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1940 Radio News

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1940
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189

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 2 of 2

  1. CBS Elmer Davis And The News

    · 9:10

  2. CBS Elmer Davis & The News French To Surrender Tomorrow

    · 4:43

  3. CBS Elmer Davis And The News

    · 9:16

  4. NBC News of the World

    · 14 min

  5. CAN Eric Sevareid On The Fall Of Paris

    · 0:15

  6. CAN WIlliam C. Kirker On French Armistace At Compiegne

    · 1:44

  7. CAN Wm Shirer Coverage Of French Surrender

    · 25 min

  8. CBS Elmer Davis & The News French Receive Armistice Terms

    · 0:42

  9. French Surrender

    · 4:51

  10. CBS NBC Coverage of French Surrender

    · 25 min

  11. NBC H.V. Kaltenborn

    · 15 min

  12. RSH Lord Haw Haw The Fall of France

    · 14 min

  13. BBC Charles DeGaulle à la Résistance Contre L'occupant Allemand

    · 1:54

  14. CBS Elmer Davis & The News French-German Armistice Signed

    · 4:43

  15. Conversation Téléphonique Entre Le Général Huntziger Et Le Général Weygand

    · 0:35

  16. NBC BBC News John V. Kennedy

    · 15 min

  17. Verne Marshall Nominates Hanford MacNider

    · 25 min

  18. RSH Lord Haw Haw British Invasion Looms

    · 14 min

  19. BBC Radio Newsreel

    · 13 min

  20. MBS Arthur Mann In London

    · 14 min

  21. BBC Bill Herbert Bombing of Caen

    · 1:09

  22. BBC Charles Gardner On Convoy Attack & Dogfight

    · 3:34

  23. BBC Charles Gardner More On Dogfight

    · 1:02

  24. BBC Charles Gardner Dogfight Over The Channel

    · 1:26

  25. BBC Winston Churchill War Of The Unknown Warrior

    · 18 min

  26. MBS News Sigrid Schulz From Berlin

    · 9:28

  27. CBS Elmer Davis & The News Democratic Convention Opened Today

    · 0:52

  28. CBS Elmer Davis & The News FDR To State 3rd Term Shortly

    · 4:01

  29. CBS Elmer Davis & The News Wheeler Withdraws As Candidate (upcut)

    · 3:52

  30. NBCR News Carlton Smith Eleanor Roosevelt

    · 14 min

  31. MBS Raymond Gram Swing Hitler offered peace to Britain in a speech today

    · 14 min

  32. CBS Elmer Davis & The News Havana Inter-American Conference Opens

    · 4:38

  33. CBS Elmer Davis & The News Cordell Hull Suggests Inter-American Collective Trusteeship

    · 0:16

  34. CBS Elmer Davis & The News Germans Say Die Is Cast

    · 3:53

  35. CBS European News

    · 15 min

  36. BBC Lord Beaverbrook On Aircraft Production

    · 7:50

  37. CBS European News

    · 15 min

  38. BBC Flight LTs Richard Hillary & JB Nicholson Dangers Of Combat

    · 6:00

  39. CBS European War

    · 15 min

  40. CBS European News

    · 15 min

  41. CBS Battle of Britain

    · 15 min

  42. CBS European News

    · 15 min

  43. CBS War News

    · 15 min

  44. BBC Winston Churchill The First Year

    · 11 min

  45. BBC Convoy Shelled In Straits Of Dover

    · 4:50

  46. CBS Edward R. Murrow Trafalgar Blitz

    · 1:39

  47. CBS March Of Time Wartime Recipes

    · 1:10

  48. CBS Murrow on Blackout

    · 1:06

  49. CBS Special Broadcast London After Dark

    · 30 min

  50. CBS Edward R. Murrow Blitz Effects

    · 3:47

  51. CBS Elmer Davis & The News Heavy Damage In Night Raids Over Britain

    · 3:49

  52. CBS European News

    · 15 min

  53. CBS Elmer Davis & The News FDR Pledges 50 Destroyers To Britain (start upcut)

    · 3:54

  54. CBS We The People Boy Finds A Dog

    · 29 min

  55. BBC A Londoner On Shelters And The Blitz

    · 2:17

  56. BBC Alvar Liddell Reports 175 German Aircraft Destroyed

    · 0:36

  57. BBC Robin Duff Covers Convoy Attack Off Dover

    · 1:04

  58. BBC Winston Churchill House Of Commons Secret Session

    · 11 min

  59. CBS Elmer Davis & The News One Raid In Eight Reaches London

    · 3:50

  60. CBS Blitz Edward R. Murrow

    · 0:46

  61. CBS European News

    · 15 min

  62. CBS Edward R. Murrow London Rooftop Blitz

    · 4:13

  63. J. Edgar Hoover On The Opponents Of War Preparedness

    · 2:04

  64. MBS CBC Canadian Red Cross Emergency Funds Appeal

    · 1 h 01 min

  65. BBC Robin Duff in Air Raid Shelter

    · 0:43

  66. NBC Earl Browder CPUSA Communist Nominee

    · 15 min

  67. 3AW (AU) Pepsodent Presents Sunday Night At 8

    · 25 min

  68. BBC Princess Elizabeth & Margaret Speak To Evacuated Children

    · 0:42

  69. BBC Blitz Emergency Services

    · 1:36

  70. BBC Winston Churchill Pledge To Free France

    · 11 min

  71. BBCF Winston Churchill To France (En Français, Pt2)

    · 0:29

  72. BBCF Winston Churchill To France (En Français, Pt1)

    · 0:31

  73. MBS NY World's Fair Closing

    · 33 min

  74. RDN Maréchal Pétain Collaboration Franco-allemande

    · 0:23

  75. 3AW (AU) Pepsodent Presents Sunday Night At 8

    · 26 min

  76. BBC Coventry Loudspeaker Announcement

    · 0:35

  77. BBC Very Reverend RT Howard Coventry Cathedral Destroyed

    · 2:21

  78. CBS The World Today Berlin And Moscow Claim Victory

    · 15 min

  79. REI Radio Eireann Ireland ID

    · 1:25

  80. CBS Edward R. Murrow London War At Night

    · 3:53

  81. CBS Elmer Davis & The News British Request Aid From U.S

    · 4:46

  82. CBS Elmer Davis & The News FDR Outlines British Finance Plans

    · 3:52

  83. CBS Elmer Davis & The News Mixed Reception For FDR Aid Plan

    · 4:46

  84. NBC Kaltenborn Edits The News FDR To Appoint New Defense Council

    · 15 min

  85. BBC Robin Duff Sees London Burning

    · 2:07

  86. BBC Winston Churchill Address To Italy

    · 17 min

  87. CBS Edward R. Murrow Grim Christmas In London

    · 1:49

  88. BBC Christmas 1940

    · 28 min

  89. BBC Herbert Morrison Minister For Home Security

    · 0:39

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