The run
- Network
- BBC
- Years active
- 1934–1946
- Surviving broadcasts
- 100
- 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.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 14 years on the air, with 9 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1933, in original transmission order.
- 1. Wu330424 Winstonchurchill 0003 The Locust Years · 24 Apr 1933
- 2. Wu391001 Winstonchurchill 0013 The First Month Of War · 1 Oct 1939
- 3. Wu400223 Winstonchurchill 0017 The Navy Is Here · 23 Feb 1940
- 01
Wu330424 Winstonchurchill 0003 The Locust Years
24 Apr 1933 · 41 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “Winston_Churchill”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 02
Wu391001 Winstonchurchill 0013 The First Month Of War
1 Oct 1939 · 4 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “Winston_Churchill”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 03
Wu400223 Winstonchurchill 0017 The Navy Is Here
23 Feb 1940 · 4 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “Winston_Churchill”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 04
Wu400519 Winstonchurchill 0025 The Battle Of France
19 May 1940 · 9 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “Winston_Churchill”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 05
War Of The Unknown Warrior
14 Jul 1940 · 17 min
Broadcast by the BBC, 14 July 1940. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Winston Churchill speeches collection (public domain).
- 06
Address To Italy
23 Dec 1940 · 17 min
Broadcast by the BBC, 23 December 1940. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Winston Churchill speeches collection (public domain).
- 07
Broadcast To America
16 Jun 1941 · 3 min
Broadcast by the BBC, 16 June 1941. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Winston Churchill speeches collection (public domain).
- 08
The Atlantic Charter
14 Aug 1941 · 2 min
Broadcast by the BBC, 14 August 1941. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Winston Churchill speeches collection (public domain).
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.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Winston Churchill: The BBC Broadcasts
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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