Various, The second World war 1939 -1945 CDs | |||||||||
| Category: | BBC - BBCCD (Click on this button to view other releases of BBC - BBCCD cds.) | ||||||||
| Label and catalogue number: | BBC Records and Tapes - BBCCD3005 | ||||||||
| Format: | Disc CDs | ||||||||
| Country: | UK  | ||||||||
| Released: | 1985 | ||||||||
| Genre: | Informational View all other tracks listed as Informational. | ||||||||
| Run-off codes: | BBCCD 3005-A / B-5584 A BBCCD 3005-B / B-5585 A | ||||||||
| Item deleted? | Yes | ||||||||
| Distributed / printed by | BBC Enterprises Ltd | ||||||||
| Page views: | 597 times since 20th May, 2017, global rank is 5712, rank in cds is 447. | ||||||||
| My rating: | ***** | ||||||||
| Guest rating: | ***** | ||||||||
TracksBelow is a list of tracks for this release. | |||||||||||
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| A1 | Adolf Hitler in Danzig ... "I am aware of the greatness of this hour" 1.9.39 | 0.23 | |||||||||
| A2 | The Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain ... "this country is at war with Germany" 3.9.39 | 0.36 | |||||||||
| A3 | Lionel Marson announces the closing of places of entertainment 3.9.39 | 0.20 | |||||||||
| A4 | ... and as evacuation begins is pleased to see that the services "are playing their part splendidly" 1.9.39 | 0.26 | |||||||||
| A5 | S. J. de Lotbiniere describes the scene at Waterloo Station as London children are evacuated 1.9.39 | 0.48 | |||||||||
| A6 | Princess Elizabeth, aged 14, sends a message to the children of Great Britain 13.10.40 | 0.38 | |||||||||
| A7 | An evacuee, breathless with news, reassures hid parents 10.9.39 | 0.34 | |||||||||
| A8 | By a French road Richard Dimbleby watches an Irish regiment move up and finds echoes of the First War ... "the road, the trees, the rain and everlasting beat of feet" 15.10.39 | 1.09 | |||||||||
| A9 | "War has at all times called for the fortitude of women". Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth stresses the vital role of women in this war 11.11.39 | 0.48 | |||||||||
| A10 | Gas mask drill and an Irish Guard shows the nation how to hold its breath 8.3.40 | 0.22 | |||||||||
| A11 | First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, announces the scuttling of the Graf Spee 18.12.39 | 0.44 | |||||||||
| A12 | The phoney war ends as Alvar Lidell gives news of the German invasion of Denmark and Norway 9.4.40 | 0.32 | |||||||||
| A13 | Ed Morrow witnesses the dramatic 'no confidence' debate in the Commons 8.5.40 | 1.06 | |||||||||
| A14 | Chamberlain resigns ... "my duty is plain" 10.5.40 | 0.27 | |||||||||
| A15 | Churchill makes his first broadcast as Prime Minister ... "one bond unites us all, to wage war until victory is won" 19.5.40 | 0.27 | |||||||||
| A16 | Blitzkrieg begins - Alvar Lidell announces the invasion of Holland and Belgium 10.5.40 | 0.26 | |||||||||
| A17 | Bernard Stubbs watches British troops advance into Belgium to meet the German army 13.5.40 | 1.06 | |||||||||
| A18 | Charles Gardner describes Allied attempts to hold up the German advance north of Antwerp 14.5.40 | 0.40 | |||||||||
| A19 | Sir Anthony Eden, Secretary of State for War, appeals for men to join the Local Defence Volunteers - The Home Guard 14.5.40 | 1.05 | |||||||||
| A20 | Bernard Stubbs sees the weary Allied troops coming ashore in England from Dunkirk 31.5.40 | 1.22 | |||||||||
| A21 | J. B. Priestley finds the epic of Dunkirk typically British ... "so absurd, yet so grand and gallant" 5.6.40 | 2.30 | |||||||||
| A22 | Bernard Stubbs watches trains full of silent troops as the B. E. F. come home 31.5.40 | 0.24 | |||||||||
