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It also sent coded messages to the French resistance (see below). Breaking with the formal style of the French radio stations, some young announcers (Jacques Duchesne, Jean Oberlé, Pierre Bourdan, Maurice Schumann and Pierre Dac) changed the tone with personal messages, sketches, songs, jokes and comic advertising.
The Appeal of 18 June (French: L'Appel du 18 juin) was the first speech made by Charles de Gaulle after his arrival in London in 1940 following the Battle of France. Broadcast to France by the radio services of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), it is often considered to have marked the beginning of the French Resistance in World War II.
Les Français parlent aux Français was a daily radio broadcast in French transmitted on the BBC (Radio Londres).It was broadcast from the 14 July 1940: [1] [2] under the title Ici la France [3] [1] [2] then, from 6 September 1940 [3] [1] [2] to 31 August 1944, [1] under its better known name.
Bégué suggested that the BBC's Radio Londres send personal messages to the Resistance. At 9:15 pm every night, the BBC's French language service broadcast the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (which sounded like the Morse code for V as in victory), followed by cryptic messages, which were codes for the "personal messages" to the ...
He was a wireless operator. He proposed the use of BBC to transmit coded messages to resistance groups in Europe, a practice which became ubiquitous. He also arranged for the first of many thousands of airdrops of supplies and arms to resistance groups in France. He was captured by the French police in October 1941.
15 March – The National Council of the French Resistance approves the Resistance programme. 1 June – BBC transmits coded messages (including the first line of a poem by Paul Verlaine) to underground resistance fighters in France warning that the invasion of Europe is imminent. 2 June – The provisional French government is established. 5 June
Radio Londres, broadcast by the French section of the BBC [16] seemed better placed to make the voice of the French Resistance heard and to have a psychological influence on the French. Its broadcasts could be listened to both throughout the country and within the homes themselves, but in 1940 there were only five million receivers and the ...
June – Utility radio ("War-time Civilian Receiver"), produced by the radio industry under government direction, available for sale. [3]5 June – One day before D-Day, the BBC transmits coded messages (including the second line of a poem by Paul Verlaine and Hubert Gregg's "I'm Going to Get Lit Up When the Lights Go Up in London") [4] from Britain to underground resistance fighters in France ...