Home Front / Various: Home Front
Home Front / Various: Home Front
Format: CD
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Artist: Home Front / Various
Label: CD41 (Uk)
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5024545490923
Genre: Spoken, Nostalgia
CD41 is proud to present a new archive audio CD, the Home Front, a unique collection of restored British actuality and broadcast recordings from the Second World War. An evocative double-disc set, the Home Front features 150 minutes of rare material recorded and broadcast between 1939 and 1945. From Neville Chamberlain's historic announcement of 'war with Germany' at 11.15 am on Sunday 3 September 1939, the CDs cover evacuation, anti-invasion measures, the Home Guard, the Blitz, food rationing, salvage, war work, agriculture, fuel saving, mass observation, rumours, the V-1 and V-2 menace, and finally VE Day on 8 May 1945.
Tracks:
1.1 News Bulletin 3.9.1939
1.2 Neville Chamberlain: War with Germany
1.3 Address By King George VI
1.4 Evacuees Leave London 1940
1.5 Home Guard Appeal
1.6 Lord Haw Haw: Blitzkrieg
1.7 Winston Churchill: We Shall Fight on the Beaches
1.8 If the Invader Comes
1.9 Salvage of Household Materials
1.10 Dover: Hellfire Corner
1.11 Volunteer Arp Warden
1.12 Battle of Britain: Spitfire Pilot
1.13 News: The Battle of Britain 15.9.1940
1.14 Farmers Under Fire
1.15 The Blitz: Black Saturday
1.16 London Wedding Blitzed
1.17 Max Miller: My First Arp Experience
1.18 Manchester Air Raid Shelter
1.19 Ed Murrow: Somerset in Wartime
1.20 Work of the WVS : Billeting
1.21 Mass-Observation 1941
2.1 Workers' Playtime 1941
2.2 Women at the Benches
2.3 News: Raids on Britain 10.1.1941
2.4 5 to 1 on the Land
2.5 News: Japan Enters the War 7.12.1941
2.6 The Kitchen Front: Gert ; Daisy
2.7 London Cabbie in the Blitz
2.8 Baedeker Raid on Exeter 1942
2.9 Canteen Concert in Scotland
2.10 Evacuees: Christmas Messages 1942
2.11 News: Italy Surrenders 8.9.1943
2.12 The Brains Trust: Happiness
2.13 Tommy Handley: Put It Out
2.14 News: D-Day Landings 6.6.1944
2.15 V-1 Flying Bomb Actuality
2.16 V-1 Attacks: Aa Command
2.17 Raf Fighter Flips V-1
2.18 World ; Home News 30.8.1944
2.19 V-2 Attacks on London
2.20 Newsflash: Hitler Is Dead 1.5.1945
2.21 German Surrender 7.5.1945
2.22 Ve Day: Winston Churchill
2.23 Ve Day Weather Forecast
2.24 A Glasgow Mother
Audio Sample:
All soundclips are provided by Tidal and are for illustrative purposes only. For some releases, the tracks listed may not accurately represent the tracks on the physical release.
