CD41 is proud to present a new archive audio CD, the Home Front, a unique collection of restored British actuality and broadcast recordings from the Second World War. An evocative double-disc set, the Home Front features 150 minutes of rare material recorded and broadcast between 1939 and 1945. From Neville Chamberlain's historic announcement of 'war with Germany' at 11.15 am on Sunday 3 September 1939, the CDs cover evacuation, anti-invasion measures, the Home Guard, the Blitz, food rationing, salvage, war work, agriculture, fuel saving, mass observation, rumours, the V-1 and V-2 menace, and finally VE Day on 8 May 1945.
7 Winston Churchill: We Shall Fight on the Beaches
8 If the Invader Comes
9 Salvage of Household Materials
10 Dover: Hellfire Corner
11 Volunteer Arp Warden
12 Battle of Britain: Spitfire Pilot
13 News: The Battle of Britain 15.9.1940
14 Farmers Under Fire
15 The Blitz: Black Saturday
16 London Wedding Blitzed
17 Max Miller: My First Arp Experience
18 Manchester Air Raid Shelter
19 Ed Murrow: Somerset in Wartime
20 Work of the WVS : Billeting
21 Mass-Observation 1941
- Disc 2 -
1 Workers' Playtime 1941
2 Women at the Benches
3 News: Raids on Britain 10.1.1941
4 5 to 1 on the Land
5 News: Japan Enters the War 7.12.1941
6 The Kitchen Front: Gert & Daisy
7 London Cabbie in the Blitz
8 Baedeker Raid on Exeter 1942
9 Canteen Concert in Scotland
10 Evacuees: Christmas Messages 1942
11 News: Italy Surrenders 8.9.1943
12 The Brains Trust: Happiness
13 Tommy Handley: Put It Out
14 News: D-Day Landings 6.6.1944
15 V-1 Flying Bomb Actuality
16 V-1 Attacks: Aa Command
17 Raf Fighter Flips V-1
18 World & Home News 30.8.1944
19 V-2 Attacks on London
20 Newsflash: Hitler Is Dead 1.5.1945
21 German Surrender 7.5.1945
22 Ve Day: Winston Churchill
23 Ve Day Weather Forecast
24 A Glasgow Mother
CD41 is proud to present a new archive audio CD, the Home Front, a unique collection of restored British actuality and broadcast recordings from the Second World War. An evocative double-disc set, the Home Front features 150 minutes of rare material recorded and broadcast between 1939 and 1945. From Neville Chamberlain's historic announcement of 'war with Germany' at 11.15 am on Sunday 3 September 1939, the CDs cover evacuation, anti-invasion measures, the Home Guard, the Blitz, food rationing, salvage, war work, agriculture, fuel saving, mass observation, rumours, the V-1 and V-2 menace, and finally VE Day on 8 May 1945.
