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Free Thinking: WWII radio propaganda and French relations

WWII radio propaganda and French relations

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From a gratitude train to the sinister broadcasts to US soldiers. Matthew Sweet presents.

New research from Ludivine Broch, Daniel Lee, Hannah Elias and Cathy Mahoney into religion and propaganda on the radio, plus French soldiers in Yorkshire and a post WWII gratitude train.

Matthew Sweet looks at new research from Ludivine Broch, Daniel Lee, Hannah Elias and Cathy Mahoney into religion and propaganda on the radio, plus French soldiers in Yorkshire and 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 II.
Cathy Mahoney is Derby Fellow in Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool who has written on women's experiences in World War II 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 Craig Smith.

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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