1939 Radio News


(4.9 stars; 8 reviews)

News from 1939. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1939 news file dump. Any typo or error is mine.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

Chapters

1939-03-08 BBC Gas Mask Drill 0:20
1939-03-12 PTT Reportage De L'intronisation Du Pape PIE XII 0:35
1939-03-15 BBC Chamberlain After Czech Invasion 0:30
1939-04-09 NBC Marian Anderson Concert 29:20
1939-04-11 NBC Bob Hope Betty Grable 27:18
1939-04-26 Former British PM Stanley Baldwin Speaks In New York 1:48
1939-06-18 WCCO Anoka Tornado 0:48
1939-07-06 Herbert Hoover Urges US Neutrality In European Conflicts 3:09
1939-08-23 Rep Martin Dies on Nazi Bolshevism Soviet Fascism 0:15
1939-08-27 BBC Czech Ambassador In London On Poland Situation 1:46
1939-08-27 BBC News 16:16
1939-08-27 CBS HV Kaltenborn Reports On The Eve Of War 5:02
1939-08-28 CBS European News 14:49
1939-08-28 CBS London Edward R. Murrow 4:01
1939-08-28 MBS Sigrid Schultz In Berlin 7:25
1939-08-31 BBC Alvar Liddell Reports On German 16 Point Plan 0:30
1939-08-31 BBC Alvar Lidell Polish Question 16 Points 4:39
1939-08-xx FDR Speech 'There Can Be No Peace' 1:28
1939-09-01 BBC Alvar Liddell Reports On Evacuation Of Children 0:40
1939-09-01 BBC Alvar Liddell Reports The Invasion Of Poland 0:45
1939-09-01 BBC Evacuation of London 1:13
1939-09-01 BBC Seymour Joly de Lotbinière Evacuees Depart from Waterloo Station 16:35
1939-09-01 BBC Ignace Paderewski On The War Looming Before Poland 0:41
1939-09-01 BBC Lionel Marson Invasion of Poland 14:31
1939-09-01 BBC S J de Lotbiniére Reports Further On Evacuation 0:45
1939-09-01 BBC S J de Lotbiniére Reports Train Now Leaving 0:14
1939-09-01 CBS Adolf Hitler Announces War With Poland 3:37
1939-09-01 FDR Speaks On U.S. Neutrality 0:46
1939-09-01 Herbert Hoover Speaks At The Onset Of The War 0:39
1939-09-01 PPR Radio Warsaw Reports On German Invasion 2:36
1939-09-01 Polish Ambassador To U.S. On War With Germany 1:05
1939-09-02 BBC News 52:23
1939-09-02 Chamberlain Declares War 3:30
1939-09-03 1000 BBC Outbreak of War with Germany 1:51
1939-09-03 1115 BBC Britain Declares War On Germany 12:37
1939-09-03 BBC Britain Declares War On Germany 3:30
1939-09-03 BBC King George VI Addresses The Nation (Excerpts1) 1:54
1939-09-03 BBC King George VI Addresses The Nation (Excerpts2) 1:06
1939-09-03 BBC King George VI Addresses the Nation 5:44
1939-09-03 BBC Neville Chamberlain BBC 0:43
1939-09-03 BBC Places Of Entertainment To Be Closed 1:08
1939-09-03 BBC Prime Minister Chamberlain Declares War On Germany 2:54
1939-09-03 BBC Reports Defense Order Closing Places Of Entertainment 0:35
1939-09-03 CBC Canada Declares War On Germany 7:18
1939-09-03 CBS AP Bulletin On Peace Efforts 0:41
1939-09-03 FDR Speaks About The War Beginning In Europe 1:48
1939-09-03 NBC Dorothy Thompson Hitler Invasion of Poland 13:48
1939-09-04 BBC News 49:47
1939-09-04 CBS Edward R. Murrow British Class System 3:03
1939-09-06 BBC Survivors Recall the Sinking of the SS Athenia 4:47
1939-09-07 CBS William L. Shirer In Berlin 3:00
1939-09-07 CBS William L. Shirer News From Berlin 3:02
1939-09-10 BBC Evacuee Message To Parents 0:34
1939-09-10 BBC We Have Been Evacuated 15:10
1939-09-20 NBC Reports On Adolph Hitler's Danzig Address 1:24
1939-09-21 CBS French Premier Daladier Message To France 16:02
1939-09-21 FDR Addresses Extraordinary Session Of Congress 35:00
1939-09-22 CBS Adolf Hitler On Poland (H. V. Kaltenborn Commentary) 1:49
1939-09-22 CBS H. V. Kaltenborn Commentary 14:58
