Niels: What you are listening to is likely a postwar recording of the speech which Churchill made for HMV/Decca, which was edited and truncated in later versions. However, the June 18th speech was rebroadcast in full by Churchill that evening on the BBC.
The Levenger book recommended by Jon Lellenberg includes a CD containing the full broadcast. But many Churchill Speech CDs, and LPs before them, contained only excerpts. Some of these were taken from the BBC broadcasts, but most were recorded by Churchill years later. As Paul Courtenay says, no recordings were made in the House of Commons at that time, leaving us with two inferior possibilities-- Churchill's broadcast speeches over the BBC, or in some cases postwar recordings--both of which, said those who heard them in the Commons, lack the fire of the originals. See Sir Robert Rhodes James, "Leading Churchill Myths: 'An Actor Read His Speeches over the Wireless,'" FINEST HOUR 92, on our website at: http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/myths/myths/an-actor-read-his-speeches Sir Robert noted: 'Problems then arise from the records, Harold Nicolson lamenting that it was necessary to bully Churchill into broadcasting, and, referring to a June 18th broadcast, "he just sulked and read his House of Commons speech over again." Nicolson was Information Minister at the time. Churchill never liked broadcasting, but there is no evidence whatever that he was replaced by anyone, and speech researchers have confirmed this.' -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To post to this group, send email to churchillc...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to churchillchat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat?hl=en.
