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CD41 is proud to present a new archive audio CD, the Home Front, a unique collection of restored British actuality and broadcast recordings from the Second World War. An evocative double-disc set, the Home Front features 150 minutes of rare material recorded and broadcast between 1939 and 1945. From Neville Chamberlain's historic announcement of 'war with Germany' at 11.15 am on Sunday 3 September 1939, the CDs cover evacuation, anti-invasion measures, the Home Guard, the Blitz, food rationing, salvage, war work, agriculture, fuel saving, mass observation, rumours, the V-1 and V-2 menace, and finally VE Day on 8 May 1945.

1. News Bulletin 3.9.1939 2. Neville Chamberlain: War with Germany 3. Address By King George VI 4. Evacuees Leave London 1940 5. Home Guard Appeal 6. Lord Haw Haw: Blitzkrieg 7. Winston Churchill: We Shall Fight on the Beaches 8. If the Invader Comes 9. Salvage of Household Materials 10. Dover: Hellfire Corner 11. Volunteer Arp Warden 12. Battle of Britain: Spitfire Pilot 13. News: The Battle of Britain 15.9.1940 14. Farmers Under Fire 15. The Blitz: Black Saturday 16. London Wedding Blitzed 17. Max Miller: My First Arp Experience 18. Manchester Air Raid Shelter 19. Ed Murrow: Somerset in Wartime 20. Work of the WVS : Billeting 21. Mass-Observation 1941 22. Workers' Playtime 1941 23. Women at the Benches 24. News: Raids on Britain 10.1.1941 25. 5 to 1 on the Land 26. News: Japan Enters the War 7.12.1941 27. The Kitchen Front: Gert ; Daisy 28. London Cabbie in the Blitz 29. Baedeker Raid on Exeter 1942 30. Canteen Concert in Scotland 31. Evacuees: Christmas Messages 1942 32. News: Italy Surrenders 8.9.1943 33. The Brains Trust: Happiness 34. Tommy Handley: Put It Out 35. News: D-Day Landings 6.6.1944 36. V-1 Flying Bomb Actuality 37. V-1 Attacks: Aa Command 38. Raf Fighter Flips V-1 39. World ; Home News 30.8.1944 40. V-2 Attacks on London 41. Newsflash: Hitler Is Dead 1.5.1945 42. German Surrender 7.5.1945 43. Ve Day: Winston Churchill 44. Ve Day Weather Forecast 45. A Glasgow Mother