| A23 | Churchill prepares the nation for the Battle of Britain ... "men will still say, this was their finest hour" 18.6.40 | 1.36 | |||||||||
| A24 | Charles Gardner provides a sporty commentary on a dog-fight, even supplying his own sound effects 14.7.40 | 1.32 | |||||||||
| A25 | Robin Duff watches as a convoy is attacked off Dover 22.8.40 | 1.05 | |||||||||
| A26 | Alvar Lidell reads the news at the climax of the Battle of Britain ... "175 German aircraft destroyed", later a much disputed figure 15.9.40 | 0.37 | |||||||||
| A27 | Churchill pays tribute to 'the few' 20.8.40 | 0.27 | |||||||||
| A28 | Ed Murrow, standing on the steps of St. Martin in the Fields, watches London cope with the blackout during the blitz 24.8 | 0.57 | |||||||||
| A29 | Robin Duff sees the City of London burn and St. Paul's "untouched in the very centre of all this destruction" 20.12.40 | 2.02 | |||||||||
| A30 | Herbert Morrison, Minister of Home Security, appeals for firefighters to beat the incendiary menace 31.12.40 | 0.42 | |||||||||
| A31 | Emergency services go into action in London during the blitz Oct / Nov 1940 | 1.42 | |||||||||
| A32 | After the raid on Coventry, Ministry of Information loudspeaker vans advise people on health hazzards 15.11.40 | 0.36 | |||||||||
| A33 | The Provost, the Very Reverend R. T. Howard, wearily describes his attempt to save Coventry's Cathedral from incendiary bombs ... "When men suffer, God suffers also" 15.11.40 | 2.21 | |||||||||
| A34 | News of the air and sea war and from the Russian Front as 1941 progresses. Best of all is the news that cooked bacon is coming off ration. Bulletins read by Bruce Belface (5.1.41), Alan Howland (10.1.41), and Frank Phillips (5.9.41) | 1.16 | |||||||||
| A35 | German radio announces the sinking of H. M. S. Hood 24.5.41 | 0.50 | |||||||||
| A36 | First Sea Lord, A. V. Alexander, gives news of the Navy's riposte, the sinking of the Bismarck 31.5.41 | 0.44 | |||||||||
| A37 | An excited Robert Dougall, with a convoy in the Atlantic, describes an attack by German bombers 11.11.41 | 1.29 | |||||||||
| A38 | Churchill denounces Hitler as a "bloody thirsty guttersnipe" as Germany invades Russia 22.6.41 | 0.47 | |||||||||
| A39 | Alvar Lidell gives the news of a massive air-raid on Berlin 8.9.41 | 0.31 | |||||||||
| A40 | ... in a Lancaster bomber over Berlin the air crew coolly perform their duties | 2.09 | |||||||||
| A41 | The Japanese enter the war by attacking Pearl Harbour; Alvar Lidell with the news 7.12.41 | 0.59 | |||||||||
| A42 | Albert Lee Warner in Washington describes American reaction to Pearl Harbour 7.12.41 | 1.03 | |||||||||
| A43 | President Roosevelt expresses American determination 8.12.41 | 1.03 | |||||||||
| A44 | Wilfred Pickles gives news of the war developments in the Far East 8.12.41 | 0.44 | |||||||||
| A45 | In Washington Churchill addresses Congress on Japanese aggression ... "what kind of a people do they think we are?" 26.12.41 | 1.18 | |||||||||
| A46 | Giles Playfair describes the last eerie days in Singapour before its fall 15.2.42 | 0.52 | |||||||||
| A47 | Captain William Graves describes the inferno of the Battle of Midway 4.6.42 | 1.58 | |||||||||
| A48 | At El Alamein General Montgomery meticulously describes the battle to come and promises the Eighth Army that this time they will "finish with this chap Rommel once and for all" Oct. 1942 | 2.03 | |||||||||
| A49 | Godfrey Talbot watches British tanks move into battle 2.11.42 | 1.18 | |||||||||
| A50 | The barrage at El Alamein begins 1.11.42 | 0.44 | |||||||||
| A51 | Bruce Belfrage reads "some excellent news" from El Alamein 4.11.42 | 1.05 | |||||||||
