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A special compilation from Eyewitness, a unique record of Britain in the 20th hundred years, written by Joanna Bourke and narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith. Eyewitness provides a rare and interesting opportunity to hear the happenings of the hundred years defined by those who found them happen. An abundance of BBC archive recordings is interwoven with an illuminating commentary by the historian Joanna Burke. Publicized in 10 amounts, Eyewitness examines the life span of the British isles people in each 10 years of the hundred years.This special BBC Record Mag compilation attracts mainly upon the Eyewitness amounts for the 1930s and 1940s, as the BBC encountered the issues of the Second World War. Within the first global conflict of age broadcasting, the BBC not only reported the warfare, but dished up as a essential means of conveying official announcements and lifting morale.These components, together with following reminiscences, cover such episodes as the Munich Contract and the drift to warfare; Dunkirk, the Fight of Britain, the Blitz, D-Day, and success both in European countries and in the Far East. But they also reveal life on the home entry, as the BBC became the speech of a region in some of the darkest times of the hundred years. Thought-provoking and moving, these are the voices of days gone by, speaking to today's.
