BBC News - September 2, 1939

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BBC News report from September 2nd 1939.
Audio and Image are Public Domain (Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988)

[@Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus]

Great upload thank-you! It's so wonderful to hear a proper BBC RP accent again. I could listen to this man for hours.

[@4TheRecord]

Thank you.

[@ryansta]

Thankyou for uploading these broadcasts. Although snippets are used on numerous documentaries, to actually listen to these and create my own picture has been a real experience. Also the radio slipping off tune with bitsfrom other stations able to be heard is a blast from radios character of the past, adding to the overall character.

[@elig57]

"And here is today's news from the empire." Ah, gotta love old school Britain, am I right?

[@bletwort2920]

Ethan Ligon unless you were from one the colonies where your people were starved to death.

[@olivesama]

@Bernard de Fontaines That doesn't quite nullify that there were, in fact, millions of people who did starve to death.

[@massimomax3215]

funny how you brits keep churchill up as a hero, while he fucked up some centuries of british empire for his fun war games with half europe.. lmao

@@bletwort2920 and now that the Brits are gone, things are much much worse. SEE RHODESIA AND SOUTH AFRICA

[@brwhizz3060]

Massimo Max Eh, if we only made heroes of perfect people, there’d be none! Abraham Lincoln wasn’t as caring about the rights of black Americans as people like to think. He still did enough to earn his heroic status, however.

[@nikolazekic549]

I so love this form of received pronounciation... Sadly, it is almost completely dead...

[@brabusmk]

Reminds me of my grandfather (RIP) smoking his tobacco pipe and listening to BBC World News on his radio. Nyanyuki, Kenya 🇰🇪

[@indy_go_blue6048]

My grandmother had a lovely Philco cabinet radio, one of the last things her husband bought her before his unexpected passing on 12/31/39. I loved listening to it, wanted it when she passed but my bastard uncle trashed it along with almost of her other keepsakes when she passed in 1980.

[@ErikMalkavian]

Thank you +4TheRecord for sharing and uploading this.

[@4TheRecord]

You're welcome, thank you. I am in the process of uploading 1940 Radio Archive which can be found here. All uploads will appear over the next year, at least one upload a month. - kzbin.info/aero/PL9wsAmGh5ZsJzMg-HNfCR0hTV0WdYHB-4

[@ErikMalkavian]

Great!

[@Gadavillers-Panoir]

That accent is pure ecstasy. Gorgeous 🥰 Wish i could hear it now.

[@michaelemory552]

“…. this grave occasion…,” and what was to come. The printing of books and broadcast of television have been influential, but I’d argue that radio has been more accessible and important to the human world. It also has atmosphere of mystery. I built my first shortwave receiver as a child and became hooked on the BBC. Thank you.

[@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684]

Don't listen to the BBC nowadays... it has been corrupted by globalist filth.

[@Witzlaw]

Quite a find, but I’m not sure it is all BBC here. The first segment, yes, definitely. But one of the later segments sounded like German radio, and I’m even wondering if one of the segments was from Poland itself.

[@WMalven]

Agreed. The second segment sounded like it was either BBC-Poland, or Polish national broadcast via shortwave and the next segment, German national radio, also via shortwave. You can tell by the varying volume and static which were both symptomatic of shortwave reception.

[@home2039]

Maybe Lord Haw Haw?

[@natebarrett9506]

Ahh the posh British accent. Very soothing to the ear. Sadly,its dying out. 🙁

[@bethjayne4542]

That’s because not everyone speaks like this and most of us never even had this accent.

[@gemini802]

I agree soothing to the ears sadly gone although there are some still speak like this but its rare!

[@BigBubbaloola]

That accent was pretty much an invention of the BBC (or earlier, i'm not entirely sure). Called Received Pronunciation (RP) it was created because on early radio voices needed to be clear and crisp.

[@RWBHere]

@@BigBubbaloola It was often called BBC English too. Curiously, Alvar Liddel, who was Swedish, epitomised the accent.

[@dylanblack8714]

Don’t be stupid, the British people are not all identical robots

[@1FokkerAce]

BBC News but mostly a French news broadcast in English. That is VERY cool because their perspective comes through loud and clear. You can just feel through the reporting of political and government statements how anxious they were that this all just go away, that last ditch efforts for peace succeed and how they weren’t beating their Patriotic chests about it.

[@freemanv4056]

Clear, well-spoken English unlike the drivel from people on TV today.

[@Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus]

You're absolutely right!

[@Thetrueking-gr2ss]

Totally agreed

[@TheSonnyfaiz]

Better than the fake news today

[@Sheffield_Steve]

I mentioned this on the JFK assassination news reports on the BBC Home Service, RP is the only clear speech that KZbin subtitling spells words out correctly about 99% of the time.

