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1940 Radio News

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1940
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News from 1940.

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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 1940 news file dump.

Any typo or error is mine.

Episodes, in broadcast order page 1 of 2

  1. BBC Girl Tells Of Bomb Shelters

    · 0:25

  2. BBCD Lili Marleen

    · 3:48

  3. NBBS New British Broadcasting Station ID Nazi

    · 0:33

  4. MBS In Review 1939 In Review

    · 58 min

  5. NRK Prince Olaf Of Norway To Norwegians Living Abroad

    · 1:55

  6. CBS Elmer Davis & The News Congress Convenes Tomorrow

    · 4:44

  7. CBS Today In Europe

    · 13 min

  8. CBS Today in Europe

    · 13 min

  9. RSH Lord Haw Haw The Sinking of the Graf Spee

    · 0:34

  10. RSH Lord Haw Haw Germany Not Going To Invade Balkans

    · 1:19

  11. NBC Kaltenborn Edits The News FDR & The Reporters

    · 12 min

  12. BBC Winston Churchill Free Trade Hall Manchester Heckler

    · 55 min

  13. BBC The Ear of Britain

    · 37 min

  14. NBC Glenn Miller Live from the Cafe Rouge

    · 31 min

  15. CBS We The People The Daughter Of Lillian Russell

    · 30 min

  16. CBS Elmer Davis and the News Europe Speculates On Sumner Welles Visit

    · 4:37

  17. CBS Elmer Davis & The News Supreme Court Sets Aside Florida Negro Death Sentences

    · 4:48

  18. CBS Elmer Davis & The News Finnish Losses On Mannerheim Line

    · 0:22

  19. RSH Lord Haw Haw The Altmark Incident

    · 0:37

  20. RSH Lord Haw Haw Mocks Winston Churchill

    · 0:30

  21. BBC Winston Churchill The Navy Is Here

    · 4:07

  22. CBS Elmer Davis & The News British Arctic Fleet Watches Russians & Germans

    · 4:39

  23. RSH Lord Haw Haw British Minister Of Misinformation

    · 0:31

  24. RSH Lord Haw Haw Mocks British Fear Of German Bombs

    · 0:31

  25. NBC News Of The World

    · 14 min

  26. CBS Elmer Davis & The News Allies To Stop Scandinavian Ore Shipments To Germany

    · 4:48

  27. CBS Elmer Davis & The News Japanese Reorganizing Nanking Government

    · 4:48

  28. CBS Elmer Davis & The News Germans Raid Scapa Flow In Orkneys

    · 4:43

  29. PTT French Premier Paul Reynaud Appeals For U.S. Aid

    · 0:22

  30. BBC Alvar Liddell On Invasion Of Denmark & Norway

    · 0:26

  31. NBC Kaltenborn Edits The News German Liner Bremen Has Been Sunk

    · 14 min

  32. RSH Lord Haw Haw Denmark & Norway

    · 1:28

  33. RSH Lord Haw Haw Russo-Finnish War Concluded

    · 13 min

  34. KFWB Robert Arden News Commentary War News

    · 13 min

  35. RSH Lord Haw Haw - Scandinavian Update &

    · 13 min

  36. CBS Elmer Davis & The News Probable That Germans Hold Dombas, Norway

    · 4:49

  37. CBS Elmer Davis & The News Germans Have Taken Dombas

    · 4:47

  38. CBS Elmer Davis & The News British Forces Withdraw In Norway

    · 0:20

  39. WHAS Kentucky Derby Bryan Field

    · 2:22

  40. CBS Murrow On Non-Confidence Debate In Commons

    · 1:10

  41. CBS Elmer Davis & The News Unusual Precautions In The Netherlands Tonight

    · 4:47

  42. AVRO Proclamation Of Queen Wilhelmina On The Attack On Holland

    · 0:25

  43. BBC Chamberlain Resigns As Prime Minister

    · 0:27

  44. BBC Holland And Belgium Invaded

    · 0:18

  45. CBS Edward R. Murrow War News From England

    · 2:43

  46. CBS Elmer Davis & The News Germans Invade Low Countries

    · 4:16

  47. NBC H.V. Kaltenborn

    · 15 min

