1940 Radio News


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News from 1940. 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.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

Chapters

1940-01-01 MBS In Review 1939 In Review 58:26
1940-01-01 NRK Prince Olaf Of Norway To Norwegians Living Abroad 1:55
1940-01-02 CBS Elmer Davis & The News Congress Convenes Tomorrow 4:44
1940-01-18 CBS Today In Europe 12:34
1940-01-18 CBS Today in Europe 12:34
1940-01-20 RSH Lord Haw Haw The Sinking of the Graf Spee 0:34
1940-01-21 RSH Lord Haw Haw Germany Not Going To Invade Balkans 1:19
1940-01-26 NBC Kaltenborn Edits The News FDR & The Reporters 12:01
1940-01-27 BBC Winston Churchill Free Trade Hall Manchester Heckler 55:23
1940-02-04 BBC The Ear of Britain 37:07
1940-02-05 NBC Glenn Miller Live from the Cafe Rouge 31:03
1940-02-06 CBS We The People The Daughter Of Lillian Russell 30:11
1940-02-11 CBS Elmer Davis and the News Europe Speculates On Sumner Welles Visit 4:37
1940-02-12 CBS Elmer Davis & The News Supreme Court Sets Aside Florida Negro De… 4:48
1940-02-13 CBS Elmer Davis & The News Finnish Losses On Mannerheim Line 0:22
1940-02-16 RSH Lord Haw Haw The Altmark Incident 0:37
1940-02-18 RSH Lord Haw Haw Mocks Winston Churchill 0:30
1940-02-23 BBC Winston Churchill The Navy Is Here 4:07
1940-02-23 CBS Elmer Davis & The News British Arctic Fleet Watches Russians & G… 4:39
1940-02-27 RSH Lord Haw Haw British Minister Of Misinformation 0:31
1940-02-27 RSH Lord Haw Haw Mocks British Fear Of German Bombs 0:31
1940-03-09 NBC News Of The World 14:13
1940-03-31 CBS Elmer Davis & The News Allies To Stop Scandinavian Ore Shipments… 4:47
1940-04-01 CBS Elmer Davis & The News Japanese Reorganizing Nanking Government 4:48
1940-04-02 CBS Elmer Davis & The News Germans Raid Scapa Flow In Orkneys 4:43
1940-04-03 PTT French Premier Paul Reynaud Appeals For U.S. Aid 0:22
1940-04-09 BBC Alvar Liddell On Invasion Of Denmark & Norway 0:26
1940-04-09 NBC Kaltenborn Edits The News German Liner Bremen Has Been Sunk 14:19
1940-04-09 RSH Lord Haw Haw Denmark & Norway 1:28
1940-04-13 RSH Lord Haw Haw Russo-Finnish War Concluded 13:02
1940-04-15 KFWB Robert Arden News Commentary War News 12:54
1940-04-16 RSH Lord Haw Haw - Scandinavian Update & 13:16
1940-04-30 CBS Elmer Davis & The News Probable That Germans Hold Dombas, Norway 4:49
1940-05-01 CBS Elmer Davis & The News Germans Have Taken Dombas 4:47
1940-05-02 CBS Elmer Davis & The News British Forces Withdraw In Norway 0:20
1940-05-04 WHAS Kentucky Derby Bryan Field 2:22
1940-05-08 CBS Murrow On Non-Confidence Debate In Commons 1:10
1940-05-09 CBS Elmer Davis & The News Unusual Precautions In The Netherlands To… 4:47
1940-05-10 AVRO Proclamation Of Queen Wilhelmina On The Attack On Holland 0:25
1940-05-10 BBC Chamberlain Resigns As Prime Minister 0:27
1940-05-10 BBC Holland And Belgium Invaded 0:18
1940-05-10 CBS Edward R. Murrow War News From England 2:43
1940-05-10 CBS Elmer Davis & The News Germans Invade Low Countries 4:16
1940-05-10 NBC H.V. Kaltenborn 14:47
1940-05-10 PTT Hubert Pierlot Dénonce L'invasion De La Belgique 0:25
