The War Years
Christmas Eve, 1944
One night, four transmitters. Home-front variety, forces mail, London under blackout and a war reported in the present tense.
1944 · 5 stops · 2h 23m
- 1
Hollywood plays to the troops — the biggest names, sent overseas by request.
- 2
Letters read into a microphone, the closest thing to home on a shortwave set.
- 3
London answers: the voice that made radio a strategic instrument.
- 4
The war turned into drama while it was still being fought.
- 5
Sign-off with the band still playing — the night ends the way it always did.
