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BBC: The Voice of Britain (1935)
Directed by Stuart Legg
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.
Length 59 minutes
Actors
Gilbert Keith Chesterton | H.G. Wells | 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 | George Bernard Shaw