[@Sheffield_Steve]

I wonder which frequency this was recorded from? Sounds like possibly 1215kHz AM what with the occasional fading signal and bursts in audio. I wouldn't think it was Long Wave. 🤔

[@23systems]

I would like to hear a BBC vintage broadcast of the Fall of France.

[@bennywhitehead7264]

THey tried ok!

[@John-mz8rj]

This is crossing the solar system.

[@michaell8002]

The parts you can hear are great.

[@travellover8509]

“Poland was assured of help from the nations of free men.” That help wasn’t given, back-stabbers.

[@RWBHere]

*free men

[@travellover8509]

RWBHere ty

Who cares about POLES...

[@arjunghanekar6140]

The English weren’t ready to fight yet shouldn’t u be angry at the nazis for invading in the first place lol

[@mollybell5779]

Okay, so what am I missing? Great Britain declared war on Germany 2 days after Germany's blitzkrieg into Poland.

[@davidrodgersNJ]

Wow thanks for posting this. Germany had just invaded Poland the day before.

[@tray488]

Yes

[@paulpnepreston2926]

Love these

[@didiask4485]

1 day ago the television secrive shutdown

[@freemanv4056]

This is so much better than the thick 'efnick' sound you hear on TV and the radio.

[@jamesbyrne9312]

Yeah I can't stand thos obsession with pretending they can't pronounce TH. It's pathetic

[@deltaboy767]

German soldiers stunk to high heaven in ww2. I've been told by my grandfather and read acconts of several allied troops, that the Germans could be smelled from yards away. I've also read that rhe POW camps that held German POW's stunk like a giant foot and men's locker room, it was so strong that soldiers could smell the POW camp while approaching from several hundred yarda away. There was a saying amongst the allied soldiers. " Sniff out the Nazis and you'll find them" and 90% of the time that was the case.

[@jimreily7538]

My dog has no nose. How does he smell ? Terrible !

[@deltaboy767]

@@jimreily7538 hahahaha.

[@Magg78]

@@jimreily7538 Ah good old Flying Circus 😄

[@blitzkriegedvanhauten5261]

Sure Rabbi

[@williamnorton7697]

Yes, matey! All Jerries smell, so do the Frogs because they kill nice-smelling royals, Italian tanks roll backwards, Americans are shortsighted due to their large cowboy hats, Belgians all become detectives to sniff out chocolates, Swedish people are all dodgy chefs who cook squirrels, all West Indian people are excellent dancers and cooks, Indians want back sapphires despite wanting tax breaks on varsity degrees, Africans want diamonds back because nasty Brits made slaves, even though children are still digging them out, along with lithium.... Et cetera. This post is entirely ironic to illustrate that casual racism is rather tiring. Drop it, mate. Please, for everyone's sake. Regards.

[@reichsfuehrerniveacreme]

Fascinating stuff. One question: what is the strange background noise? Sounds like shrill squealing . . . sometimes another station, perhaps? And where and how were these recorded?

[@4TheRecord]

I believe the background noise relates to the signal strength but can not say exactly what causes the noise. Also, I am not sure where or how these recordings were made. I would be very interested to know myself. I could only guess that it was recorded somewhere in Europe but it could easily be from any place on the planet. This is my idea only, but I guess the BBC recorded these as part of the process of broadcasting around the world. So that one station would broadcast and another station hundreds or thousands of miles away records the transmission and then replays it and the next station does the same, etc, etc. That would make sense but I don't know this for a fact. Sorry I could not answer your question.

[@reichsfuehrerniveacreme]

Thanks for your reply. At times it sounds like there might be some bleed through from other stations . . . at other times I can tell what it is. Maybe an expert in radio would now. I read somewhere that there was a facility in Maryland that recorded these transmissions for the gov't, at least the German ones, but I can't be sure.

[@StephenRBeet]

I believe they would have been recorded in Broadcasting House at the time of transmission. There were not recorded on disc but on very early wire. This accounts for the background noise. It is not the noise of transmission because they were recorded as they were broadcast, not 'off the air' at another location. So there could have been no interference from another station. The use of wire facilitated recording of more than the four or five minutes that could be put on a direct disc.

[@donaldkgarman296]

@@4TheRecord Amplitude Modulation via Short Wave is inherently conducive to the intrusion of excess noise.

