Sunday, September 3, 1939, is a day most people in this country remember: whether it was Mr. Neville Chamberlain's momentous announcement that Britain was at war with Germany or whether it was some personal involvement or recollection.
This programme traces the twenty-four hours from midnight on the Saturday, which began with a thunderstorm, to midnight on the Sunday when Britain was at war.
The story is told largely through the recollections of a widely assorted selection of people who were around at the time: evacuees with their little bundles and their name-tags, reservists in their newly un-mothballed uniforms, diplomats involved in the last hopeless flurries of activity, a broadcaster whose job it was to help break the news to a confused public, a policeman whose job was to try to control that confusion.

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