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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

19. Infamy and The World at War

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

History, Education, Society & Culture

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus episode there’s a chance to hear Franklin D Roosevelt’s speech after Pearl Harbour as performed by American actor Chaz Mena. Legendary broadcaster Ed Murrow and World at War narrator Laurence Olivier also get a run out. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to this bonus in Stormers of the Podcast.

0:03.6

This episode features some very famous voices from the past.

0:07.0

Here's James.

0:08.0

[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪

0:12.4

Well, we're back at the Chalkbilly Hirstie Festival on another gorgeous day

0:16.9

and I'm sitting opposite my great buddy, Chasmina,

0:20.1

who is an actor and producer and poet from the United States of America

0:25.9

all the way across the Haring conch at SMD.

0:29.0

And one of the fascinating conversations we had last autumn was about accents

0:35.0

and the American accent, how it developed and you're doing a bit of a skit here on that

0:38.9

at the Chalkbilly Hirstie Festival.

0:40.1

Luckily.

0:40.6

But Ed Morrow, I mean that voice, okay, so for those who don't know, Ed Morrow was the kind of

0:46.9

the voice of US broadcasting in World War II.

0:50.2

Yeah, it was very distinct kind of a very...

0:54.2

Very inverted and very authoritative.

0:56.6

She was out from Washington State.

0:59.4

Every syllable had to be accented and you would go with an upward glide

1:04.2

and do an intefaticable denouement with each final syllable of a word.

1:09.6

Exactly, that's just so brilliant.

1:11.5

And then there's Rizwa himself.

1:13.0

He sort of sounds mid-Atlantic.

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