i hope we wont hear something like this ever again

It's of such a high quality that it's hard to believe it was almost 80 years ago.

Such a chilling broadcast that none of us will ever appreciate.

“This country, is at war, with Germany.” I got actual chills.

Absolutely chilling. My Mum said her mother was in tears listening to this. She just kept screaming Not again Not again.....

The greatest single broadcast in the history of communications. People forget that it was Neville Chamberlain who drew that line and declared war on the Nazis who had effectively declared war on the world. My father who was 24 at the time went down that day to join the British Army. They weren't ready yet so he had to come back the next day. He hadn't told his mother until he had joined to spare her feelings. He went on to join the 32nd Field Regiment Royal Artillery. He was sent to Belgium and ended up being rescued late in the Dunkirk evacuation. He had to destroy his 25 pounder and kept a breach pin (which I still have) and barometer from a wrecked Dunkirk café. He was shipped to India (HMS Hood was the escort) and then went on to the middle-east and North Africa. He navigated in operations behind German lines and was captured just before the Second Battle of El Alamein (late October 1942). He ended up in a POW camp in central Italy when they quit the war. The Italian guards just walked out but soon the Germans showed up and the prisoners were taken to Werdau Germany. He and a mate escaped but were eventually recaptured and sent to Zwickau Germany. His camp was captured by the Americans and he was sent back to England. My father was eligible for benefits because his health had suffered but refused as he felt the country couldn't afford it. He married my mother and emigrated to the Canadian prairies and raised a family of six. He died of complications due to kidney failure in 1976.

What a dignified speech. He knew there was war with the Nazis. He bought us time to protect us. God bless him and may he be understood better in history

My Late Grandad was an evacuee when WW2 Started, he was from South London at the age of 9 years old at the time and was evacuated either southwest to Devon or up north to the Yorkshire Dales, 10 years later he did National Service in his late teens until he met my grandmother many years later… He was a brave boy and a very strong willed man who lived through it all. From Evacuee to National Service Soldier to Professor/ Doctor in Toxicology/ medical Science. I couldn’t be more grateful for what a life he has lead… Love You Grandad 1930 - 2023

To say that this recording is 80 years old it chills me to bone and makes me feel has if I were there at the time.

I can't imagine what people must have felt when they heard this speech. And I hope one like it isn't heard again in my lifetime. Or ever.

Anyone else get chills listening to this?

80 years ago TODAY.

7:32 "not to crowd together under any circumstances" Hitting a little close to home in the time of the 2020 pandemic.

Can’t imagine how the people listening to this broadcast must have felt hearing that the country is now at war.

Thank you for uploading these videos.

My grandfather wanted to go and fight but he worked as a coach driver, I believe he helped evacuate the city of Leeds in the West Riding (Now West Yorkshire).

This is definitely the most important broadcast in British history, imagine hearing this live. I hope we never hear any world war speech like this again, although with what's happening in Ukraine I fear we're dangerously close.

Listening to this as if I am experiencing that very moment. I feel a mixture of extreme anxiety, anger and sadness.

Chilling It’s a pity our leaders today don’t have the same backbone

Thank you for uploading this, my friend, the citizens of Great Britain need too hear this, and they need this footage of the legendary speech by SIR Winston.

Prime Minister Chamberlain sounds absolutely heart broken in this emergency broadcast. He died of a cancer a year into the war. Wherever Chamberlain is now : he would be proud. Our soldiers (fallen and surviving) did us proud - Britain won the war. I am so sorry u did not live to see it. But in a way I am glad that u did not witness holocaust and numerous concentration camps they our troops and allies stumbled across because they will alwaya haunt humanity. However not only did Britain win the war - but 80 years on.. Germany and Britain are an alliance. 2 countries twice divided by war but now members of Nato.. Never to fight again. May you rest in peace Chamberlain. And also everyone who lost their lives in ww2

I enjoyed the old radio news from World War II I wish you got more of them I wish you had more of them I really enjoyed them very much

History is our best witness.

The BBC National and Regional programmes were merged on September 1st 1939 into the one national radio station - BBC Home Service. The closures of theatres and cinemas really annoyed the public, and the new BBC Home Service was initially dreadful. Lacking entertainment, by October 1939 all theatres and cinemas were reopened.

The emotionless sound of his voice is just so frightening and gives you the chills listening to this.