| A52 | Victory bells ring in Tobruk 15.11.42 | 0.16 | |||||||||
| A53 | Godfrey Talbot describes Christmas in the desert with the Eighth Army 19.12.42 | 1.33 | |||||||||
| A54 | On the home front the Radio Doctor offers advice on Christmas Day over-indulgence 26.12.42 | 0.20 | |||||||||
| A55 | Freddie Grisewood suggests ways of saving fuel in the kitchen 17.8.42 | 0.34 | |||||||||
| A56 | Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) with one of his more eccentric propaganda stories on British women and their hats 27.2.40 | 0.55 | |||||||||
| A57 | Robin Duff samples life in a typical London air-raid shelter 5.10.40 | 0.44 | |||||||||
| A58 | Audrey Russell talks to the shocked survivor of an air-raid which buried her under the wreckage of her house Nov. 1944 | 0.41 | |||||||||
| A59 | Robert Robinson reads the news of the defeat of the Germans at Starlingrad 3.2.43 | 0.53 | |||||||||
| A60 | Paul Winterton pays tribute to the courage and fortitude of the Russians in Starlingrad 9.2.43 | 1.37 | |||||||||
| A61 | "Yesterday morning the war in North Africa came to an end". Frank Gillard describes the German surrender 13.5.43 | 0.51 | |||||||||
| A62 | Commander Anthony Kimmins sees the preparation of men and ships for the Allied invasion of Sicily 22.6.43 | 1.21 | |||||||||
| B1 | Maurice Shillington announces news of the resignation of Mussolini 25.7.43 | 0.28 | |||||||||
| B2 | General Patton enters Messina after its capture. Introduced by Garry Marsh 17.8.43 | 0.45 | |||||||||
| B3 | Frank Gillard introduces the town band of Lentini in Sicily which plays a distinctive 'God Save the King' 22.8.43 | 1.13 | |||||||||
| B4 | General Montgomery announces Allied landings on the Italian mainland ... "Let us knock Italy out of the war" 3.9.43 | 0.38 | |||||||||
| B5 | Marshal Badoglio proclaims the Italian capitulation to the Allies 8.9.43 | 0.29 | |||||||||
| B6 | Italy declares war on Germany; news bulletin read by Freddie Grisewood 13.10.43 | 0.34 | |||||||||
| B7 | News of the leaders of the Great Powers meeting in Teheran given by Freddie Grisewood 6.12.43 | 0.41 | |||||||||
| B8 | A night raid on the Anzio beach-head described by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas 26.1.44 | 1.09 | |||||||||
| B9 | During four months on the beach-head at Anzio the Allies make themselves at home, as Wynford Vaughan-Thomas reports 20.4.44 | 1.42 | |||||||||
| B10 | Winston Churchill celebrates Allied victories and looks forward to the ending of "the cruellest tyranny which has ever sought to bar the progress of mankind" 26.3.44 | 0.50 | |||||||||
| B11 | Godfrey Talbot surveys Monte Cassino as Polish troops raise their flag over the ruined monastery 17.5. | 1.55 | |||||||||
| B12 | Rome welcomes the Allies 5.6.44 | 0.14 | |||||||||
| B13 | Godfrey Talbot sees Allied troops on Mussolini's balcony in the Piazza Venezia 5.6.44 | 1.01 | |||||||||
| B14 | "England has become one vast ordnance dump ... " Frank Gillard describes the build-up of men and material as D-Day approaches 4.6.44 | 0.42 | |||||||||
| B15 | Robin Duff on board a sealed troopship as the invasion forces are told where and when D-Day will take place 3.6.44 | 0.43 | |||||||||
| B16 | Richard Dimbleby watches the airborne troops take off 5.6.44 | 0.47 | |||||||||
| B17 | Robin Duff on board ship mid-Channel with the men "wondering, waiting and listening" 6.6.44 | 0.26 | |||||||||
| B18 | "D-Day has come" and John Snagge gives the news 6.6.44 | 0.37 | |||||||||
| B19 | "This is the day and this is the hour ... " Colin Wills prepares to land with the infantry 6.6.44 | 0.27 | |||||||||
