex Cowan
01:59
32
News Bulletin: Italy Surrenders (8.9.1943)
John Snagge
03:16
33
The Brains Trust: Happiness
Donald McCullough
06:32
34
Put It Out
Tommy Handley
02:50
35
News Bulletin: D-Day (6.6.1944)
John Snagge
01:01
36
V-I Flying Bomb Actuality 1944
Anonymous
00:42
37
V-I Attacks: Anti-Aircraft Command (4.7.1944)
Gen Frederick Pile
00:55
38
RAF Fighter Flips V-I (10.9.1944)
Ken Collier
06:05
39
World & Home News (30.8.1944)
Michael Brooke
04:48
40
V-2 Attacks on London (11.1944)
Audrey Russell
10:15
41
News Bulletin: Hitler is Dead (1.5.1945)
Stuart Hibberd
00:19
42
News Bulletin: German Surrender (8.5.1945)
John Snagge
02:15
43
VE Day: Winston Churchill & Crowds (8.5.1945)
Richard Dimbleby
02:47
44
VE Day Weather Forecast (8.5.1945)
Stuart Hibberd
00:40
45
A Glasgow Mother (8.5.1945)
Mrs. MacDonald
02:08
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