BBC: The Voice of Britain (1935)

0.0/10 • 59 min • Documentary

Overview

A behind-the-scenes GPO Film Unit documentary (directed by Stuart Legg) that races from studio rehearsals and newsrooms to control rooms and transmitters, weaving speeches, music, and outside broadcasts—featuring voices like H. G. Wells and Ramsay MacDonald—into a kinetic portrait of how the BBC’s national “voice” is made.

Cast

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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H. G. Wells

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Val Gielgud

Humphrey Jennings

George Bernard Shaw

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