The wave war
Audio 48:30
Pierre Bourdan, pseudonym of Pierre Maillaud, one of the voices of the program "The French speak to the French" at the BBC from 1940 to 1944. © Tallandier / Bridgeman Images
By: Valerie Nivelon
On BBC London, the airwave war is declared!
Winston Churchill assures his unfailing support for Free France against the Germans and against the French State of Marshal Pétain.
A speech delivered on October 21, 1940, in response to General de Gaulle's appeal of June 22, 1940, in which we hear the determination of the British Prime Minister to continue the war in order to bring about, he said, "
the triumph of the cause who made us draw the sword together
.”
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A radio war to the sounds of the Ina archives from the exhibition imagined by the Museum of the Order of the Liberation in October 2021.
With
Lionel Dardenne
, curator of
the exhibition "La guerre des ondes" to discover here
And
Aurélie Luneau,
author of
Radio London: the voices of freedom,
published by Perrin.
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