- Title Pages
- Illustration
- Dedication
- On a Wireless Set
- List of Illustrations
- Preface (1970)
- 1. Perspectives
- II Sitzkrieg
- 1. Behind the Scenes
- 2. ‘Twelve Weeks of War’
- 3. An Alternative Programme
- 4. A Second Alternative Programme
- 5. Answering Back
- III Attack and Defence
- 1. Blitzkrieg
- 2. Attack by Radio
- 3. Britain and France
- 4. Counter-attack
- 5. The Battle of Britain
- IV World War
- 1. ‘Sounds of War’
- 2. Controllers and Controlled
- 3. ‘Triple Expansion’
- 4. V for Victory
- 5. Russia and the United States
- V Total Effort
- 1. Propaganda and Intelligence
- 2. The World Map of Radio
- 3. Reorganization
- 4. The Pattern of Programmes
- 5. Politics, Religion, and Society
- VI Victory and Reconstruction
- 1. Prelude
- 2. D-Day and After
- 3. A Year of Climax
- 4. Reconstruction
- Bibliographical Note
- Appendix A Establishment and Staff Numbers 1939–1945
- Appendix B Numbers of Wireless Licences, and Sales of the Radio Times and The Listener
- Appendix C Number of Radio Sets in Europe, 1938/1946
- Index
D-Day and After
D-Day and After
- Chapter:
- 2. D-Day and After
- Source:
- The War of Words
- Author(s):
Asa Briggs
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter focuses on British Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC) broadcasting during and after D-Day. It discusses the BBC's creation of War Reports, which was first introduced by John Snagge. This programme was essentially personal and informal, and was listened to by an audience of ten to fifteen million in Great Britain and thousands overseas. This chapter also explores the war of words between German and BBC broadcasters and highlights the Ministry of Information of announcement of the official start of VE Day on May 8, 1945.
Keywords: D-Day, War Reports, John Snagge, Ministry of Information, VE Day
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- Title Pages
- Illustration
- Dedication
- On a Wireless Set
- List of Illustrations
- Preface (1970)
- 1. Perspectives
- II Sitzkrieg
- 1. Behind the Scenes
- 2. ‘Twelve Weeks of War’
- 3. An Alternative Programme
- 4. A Second Alternative Programme
- 5. Answering Back
- III Attack and Defence
- 1. Blitzkrieg
- 2. Attack by Radio
- 3. Britain and France
- 4. Counter-attack
- 5. The Battle of Britain
- IV World War
- 1. ‘Sounds of War’
- 2. Controllers and Controlled
- 3. ‘Triple Expansion’
- 4. V for Victory
- 5. Russia and the United States
- V Total Effort
- 1. Propaganda and Intelligence
- 2. The World Map of Radio
- 3. Reorganization
- 4. The Pattern of Programmes
- 5. Politics, Religion, and Society
- VI Victory and Reconstruction
- 1. Prelude
- 2. D-Day and After
- 3. A Year of Climax
- 4. Reconstruction
- Bibliographical Note
- Appendix A Establishment and Staff Numbers 1939–1945
- Appendix B Numbers of Wireless Licences, and Sales of the Radio Times and The Listener
- Appendix C Number of Radio Sets in Europe, 1938/1946
- Index