  48. PTT Hubert Pierlot Dénonce L'invasion De La Belgique

    · 0:25

  49. CBS Elmer Davis & The News Germans Advance In The Netherlands

    · 4:45

  50. CBS Elmer Davis Reports On First Day Of Blitzkrieg

    · 9:15

  51. CBS Elmer Davis & The News 3rd Day of German Advances In The Netherlands

    · 4:15

  52. BBC Bernard Stubbs On The BEF Advance Into Belgium

    · 1:05

  53. BBC Winston Churchill The New Administration

    · 5:11

  54. CBS Elmer Davis & The News Germans Ahead Of Schedule In Low Countries

    · 4:44

  55. BBC Charles Gardner German Advance On Antwerp

    · 0:40

  56. BBC Sec State Anthony Eden Calls For Local Defense Volunteers

    · 1:05

  57. CBS Elmer Davis & The News Dutch Army Surrenders

    · 0:57

  58. Sonny Boy Williamson War Time Blues

    · 2:56

  59. BBC Churchill's 1st Speech As PM

    · 0:27

  60. BBC Winston Churchill First Speech As Prime Minister

    · 11 min

  61. CBS I Was There Wilson Vs Hughes Election

    · 30 min

  62. KFWB Robert Arden News Commentary A Biography of Hitler

    · 15 min

  63. CBS Elmer Davis & The News Germans Push Toward Channel Ports

    · 4:45

  64. CBS Elmer Davis & The News Allies Counter & Retake Arras

    · 0:28

  65. CBS Elmer Davis & The News Battles In France & Belgium Undecided

    · 4:46

  66. NBC Story Behind The Headlines Third Invasion Of France

    · 14 min

  67. CBS News Bob Trout Paul Renaud Speech

    · 29 min

  68. BBC Winston Churchill On Capitulation Of Belgium

    · 2:41

  69. RSH Lord Haw Haw - Holland & Belgium Invaded

    · 14 min

  70. RSH Lord Haw Haw Holland & Belgium Invaded

    · 14 min

  71. BBC An Appeal For Boating Skills

    · 0:26

  72. WOL Fulton Lewis Commentary

    · 15 min

  73. BBC Bernard Stubbs On Evacuated Troops From Dunkirk

    · 1:20

  74. BBC Bernard Stubbs On Evacuated Troops In London

    · 0:23

  75. BBC Bernard Stubbs Reports On The Returning Troops

    · 4:22

  76. BBC Bernard Stubbs Trains Full of Evacuatees

    · 0:23

  77. BBC Bernard Stubbs Troops From Dunkirk

    · 1:20

  78. CBS Edward R. Murrow RAF Dispatched To Dunkirk

    · 1:23

  79. CBS Edward R. Murrow On Dunkirk

    · 3:30

  80. CBS Elmer Davis & The News Germans Near Dunkirk

    · 3:48

  81. NBC Anthony Eden Dunkirk

    · 11 min

  82. BBC Dunkirk Evacuation BEF Experiences

    · 9:35

  83. CBS Elmer Davis & The News Germans Bomb Paris

    · 4:40

  84. BBC Edward R. Murrow Churchill News Of Dunkirk

    · 1:10

  85. BBC Winston Churchill We Shall Never Surrender

    · 12 min

  86. CBS Elmer Davis & The News Germans Capture Dunkirk

    · 4:43

  87. BBC J.B. Priestly Pays Homage To The Small Boats Of Dunkirk

    · 3:08

  88. BBC J.B. Priestly On Dunkirk

    · 2:27

  89. BBC Minister of Shipping Ronald Cross Dunkirk

    · 5:48

  90. BBC Charles Martin Describes Dunkirk

    · 0:47

  91. EIAR Benito Mussolini Italy Declares War On Allies (English Translation)

    · 0:47

  92. EIAR Benito Mussolini La Dichiarazione di Guerra

    · 3:27

  93. PTT Paul Reynaud à Tours - La France Ne Peut Pas Mourir

    · 0:21

  94. BBC Eyewitness Account From Paris

    · 4:13

  95. CBS Rebroadcasts Nazi Announcement

    · 0:43

  96. Last Marseillaise Broadcast As Paris Falls

    · 1:18

  97. RRG Nazi Radio Announces Fall Of Paris

    · 0:20

  98. BBC Winston Churchill Their Finest Hour Full Speech

    · 30 min

  99. CBC Princess Juliana Of The Netherlands On Asylum In Canada

    · 5:18

  100. BBC Churchill's Finest Hour

    · 1:35

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