WW II radio propaganda & French relations
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Matthew Sweet looks at new research from Ludivine Broch, Daniel Lee, Hannah Elias and Cathy Mahoney into religion & propaganda on the radio + French soldiers in Yorkshire & a post WWII gratitude train sent by France and Italy to the USA.
Daniel Lee is a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker who teaches at Queen Mary, London. His books include Pétain's Jewish Children: French Jewish Youth and the Vichy Regime, 1940–42 and The SS Officer’s Armchair due to be published in September 2020. Ludivine Broch is a historian at the University of Westminster who researches Vichy France, resistance and the commemoration of World War Two. Cathy Mahoney is Derby Fellow in Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool who has written on women's experiences in World War Two and depictions in the media. Hannah Elias is Lecturer in Black British History at Goldsmiths, University of London where she works on Modern Britain, religion, propaganda, and the transatlantic history of race and social protest in the 20th century.
Producer: Robyn Read Technical Production by Bob Nettles.
Daniel Lee has written a Radio 3 Essay about Vichy France Listen here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p038dvyt
You can find a collection of episodes of Free Thinking exploring different aspects of War & Conflict on the programme website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06kgbyb7 and Matthew's discussion with guests including Hadley Freeman on her family's WWII experiences in our discussion on Jewish Identity in 2020 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fwqd
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| 0:33.3 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:37.0 | Synchronise watches, everyone. |
| 0:38.6 | You're about to participate in a daring raid on the myths and the memories of the Second World War. |
| 0:44.4 | It's cunningly disguised as an edition of the Arts and Ideas podcast presented by me, Matthew Sweet. |
| 0:51.3 | Whatever will the boffins think of next? |
| 0:53.6 | Find out after this BBC sounds propaganda. |
| 0:57.4 | Hello, I'm Verity Sharp and with us all in lockdown, time can hang heavy and things can get |
| 1:04.9 | a little bit claustrophobic. So I'm here just to encourage you to go to the one place where you can fly free, and that's your imagination. |
| 1:14.8 | And with Radio 3's Slow Radio Podcast, there is no limit to where we can go with that. |
| 1:20.9 | You can go there to listen to the sounds of birds. |
| 1:23.9 | You can visit the mountains, or you can remember our once bustling cities. |
| 1:29.3 | You can hear tales of seals and selky folk |
| 1:32.4 | or listen to rain on a hot tin roof |
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| 1:40.6 | Just step back and immerse yourself |
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| 1:47.0 | On Vee night, they climbed the lampposts on Piccadilly and made bonfires of the deck chairs in Hyde Park. |
| 1:55.0 | In the morning, the trees of Barclay Square were festooned with condoms. |
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