Queen Elizabeth II and broadcasting

The History Hour

BBC

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

We look at some of the broadcasts delivered by Queen Elizabeth II including her first radio address to the children of the Commonwealth on 13 October 1940. Former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond looks back on the Queen's significant moments in front of a microphone.

Pope Paul VI's first visit to Africa when he travelled to Uganda in 1969, and was hosted by an Ismaili Muslim family and the start of the Iran-Iraq war in September 1980.

(Photo: Princess Elizabeth makes a broadcast from the gardens of Government House in Cape Town, South Africa, on her 21st birthday. Credit: BBC)

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the sound of crowd science.
0:02.4	We shoot a laser beam at this atom.
0:05.1	Is that a big canister of oxygen in the background?
0:07.8	Oh, there's a wasp in there.
0:09.3	Yeah.
0:10.3	That's possibly the most disgusting thing I heard this week.
0:13.4	But it's one of the nicest fun facts you're going to hear today.
0:16.4	So here I'm actually holding a donut.
0:18.4	What are you going to do with that?
0:19.2	Find out more at the end of this podcast.
0:22.2	Hello and welcome to the History Hour Podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson,
0:27.0	the past brought to life by those who were there.
0:30.0	This week, Christian protesters on the streets of Britain in the 1970s.
0:34.4	A coach load of moral crusaders.
0:37.6	People were coming from all directions from all ages but predominantly younger people. It was like, hey there's so many of us and we all love Jesus.
0:49.0	Plus religion's role in the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s and the first papal visit to Africa.
0:56.0	There was real excitement in Uganda,
0:58.0	and there was all kinds of preparations going on.
1:01.0	Hope Paul the 6th flew into Antebbe Airport on the 31st of July 1969.
1:08.0	That's all coming up later in the podcast.
1:10.1	But first it's just over two weeks since the death of Queen Elizabeth II, yet still the British
1:15.3	media and shop fronts across the land are full of images of the late monarch.
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