'These are the voices and sounds of history'

1934-1939
H. G. Wells (Prophet of the atomic age), Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin, Benito Mussolini, King George V, Amelia Earhart, The Hindenburg disaster, The Abdication of King Edward VIII, Munich, Adolf Hitler, The Declaration of War, Neville Chamberlain

The War Years
Dunkirk, J.B. Priestley, The exiled rulers of Europe, Winston Churchill, The Blitz
America enters the war, Franklin D. Roosevelt, General Douglas MacArthur, Alamein, General Montgomery, D-Day, General Eisenhower, Arnhem, The liberation of the concentration camps, VE-Day, The Death of President Roosevelt, The Japanese Surrender, Clement Attlee

1945-1949
The General Election, The Nuremberg Trials, The Royal Tour of South Africa, King George VI, Princess Elizabeth, Lord Louis Mountbatten, The Royal Wedding, The Duke of Edinburgh, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, George Marshall, The Atlantic Pact, President Truman, Ernest Bevin, The Olympic Games

Narration by John Snagge

(Previously broadcast in the London Home Service on December 22, 1949)
("The Sounds of Time" is broadcast by arrangement with Oriole Records, Ltd.)

The Voices and Sounds of History
The broadcast at 8.0 presents the story of the years from 1934 to 1949 through the medium of notable recordings selected from the archives of the BBC's Recorded Programmes Library