1940-05-11 CBS Elmer Davis & The News Germans Advance In The Netherlands 4:45
1940-05-11 CBS Elmer Davis Reports On First Day Of Blitzkrieg 1:06
1940-05-12 CBS Elmer Davis & The News 3rd Day of German Advances In The Netherl… 4:15
1940-05-13 BBC Bernard Stubbs On The BEF Advance Into Belgium 1:05
1940-05-13 BBC Winston Churchill The New Administration 5:11
1940-05-13 CBS Elmer Davis & The News Germans Ahead Of Schedule In Low Countries 4:44
1940-05-14 BBC Charles Gardner German Advance On Antwerp 0:39
1940-05-14 BBC Sec State Anthony Eden Calls For Local Defense Volunteers 1:05
1940-05-14 CBS Elmer Davis & The News Dutch Army Surrenders 0:57
1940-05-17 Sonny Boy Williamson War Time Blues 2:56
1940-05-19 BBC Churchill's 1st Speech As PM 0:27
1940-05-19 BBC Winston Churchill First Speech As Prime Minister 11:06
1940-05-19 CBS I Was There Wilson Vs Hughes Election 29:47
1940-05-20 KFWB Robert Arden News Commentary A Biography of Hitler 15:02
1940-05-21 CBS Elmer Davis & The News Germans Push Toward Channel Ports 4:45
1940-05-22 CBS Elmer Davis & The News Allies Counter & Retake Arras 0:28
1940-05-23 CBS Elmer Davis & The News Battles In France & Belgium Undecided 4:46
1940-05-24 NBC Story Behind The Headlines Third Invasion Of France 14:25
1940-05-27 CBS News Bob Trout Paul Renaud Speech 29:24
1940-05-28 BBC Winston Churchill On Capitulation Of Belgium 2:41
1940-05-28 RSH Lord Haw Haw - Holland & Belgium Invaded 13:48
1940-05-28 RSH Lord Haw Haw Holland & Belgium Invaded 13:52
1940-05-29 BBC An Appeal For Boating Skills 0:26
1940-05-30 WOL Fulton Lewis Commentary 15:09
1940-05-31 BBC Bernard Stubbs On Evacuated Troops From Dunkirk 1:20
1940-05-31 BBC Bernard Stubbs On Evacuated Troops In London 0:23
1940-05-31 BBC Bernard Stubbs Reports On The Returning Troops 4:22
1940-05-31 BBC Bernard Stubbs Trains Full of Evacuatees 0:23
1940-05-31 BBC Bernard Stubbs Troops From Dunkirk 1:20
1940-06-02 CBS Edward R. Murrow RAF Dispatched To Dunkirk 1:23
1940-06-02 CBS Edward R. Murrow On Dunkirk 3:30
1940-06-02 CBS Elmer Davis & The News Germans Near Dunkirk 3:48
1940-06-02 NBC Anthony Eden Dunkirk 11:04
1940-06-03 BBC Dunkirk Evacuation BEF Experiences 9:35
1940-06-03 CBS Elmer Davis & The News Germans Bomb Paris 4:40
1940-06-04 BBC Edward R. Murrow Churchill News Of Dunkirk 1:10
1940-06-04 BBC Winston Churchill We Shall Never Surrender 12:13
1940-06-04 CBS Elmer Davis & The News Germans Capture Dunkirk 4:43
1940-06-05 BBC J.B. Priestly Pays Homage To The Small Boats Of Dunkirk 3:08
1940-06-05 BBC J.B. Priestly On Dunkirk 2:27
1940-06-06 BBC Minister of Shipping Ronald Cross Dunkirk 5:48
1940-06-08 BBC Charles Martin Describes Dunkirk 0:47
1940-06-10 EIAR Benito Mussolini Italy Declares War On Allies (English Translat… 0:47
1940-06-10 EIAR Benito Mussolini La Dichiarazione di Guerra 3:27
1940-06-13 PTT Paul Reynaud à Tours - La France Ne Peut Pas Mourir 0:21
1940-06-14 BBC Eyewitness Account From Paris 4:13
1940-06-14 CBS Rebroadcasts Nazi Announcement 0:43
1940-06-14 Last Marseillaise Broadcast As Paris Falls 1:18
1940-06-14 RRG Nazi Radio Announces Fall Of Paris 0:20
