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The Day War Broke Out

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

'... I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that, consequently, this country is at war with Germany.'
At 11.15am on Sunday 3 September 1939
Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain announced Britain's entry into the Second World War.Fifty years on, to the very hour, the speech is rebroadcast in full, introduced by war correspondent and former Managing Director of BBC Radio Frank Gillard and followed by an anthology of first-hand accounts recalling the day that changed the world.
Producer PETER GRIFFITHS
0 See Supplement, page 19

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Neville Chamberlain
Producer:
Peter Griffiths
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