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1941 Radio News

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News from 1941.

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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 1941 news file dump.

Any typo or error is mine.

Episodes, in broadcast order page 1 of 3

  1. ABC (AU) Sybil Irving, Australian Women's Army Service

    · 7:33

  2. BBC Battle Of Britain A Radio Dramatisation

    · 58 min

  3. California Governor Olson On Japanese Residents

    · 1:12

  4. Charles Lindbergh On U.S. Non-Intervention

    · 0:27

  5. NBC Alf Landon

    · 28 min

  6. KFWB Robert Arden News Commentary New Year War News

    · 15 min

  7. NBC Kaltenborn Edits The News New Session Of Congress Begins Tomorrow

    · 14 min

  8. BBC Bruce Belfrage With The News

    · 0:26

  9. MBS FDR Four Freedoms

    · 38 min

  10. BBC Alan Howland On German Air Attacks

    · 0:28

  11. CBS Elmer Davis & The News British Attack Tobruk, Italy

    · 3:50

  12. CBS Elmer Davis & The News British Take Tobruk

    · 4:44

  13. CBS Elmer Davis & The News Charles Lindbergh Opposes Lend-lease

    · 4:43

  14. NBC War News

    · 30 min

  15. BBC Winston Churchill Give Us The Tools

    · 36 min

  16. NBC Sunday News Roundup

    · 30 min

  17. NBC Kaltenborn Edits The News Convoy Issue Dominant Tonight

    · 14 min

  18. NBC War News

    · 15 min

  19. La Tribuna Denies German Aims In Balkans

    · 2:56

  20. NBC News Of The World

    · 15 min

  21. CBS Edward R. Murrow Spring

    · 7:13

  22. NBC World News Roundup John MacVane

    · 15 min

  23. NBC News of the World

    · 15 min

  24. NBC World News Roundup Earl Godwin

    · 15 min

  25. NBC News Of The World

    · 15 min

  26. BBC Sir Walter Monckton Director General of the Ministry of Information

    · 6:03

  27. NBC News Roundup John MacVane

    · 15 min

  28. BBC Winston Churchill Westward, Look, The Land Is Bright

    · 27 min

  29. NBC Story Behind The Headlines The Riddle Of The Straits

    · 14 min

  30. WHAS 1941 Kentucky Derby Clem McCarthy

    · 1:04

  31. NBC Kaltenborn Edits The News President Conferred With Defense Advisers Today

    · 14 min

  32. MBS Raymond Gram Swing The Monitor And The Merrimac

    · 14 min

  33. MBS WTHT Cedric Foster Largest R.A.F. Squadron Strikes Germany

    · 14 min

  34. KFWB Robert Arden News Commentary President Roosevelt Comments

    · 14 min

  35. CBS The World Today

    · 4:58

  36. NBC Jergen's Journal Walter Winchell

    · 15 min

  37. RRG German Announcment Sinking of HMS Hood

    · 0:24

  38. MBS FDR Fireside Chat On Pan-American Unity

    · 33 min

  39. NBCR HV Kaltenborn Edits The News Comments On The Sinking Of The Battleship Bismark

    · 13 min

  40. BBC First Sea Lord A.V. Alexander On Sinking Of Bismark

    · 0:43

  41. BBC Worker's Playtime Signature Tune

    · 0:45

  42. BBC Clothes Rationing Announcement

    · 0:42

  43. CBS Elmer Davis & The News Comments On Columbia's War Coverage

    · 14 min

  44. CBS I Was There The Duke Of Windsor

    · 29 min

  45. BBC Winston Churchill Until Victory Is Won

    · 3:49

  46. BBC Winston Churchill Broadcast To America

    · 3:02

  47. BBC Winston Churchill Germany Invades Russia

    · 19 min

  48. PCPT Russian Radio reports on German Invasion

    · 0:21

  49. BBC Douglas Ritchie AKA Colonel Britton On The V-Campaign

    · 0:44

  50. BBCD Erkennungsmelodie

    · 0:46

  51. PCPT Josef Stalin Addresses Nation

    · 0:32

  52. PCPT Josef Stalin On Peroration

    · 0:27

  53. RRG P.G. Wodehouse Second Broadcast (clip)

    · 0:36

  54. BBC Anglo-Soviet Agreement

    · 1:42

  55. BBC Fighter Pilot Richard Hillary Shot Down

    · 12 min

  56. BBC General DeGaulle Urges America To Join The Allies

    · 4:21

  57. BBC Winston Churchill Do Your Worst, We'll Do Our Best

    · 7:10

  58. MBS John B. Hughes News And Views

    · 0:38

  59. Wendell Wilkie Calls For End Of U.S. Isolationism

    · 3:37

  60. BBC Winston Churchill War Production

    · 10 min

  61. CBS Millions For Defense

    · 59 min

  62. MBS Wise Williams On Fighting In Russia

    · 14 min

  63. NBC News Roundup

    · 15 min

  64. BBC Winston Churchill Meeting With President Roosevelt

    · 32 min

  65. BBC Winston Churchill These Are Great Days

    · 4:04

  66. KFWB Robert Arden News Commentary Labor Day

    · 12 min

  67. BBC Frank Phillips Homefront News

    · 0:23

  68. BBC Alvar Lidell Air Raid On Berlin

    · 0:30

  69. BBC Winston Churchill Still Masters Of Our Fate

    · 20 min

  70. Charles Lindbergh America First Committee Speech in Des Moines, Iowa

    · 9:17

  71. KFWB Robert Arden News Commentary FDR Warns the Axis Powers

    · 14 min

  72. PCPT Dmitri Shostakovich Siege of Leningrad Radio Speech

    · 0:49

  73. BBC Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky Tanks For Russia

    · 6:27

  74. NBC News Alex Dreier

    · 15 min

  75. NBCB Jergen's Journal Walter Winchell

    · 6:41

  76. BBCD Hugh Carleton Green No Peace With Hitler

    · 0:33

  77. NBCB Ted Steele United Press News

    · 1:04

  78. CBS I Was There Austria 1934

    · 28 min

  79. NBC News Of The World

    · 15 min

  80. NBC Story Behind The Headlines Hitler's Crimean War

    · 14 min

  81. NBC Bulletin On Capture of Blockade Runner Odenwald In Atlantic

    · 0:24

  82. BBC Winston Churchill The Resolution Of The People

    · 2:51

  83. NBCB News Of The World

    · 30 min

  84. NBC News Alex Dreier

    · 15 min

  85. BBC Irving Swanson Reads U.S. War Statement

    · 0:50

  86. BBC Robert Dougall With A Convoy In Atlantic

    · 1:27

  87. NBC News

    · 15 min

  88. CBS The World Today HMS Ark Royal Sunk

    · 1:32

  89. CBS The March Of Time

    · 10 min

  90. BBC Winston Churchill Address To Harrow School

    · 4:15

  91. Carson Robison - Were Gonna Have To Slap The Dirty Little Jap

    · 2:36

  92. Senator Connally Warns Japan

    · 2:02

  93. CBS World News Today

    · 15 min

  94. NBCR Sammy Kaye Sunday Serenade

    · 29 min

  95. NBCB First Bulletin On Pearl Harbor

    · 0:32

  96. CBS World Today John Daly Reads Bulletin

    · 0:23

  97. NBCR Univ Of Chicago Roundtable - Canada At War

    · 31 min

  98. NBCB Bulletin On Pearl Harbor Attack

    · 0:41

  99. CBS Albert Warner Speculates On FDR's Next Steps

    · 6:17

  100. CBS Bob Trout On British Reaction

    · 1:10

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