I can not even imagine how people must have felt listening to that. It genuinely scares me to try to.

My Jewish dad then 6 heard that from his home in NY and remembered it

The sound quality of Prime Minster Chamberlain's speech is superior to recordings made by the American radio networks (CBS, Mutual, and NBC; ABC hadn't been formed yet) since there was no shortwave relay which affected the audio quality.

To hear that and to know the whole world is that getting crazy. There were some people (mainly scientists and teachers) in Catalonia which got exiled from there to the UK just after Spanish civil war ended. And months later... that. By the way, by that time the BBC radio had a Catalan language program. Do you know if I can find recordings anywhere? It lasted till 1946.

The bells at 5:30 are chilling to me.

love hereing theas early bbc broadcasts !!!

it took till the fall of france to realize that the war was existential.... i dont think many anticipated that... couldnt imagine what that was like.... now 80 years ago.... the world has changed so much.

amazing sound quality

It is impossible to overestimate the new world ushered in by these few words by the Prime Minister. It took such a titanic effort to resist and the defeat tyranny. I hope we never have to defeat the magnitude of this kind of evil again, although at a smaller scale Ukraine is fighting on our behalf for the same principles. I'm in my early 70s, and my parents' lives were shaped by these events. Dad was one of millions of Americans who joined the fight after the British and Commonwealth had carried the burden for more than two years. He crewed on a B-17 flying from Kimbolton in the fens to targets in Germany. Never spoke about it. I am so grateful for that generation. We've got to keep power from being concentrated in the hands of any single human being. Thank you for these recordings.

This is scary to hear even in nowdays.😬☮️

A highly fascinating piece of history. Thanks a lot.

Something went with a bang at 2.36...How prophetic.

My mum was a 1 year old and my grandma was 28 they have both passed now, I wonder if my grandma listened to this broadcast with my mum, she must have been worried. I wish I had asked my grandma more about those war years she only really once talked about it she said it was a rotten time hardly any food and rationing, she lived through both wars she was born in 1910

Genuinely haunting

I find that this speech clearly makes a lot of sense and thanks to these brave nations to support Poland that time and fought pretty well against facism extremism nazist.

Wonder if anyone realised then that bombs would rain down for the next 4 years, and if he or she would still alive in 5 years time

It feels a little like deja vu, after hearin boris Johnson talking about Russia’s attack on the Ukraine there’s an eerie sense of history repeating itself 😕 humans never learn!

80 years ago today, damn

Today is 24 February 2022. Those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it.

Hope to never here this broadcast in our time

Was this recorded in the BBC's studio or was it recorded via radio?

I just hope that we don't hear this again soon.

The start of a conflict that will forever live in history

Battlefield v got it right

I was crying just thinking about how many were lost for the freedom of us

It's been 80 years...

Hindsight being 20/20 it is chilling to hear some say I can't think of anything I could have done differently

10 years later my grandfather was born time flies so quick

sounds familiar now

Bth by hearing prime minister chamberlain failed attempt to seeking peace is like the biggest low blow a man can take all that time wasted for nothing , all those people that they tell you they listen to you when in real life they have other things in there head its sad that we face situations like this till this day but i guess its what life is

Hope it doesn't end like this again...

this is .. so strange. "stay indoors, don't gather in crowds, wear your masks"

cant wait for liz's speech

The crazy thing is that there's people who want to re-establish the conditions that led to this. People want to bring back Nazism and even the Third Reich. They're even running around doing the Nazi salute. I always wonder what those who fought, survived and lost during WWII think about their work being undone.

This is what we watched at school to know about WW2

For anyone who plays BF5 I bet this is familiar

As he spoke, Chamberlain understood his time as PM would be ending soon. Chamberlain had tried diplomacy against Hitler. He considered war a failure, but his misreading of Hitler doomed him. Canada and most of the Commonwealth would join quickly; America would take 27 months; something we need consider in the light of current events.

This is absolutely fucking crazy that this was on the BBC and years later the BBC would be playing on the radios of so many who were invading Iraq in 03 as they were in the midst of the invasion

You don’t really understand the impact of this on the people, most of us now have never and probably will never be in the situation where we here a broadcast like this, it’s only when you listen to this that you begin to realise how people were feeling at that time and just how real it actually was!

