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BBC: The Voice of Britain
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 as Self
- H. G. Wells as Self
- Stuart Hibberd
- Rev 'Dick' Sheppard
- Val Gielgud
- John Sharman
- Humphrey Jennings
- Adrian Boult
- Queen Consort of George V Mary
- Ramsay MacDonald
- John Reith
- J. B. Priestley
Details
- Director
- Stuart Legg
- Released
- July 28, 1935
- Runtime
- 59m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Studio
- GPO Film Unit
- Status
- Released
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