Originally broadcast on Mutual, 8 May 1945. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- BBC
- Years active
- 1934–1946
- Surviving broadcasts
- 46
- Genre
- news
Speeches and radio broadcasts made by Winston Churchill on the BBC between 1934 and 1955, gathered by the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio contributors and released into the public domain.
1946 · 11945 · 21944 · 31943 · 51942 · 21941 · 151940 · 111939 · 31938 · 21937 · 11934 · 1
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 46 of 46
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: Winston_Churchill
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
34 dated broadcasts across 13 years on the air, with 2 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1934, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Threat Of Nazi Germany · 16 Nov 1934
- 2. The German Ambassador · 15 Jun 1937
- 3. To The Royal Academy Of Arts · 30 Apr 1938
The Sinews Of Peace
5 Mar 1946 · 55 min
Broadcast by the BBC, 5 March 1946. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Winston Churchill speeches collection (public domain).
Germanys Unconditional Surrender
8 May 1945 · 6 min
Broadcast by the BBC, 8 May 1945. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Winston Churchill speeches collection (public domain).
VE Day Celebrations Ministry of Health Building
8 May 1945 · 2 min
Broadcast by the BBC, 8 May 1945. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Winston Churchill speeches collection (public domain).
Americas Thanksgiving Day
23 Nov 1944 · 3 min
Broadcast by the BBC, 23 November 1944. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Winston Churchill speeches collection (public domain).
The Fruits Of 1944
9 Nov 1944 · 12 min
Broadcast by the BBC, 9 November 1944. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Winston Churchill speeches collection (public domain).
On Allied Victories
26 Mar 1944 · 48 min
Broadcast by the BBC, 26 March 1944. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Winston Churchill speeches collection (public domain).
Rebuilding The House Of Commons
28 Oct 1943 · 10 min
Broadcast by the BBC, 28 October 1943. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Winston Churchill speeches collection (public domain).
Anglo American Unity
6 Sep 1943 · 16 min
Broadcast by the BBC, 6 September 1943. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Winston Churchill speeches collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
8 May 1945
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 8 May 1945.
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 8 May 1945. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on BBC
BBC in 1934–1946
Other series the network carried while Winston Churchill: The BBC Broadcasts was on the air.
Same seasons
news on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The broadcast desk
Wartime correspondence and Cavalcade of America established the daily explainer and the narrated history hour long before either had a feed.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
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