1940-06-17 BBC Winston Churchill Their Finest Hour Full Speech 29:47
1940-06-17 CBC Princess Juliana Of The Netherlands On Asylum In Canada 5:18
1940-06-18 BBC Churchill's Finest Hour 1:35
1940-06-19 CBS Elmer Davis And The News 3:45
1940-06-20 CBS Elmer Davis & The News French To Surrender Tomorrow 4:43
1940-06-20 CBS Elmer Davis And The News 0:29
1940-06-20 NBC News of the World 14:29
1940-06-21 CAN Eric Sevareid On The Fall Of Paris 0:15
1940-06-21 CAN WIlliam C. Kirker On French Armistace At Compiegne 1:44
1940-06-21 CAN Wm Shirer Coverage Of French Surrender 2:35
1940-06-21 CBS Elmer Davis & The News French Receive Armistice Terms 0:42
1940-06-21 French Surrender 4:51
1940-06-21 CBS NBC Coverage of French Surrender 25:13
1940-06-21 NBC H.V. Kaltenborn 14:42
1940-06-21 RSH Lord Haw Haw The Fall of France 13:52
1940-06-22 BBC Charles DeGaulle à la Résistance Contre L'occupant Allemand 1:54
1940-06-22 CBS Elmer Davis & The News French-German Armistice Signed 4:43
1940-06-22 Conversation Téléphonique Entre Le Général Huntziger Et Le Général W… 0:35
1940-06-22 NBC BBC News John V. Kennedy 14:30
1940-06-27 Verne Marshall Nominates Hanford MacNider 24:43
1940-06-28 RSH Lord Haw Haw British Invasion Looms 14:05
1940-07-01 BBC Radio Newsreel 12:31
1940-07-04 MBS Arthur Mann In London 0:06
1940-07-08 BBC Bill Herbert Bombing of Caen 1:09
1940-07-14 BBC Charles Gardner On Convoy Attack & Dogfight 3:34
1940-07-14 BBC Charles Gardner More On Dogfight 1:02
1940-07-14 BBC Charles Gardner Dogfight Over The Channel 1:26
1940-07-14 BBC Winston Churchill War Of The Unknown Warrior 17:46
1940-07-14 MBS News Sigrid Schulz From Berlin 9:28
1940-07-15 CBS Elmer Davis & The News Democratic Convention Opened Today 0:52
1940-07-16 CBS Elmer Davis & The News FDR To State 3rd Term Shortly 4:01
1940-07-17 CBS Elmer Davis & The News Wheeler Withdraws As Candidate (upcut) 3:52
1940-07-18 NBCR News Carlton Smith Eleanor Roosevelt 13:44
1940-07-19 MBS Raymond Gram Swing Hitler offered peace to Britain in a speech t… 13:38
1940-07-21 CBS Elmer Davis & The News Havana Inter-American Conference Opens 4:38
1940-07-22 CBS Elmer Davis & The News Cordell Hull Suggests Inter-American Coll… 0:16
1940-07-23 CBS Elmer Davis & The News Germans Say Die Is Cast 3:53
1940-07-23 CBS European News 14:38
1940-07-24 BBC Lord Beaverbrook On Aircraft Production 7:50
1940-07-27 CBS European News 0:49
1940-08-06 CBS European War 14:37
1940-08-14 CBS European News 0:26
1940-08-16 CBS Battle of Britain 14:35
1940-08-16 CBS European News 1:08
1940-08-19 CBS War News 14:44
1940-08-20 BBC Winston Churchill The First Year 10:31
1940-08-22 BBC Convoy Shelled In Straits Of Dover 4:50
1940-08-24 CBS Edward R. Murrow Trafalgar Blitz 1:39
1940-08-24 CBS March Of Time Wartime Recipes 1:10
1940-08-24 CBS Murrow on Blackout 1:06
1940-08-24 CBS Special Broadcast London After Dark 29:39
1940-08-25 CBS Edward R. Murrow Blitz Effects 3:47
1940-08-xx BBC Flight LTs Richard Hillary & JB Nicholson Dangers Of Combat 6:00
1940-09-02 CBS Elmer Davis & The News Heavy Damage In Night Raids Over Britain 3:49
1940-09-02 CBS European News 15:02
