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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by John Snagge (Courtesy of BBC): Dwarf Plane Shows Its Paces

Date released

13 Jan 1941

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

606

NoS ID

011407

Story no

7 / 9

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: World’s Smallest Bi-Plane. DESCRIPTION: A test flight in Mississippi for the smallest biplane in the world. SHOTLIST: The little aircraft is wheeled out and taken for a trial flight....

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Cuba and the Cold War Collection: From Revolution to Missile Crisis (2009)

Subject

History

At the height of the Cold War, on 1 January 1959, a guerrilla army led by Fidel Castro defeated the US-backed Batista government. Attempts by the US government to undermine Castro’s new administration,...

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Grief (2016 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare Speaks

BBC World Service series discussing Shakespeare’s language and how many of his phrases are in current use. The edition on grief discusses "at one fell swoop", ‘more in sorrow than in anger’ and...

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Fallout of broadcast strike (1985)

Genre

Interview; Jingle; News report

Report following the one day strike of broadcast journalists, on the effect on BBC World Service programmes. Follows the BBC Board of Governors bowing to Government calls not to show controversial...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Ocean Sound This Week No.16: Programme 16 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 16 Programme 16 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 6 February 1987. Presented by MATT HOPPER....

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D-Day remembered (1984)

A documentary about D-Day in the Second World War. A BBC bulletin broadcasts the news on that fateful day of the 6th of June 1944. This programme is to celebrate the 40th anniversary of this event, including...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

World War II-Richard Dimbleby by a French road (1989)

Genre

News report

Archive BBC news broadcast by Richard Dimbleby reporting from a French road as he watches an Irish regiment march by. Originally broadcast 15/10/39. Includes sound of bagpipes. The recording was broadcast on...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

World War II-children evacuated (1989)

Genre

News report

Archive broadcast from Waterloo Station at the beginning of World War Two reporting on the evacuation of children from London. The recording was broadcast on LBC to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of...

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World War II-children evacuated (1989)

Genre

News report

Archive broadcast from Waterloo Station at the beginning of World War Two reporting on the evacuation of children from London. The recording was broadcast on LBC to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of...

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Falklands war - BBC World Service programme (1982)

Genre

News report; Interview; Special

Report on the broadcast of the BBC World Service radio news programme Calling the Falklands, a broadcast to the Falkland Islands following the Argentine invasion. Includes excerpts from the programme, hosted...

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