| B20 | Chester Wilmot crosses the Channel in a glider with the airborne forces 6.6.44 | 0.45 | |||||||||
| B21 | Guy Byam parachutes into France with the airborne troops | 0.28 | |||||||||
| B22 | General Eisenhower broadcasts to the people of Western Europe ... "The hour of your liberation is approaching" 6.6.44 | 0.35 | |||||||||
| B23 | Alan Melville sees Allied paratroopers dropping to support the beach-head 6.6.44 | 0.24 | |||||||||
| B24 | Chester Wilmot watches Allied gliders brave the German flak as they come in to land 6.6.44 | 0.25 | |||||||||
| B25 | Frank Gillard takes cover in a Normandy cornfield as German shells whistle overhead 17.6.44 | 0.29 | |||||||||
| B26 | Michael Standing sees French civilians cope with the Allied invasion 8.6.44 | 0.30 | |||||||||
| B27 | Alan Melville tells the story of the Hermanville-sur-Mer church bells as they ring to celebrate liberation 14.6.44 | 1.26 | |||||||||
| B28 | Bill Herbert watches Allied aircraft bomb Caen before the infantry go in 8.7.44 | 1.11 | |||||||||
| B29 | Richard Wessell reads the news "Paris has been liberated" 23.8.44 | 0.12 | |||||||||
| B30 | Parisians celebrate with the 'Marseillaise' 25.8.44 | 0.18 | |||||||||
| B31 | Robert Reid describes the scene in Paris ... "People mad with joy" 25.8.44 | 0.35 | |||||||||
| B32 | German snipers fire on de Gaulle as he enters Notre Dame. Robert Reid watches as the General studiously ignores them 26.8.44 | 1.19 | |||||||||
| B33 | On the road into Brussels Chester Wilmot sees an armoured column held up by fierce German resistance 3.9.44 | 1.07 | |||||||||
| B34 | John Snagge gives the news of the Allied airborne invasion of Holland 17.9.44 | 0.13 | |||||||||
| B35 | Ed Murrow counts the paratroops out as they jump into Holland ... "the whole sky is filled with parachutes" 17.9.44 | 1.02 | |||||||||
| B36 | Stanley Maxted, surrounded with the 1st Airborne Division, watches "those lovely supply planes" come in over Arnhem ... "they're such fighters, if only they can get the stuff to fight with" 20.9.44 | 1.59 | |||||||||
| B37 | Following the German offensive in the Ardennes, Robert Barr sees the Americans withdraw ... "I never thought this would happen to us" 18.12.44 | 1.15 | |||||||||
| B38 | Matthew Halton describes conditions in Holland during the last terrible winter of occupation 19.5.45 | 0.45 | |||||||||
| B39 | "The Allies are across the Rhine" ... Freddie Grisewood announces the seizing of Remagen bridge by the American First Army 8.3.45 | 0.19 | |||||||||
| B40 | Wynford Vaughan-Thomas crosses the Rhine with the 15th Scottish Division 24.3.45 | 2.05 | |||||||||
| B41 | Richard Dimbleby crosses the Rhine with "a mighty airbourne army" and encounters fierce German resistance 24.3.45 | 1.11 | |||||||||
| B42 | Stanley Maxted goes over the Rhine in a Hamilcar glider with the 6th Airbourne Division and is wounded in the 'doom-like lurch' of the landing 25.3.45 | 1.35 | |||||||||
| B43 | Edward Ward describes "the greatest moment of my life", release from Oflag 12B 31.3.45 | 0.58 | |||||||||
| B44 | Freddie Grisewood introduces Frank Gillard who announces "the forces of liberation have joined hands" as Riussian and American troops meey at Torgau on the Elbe 25.4.45 | 0.44 | |||||||||
| B45 | Richard Dimbleby struggles to remain objective as he describes the scenes in Belsen 19.4.45 | 1.21 | |||||||||
| B46 | "Hitler is dead" ... newsflash read by Stuart Hibberd 1.5.45 | 0.18 | |||||||||
| B47 | Standing in the little village of Lauenberg, Wynford Vaughan-Thomas watches as "the wreckage of the Wehrmacht" streams in to surrender to the Allies 3.5.45 | 0.30 | |||||||||
