Transmission
12 November
1939
Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy
Edgar Bergen 1939-11-12 (132) Guest - Jean Arthur
Network
NBC
Slot
Sunday
Running time
59 min
Internet Archiveedgar-bergen-1937-12-12-32-guest-mae-westClean transfer · 96 kbps
London Calling: BBC News at War
Radio
London Calling: BBC News at War
BBC
BBC · 1939–1940
Broadcasts
75
Cadence
Weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1939
The run
- Network
- BBC
- Years active
- 1939–1940
- Surviving broadcasts
- 75
- Genre
- news
BBC news bulletins and announcements recorded off air in 1939 and 1940, including the Overseas Service bulletin of 9 April 1940. Held by the Internet Archive's wartime audio collections.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 14 of 37Listenable · 8 of 37Rough but complete · 15 of 37
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: 1939RadioNews
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
7 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air, with 1 year where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
JFMAMJJASOND
1939
1940
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1939, in original transmission order.
- 1. BBC Viscount Halifax Our War Aims Now and After · 1 Jan 1939
- 2. NBC Bob Hope Betty Grable · 11 Apr 1939
- 3. CBS London Edward R. Murrow · 28 Aug 1939
- 01
BBC Viscount Halifax Our War Aims Now and After
1 Jan 1939 · 17 min
- 02
NBC Bob Hope Betty Grable
11 Apr 1939 · 27 min
- 03
CBS London Edward R. Murrow
28 Aug 1939 · 4 min
- 04
Evacuation of London
1 Sep 1939 · 1 min
BBC bulletin, 1 September 1939. Preserved in the Internet Archive's 1939 radio news collection.
- 05
CBS Adolf Hitler Announces War With Poland
1 Sep 1939 · 3 min
- 06
King George VI Addresses The Nation Excerpts 2
3 Sep 1939 · 1 min
BBC bulletin, 3 September 1939. Preserved in the Internet Archive's 1939 radio news collection.
- 07
BBC Britain Declares War On Germany
3 Sep 1939 · 12 min
- 08
CBS William L. Shirer In Berlin
7 Sep 1939 · 3 min
Same night on the air
12 Nov 1939
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 12 Nov 1939.
Transmission
12 November
1939
A SHERLOCK HOLMES CHRISTMAS CAROL, Radio Shows with Basil Rathbone & Orson Welles
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (39-11-12) By Agatha Christie
Network
Syndicated
Slot
Sunday
Running time
55 min
Broadcast on Syndicated.
Internet ArchiveSherlockHolmesChristmasCondition unmeasured
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