Winston Churchill Speeches and Radio Broadcasts

These Are Great Days

Transatlantic Broadcast to the Free World

English · Radio

Winston Churchill’s speeches and radio broadcasts bring listeners directly into the public voice of Britain’s wartime prime minister. In “These Are Great Days,” Churchill addresses listeners across the Atlantic in a broadcast to the free world, speaking with the urgency and resolve associated with his wartime appeals.

The experience is centered on Churchill’s own words and delivery: a formal address shaped for radio, with its argument carried by measured phrasing, emphasis, and the force of a distinctive public speaker. The broadcast offers a glimpse of how radio connected political leaders with audiences beyond their own country during a moment of global conflict.

Rather than a dramatic story with characters and scenes, this is a historical speech recording. Its appeal lies in hearing Churchill address his audience directly and in encountering the rhetoric and atmosphere of wartime broadcasting.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.