My last post on this subject failed miserably but I hope this one might get a response!
I subscribe to the ‘Britain at War’ magazine and in recent months they have been running a feature highlighting BBC radio broadcasts made anonimously over the course of the War by different RAF airmen describing an individual incident that they were involved in. This month it was the torpedoing of the German Pocket Battleship, the Lutzov. The article opened by saying that there were over 200 such recordings made by the BBC.
I know that a particular pilot from the Squadron I am interested in, 166 based at Kirmington, made a broadcast with the BBC in late November or early December 1943 about his crews experiences on a Berlin raid. It hit the headlines in the papers, ‘7 sergeants over Berlin’ as they bombed late and alone, got plastered by the defences and came home on 2 engines to belly land at Bradwell Bay.
Can anyone tell me how I can access the list of these recordings or even get to listen to them. Years ago I wrote to the BBc but at that time they said that just a few had survived which doesn’t correspond with the ‘Britain at War’ article information.
Cheers, K
By: Arabella-Cox - 3rd February 2014 at 17:36
K,
You’ll need to contact the BBC Sound Archive with a title and preferably date of original transmission. However don’t get you’re hopes up as often they have the index card but the recording itself is lost or was never preserved.
I had a similar situation where I found reference to an BBC transmission in an ORB and the BBC found the record but no tape.
By: MJW - 3rd February 2014 at 15:56
Hello K,
Unfortunately I cannot help with your request.
However, I would like to add the following to the thread: I believe there must be examples of these recordings in private hands. In fact I have an example made by my wife’s uncle and his pilot relating their flight (I believe) against a Gestapo headquarters. I would like to get it transferred onto DVD so that I can listen to it, but am unaware of how this can be done. It mentions that it must be played with a ‘trailing needle’? The recording was not made by the BBC, or at least the disk does not have their details. Any ideas anyone?
Kind regards, Malcolm.
Kind regards, Malcolm.
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February 3, 2014 at 3:36 pm