About John Snagge
John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge OBE (8 May 1904 – 25 March 1996) was a long-time British newsreader and commentator on BBC Radio. Born in Chelsea, London, he was educated at Winchester College and Pembroke College, Oxford, where he obtained a degree in law. He then joined the BBC, taking up the position of assistant director at Stoke-on-Trent's new local radio station. He broadcast his first sports commentary (of a Hull City versus Stoke City football match) in January 1927, after the BBC obtained the rights to cover major sporting events.
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News Bulletin: Italy Surrenders - 8.9.1943
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News Bulletin: Italy Surrenders (8.9.1943)
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News Bulletin: Operation Market Garden 17.9.1944
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News Bulletin: D-Day - 6.6.1944
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D-Day Landings - News
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Annouces Victory In Europe Day
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First Christmas Day Speech of Queen Elizabeth II in 1952
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D-Day Announcement
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News Bulletin: German Surrender - 8.5.1945
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Announcement Of Victory In Europe Day
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D-Day Landings (News Report)
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Chimes Of Big Ben, The BBC Calling The World From London
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News Bulletin: D-Day (6.6.1944)
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News Bulletin: German Surrender (8.5.1945)
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The Reckoning
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The Wasted Years
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Sunderland - Operational Patrol (24 August 1942)
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The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II (Part 3)
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Prelude to War : King Edward VIII / Austria is Annexed / Neville Chamberlain / Poland Invaded / Neville Chamberlain Announces War / London's Hears Frist Air Raid Alert
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The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II (Part 1)
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The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II (Part 2)
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Tapestry Of Empire
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Men Can Sing Together
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The Lion Has Wings : R.A.F Spitfires and Hurricanes/ Luftwaffe's Night Blitz / Spirit of The Cockey/ The "Hi Gang" and "Itma" Radio Programme / The Voice of Colonel Britten
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New World Rallies To Old
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Solemn Act of Dedication / First Christmas Day Broadcast by Hm King George V in 1932
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Hrh the Prince of Wales / Wedding of Duke of Kent and Princess Marina / Silver Jubilee in 1935
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Hm Queen Elizabeth II
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The Lion Has Wings
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We Shall Remember Them
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The Long Night Ends
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Introduction
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Announcement of Victory in Europe
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Stern Memories of Crises: Voices of Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain / Launching of Cunard Liner "Queen Elizabeth" / Declaration of War in 1939 Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill
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Sunderland - Operational Patrol - 24 August 1942
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Capture Of Brussels, News Item Followed By Bands And Crowds Singing Quand Madelon After The Liberation, 4.9.44
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Oxford V. Cambridge Boat Race, 1949
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D Day Landings
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Prelude To War
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We Shall Remember Them : Victory Celebration on V-E Day / Winston Churchill/ General 'Ike" Eisenhower Becomes a Freeman / Franklin D Roosevelt Memorial Service
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Victory Parade in 1946 / Royal Tour of South Africa and Rhodesia in 1947 / Field-Marshal Smuts
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D-Day Landings On Normandy Coast, News Item, 6.6.44
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General Dwight D Eisenhower / Princess Elizabeth in Uniform / Clement Attlee / Victory in Japan in 1945 / King George VI
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God Save the Queen (National Anthem)
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News Bulletin: Brussels Liberated 4.9.1944
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The Long Night Ends :El Alamein / General 'Ike' Eisenhower / Under Fire at Arnhem / Joyous Paris, Army of Liberation / Britains Final Ordeal / Crossing the Rhine / Nazi Concentration Camp Victim Meets His Mother
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Britain Stands Up Alone : Gas-Mask Training/ Low Countries Invaded/ Singing Tommies / J. B. Priestley / Enslaved Europe / Winston Churchill
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Tapestry of Empire : Britains Royal Family in South Africa and the Rhodesias / King George VI / Princess Elizabeth / Jawaharlal Nehru / The Swearing In of Lord Louis Mountbatten / Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh
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The Reckoning : Clement Attlee, the End of the War / Churchill and Attlee /Nuremberg, Herman Goering and Rudolf Hess / Nuremberg Judgement Pronounced / Heinrich Himmler's Suicide / William "Lord Haw-Haw" Joyce Is Sentenced
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Britain Stands Alone
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