tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169740113013066976.post9112888536655225202..comments2024-02-10T12:12:06.028+00:00Comments on The Real Blog: The BBC, Twitter and the first news of D-Day David Boylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11410159311875228620noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169740113013066976.post-18457842919457762252014-06-06T11:18:24.237+01:002014-06-06T11:18:24.237+01:00My Mum was one of those risking their lives listen...My Mum was one of those risking their lives listening to these broadcasts. One of her jobs in the Lithuanian anti-Nazi resistance was to transcribe he news and pass it on for the underground press. And thereby hangs a tale of a Gestapo raid on her parents house, teenagers dancing the Lambeth Walk and two furious senior Wehrmacht officers. If you ever write that book abut these wartime broadcasts David I'll let you know the flavoursome story of a bit of the life at the other end of Newsome's microphones....Edishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10852931736127760026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169740113013066976.post-35971141613213857872014-06-05T22:20:56.434+01:002014-06-05T22:20:56.434+01:00It is a different world from the Sefton Delmer ope...It is a different world from the Sefton Delmer operations, though he also broadcast the news in German for the BBC. There hasn't been much written about this, for the reasons I say, and it may have to wait for me to write the book - I've been waiting for 20 years to do so! But if you were interested in the meantime, Asa Briggs' war volume of the History of Broadcasting (Vol 5, I think) includes very interesting material.David Boylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11410159311875228620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169740113013066976.post-37715202668863250492014-06-05T11:17:31.715+01:002014-06-05T11:17:31.715+01:00Wow. Thanks David. This was all news to me and I s...Wow. Thanks David. This was all news to me and I suspect to many others. Do you have references (books etc) we could follow up? <br /><br />A different world from the British 'black' stations run by Sefton Delmar - the fictional Soldatsender Calais and its supposedly patriotically subversive broadcaster 'der Chef'. Edishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10852931736127760026noreply@blogger.com