1939-10-01 BBC Winston Churchill The First Month of the War 4:41
1939-10-07 CBS Elmer Davis With The News 4:39
1939-10-13 BBC Children's Hour Broadcast By Princess Elizabeth 0:37
1939-10-15 BBC Richard Dimbleby By A French Road 1:08
1939-10-16 Elsie & Doris Waters Gert, Daisy & the Blackout 3:45
1939-10-24 CBS Elmer Davis Reports 'City Of Flint' Still Missing 4:23
1939-10-27 NBC Story Behind The Headlines The Outbreak Of The European War 14:03
1939-10-30 CBS Elmer Davis Reports On Neutrality Bill 4:36
1939-10-31 CBS Elmer Davis Reports On Molotov's Speech 4:34
1939-11-11 BBC HM Queen Elizabeth Calls On Women 8:22
1939-11-11 BBC Queen Elizabeth Fortitude Of Women 0:47
1939-11-12 BBC Winston Churchill Ten Weeks Of War 9:26
1939-11-27 CBS Edward R. Murrow Underground Air Raid 2:13
1939-11-29 BBC War Comes to London Voluntary Hospitals 8:16
1939-11-30 CBS Elmer Davis With George Fielding Elliot 14:10
1939-11-30 CBS Elmer Davis Reports Russian Air Raids On Helsinki 4:40
1939-11-xx BBC Viscount Halifax Our War Aims Now and After 17:20
1939-xx-xx Harry Roy God Bless You, Mr. Chamberlain 2:51
1939-12-01 CBS Elmer Davis Reports The Defense Of Finland Continues 4:33
1939-12-02 CBS Elmer Davis Reports Germany Accuses Sweden 4:41
1939-12-13 RSH Lord Haw Haw NY Times Reports Cruiser Exeter Damaged 0:33
1939-12-17 From Montevideo, Uruguay The End Of Graf Spee 0:22
1939-12-17 News Bulletin On Graf Spee 0:14
1939-12-18 BBC Sinking 0:43
1939-12-18 BBC Winston Churchill The Sinking Of The Graf Spee 5:01
1939-12-18 CBS Elmer Davis Reports On Russo-Finnish Front 4:40
1939-12-19 CBS Elmer Davis Reports German Liner 'Columbus' Scuttled 4:40
1939-12-20 CBS Elmer Davis Reports Swedish Volunteer Units For Finland 4:45
1939-xx-xx RRG Wunschkonzert für die Wehrmach 3:19
1939-xx-xx Arthur Askey We're Going To Hang Out The Washing On The Siegfried Li… 2:46
1939-12-xx BBC Tommy Handley Very Little Nazi 1:06
1939-xx-xx RSH Lord Haw Haw Germany Calling, Sign On 0:15
1939-xx-xx RSH Lord Haw Haw Sign Off 0:37
19xx-xx-xx Shinola 0:59
1939-xx-xx XERA Pickard Family 17:23

Reviews

Love it!


(5 stars)

I have been listening to a number of these WWII collections and this one is fun. In answer to the previous question, NO. He said "news analyst" and it didn't at all sound like "nude" to me. I have my own question though. In 35 1939-09-03 1115 BBC Britain Declares War On Germany - 1939-09-03 1115 BBC - 12:37, who is the radio announcer at the end? He never gave his name. History books are all well and good, but hearing it live as it happens is an entirely different story. Also, journalism was much more respectable than it is today. Now it's just mud slinging and opinions, of which I could care less what THEY think. I just want the facts, thank you. No supposition. I think schools should include these recordings as required listening. Homeschoolers, as well. Many thanks to those who have taken the time to upload these historical gems.

Wondrous voice. Daughters of American Revolution refused to let


(5 stars)

So? Mrs Roosevelt arranged the Lincoln Memorial. An event, at once sad and glory filled. She provided' as the speaker pointed out "Proof Genius knows no color lines." I believe but am not sure, that there were more songs.

Kaltenbourn naturalist?


(5 stars)

Listen carefully to the introduction of # 59 . Did he really say that the great hv was a distinguished nude analyst? Well there was a war on.... and in spite of magnolia's opinion I still insist it is true.