BBC: The Voice of Britain

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.

Directed by Stuart Legg

Top cast

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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H. G. Wells

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Stuart Hibberd

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Rev 'Dick' Sheppard

Val Gielgud

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John Sharman

Humphrey Jennings

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Adrian Boult

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Queen Consort of George V Mary

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Ramsay MacDonald

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John Reith

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J. B. Priestley

George Bernard Shaw

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