| B48 | Chester Wilmot, at Field Marshal Montgomery's headquarters, waits for the German High Command to surrender 4.5.45 | 0.21 | |||||||||
| B49 | Field Marshal Montgomery reads the surrender terms at Luneberg Heath 4.5.45 | 0.58 | |||||||||
| B50 | "Yes, I saw it" ... Thomas Cadett sees General Jodl sign the unconditional surrender at Allied Supreme Headquarters 7.5.45 | 1.32 | |||||||||
| B51 | John Snagge interrupts programmes to announce VE Day 7.5.45 | 0.43 | |||||||||
| B52 | Howard Marshall, outside Buckingham Palace, joins the crowds "wanting to share this day with the King and Queen" 8.5.45 | 1.18 | |||||||||
| B53 | The Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, announces the surrender of Germany ... "we may allow ourselves a brief period of rejoicing" 8.5.45 | 1.41 | |||||||||
| B54 | "I only wish that Franklin D. Roosevelt had lived to witness this day". President Truman expresses a common feeling 8.5.45 | 0.26 | |||||||||
| B55 | Lord Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, tells the forces there "we were never really the forgotten front" 24.12.44 | 1.07 | |||||||||
| B56 | Sergeant Richard Mawson lands on Iwo Jima with the U. S. Marines ... "Tojo isn't going to get much use out of this island from here on in" 19.2.45 | 2.19 | |||||||||
| B57 | Richard Sharp introduces General Slim who congratulates every man in the Fourteenth Army as the Union Jack is raised over Fort Dufferin at Mandalay 21.3.45 | 2.06 | |||||||||
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| B58 | After a period of recuperation, Sergeant Frank Foster describes conditions during the building of the Burma Siam Railway as a prisoner of the Japanese 4.11.45 | 1.22 | |||||||||
| B59 | Frank Phillips reads news of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima 6.8.45 | 0.21 | |||||||||
| B60 | Group Captain Leonard Cheshire witnesses the dropping of the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki 9.8.45 | 2.07 | |||||||||
| B61 | The Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, announces the surrender of Japan ... "the last of our enemies is laid low" 15.8.45 | 0.54 | |||||||||
| B62 | Crowds celebrate VJ Day in London 15.8.45 | 0.45 | |||||||||
| B63 | King George VI speaks to the Empire ... "let us join in thanking Almighty God that war has ended throughout the world" 15.8.45 | 1.00 | |||||||||
| B64 | Wynford Vaughan-Thomas joins the excited crowds in Piccadilly on VJ night 15.8.45 | 1.15 | |||||||||
| B65 | General Douglas MacArthur makes an elegiac broadcast at the end of the war in the Pacific ... "The holy mission has been completed" 1.9.45 | 2.00 | |||||||||
| Total length of media 2:02:43. | |||||||||||
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| Cover condition | Near mint | ||||||||||
| Record condition | Near mint | ||||||||||
| BBC records label code | A | ||||||||||
| Number have | 1 | ||||||||||
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| My rating | 3 | |
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Other versions | ||
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| REQ 571 | The second World war 1939 -1945 | |
Further information | ||
| BBC Radio Enterprises Ltd and BBC Enterprises Ltd, predecessors of BBC Worldwide / BBC Worldwide Ltd., the BBC's commercial arm. Formed 1968 and 1979 respectively, they were a subsidiary wholly owned by the BBC and merged into BBC Worldwide in 1995. In that time, there were companies set up within or structured brands as part of the company to deal with separate parts of the business, e.g. BBC Records for recorded audio. Sometimes written as BBC Enterprise Ltd.
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