LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

World War II-child evacuee message

Genre

Speech

TX Date

10 Sep 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:00:39

Description

Archive radio broadcast by a male child evacuee (not identified) during the Second World War reassuring his parents and describing what he has been doing. Originally broadcast 10/09/39. The recording was broadcast on LBC to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the Second World War, is extracted from the BBC record: The Second World War, and is therefore subject to BBC copyright restrictions.

Contributors

BBC

Keywords

Children (age group); Second World War (1939-1945); Evacuation; Anniversaries; Evacuees

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