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C.S. Lewis - Only Surviving Episode of Broadcast Talks
This C.S. Lewis audio clip is from the BBC Series "Beyond Personality."  Entitled "Mere Men," it originally aired on the 21st of March, 1944.  The following is a transcription of the broadcast.In these talks, I've had to say a good deal about prayer. And before going on to my main subject ...
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Chamberlain - Declaration of War
  When diplomatic efforts between Britain and Germany failed to end Hitler's attack on Poland - in early September, 1939 - Neville Chamberlain (the Britain's Prime Minister) announced that Britain and Germany were at war.It was a personally difficult time for Chamberlain.  He had attempte...
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Churchill - "This was Their Finest Hour"
Winston Churchill became Prime Minister on the 10th of May, 1940.  It was an especially difficult time in the history of Europe since on that day Hitler began his invasion of France, Belgium and The Netherlands (Holland).   In the months which followed, Churchill's speeches rallied the Br...
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Churchill - "We Must Arm"
On the 16th of October, 1938, Winston Churchill broadcast a speech urging both his country, and America, to arm themselves.  Very critical of Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy (toward Hitler's annexation of German-speaking Czechoslovakia), Churchill believed the way to avoid war was to ...
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Churchill - Give Us the Tools and We Will Finish the Job
Churchill tried repeatedly to convince FDR to enter the war.  Instead of directly joining the fray, America sent war supplies to help Britain.  Encouraging Churchill, Roosevelt sent a letter (dated January 20, 1941) in which he quotes from Longfellow's poem, "The Building of a Ship." ...
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Churchill - Iron Curtain Speech
On the 5th of March, 1946, Winston Churchill was worried about the spread of Joseph Stalin's power throughout Europe.  During a speech he gave that day in Fulton, Missouri, the former British Prime Minister said:"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descend...
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Columbia is Lost - Announcement to the Nation
After the shuttle Columbia was lost, during the STS-107 mission, President George W. Bush addressed the nation.  This is the audio version of that speech, in which he told Americans:  "The Columbia is lost; there are no survivors."
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Dracula - Mercury Theatre on the Air
Orson Welles, and his Mercury Theatre troupe, brought Bram Stoker's story of Dracula to the radio.  This is the broadcast which originally aired on July 11, 1938 (via the CBS radio network). Dracula was the first of The Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcasts.  Each story (mostly of classic...
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Evacuation of British School Children - WWII
  On the 9th of September, 1939, the BBC aired this broadcast on the evacuation of Britain's school children.  The reporter, at Waterloo Station Platform 12, tells us that  children of all ages - from "tiny tots" to high-school teens - were leaving their families for the relative saf...
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FDR - "Date Which Will Live in Infamy" Speech
On the 8th of December, 1941 - the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed - Americans received their up-to-date news from the radio.  People everywhere were tuned-in to hear their President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, address a joint session of Congress.  This audio clip is that address.In his spee...
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