Broadcasting from the Enemy
Reichsrundfunk / Radio Tokyo
Reichsrundfunk / Radio Tokyo · 1939–1944
19 EpisodesFortnightlyPGSince 1939
The run
- Network
- Reichsrundfunk / Radio Tokyo
- Years active
- 1939–1944
- Surviving broadcasts
- 19
- Genre
- news
1.9.1939: Rede Hitlers vor dem Reichstag 23.9.1939: OKW-Bericht: Ende des Polenfeldzuges Lied: "Weichsel und Warthe" 15.10.1939: Empfang der U-Bootfahrer (Prien, Scapa Flow, Royal Oak) Lied: "Engelland-Lied” Spottlied: "Das muß den 1. Seelord doch erschüttern" 9.4.1940: Sondermeldung: Einmarsch in Dänemark 10.5.1940: Tagesbefehl Hitlers, verlesen durch Dr. Joseph Goebbels / Beginn des Westfeldzuges 18.5.1940: Sondermeldung: Antwerpen gefallen 28.5.1940: Kapitulationsangebot Belgiens Lied der Panzergrenadiere 29.5.1940: Lüttich gefallen / Rückzug britischer Truppen 29.5.1940: Sondermeldung: Bericht über Kämpfe in Flandern Lied: "Kamerad, wir marschieren im Westen" 10.6.1940: Rede Mussolinis: Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive.
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
6 dated broadcasts across 88 years on the air, with 87 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 2026, in original transmission order.
- 1. Sign Off · 31 Mar 2026
- 2. Dead Air · 7 Apr 2026
- 3. The Long Silence · 14 Apr 2026
The Long Silence
4 Aug 2026 · 19 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Dead Air
28 Jul 2026 · 34 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Sign Off
21 Jul 2026 · 49 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
The Case of the Missing Hour
14 Jul 2026 · 1h 4m
The one everybody argues about.
Night Broadcast
7 Jul 2026 · 27 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
The Last Train Out
30 Jun 2026 · 42 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Signal at Midnight
23 Jun 2026 · 57 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
A Room Above the Street
16 Jun 2026 · 20 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Same seasons
news on the air then
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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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