1940-09-03 CBS Elmer Davis & The News FDR Pledges 50 Destroyers To Britain (sta… 3:54
1940-09-03 CBS We The People Boy Finds A Dog 28:41
1940-09-08 BBC A Londoner On Shelters And The Blitz 2:17
1940-09-15 BBC Alvar Liddell Reports 175 German Aircraft Destroyed 0:36
1940-09-15 BBC Robin Duff Covers Convoy Attack Off Dover 1:04
1940-09-17 BBC Winston Churchill House Of Commons Secret Session 10:34
1940-09-18 CBS Elmer Davis & The News One Raid In Eight Reaches London 3:50
1940-09-20 CBS Blitz Edward R. Murrow 0:46
1940-09-20 CBS European News 15:09
1940-09-22 CBS Edward R. Murrow London Rooftop Blitz 4:13
1940-09-23 J. Edgar Hoover On The Opponents Of War Preparedness 2:04
1940-09-29 MBS CBC Canadian Red Cross Emergency Funds Appeal 1:00:36
1940-10-05 BBC Robin Duff in Air Raid Shelter 0:43
1940-10-10 NBC Earl Browder CPUSA Communist Nominee 14:37
1940-10-13 3AW (AU) Pepsodent Presents Sunday Night At 8 25:10
1940-10-13 BBC Princess Elizabeth & Margaret Speak To Evacuated Children 0:42
1940-10-15 BBC Blitz Emergency Services 1:36
1940-10-21 BBC Winston Churchill Pledge To Free France 10:59
1940-10-21 BBCF Winston Churchill To France (En Français, Pt2) 0:29
1940-10-21 BBCF Winston Churchill To France (En Français, Pt1) 0:31
1940-10-27 MBS NY World's Fair Closing 32:51
1940-10-30 RDN Maréchal Pétain Collaboration Franco-allemande 0:23
1940-11-10 3AW (AU) Pepsodent Presents Sunday Night At 8 26:11
1940-11-15 BBC Coventry Loudspeaker Announcement 0:35
1940-11-15 BBC Very Reverend RT Howard Coventry Cathedral Destroyed 2:21
1940-11-17 CBS The World Today Berlin And Moscow Claim Victory 14:43
1940-12-02 CBS Edward R. Murrow London War At Night 3:53
1940-12-16 CBS Elmer Davis & The News British Request Aid From U.S. 4:46
1940-12-17 CBS Elmer Davis & The News FDR Outlines British Finance Plans 3:52
1940-12-18 CBS Elmer Davis & The News Mixed Reception For FDR Aid Plan 4:46
1940-12-19 NBC Kaltenborn Edits The News FDR To Appoint New Defense Council 14:31
1940-12-20 BBC Robin Duff Sees London Burning 2:07
1940-12-23 BBC Winston Churchill Address To Italy 17:25
1940-12-24 CBS Edward R. Murrow Grim Christmas In London 1:49
1940-12-25 BBC Christmas 1940 27:34
1940-12-31 BBC Herbert Morrison Minister For Home Security 0:39
1940-12-xx REI Radio Eireann Ireland ID 1:25
1940-xx-xx BBC Girl Tells Of Bomb Shelters 0:25
1940-xx-xx BBCD Lili Marleen 3:48
1940-xx-xx NBBS New British Broadcasting Station ID Nazi 0:32

Reviews

Inquiry on Rights/Licensing - Phenomenal Collection!


(5 stars)

This is such an amazing collection! I am interested in using some of these broadcasts in a sound art piece to be used with a musical production on the ATA Girls of WWII. Would you know which if any are in the public domain, or who to contact to acquire licensing for use? Thank you very much for such a fascinating collection! We can be reached at arhavermann@gmail.com.

priceless


(5 stars)

I have begun studying WW2. These broadcasts turn written pages into human experiences. Thank you and Librevox for posting them


(5 stars)

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH for sharing this!!!