Maybe Germany didn't receive the note... Churchill should have sent another one

Boris’s gonna say the same thing tomorrow at 11am hands down

This is being used in schools so this is amazing (How they did it not that the war is good)

Imagine if they had itv and piers Morgan

This sounds very simular to the acts of russia and putin against ukrain in a few ways

Nice accent upper crust proper Kings English lovely to hear shame about the sad contents of it!

:....if they were hit by a bomb large numbers would be killed or injured....." Can't image the feeling of those poor citizens hearing this live on their radios.

Thank you for uploading. Scary to hear the logic Hitler had, its just like Pootin.

Hooters, hand rattle and handbells--all that sounds so innocent in light of what we know came about over the following years.

This was in Battlefield 5

Can anyone explain this BBC logo please

It must of been awful at that time to hear those dreaded words announced on the tv

Shouldn't an announcement of this magnitude be given by the King directly rather than the Prime Minister? He is after all the Commander-in-Chief

Who else here from BFV Sorry for posting this 2 years after games was realeased

I don't consider Neville Chamberlain a cowardly or weak man. He wanted peace because he knew a modern war with Germany would be worse than the previous war. We need to remember the losses the U.K. suffered in First World War. The United Kingdom lost 900,000 killed in the First World War. We have to remember the terrible losses of World War One in shaping British policy in 1939. The Great Depression severely hurt the British economy too. The British did have a decent Air Force and a big Navy. The British lacked the economic resources to be prepared for a modern ground war against Germany in 1939. In reality, if the American people had been really critically thinking and honest about our place in the world, we should have declared war on Germany and the rest of the Axis in September, 1939. The British were fighting our fight. Neville Chamberlain was correct in saying Hitler was wicked and evil with his unprovoked attack on Poland. Hitler's aggression wouldn't be stopped by anything but brute force. Probably in the first years of the war, we could have fought a naval and air war with minimal losses but maximum economic benefit for the British. An early declaration of war by America couldn't have prevented the Fall of France, Dunkirk or the Blitz but Americans fighting beside the British and Commonwealth would have been the right thing to do. We can look at films of Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Treblinka and Dachau and realize how naive, ignorant and parochial American isolationists were in 1939 about Axis military aggression. We can listen to a Donald Trump rally today and see many of Americans haven't improved very much either from their isolationist grandparents either. Global warming is almost as much of a challenge today as Axis aggression was 80 years ago. The nature of the problems change but the need for allies to work closely together never does to do the right thing together to solve common problems.

Underappreciated man: -Berchtesgaden -Godesburg -Munich

Sad.

Brilliant as Chamberlain toiled so hard to preserve peace in Europe.

We now know Hitler was territorial Genghis Khan all over again. As was Stalin. Maniacs on Earth. The cost/horror was incredible but we (including my family's) DID get rid of the lousy bastards.

How close to current events is this???

I used the same speech to break up with my girlfriend

History was unkind to Mr chamberlain

Anyone listening to this in 2022? 💀

#Midnight.

Chamberlain was a man of peace, misunderstood by history.

6:30 sounds like he liet a massive fart

Hmmm. ...

Poland would be lost without the UK & British Isles, US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Russia. Shame a lot of us Poles did not and still do not honour him and instead bring shame insulting our allies.

Mr Chamberlain was undderatted

2:54

No hooters for you.

Yeahhh.

There was a preparatory announcement: "The following official communique has been issued by 10 Downing Street: On September the first, His Majesty's Ambassador in Berlin was instructed to inform the German government that unless they were prepared to give his Majesty's government in the United Kingdom satisfactory assurances that the German government had suspended all aggressive action against Poland, and were prepared promptly to withdraw their forces from Polish territory, His Majesty's government in the United Kingdom would, without hesitation, fulfill their obligations to Poland. At 9 AM this morning, His Majesty's Ambassador in Berlin informed the German government that unless, not later than 11 AM, British Summer Time, today, September the third, satisfactory assurances to the above effect had been given by the German government and had reached His Majesty's government in London, a state of war would exist between the two countries as from that hour. His Majesty's government are now awaiting the receipt of any replay that may be made by the German government. The Prime Minister will broadcast to the nation at 11:15. That is the end of the announcement."

Battlefield V intro

Makes you wonder, what if Germany won? What world would be now living in

The restrictions that were put into place in ww2 are the same as these ones in 2020 and i would be far more concerned about war than an invisible cold