The Newsroom
The news as it was broadcast — not as it was written down afterwards.
Bulletins, flashes, roundups and specials recorded off air between 1938 and 1949, filed in the order they went out. Every recording is public domain and streams from the Internet Archive; dates and durations come from the archive's own metadata.
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Bulletins on the wire
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Other news recordings
The Wire
Year by year
Each year is a single running file. Open one and you hear the twelve months as a listener would have: the crisis, the correction, the flash that interrupts the dance band.
The Dateline
Pick a month and read the desk
Every dated news recording in the library, filed by the day it went out. Play a single bulletin, or start anywhere and let the month run on.
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Around the newsroom
Correspondents, propaganda and the record
Networks
WWII News and Related Sound Files
Raw war coverage as it went out: bulletins, communiqués and correspondents' spots, filed year by year from 1939 to the surrender.
914 recordings · 1932–1946
Networks
Wartime News Reports
Newsroom transfers from the late thirties and the war — the bulletin as it sounded before anyone knew how the story ended.
283 recordings · 1937–1945
All India Radio
Voices of Independent India
The broadcasts of independence: Nehru at midnight, and the announcement of Gandhi's death.
5 recordings · 1946–1952
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