[@ehcanadianguy27cod31]

Reichsfuehrer Nivea Creme if you were old enof to record from radio to tape you would then know

[@philipchretienkarlsson8157]

This broadcast is all the more sad that it relates the premisces of a war which could have been avoided, had France had the intelligent and prediction skills , courage, and ability to foresee what was going to happen with courage... some did, but thoses who idn't were listened to instead knew nothing, and got totally lost as the events started to happen to quickly. I know: this has been said and written about s many times already...😮‍💨

[@Theswerethebestthebest]

Hi I'm new to your Channel but besides that this does seem interesting this play but the only problem is the recording is a little low and it's a bit difficult to listen to. Is there any way you could put this back up again reupload it is what I mean but maybe could you try to fix the sound so it'll be a little more clear have a little bit more louder. And, in the future you will definitely be seeing me on your channel checking out your plays Well, Anyway thanks

[@ehcanadianguy27cod31]

The1940s were the best the best its 1939 m8

[@RWBHere]

It's not a play. These were off-air live radio recordings made in September 1939, so they cannot be any better than this. The first is BBC, maybe Bruce Belfrage or Lionel Marion reading the news. The following sections are not BBC, and the speakers are not English, so they are overseas Shortwave broadcasts, with static crashes, adjacent channel interference, fading and phase distortion, not the better quality local Medium Wave broadcast of the first section. Not sure about the second section, but his accent has Irish overtones with mid-European pronunciation. The third section is almost certainly Warsaw / Poland. The fourth section is Germany. - They announce it. The final section is also Germany, as announced.

[@markmiller6844]

Are you using ear phones or do you have KZbin plugged into high quality high fidelity audio with good speakers? Is the volume high enough? Digitally modifying it would spoil the authentic sound that listeners heard in 1939. The recoding is remarkably good for the time.

[@phaasch]

Are you actually serious? Oh, sorry, we'll let the engineers from 1939 know you're not entirely satisfied, and could they try a bit harder, even though it's only a wire recording? FFS.

[@cavannaro1]

Somewhat ironic that the poster of this now unites the British flag with one associated with neo-Nazis.

[@4TheRecord]

You're a nazi

[@cavannaro1]

@@4TheRecord That level of ignorance is part of why we’re cruising towards WW3. Well done.

[@jankowalski-th9sk]

poland 1939 .09 .01

[@sandudg6667]

USSR and Germany just like Poland

[@eric-hj8pn]

Je suis making un movie 🎥 about the Warsaw ghetto est Pope John Paul 2. Similar to Schindler's list

[@Fonziedaz1]

WWII

[@tray488]

Then it was The Great European War.

[@ianian7613]

what about the danzig massacres????

[@sunman8139]

The talking points of the third reich being revived 70 years later, you know they used these events as propaganda right? It is fucked up what the polish did, but why is it the first thing to come to your mind, when this event is so miniscule compared to the suffering inflicted upon the Polish people and millions more of different nationalities by the Germans?

[@easysnakeoven6185]

Sun Man WHAT ABOUT WHAT ABOUT WHAT ABOUT WHAT ABOUT WHAT ABOUT WHAT ABOUT WHAT ABOUT WHAT ABOUT

[@sunman8139]

Fuck off, It isn't whataboutism when this guy brings up the danzig massacre in a war where millions non combatants were killed thanks to genocidal maniacs and the brainwashed citizenry in the Third Reich, its like pointing out in Hell that somebody stole a kid's lollypop and using that to completely forget about everything else thats happening. KZbin's comment section is actual cancer.

[@sunman8139]

Chris Donnellan quick to defend your kind huh

[@sunman8139]

If you care so little and you are so cool, then why are you responding to me? SMH. You care enough to respond, but you are not intelligent enough to explain yourself so you reduce your responses to 1 sentence which is in line with your 1 brain cell. And really? A meltdown? All he typed in his message was "WHAT ABOUT WHAT ABOUT" he seemed to be so triggered by my message but couldnt articulate his words so he just sperged out what he could in a very autistic fashion. Also, I get my history from actual historians, I know of the danzig massacre and I have actually read about it, but it pales in comparison to what the Nazis did, which is why I bringed it up to this guy. And yes, I can tell that you are a Fascist from a mile away, protecting this guy thats defending the germans in the most indefensible war they have ever faught and equating the danzig massacres to what the nazis did. Every Fascist I talk to says the same thing " HURR DURR EVERYONE IS A FASCIST TO YOU" Well, calling a very fair statement that most historians could get behind "cancer" gives me the clue that you are very triggered by facts and pretty much sounds like what a fascist cunt would say. You also called me a mensch, you can do better buddy, the only war your kind fought they lost 70 years ago, what a pathetic show, so much for the superior Germans. Nothing screams more of being a badass than getting triggered by somebody responding to a fascist pig. Come on, be a badass and stop responding, LMAO

[@ranc1977]

CNN from 1939

[@SpeccyHorace]

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