Articles about World War II

Part four of a brief technical history of broadcasting in Britain

“Hello, Fenella? I shan’t be able to get back for dinner. A sort of war’s broken out.”

A trip to the ITN archives – deep under Goodge Street in London

The BBC listens to the enemy whilst also undermining them

The BBC serves the Home Front – from replacing bombed-out schools to playing music while you work

The BBC makes the transition from peacetime to war – and war comes to Broadcasting House

How to get your allies to listen to you

Unusual audience research as the BBC goes direct to the forces in France to ask them what they’d like to hear on the radio

Germany calling, Germany calling, Germany calling no more

Everything changes as the BBC switches from wartime to peacetime service on the radio

What are the people of Nazi Germany listening to in 1940?

On this day in 1946, BBC radio began serialising one of the most devastating essays ever written

A look at what was on the BBC on Tuesday 12 September 1939

The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 provokes major change at the US radio networks

Broadcaster Freddy Grisewood’s story of the BBC at war – part 3

Broadcaster Freddy Grisewood’s story of the BBC at war – part 2

Broadcaster Freddy Grisewood’s story of the BBC at war – part 1

Why didn’t the government take over the running of the BBC in 1940?

Alvar Lidell narrates the story of the establishment of the BBC Monitoring Service during World War II

What the BBC meant to the people of occupied France

Ted Kavanagh explains where wartime hit ‘ITMA’ came from

How the job of announcing on the BBC changed when war broke out

A look at what was on the Home Service on Thursday 14 September 1939

A 1940 description of what television was doing just as the order came to shut it down

The BBC decides to reveal all when war breaks out

V for Victory

As war comes to the world, the Radio Times is ready

Exploding the myth of TV’s 1939 closedown