Churchill Roosevelt Attlee Montgomery Eisenhower Record

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Rare Authentic Recordings of Arnhem, Blitz on London, Royal Wedding, Rhine Crossing, Abdication Speech, Hindenburg Disaster, Liberation of Paris, El Alamein, Battle of Britain & Victory Celebration.

A special collection of five LP records

The Sounds of Time

A dramatisation in sound of the years

1934 - 1949

Told in the voices that made history and illustrated by the great events that are part of it.

Written by Frederic Mullally

Narrated by John Snagge

Produced by Brian George

With the collaboration fo the British Broadcasting Corporation.

An Oriole Records Production

Includes the actual voices of Churchill, King George VI, Roosevelt, Princes Elizabeth, Attlee, Montgomery, Chamberlain, Eisenhower, H.G. Wells, Hilter, Mussolini, Mac Donald, Baldwin, Nehru, Weizmann, Tommy Handley, Willian Joyce, De Gaulle, Priestley, King George V, Goering, Bevin, Truman and The Duke of Edinburgh.

Side one - In Washington President Truman hails the North Atlantic Pact. H.G Well's prophecy in 1934: " The world is drifting towards catastrophe". Prime Ministers Ramsey Macdonald and Stanley Baldwin in pursuit of peace. The Italian dictator, Mussolini, glorfying war. King George V broadcasts an historic prayer from Britain's Parliment. The voice of Amelia Ehrhart, martyr to aviation, The giant airship Hindenburg bursts into flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey May 6th 1937.

Side two - King Edward VIII abdicates for "The Woman I Love". Austia is annexed by Hitler - speech and acclamation. Returning from Munich, Britains Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain brings an assurance of peace with Germany. " Liberating" Nazis march into the Sudetenland. September 1st 1939, Poland invaded by Germany Neville Chamberlains broadcast of September 3rd 1939, " and consequently this country is at war with Germany". London hears its first air raid alert.

Side three – Gas mask training for school children during the "phoney war". Low Countries invaded, May 10th 1940. Singing Tommies cross Belgium frontier to meet Wehrmacht. Three weeks later J.B. Priestley broadcasts his famous postscript to the epic of Dunkirk (The Good Ship Gracie Fields). Enslaved Europe hears the voice of her leaders in London: President Benes, Queen Wilhelmina, King Haakon, King Peter, General Sikorski, General De Gaulle, Winston Churchill rallies the nation, (" let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty")

Side four – R.A.F Spitfires and Hurricanes fight and win the Battle of Britain. Luftwaffe’s night "blitz" on London. Spirit of the Cockney expressed by cab driver Harry Anderson. Two Americans, Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels and the well loved Tommy Handley bring good cheer to embattled London through the " Hi Gang" and " Itma" radio programme. The voice of Colonel Britten is heard by resistance movement in underground Europe: (The night is your friend. The V is your sign).

Side five – Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour brings America into War and Franklin D Roosevelt declares his faith in victory. General Douglas Mac Arthur at Melbourne, March 21st 1942. British war workers sing at the production front. Nightingale in a Surrey wood matches its voice against the drone of a thousand bombers striking at Germany. Inter-com conversation by bomber crew over Britain. General Montgomery’s private speech to Eight Army officers before El Alamein, (" Here we stand and fight") August 13th 1942.

Side six – Eighth Army’s artillery barrage opens the battle at El Alamein. From Britain, General ‘Ike’ Eisenhower announces the D-day invasion of France, June 6th 1944. Actuality recording by Stanley Maxted made under fire with the Airborne Division at Arnhem. Joyous Paris crowds greet the Army of Liberation. Britain’s final ordeal by pilotless planes and rockets. Crossing the Rhine in a "Buffalo" in pursuit of the Wehrmacht. Liberated victim of a Nazi concentration camp meets his mother.

Side seven – Victory celebration in Whitehall on V.E Day: Winston Churchill greets the singing crowds. ("This is your victory, the victory of the cause of freedom in every land"). General ‘Ike’ Eisenhower becomes a Freeman of the City of London and addresses fellow citizens from the Mansion House steps. Memorial Service at St. Paul’s Cathedral to Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 17th 1945. The great bells of St. Paul’s ring out a tribute to Britain’s staunch friend.

Side eight – Clement Attlee Britain’s new Prime Minister, announces the Japanese surrender and the end of the war. General Election exchanges between Churchill and Attlee over the B.B.C. Trials of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg: Hermann Goering and Rudolf Hess enter pleas of ‘Not Guilty’. The Nuremberg judgement is pronounced. Eyewitness Sergeant-Major E. Austin reports Heinrich Himmler’s suicide. William "Lord Haw-Haw" Joyce propaganda puppet of Goebbels is sentenced to death in London.

Side nine – Britain’s Royal Family tours the Union of South Africa and the Rhodesias. King George VI speaks of his anxiety about Britain’s economic plight. Princess Elizabeth comes of age: Her solemn dedication to the service of the Empire. Jawaharlal Nehru on transfer of power to India. Swearing in of Lord Louis Mountbatten as first Governor-General of India. Archbishop of Canterbury conducts Royal Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Duke of Edinburgh at Westminster Abbey (" for as much as Philip and Elizabeth").

Side ten – Duke of Edinburgh addresses Mansion House audience on return from Paris. Dr. Chaim Weizmann speaks with pride of the new State of Israel. A remedy for sick and infected Europe is prescribed by U.S. Secretary of State, George Marshall at Harvard University. The "Air Lift" over the Soviet blockade of Berlin. Ernest Bevin at Washington, on the meaning of the North Atlantic Pact. (" At last, Democracy is no longer a series of isolated units") Olympic Hymn sung by massed choirs at Olympic Games, London 1948.

 A fantastic piece of history and very rare.

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