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The Sounds Of Time: A Dramatisation In Sound Of The Years 1934-1949
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| Styles | Public Service Announcement, Interview, Speech, Spoken Word |
| Side 1: The Wasted Years | |
| A1 | In Washington President Truman Hails The North Atlantic Pact |
| A2 | Flashback To H.G. Wells Prophecy In 1934: "The World Is Drifting Towards Catastrophe" |
| A3 | Prime Ministers Ramsey Macdonald And Stanley Baldwin In Pursuit Of Peace |
| A4 | The Italian Dictator, Benito Mussolini, Glorifying War |
| A5 | King George V. Broadcasts An Historic Prayer From Britain's Parliament |
| A6 | The Voice Of Amelia Ehrhart, Martyr To Aviation |
| A7 | The Giant Airship Hindenburg Bursts Into Flames At Lakehurst, New Jersey, May 6th, 1937 |
| Side 2: Prelude To War | |
| A1 | Kind Edward VIII. Abdicates For "The Woman I Love" |
| A2 | Austria Is Annexed By Hitler, - Speech And Acclamation |
| A3 | Returning From Munich, Neville Chamberlain, Brings An Assurance Of Peace With Germany |
| A4 | "Liberating" Nazis March Into The Sudetenland |
| A5 | September 1st, 1939 -Poland Invaded By Germany- Neville Chamberlain's Broadcast Of September 3rd, 1939 ("... And That Consequently, This Country Is At War With Germany" |
| A6 | London Hears Its First Air Raid Alarm |
| Side 3: Britain Stands Alone | |
| A1 | Gas-Mask Training For School-Children During The "Phoney War" |
| A2 | Low Countries Invaded, May 10th, 1940 |
| A3 | Singing Tommies Cross Belgium Frontier To Meet Wehrmacht |
| A4 | Three Weeks Later, J.B. Priestley, Broadcasts His Famous Postscript To The Epic Of Dunkirk (The Good Ship "Gracie Fields") |
| A5 | Enslaved Europe Hear The Voices Of Her Leaders In London: President Benes, Queen Wilhelmina, King Haakon, King Peter, General Sikorski, General De Gaulle |
| A6 | Winston Churchill ralies The Nation (Let Us Therefore Brace Ourselves To Our Duty) |
| Side 4: The Lion Has Wings | |
| A1 | R.A.F. Spitfires And Hurricanes Fight And Win The Battle Of Britain |
| A2 | Luftwaffe's Night "Blitz" On London |
| A3 | Spirit Of The Cockney Expressed By Cab-Driver Harry Anderson |
| A4 | Two Americans Ben Lyons And Bebe Daniels And The Well-Loved Tommy Handley Bring Good Cheer To Embattled London Through The "Hi Gang" And "Itma" Radio Programme |
| A5 | The Voice Of Colonel Britten Is Heard By The Resistance Movement In Underground Europe ("The Night Is Your Friend. The V Is Your Sign.") |
| Side 5: New World Rallies To The Old | |
| A1 | Japanese Attack On Pearl Harbour Brings America Into War And Franklin D. Roosevelt Declares His Faith In Victory |
| A2 | general Douglas Mac Arthur At Melbourne, March 21st, 1942 |
| A3 | British War Workers Sing At The Production Front |
| A4 | Nightingale In A Surrey Wood Matches Its Voice Against The Drone Of A Thousand Bombers Striking At Germany |
| A5 | Intercom, Conversation By Bomber Crew Over Berlin |
| A6 | General Montgomery's Private Speech At Eighth Army Officers Before El Alamein ("Here We Will Stand And Fight"), August 13th, 1942 |
| Side 6: The Long Night Ends | |
| A1 | Eighth Army's Artillery Barrage Opens The Battle Of El Alamein |
| A2 | From Britain, General "Ike" Eisenhower Announces The D-Day Invasion Of France, June 6th, 1944 |
| A3 | Actuality Recording By Stanley Maxted Made Under Fire With The Airborne Division At Arnhem |
| A4 | Joyous Paris Crowds Greet The Army Of Liberation |
| A5 | Britain's Final Ordeal By Pilotless Planes And Rockets |
| A6 | Crossing The Rhine In A "Buffalo" In Pursuit Of The Wehrmacht |
| A7 | Liberated Victim Of A Nazi Concentration Camp Meets His Mother |
| Side 7: We Shall Remember Them | |
| A1 | Victory Celebration In Whitehall On V-E Day: Winston Churchill Greets The Singing Crowds. ("This Is Your Victory, The Victory Of The Cause Of Freedom In Every Land") |
| A2 | Genral "Ike" Eisenhower Becomes A Freeman Of The City Of London And Adresses Fellow-Citizens From The Mansion House Steps |
| A3 | Memorial Service At St. Paul's Cathedral To Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 17th, 1945. The Great Bells Of St. Paul's Ring Out A Tribute To Britain's Staunch Friend. |
| Side 8: The Reckoning | |
| A1 | Clement Attlee Britain's New Prime Minister, Announces The Japanese Surrender And The End Of The War |
| A2 | General Election Exchanges Between Churchill And Attlee Over The B.B.C. |
| A3 | Trials Of Nazi War Criminals At Nuremberg: Hermann Goering And Rudolf Hess Enter Ples Of "Not Guilty" |
| A4 | The Nuremberg Judgement Is Pronounced. |
| A5 | Eye-witness Sergeant-Major E. Austin reports Heinrich Himmler's Suicide |
| A6 | William ("Lord Haw-Haw") Joyce Propaganda Puppet Of Goebbels Is Sentenced To Death In London |
| Side 9: Tapestry Of Empire | |
| A1 | Britain's Royal Family Tours The Union The Union Of South Africa And The Rhodesias. |
| A2 | King George Vi. Speaks Of His Anxiety About Britain's Economic Plight. |
| A3 | Princess Eliabeth Comes Of Age: Her Solemn Dedication To The Service Of The Empire |
| A4 | Jawaharlal Nehru On transfer Of Power To India |
| A5 | Swearing-In Of Lord Louis Mountbatten As First Governor-General Of India |
| A6 | Archbishop Of Canterbury Conducts Royal Wedding Of Princess Elizabeth And Duke Of Edinburgh At Westminster Abbey. ("For As Much As Philip And Elizabeth...") |
| Side 10: Men Can Sing Together | |
| A1 | Duke Of Edinburgh Adresses Mansion House Audience On Return From Paris |
| A2 | Dr. Chaim Weizmann Speaks With Pride Of The New State Of Israel. |
| A3 | A Remedy For Sick And Infected Europe Is Prescribed By U.S. Secretary Of State George Marshall At Harvard University. |
| A4 | The "Air-Lift" Over The Soviet Blockade Of Berlin. |
| A5 | Ernest Bevin At Washington, On The Meaning Of The North Atlantic Pact. ("At Last, DemocracyIs No Longer A Series Of Isolated Units...") |
| A6 | Olympic Hymn Sung By Massed Choirs At Olympic Games, London, 1948 |
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