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1938 Radio News

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1938
Episodes
44

News from 1938.

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I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1938 news file dump.

Plus roller derby. :)

Any typo or error is mine.

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. BBC Chamberlain on National Health

    · 0:43

  2. Charles Lindbergh Speaks On US Neutrality

    · 9:15

  3. IBC Radio Normandie

    · 9:02

  4. Roller Derby - Omaha 1

    · 14 min

  5. Roller Derby - Omaha 2

    · 13 min

  6. NBCB March Of Time

    · 29 min

  7. CBS The March Of Time

    · 29 min

  8. NBCB March Of Time

    · 29 min

  9. NBC Story Behind The Headlines Appeasement Marches On

    · 14 min

  10. MBS John Steele On Nazis

    · 13 min

  11. Gov A Harry Moore Speaks During National Defense Week

    · 5:14

  12. MBS Raymond Graham Swing On Russia And Germany

    · 5:27

  13. MBS Raymond Graham Swing On World Events

    · 14 min

  14. MBS Raymond Gram Swing End of two trials (Niemoller and the old Bolsheviks)

    · 5:27

  15. BBC Reports Resignation Of Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg

    · 1:47

  16. CBS World News Roundup Austrian Invasion

    · 22 min

  17. CBS World News Roundup

    · 22 min

  18. Radio Coloniale France Interval signal ID

    · 1:02

  19. BBC Winston Churchill To The Royal Academy Of Arts

    · 1:47

  20. Radio Prague News

    · 9:16

  21. WOR First Air-Raid Drill in USA

    · 16 min

  22. Radio Berlin News

    · 11 min

  23. Oswald Mosley Speaks To British Blackshirts

    · 3:28

  24. WDGY Howard Hughes at Wold-Chamberlin Field

    · 36 min

  25. MBS Tribute To Irving Berlin

    · 59 min

  26. CBS William Shirer In Berlin Before Invasion

    · 4:57

  27. MBS Sigrid Schultz On Munich Conference

    · 8:19

  28. MBS Fulton Lewis Czechoslovakia Declares Martial Law

    · 5:56

  29. BBC Neville Chamberlain Offers To Meet Hitler

    · 0:24

  30. CBS News

    · 20 min

  31. BBC Britain Begins to Prepare for War

    · 4:41

  32. BBC Neville Chamberlain Addresses the Nation on His Negotiations for Peace

    · 8:38

  33. BBC Neville Chamberlain On Czech Crisis

    · 1:27

  34. NBC Fred Bates London Reaction to Invasion of Czechoslovakia

    · 9:54

  35. BBC Neville Chamberlain Before Munich Conference

    · 0:37

  36. BBC Neville Chamberlain Returns from Munich with Anglo-German Agreement

    · 9:23

  37. BBC Neville Chamberlain Just After Munich Conference

    · 0:25

  38. BBC Neville Chamberlain On His Return From Munich

    · 1:09

  39. NBC Max Jordon On Big Four Meeting In Munich

    · 5:00

  40. BBC Ralph Murray Reports From Prague After invasion

    · 8:50

  41. NBC Story Behind The Headlines Minorities And The Threat To World Peace

    · 14 min

  42. BBC Winston Churchill We Must Arm

    · 4:16

  43. NBC Story Behind The Headlines Great Britain And The Four Power Pact (1)

    · No. 1 · 14 min

  44. NBC Story Behind The Headlines Great Britain And The Four Power Pact (2)

    · No. 2 · 14 min

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The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.

  1. 1938 Radio News

    WWII Era Audio Recordings · WA4CZD · 44 episodes here · archive.org

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